Gerrard and corners

[Taxi]

Why does he take them?

They almost always fail to beat the first man, then if he does manage that they go too long. His success rate (and by that I mean actually landing in a dangerzone) is absolutely piss poor.

Its astonishing that a player of his ability cannot take them well. Surely someone else could do a better job.

[Craig_H]

We've had this a million times, and it seems only Rafa Benitez and Steven Gerrard cant see the painful truth.

[Taxi]

We've had this a million times, and it seems only Rafa Benitez and Steven Gerrard cant see the painful truth.

Its shocking, even my wife has started noticing.

[shankly]

it is the number one thing pissing me off at the moment, especially when he takes it from the right and it goes straight out of play........ why take them then numb nut !?

[Exiled_red]

He took a good one for the goal against Everton

Could have been just luck though

[nebbers]

Rename this the dejas vous thread.

[-V-]

The funny thing is that we are the joint top scorers from corners this season.

Bet that will shock you

[saj]

Seriously Taxi, this thread is a waste of server space. This topic has been done to death. The reason why he takes them is because he takes them - not very helpful.

[the rev leeroy brown]

as much as i hate those cocks SOS, how do you go about asking them to arrange a protest against gerard taking corners??

[-V-]

After Kuyt's header into Everton we have now scored 8 goals from corners this season. Thats matched only by Villa and Man City

[pondus]

as much as i hate those cocks SOS, how do you go about asking them to arrange a protest against gerard taking corners??

Seriously, I think they have been better in the last few games.

[saj]

After Kuyt's header into Everton we have now scored 8 goals from corners this season. Thats matched only by Villa and Man City

You just pwned Taxi

[saj]

as much as i hate those cocks SOS, how do you go about asking them to arrange a protest against gerard taking corners??

Ha ha kwuality! But read -V-'s post before you instigate a protest!

[-V-]

To be honest Saj, despite that stat I still think Gerrard would be much more useful in the penalty area attacking corners. But the stats give Rafa good reason to keep him on corner duty

[saj]

To be honest Saj, despite that stat I still think Gerrard would be much more useful in the penalty area attacking corners. But the stats give Rafa good reason to keep him on corner duty

The thing is, people expect to see a goal scored from a corner in every game. I'd say a ratio of 1 goal scored from corner every 4 games is a good stat. The fact our ratio is 1:3 is pretty good.

My opinion is that I even if Gary McAlister was taking our corners, we would struggle to better our current number of goals scored from corners. The reason being, who do we actually have who is good at ATTACKING headers? Not many... Maybe Gerrard would be good but personally I think he would be better on the edge of the box, getting ready to smash in any clearence