Can you settle this argument?
Is the way in which set pieces are taken decided in advance, in training, or are decisions made on the field? Seems to me that the way free kicks are taken varies a lot, according to whether Richie is orchestrating them or not. But my other half is adamant that the methods are decided beforehand, in training.

You would think before hand but with Turner not agreeing with tactics who knows what goes on.

They are decided in training and then when they present themselves on the pitch Ritchie decides how it will be done.
Afterwards the coaching staff mildly rebuke Ritchie for not following instructions. Ritchie then reminds the coaching staff that he is the player of the century and a master tactician. As they don't understand the word tactician the coaching staff go quiet.
Ritchie follows up with another timely reminder that he is Mr Hartlepool United and that they should concentrate on making sure he plays.

So, what you're saying is that we're both right, but I'm righter than he is.

Something like that, yeh.

Turner probably just gets them to practice the crossbar challenge all the time for the next time the Sky cameras show us on Soc.cer AM.

Ironically Ritchies set pieces are typically abysmal. Corners rarely clear the first man, likewise with free kicks. But then again we all know he isnt getting his games due to ability

Its been the same routine for years, and once again we witnessed it on Tuesday.

Step 1 - 1st player plays a short 1 yard pass(which i'm sure is to get a better angle around the wall)
Step 2 - 2nd player stops the ball
Step 3 - Ritchie hits the wall
Step 4 - Away team clears the ball.

He is still living on a couple of free kicks he scored a few years back, i can't remember who they were against but i think he scored in successive home games, I might be wrong but one of them was a late equaliser against Walsall.

Corners are impressive also, player A plays short ball to Richie, he plays ball back, player A's cross is blocked by defender, ball is cleared. Hugely impressive, it's a tactic which has been taken straight from the training manual......circa 1975.

FtC and Paulus have described two of the most frustrating aspects of recent matches, for me.
Things are usually already bad enough, but set pieces send the blood pressure to fever pitch.

Wonder why Boydy never takes any of the free-kicks, is'nt he supposed to have a cultured foot.

were is diimmi when the pools need him

Earning more money in Coventry City reserves.

He certainly scored a good free kick against Walsall when we beat them 3-1 (his was the second goal) at home in the 2006/07 season infront of over 7000 spectators. Happy days

Shame we still didn't have The Hammer.

The only time you see Ritchie Humphries run really fast is when there is a free kick to be taken,.......so he can say what is to be done.....usually nothing comes from it...aaahh well.

I've never made no secret that I don't think much of him but many others do. The shame of it is that someone who has been a hero to many is becoming a figure of ridicule.

I don't at all think of him as a figure of ridicule, but when a technique has failed over and over again, over a period of years, it seems unfathomable that a man shouldn't think to try something different.

oh I don't know. Many people make the same mistakes over and over in life with women
Notice I said people make the mistakes - cos I now know that women are not human

That's just what I mean, parmo. Stop making the mistakes and everything will be fine.

Secretly, tho, surely the biggest mistake ever is to think that a male/female relationship is going to work.

it must go against one of the most basic instincts of people to mate for life. It always comes to the surface in the end, one way or another.
Even swans don't forge these monogamous relationships as we always thought - a swan sanctuary recently noticed two pairs which have swapped partners - and they couldn't believe it!!!!!

Well, when you think that marriage began as a means of linking your daughter with some baron or other in Provence............The rest is fairy tale.

But that was my big mistake....me dad had no influential friends.

I blame all those bloody Disney fillums for pre-conditioning girls before they have even left junior school!!!!
I laugh at those dating websites where the woman says she is looking for her "handsome prince" or her "knight in shining armour"

FFS!!!

They're all searching for some non-existant Mills and Boon type, horse breeding, cum-millionaire, lovey-dovey type character, who only exists in the deranged minds of those middle-aged, senile, boddice ripping , slightly feminist authoresses, who are only one step away from the old peoples home.
Sad Feks.

Avid Merrion went to the house of one of those male models who always appears on the front of romantic novels - and he ripped it right out of the dopey fu-cker without him even realising it!!!
But women always seem to plump for the boring "good looking" ones!!
Serves them right when they hate their boring lives!!!

In a perfect woman's world they would have the good laughs and nights out with me and Mutley and then go home to get bucked off/have kids to some dull witted body building cun-t!!!!

you and me are the bonniest bas-tards on this board!!!

Class stuff

Classic bunker, a thread about set pieces turns into a thread about the men women want and then parmo and mutley on a night out!!