lack of quality crossing

[yorkshire stag]

just so poor tonight, discuss

[Ralphy]

Bowery frustrates me going forward never takes his man on would play Johnson IMO but accept that the shirt is bowerys to lose at the moment

[Bradders]

Several crosses, but all seemed to be straight into the keeper. Certainly not good enough.

[gazza1988]

I thought it needed freshening up in wide areas 2nd half. However, I thought MacDonald actually put a few decent balls in. Thing is Akins, DKD and Maris were never going to win many balls in the air (Note I'm not saying they didn't or that they wouldn't just not as many.

My actual thoughts from it, at the risk of pelters, we needed Bowery up front. Our biggest Aerial threat in the forwards and he's not even brought forwards for corners.

They've 4 or 5 real aerial threats at corners and we don't have that many. I was very disappointed in our crossing overall though. Would we have won the headers if they were near our own players anyway though?

[Sneag]

Crossing & set pieces generally have been very poor all season.

We're doing the hard stuff well but falling down on something as basic as taking a decent corner.

[The Hoffmeister]

It's quality up front we lack too but that's taboo on here

[Sandy Pate Best Stag]

I think the forwards are actually getting into slightly too advanced positions meaning crosses are being delivered too close to the keeper. There are also quite a few which are simply being over hit.

[PEAR CIDER]

Bowery back for corners is absolutely the right decision, as proved on 3 occasions when he nullified the break with his pace

[SelstonStag88]

Bowery frustrates me going forward never takes his man on would play Johnson IMO but accept that the shirt is bowerys to lose at the moment

Agree with this

[Sneag]

Bowery frustrates me going forward never takes his man on would play Johnson IMO but accept that the shirt is bowerys to lose at the moment

Agree with this

Bowery did deliver one of the few good crosses tonight, but I'd like to see him bomb for the byline more often, especially now he's playing on the right.

[SelstonStag88]

Some poor crossing not just from Bowery and Macdonald even though they were the main culprits even Lewis when he found himself out there.

[yorkshire stag]

nothing came in with pace all game, quality very poor

[gazza1988]

Bowery back for corners is absolutely the right decision, as proved on 3 occasions when he nullified the break with his pace

Makes us 1 dimensional at corners because we then only have Flint as a proper aerial threat, unless it's a free header/shot. Then people wonder why we have so many "set piece specialists but rarely do much with them.

So, to be clear Pear, you are saying that Bowery is the only player on the entire team capable of defending a hoofed clearance? Cargill, MacDonald or even Flint are incapable of doing it, nor any of the midfielders like Lewis.

[cassellswasmagic]

Not so much poor crossing for me, but poor movement from the forwards, especially Akins…crying out for him to run near post but he’s got no instinct in front of goal. Overall we played well, just those frustrating moments.

[Cleveland_Stag]

Badly miss McLaughlin and Hewitt’s crossing don’t we.

[cassellswasmagic]

Badly miss McLaughlin and Hewitt’s crossing don’t we.

Yes.

[adamstag]

The problem being is (at least from ifollow) is that wrexham we’re happy to have crosses lumped in all game and only looked susceptible when we ran at them, which we did far too infrequently.

Again sadly our corners are hopeless.

[Chrisuknottm]

It's quality up front we lack too but that's taboo on here

Totally agree.....my kingdom for a goal scoring centre forward and for someone to attack the cross at the near post.....thats why so many crosses look rubbish because they go to the back post all the time into a group of players or the goalkeepers arms

[Stag95]

Bowery frustrates me going forward never takes his man on would play Johnson IMO but accept that the shirt is bowerys to lose at the moment

I’ve seen absolutely nothing from Johnson yet to suggest he’s better at that than Bowery

[DoomMerchant]

The crossing is particularly poor in this side. Not particularly from one individual but as a side. It's incredibly frustrating but not as frustrating as DKD's poor misses from two crosses that did sneak through.

[CassellsCap]

Just come in from work after following the match best I could. Did we actually just draw? Keep a clean sheet? Totally outplay Wrexham? Stay unbeaten? Reading the comments sounds like we were soundly beaten

[MTFCMusings]

I remember four good chances from crosses :
Akins cut back to Lewis
Macdonald to Lewis on the penalty spot
Macdonald to DKD on a plate heads straight at the keeper
Bowery cut back to DKD, scuffed it.

[DoomMerchant]

Just come in from work after following the match best I could. Did we actually just draw? Keep a clean sheet? Totally outplay Wrexham? Stay unbeaten? Reading the comments sounds like we were soundly beaten

Yep, technically light years ahead of our big name opponent. However, the only down side was the eye gouging poor crossing and the achingly poor finishing.

Rest was bloody great.

[stagmanrob]

Not seen a decent ball in all season really.

Good job we have been playing as well as we have done consistently, because if we were getting drawn more and more into those tight kind of games where a set piece could swing it - we'd be screwed.

[Stagdale]

Do we ever practice free kicks or corners? It certainly doesn’t seem as though we do. Unfortunately we have nobody who can drive in a corner kick or a free kick.
We have a giant of a centre half who has scored 52 goals in his career and we are never anywhere near getting a ball on to his head. Corners and free kicks should be a great source of goals for a promotion outfit.