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Obviously wind again tonight. The first time Baz gets the ball in his hands and we are facing the wind will he hoof it or roll it out.

I say HOOF

Hoof ,for a throw in to them.

Just think of the home advantage we will have spending this afternoon practicing corner kicks at each corner to see how the wind effects the ball, both offensively and defensively, p!ssing on each flag as we go.

Our keepers kicks will be sent with pinpoint accuracy via the swirl towards the centre circle, while theirs will fly out in to touch and over the stand

marky No.1 wrote:Our keepers kicks will be sent with pinpoint accuracy via the swirl towards the centre circle.

on the adjacent training pitches

could do worse than getting baz to take the corners, tell him to imagine he's taking a goal kick, BOOM, get in!

Well Dagenhams tactic in the first half was to hit the ball long into the wind causing it to hold up and drop behind our back line which caused us all sorts of problems, second half with the wind behind them shoot on sight simple but it worked so hopefully we won't get caught out again.

steve mfc wrote:Well Dagenhams tactic in the first half was to hit the ball long into the wind causing it to hold up and drop behind our back line which caused us all sorts of problems

Which we did ONCE in the second half. We repeatedly hoofed it from well within our own half, barely getting over the half way line. D&R played it on the deck until a little over the halfway line, then launched it. Their second goal, they did it three times in quick succession, hoofed it in to the wind from inside our half, ball dropped straight down in to the area, cleared, hoofed back, cleared, hoofed back... scored.

Our home ground and we still don't know how to use the conditions to our advantage

Keith wrote:

steve mfc wrote:Well Dagenhams tactic in the first half was to hit the ball long into the wind causing it to hold up and drop behind our back line which caused us all sorts of problems

Which we did ONCE in the second half. We repeatedly hoofed it from well within our own half, barely getting over the half way line. D&R played it on the deck until a little over the halfway line, then launched it. Their second goal, they did it three times in quick succession, hoofed it in to the wind from inside our half, ball dropped straight down in to the area, cleared, hoofed back, cleared, hoofed back... scored.

Our home ground and we still don't know how to use the conditions to our advantage

Yep the difference was they closed us down in our on half while we let them amble into our half enabling them to hit the long ball to great effect, thing is its not rocket science close them down and stop them doing it.