Job advert: Crossing coach

[badajozjim]

After seeing the first few games of this rather disappointing season which I hope will pick up and beleive it will, I can't help to notice that the team's ability to cross the ball and set piece delivery is still as bad as the previous two years. The only player to save himself is Bale who is consistent at delivering. I really thought that Bentley's arrival would solve this problem (the best crosser last year) yet he's been very poor, which made me think. It can't be the players but the coaching staff, because this is schoolboy stuff, just get it in the box.

Poyet may be at fault as he wasn't famous for crossing but getting to crosses and Ramos didn't have an illustrious playing career, Alvarez is a fitness coach.

We need a crossing coach, any offers? What do you think?

 

[Roberts84]

We need a crossing coach, any offers? What do you think?

After the way we are playing we've ended up with a cross coach. :wink:

 

[puppa_toni]

After the way we are playing we've ended up with a cross coach. :wink:

Ha ha, that's good!

Have heard that beckham's not to popular in LA anymore, maybe he'd be our crossing coach?

 

[gibbs131]

We let our best lower level coach go. Our skills coach was the man. Moniz would have been great to get the likes of Modric, Pav etc etc on the same page.

 

[milkman]

We let our best lower level coach go. Our skills coach was the man. Moniz would have been great to get the likes of Modric, Pav etc etc on the same page.

Why didn't the Tottenham board try and keep Moniz? Seemed like HSV got him quite easily....

 

[Bobishism]

Why didn't the Tottenham board try and keep Moniz? Seemed like HSV got him quite easily....

Because he wasn't wanted.

 

[Kyras]

Why didn't the Tottenham board try and keep Moniz? Seemed like HSV got him quite easily....

Maybe he was more hype than anything, I didn't really notice an improvement in Lennon's delivery apart from when Edgar was here to scare good deliveries out of him, Routledge seemed to turn into a bad player over night and we let all our young wingers go before breaking into the first team. So no visible results on the crossing front, maybe we'll reap the benefits from the real youngsters, i.e. under 16s now etc. because he was rumoured to be doing a bit of work with them (which annoyed him no end)

 

[yanno]

According to Balague's sources, Bentley isn't fully fit. That might partly explain his truly dire performances, and complete lack of sharpness, so far.

However, even a less-than-fully-fit Bentley should still be able to deliver a dead ball precisely where he wants it. The guy is a set-piece specialist. And because of his lack of pace, at Blackburn he became expert at shifting the ball just enough to give him an angle to deliver great crosses for the likes of Roque Santa Cruz. That's presumably why we bought him.

I simply don't understand how Bentley can have forgotten how to strike both dead balls and crosses in play. It's as if someone reprogrammed him, and he's now got the beta non-release version of the "how to cross a football" chip. :bang::bang::bang:

 

[gibbs131]

Maybe he was more hype than anything, I didn't really notice an improvement in Lennon's delivery apart from when Edgar was here to scare good deliveries out of him, Routledge seemed to turn into a bad player over night and we let all our young wingers go before breaking into the first team. So no visible results on the crossing front, maybe we'll reap the benefits from the real youngsters, i.e. under 16s now etc. because he was rumoured to be doing a bit of work with them (which annoyed him no end)

Hud, Lennon and Defoe all praised him. I never once saw an interview where Spurs players have thanked Hughton etc for teaching them anything on the pitch.