No men on the post

[The Swan]

When we are defending corners in front of the Hammy End anyone sitting near me will hear me scream out that we must have men on the post.

This is the first step that a team defending a corner must do. The second thing they must do is to mark the opposition.

When I played in London as a reasonable centre half my manager always said to all defenders that we had to mark the opposition so tightly that if they f###ed you could smell the odour.

How times have changed, defenders are more interested in hugging the men they are marking.

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Sean Davis pointed this out on Saturday, it's not doing the basics that really hurt ya

[H4usuallysitting]

I'm convinced we dont do any defensive drills......no one seems to know what to do or where to stand, little to no discipline

[Woolly Mammoth]

No Postmen ?

[HV71]

We just don't deliver in our own box

[bill taylors apprentice]

School boy errors, again !

[andy]

Lots of teams seem to not want to put men on the posts nowadays. It is an amazing error of judgement. One man on each post would probably have saved quite a few goals this season alone.

[H4usuallysitting]

Problem is.....we need a man on each post in general play, not just corners & free kicks

[Barrett487]

We can't defend in the air at set-pieces, so have 'em piggy-back on the line for all i care!!

[..FOF..]

School boy errors, again !

As a school boy, I was taught this and was done in every match. Our unpaid coach, who happens to be a teacher too, would make sure of it.

I would say that was a kindergarten error by Fulham.

[grandad]

I played right back & could always be found by a post as that is where I put my fags so I could have a puff when play was up the other end.

[gang]

Times change with opinions, they are more interested in zonal marking nowadays this makes the man on the post redundant.

[Barry White]

Times change with opinions, they are more interested in zonal marking nowadays this makes the man on the post redundant.

it quite clearly doesn't though

[PokerMatt]

Times change with opinions, they are more interested in zonal marking nowadays this makes the man on the post redundant.

Mark the post zone then.

[Logicalman]

I played right back & could always be found by a post as that is where I put my fags so I could have a puff when play was up the other end.

Did you play with Tosh regularly then?

[Logicalman]

Times change with opinions, they are more interested in zonal marking nowadays this makes the man on the post redundant.

I agree, seems less and less teams do so these days, rightly or wrongly of course.