Is there a doctor on this Board

[Bobert 0]

who could explain why strikers miss "open " goals. Is it an eye/brain/foot co-odination problem that is caused by advancing age or any other illness? Do strikers need more (or less) rest periods than other players on the pitch? Might save Norwich a fortune if such knowledge was available to Brain Gunn.

[Xavi- Poor Mans Ian Crook 0]

JC misses the sitters because he is sh*t and past it.

[Bobert 0]

Oh dear ..... I have a problem...... Brian Gunn!

[canaries 0]

not many strikers miss open goals only Curo

[The Butler 0]

[quote user="Bobert"]Oh dear ..... I have a problem...... Brian Gunn![/quote]

Start counting backwards from 100. If you can manage that then it was just a Freudian slip

[Shaun Tilly Lace 0]

[quote user="NCFC1"]not many strikers miss open goals only Curo[/quote]

It''s funny you should say that, but I seem to recall having seen the likes of Giggs, Tevez, Rooney, Henry and Torres missing the type of chances your granny would convert.

[The Fish Seller 0]

[quote user="Phil E Stein"]

[quote user="NCFC1"]not many strikers miss open goals only Curo[/quote]

It''s funny you should say that, but I seem to recall having seen the likes of Giggs, Tevez, Rooney, Henry and Torres missing the type of chances your granny would convert.

[/quote]Occasionally not every bloody match!!

[Bobert 0]

[quote user="The Butler"]

[quote user="Bobert"]Oh dear ..... I have a problem...... Brian Gunn![/quote]

Start counting backwards from 100. If you can manage that then it was just a Freudian slip

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Thanks. Just done that. It was a Freudian slip!

[missing in action? 0]

it can be any number of factors.it could be anything from muscle fibres to phychological problems or even reaction times (choice/simple)i wont complicate it but i think its all of these

[Foxy is a Pleasure 0]

[quote user="Phil E Stein"]

[quote user="NCFC1"]not many strikers miss open goals only Curo[/quote]

It''s funny you should say that, but I seem to recall having seen the likes of Giggs, Tevez, Rooney, Henry and Torres missing the type of chances your granny would convert.

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Too true. Every player has missed an open goal at some stage. Giggs'' was an awful miss in a crucial FA Cup tie against their biggest rivals (at the time). I''m still holding out that Jamie can turn things around. When he stops getting in them positions I''ll be worried.

[chichcanary 0]

I am a doctor and a crap footballer so feel the need to comment

Personally I think that''s why football is the best game on earth.

Even Pele / Maradonna / Best could miss open goals or make crap passes.

This is because our feet are for walking / running, and trying to run and control a ball and have spatial awareness all at the same time is impossible for any human

Compare any game where you can use your hands. These are designed to pick things up so if we could just throw the ball in there would never be any missed open goals. All sports where you can pick the ball up therefore need comples rules to make it artificially harder

eg rugby / American football where violence and very complex restarts are needed or handball / basketball where the score is about 120/118 and you have to be 7 foot tall

Football needs hardly any rules at all because the limit of skill is built into the human body''s design

(Sorry for that claptrap but I thought I''d spout off - basically Cureton''s just too old I think)

[Bobert 0]

[quote user="chichcanary"]

I am a doctor and a crap footballer so feel the need to comment

Personally I think that''s why football is the best game on earth.

Even Pele / Maradonna / Best could miss open goals or make crap passes.

This is because our feet are for walking / running, and trying to run and control a ball and have spatial awareness all at the same time is impossible for any human

Compare any game where you can use your hands. These are designed to pick things up so if we could just throw the ball in there would never be any missed open goals. All sports where you can pick the ball up therefore need comples rules to make it artificially harder

eg rugby / American football where violence and very complex restarts are needed or handball / basketball where the score is about 120/118 and you have to be 7 foot tall

Football needs hardly any rules at all because the limit of skill is built into the human body''s design

(Sorry for that claptrap but I thought I''d spout off - basically Cureton''s just too old I think)

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Not at all. Seems to indicate we need to put young strikers on the pitch and not the Golden Oldies.Maybe a letter to BG would help him?

[Canary02 III 0]

Cureton is a confidence player. When he''s scoring, he feels good, he relaxes and he takes the chances. When he misses, he feels bad, he tenses up and he misses again. A vicious psychological circle. With an old team-mate and friend as a manager, he may get enough time to relax and start scoring again, but the question is, how long are we able to indulge this weakness of confidence before we get some payoff? The goals will come, but can we afford to wait?

[Pi$$ed As A Mattress 0]

cows arse and banjo come to mind. Jamie is suffering a bout of "couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo syndrome"

[Mello Yello 2,572]

I ham a quantified Brian Sturgeon.....an a gud won hat that!

[Bobert 0]

I wonder if "open" goals are missed when heading the ball as often as with the foot or does one just notice the foot ones more often.