Middie trouble

[greenshoelaces]

I play attack.

My team has a problem with like 1 or 2 of our middies. The problem is that they have fast and accurate shots, but they take shots way too much for a middie, they might make a goal, 1 out of 7 shots they take, at most.

The whole starting attackmen, along with myself gets pretty pissed at him, because we could be alot better if he just passed the ball to the attackmen more often, because thats all we attackman are good for, is scoring and making assists. The midfielders do the most important thing and get the ball to the attackman, and play defense, and at appropriate times, they shoot.

But anyway, we are trying to get him and the other midfielders to quit shooting every time. How would you go about telling them and instructing them to do the right thing on the field. Without seeming like mean or whatever. Because when we tell them they just roll their eyes or something.

Please help, thanks.

[3rdPersonPlural]

Talk to your coach. That's what coaches are for.

[greenshoelaces]

Talk to your coach. That's what coaches are for.

Our coaches think that we are just saying that because we want to keep all of the scoring to ourselves, when that is not true. We just want to win, and if your goal percentage is like a 10% then how is that possible. We have a good record , we would have had a perfect season, but we lost 3 games in Overtime. We could score ALOT more goals if they would stop doing this.

I talked to our assistant coach, and that is what he said, but i will have a talk with my head coach, but i am afraid he will get mad, and say the same thing, and we might get punished for it. That is why we would all try the more personal approach towards the people.

But if all else fails i will take one for the team and talk to him about it.

[isk8apopwar]

I would suggest to those kids that they should cut in to the crease and you and the other attackmen will feed them when they get within 20 feet of the crease. This would make their hard shots actually effective. That's what I would tell you to suggest to them, just because they obviously seem cocky, or scared of running into a longpole. So just tell him to give the ball up, and wait for a feed.

[greenshoelaces]

Alright i will try telling them that. Hopefully they won't just shrug their shoulders, because they are really cocky. But it might change their mind if we all just tell them that we will look for them cutting constantly and if they are open, then they can shoot and score. And we could alos mention how it would be alot more effective that way.

Thanks man.