corner kick, cleared, the ball always goes back to the corner taker who is OFFSIDE

this is something that has been present since at least last year.

To elaborate: your player takes the corner kick. the defending player clears the ball upfield. meanwhile, the corner taker is making no real effort to get back onside. one of your defenders who collects the cleared ball then kicks it straight to your corner taker.

It happened a good ten times in yesterdays 3 hour session and EVERY time the bloke was offside. thats not an exageration either. is it possible that either the defender knows whether his team mate is offside, or the corner taker makes an effort to get back onside.

please tell me i'm not the only one who has this. or is it my tactics

Yep. Happens 3 or 4 times per game. I'm resigned to it, I just tend to ignore it now.

Don't see that at all? is there a way to alter the tactics creator for taking corners?

Don't see that at all? is there a way to alter the tactics creator for taking corners?

i've never touched any of the corner-taking tactics. maybe thats the problem. i just leave it as the default.

i dont mind saying, my blood was boiling yesterday with this. i was having a poor run of games and it just compounds the issue when i'm trying to exert abit more attacking pressure on the other team and i keep getting offside flags.

never happens for the opposition. or at least, not to the same degree.

I haven't tinkered too much with the corner thing.

Isn't there an option to train players to be not in offside positions too?

I was at the Arsenal game the other day and Van Persie had to give out for Walcott being offside all the time.

I think I would pay actual money for a way to stop that happening.

Its been like that in last years game, its something that needs to be tweaked for sure, sometimes it can be ok but in FM11 it was literally every time.

Id rather the "highlight" just not be shown at all as theres no chance there anyway.

It's part of the FM11 match engine that was deemed polished enough to retain for 2012. Along with super-powered set pieces, balls hitting players in the back, goal kick - header - one on one and defenders running into a wall of treacle.

In short, you learn to accept and ignore it.

This happens a lot to me as well. It's the ME problem. Hopefully it will be tweaked in FM 2013.

I've found having a player 'offer short option' seems to reduce the amount of times it happens because: (a) if the ball is played short to that player the defenders don't rush out and (b) if the ball is half cleared my player can pass to the player who had been the short option rather than the corner taker.

The advantage/disadvantage is that I'm scoring a lot of goals from the corner being taken short then put on the head of the big defender at the far post. I had left corners on mixed to avoid getting unrealistic amounts of goals at the far post. I don't think it's as many as setting the delivery to far post but probably a little higher than it should be for realism.

i would rather they stop the constant defenders fouling in the box so they get a free kick.. ghaa

I aim for far post from corners (best corner taker) and have a player, best jumper / header attack far post and another in front of keeper. I've not seen any offsides I don't think as you suggest across 3 seasons so far

i'm hesitant to make any changes to the corner taking routine incase i stumble across the corner bug which allows your defender to score loads of goals. i'd rather have loads of offsides than a high scoring defender. of course, i'd rather neither, but there you go

near post is where a fair few of my defenders get goals.

i got vidic to score a hat trick.. but only 1 was from a corner, 1 was from a cross after a cleared free kick and another a penatly

ok i know exactly what you mean, it gets cleared to the defender hanging back, who picks up the loose ball and passes to the guy in the open, aka corner taker, mine was doing that but kept getting back onside beforehand.

i'm hesitant to make any changes to the corner taking routine incase i stumble across the corner bug which allows your defender to score loads of goals. i'd rather have loads of offsides than a high scoring defender. of course, i'd rather neither, but there you go

This bug was fixed in an FM11 patch. Arguably though in FM12 the corner taker is too accurate. In either case I'm not scoring loads of goals from corners and there are plenty of AI teams with high conversion rates each seson

Yes, it is very annoying.

Another annoying, but less common thing is when the ball gets cleared back to the corner taker and instead of him crossing the ball straight back in, while all my big defenders are in the box, he lets it go out for a throw in and therefore killing the momentum and the chance to make something happen as then the defenders go back. That tactic would only be useful for Stoke.

Yes, it is very annoying.

Another annoying, but less common thing is when the ball gets cleared back to the corner taker and instead of him crossing the ball straight back in, while all my big defenders are in the box, he lets it go out for a throw in and therefore killing the momentum and the chance to make something happen as then the defenders go back. That tactic would only be useful for Stoke.

i have found that using the 'cross balls early' shout, that would stop this from happening. also stops players from trying to run along the goalline, into the penalty area, instead of crossing it although i would epect the players to cross early *sometimes* without me having to explicity tell them.

I experience this too. Perhaps setting the one player who's outside the area to shoot from distance sometimes would fix the problem? I suppose all of us have "turned off" long shots.

Me too. And I remember it happening in FM11 all the time too. Very unrealistic and silly.

I nodded my head upon reading the title of this page, one of the things I hate most about the game and I can't really do anything about it! I just know when it's gonna happen!

Here's the deal... I had this happening to me all the time, so my corner instructions are as follow: 1 player offer short pass option, 1 CB in near post and the other at far post, 1 player lurking outside area and one to pressure on the opponent's goalie, one more coming out from the back and all the others to stay back at all times. End result: no more offsides right after a corner kick and no more balls in the back of my net following a corner kick in my favour. Which is, BTW, one of those things to make me really ill, my players taking on a corner and suffering a goal on the counter.

This happens very often to me too and is very annoying.

I have a player lurking outside the box who has the ppm shoots from distance and I usually dont have this problem, and getting cool looking goals are a bonus. Even if the lurker doesnt have the ppm, he will still usually not pull the corner kicker offsides since he'll wait for a better angle to pass it back to him after the clearance if he passes to him at all (tough to get the ball to the corner kicker from right outside box with all the defenders in between), its more likely that he drops it back to the retreating CB's instead

i just had a player injured that would recieve a throw in from that position.... so my player just threw the ball out of play for a goal kick trying to pass ball to that player who is being treated off field

similar thing

Yeah me too. I vary my set pieces as well but may start putting some one lurking on the edge of area with long shots often after reading Slich's post to see if it helps. If not the next player to stand offside like this will be sold or put on full aerobic training until his contract expires.(only joking although that is how I feel abut them sometimes)

I think I would pay actual money for a way to stop that happening.

Really anoyying. What happens is the ball is crossed in and then it get clears out. The defence pushes out and then the corner taker doesnt get back on side before the pass from your player gives it him back. Offside!

I think I made a thread about this issue in FM11 once upon a time. It's still a problem. Very irritating.

It happens to me more often in game than in real life. It is very annoying when it happens in game or for real!

Never noticed this

I have tweaked with my corner routine though

Did a search on this before posting it, nice to know I'm not the only one getting it. Very annoying to say the least.

Quite infuriating. Why can't SI get corners right? They always have problems.

I leave my corners on default so that the corner bug doesn't get abused, because of this I have to suffer ******** players.

Wow, really? That word gets censored...

When I first encountered the problem, I was in the BSN so I just assumed that it was because of the lower intelligence of my players but it still happens when you manage one of the best sides in world football!

This is a known annoying trait in the ME tactics, but not a game-breaker.

Quite infuriating. Why can't SI get corners right? They always have problems.

I leave my corners on default so that the corner bug doesn't get abused, because of this I have to suffer ******** players.

Wow, really? That word gets censored...

The way PaulC explained it was that they've reached the limits of tweakability on corners, which is one reason they're working on a new ME version.