Sentence examples for mean long ball from inspiring English sources
United have always played direct football, and that does not mean long ball.
They are a direct and physically imposing side and McCarthy has them playing to those strengths and in an attacking manner, which means long balls down the channels and crosses into the box for the forwards David McGoldrick, Daryl Murphy and Connor Sammon.
By all means, deliver the occasional long ball - but not 75% of the time.
"They've played too many long balls.
"There is an irony that we are meant to be a direct, long ball team and they put someone on and launch it to him to score".
But this is not "counter-attack" or "direct" in the dirty-word way it is so often meant here; this is not a long ball up to a lonely forward, Villarreal are not a team to sit back, hang on and take the few chances that fall.
"Everything is the long ball".Sandlock added, "I mean, a guy on first and second, jeez, bunt that guy to third.
I guess that proves the old Greg Maddux-Tom Glavine "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" commercial was true after all, just not how they meant it.
Byrd said: "Small ball, big ball, long ball, whatever.
