Sentences with phrase «getting up the pitch»

Yes you can dribble, pass the effing ball and get it up the pitch.

This allowed West Ham to get up the pitch by simply hitting channels and not needing to play football.

A striker like Giroud allows your team to get up the pitch, sometimes regardless of the quality of the passes he is getting, because of his presence.

Jan can get up the pitch and close down Coleman early, leaving Davies as a purely last stage defender, with Victor getting across to cover Barkley cutting in — with Dembele dropping back when they have the ball.

With Radamel Falcao being held quiet by Andrea Barzagli and Bernardo Silva held in check by Claudio Marchisio, there was very little support for Mbappé in the final third, especially during the spells of the match when João Moutinho was struggling to get up the pitch.

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We caught up with the dynamic duo to get their tips for pitching and fundraising, and to find out if America is, you know, flipping out for their hats.

This reached a fever pitch at the beginning of the decade when we saw many integrated oil companies get broken up in a bid to «unlock» hidden value.

By avoiding these six common mistakes you are ahead of the crowd and significantly increase your chances of getting your media pitches picked up.

If you aren't the owner or haven't been tasked by management to come up with some new marketing solutions, now's the time to take all you've learned, compile it into a robust pitch and get the buy - in you need.

[A] roll - up - your - sleeves - and - pitch - in mindset, a mindset that says, there's some unpleasant work, someone's got to do it, it might as well be me... that that's what gets you ahead in the workplace.»

There is a way to get your pitch in the small pile that actually gets read — and ends up as stories.

Journalists grow tired of hearing that every pitched product is going to «disrupt» an industry, but at the same time, having a clear vision of what your company does, and why it is important, will improve your chances of getting picked up.

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

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After years of pitching, Hamilton has gotten some bold - faced names in Silicon Valley to pony up a total of around $ 5 million for her two funds over the past couple of years.

«All you're trying to do, whether it's a three - minute pitch or a six - or eight - minute presentation, is to whet the appetite for a follow - up and get an in - person meeting,» says Somak Chattopadhyay, principal at Greenhill SAVP, an early stage venture capital fund in New York, and a longtime Pace judge.

This includes things like not following up on leads (or following up too much) and not knowing how to break down barriers, to get the lead to actually listen to your pitch.

«I get pitched so many ideas that it's rare for me to even pick up the phone to follow up,» says the former CEO of Spanx, who's based in North Carolina.

Whether you're pitching to a VC, trying to sell to a customer, or just getting your team amped up on a Monday morning, incorporate these elements and see how far they'll take you:

It's certainly easier to get attention for more company - focused initiatives if you've built up your own audience on your own property, as opposed to pitching your story to journalists and hoping one of them bites.

If their garage is situated in Silicon Valley, they might get to pitch as many as 15 VCs, but VCs hear 200 pitches for every one we fund, so perhaps 1 in 13 start - ups get VC, and still they face long odds from there.

Senior right - hander and Davidson signee Blake Hely got the win, pitching five innings, giving up two runs — one earned — on five hits and striking out six for Aquinas (19 - 3).

Because they are the people at the receiving end who get pitched all the time from entrepreneurs, here are five top venture capitalists baring all about what will make them sit up and take notice.

We invited start - ups from Gujarat to apply for the one - day event and each participant got an opportunity to pitch their product and interact with mentors and investors from Z Nation Lab.

Oh the insane things that pop into my head in the middle of the night and make me get up from my warm bed and leave my wife to scrawl in pencil on a blank sheet of paper in the pitch blackness the silliest images that seem to perplex and plague me just so I can hopefully bring a smile to your face and maybe occasionally make us think a little bit world without end.

This made me laugh and got my mind turning: millstone grindstone nose to grindstone they guys have no noses no noses mean no smells they can't smell a rat oh, there's the big, fat rat (he can't smell the rot of a bigger rat) that rat must expend a lot of effort to research the ancient Hebrew and Greek meanings and applications of «millstone», find a way to make «the millstone message» positive and culturally relevant, find a free video clip of working «millstones», devise an enticing pitch to raise money for more up to date «millstones», and still manage to keep the current millstones grinding.

The pitching is holding up their end — now just need to get the offense on track.

Gurriel ends up striking out looking on a pitch right on the inside corner, and Kershaw's got the Dodgers» first 1 -2-3 inning of Game 7.

we will most likely go with a director of football styled set up when wenger leaves, as it is easier for the d / o / f to handle the higher up things and the manager just manages football matters on the pitch, if we get in frank the farmer and mr iceberg in, we might see marc overmars fill that role as he is doing a sterling job in that role for ajax atm.

He should be up there with Ozil Sanchez and Theo, This guy got injured and we looked clueless at times on the pitch.

Their BP is solid, starting pitching while overall is not great, is probably good enough to get to the playoffs (esp when Musgrove returns and hoping on Keller being up at some point)

Everyone needs to pitch up, but we must not just concede possession we must control it when we got it, we can't defend like Chelsea.

Gets paid way too much to run up and down the pitch with no real impact!

It is games like this in which the talents of Giroud can be most useful, as we can use the width of the pitch and get balls in the box to exploit his size and power in the air, while his strength and ability as a target man to hold the ball up and bring other players around him into the game is a huge weapon.

They WERE willing to give up the beloved Pittsburgh Kid for flyball and Trump loving Jon Niese who didn't exactly fit their groundball / FB / pitch to contact approach But hey NH was like Homer getting sick at Kwik - ee Mart:

If I had asked this question of the Arsenal fans a few weeks ago, before Petr Cech made a late dash up and down the pitch in the final minutes of our defeat to Swansea, then I think that the young Poland international keeper Wojciech Szczesny would have got the lion's share of the vote ahead of his Colombian rival.

The Welshman may get an opportunity in the centre of the pitch should Xhaka, Elneny and Coquelin fail to show Wenger that they can make up for the absence of Santi Cazorla's creativity.

We also need to stop pushing our full backs up so high up the pitch, that's why we got thrashed away to the big teams last season, notice how most of their goals were on the counter?

Whatever the rule is, they did not call him up and it is a chance for Gerber to face bog - league pitching if he in fact gets to play.

Alexis came with a good spirit, seing Ozil on board, thinking a team would be built around them but year after year, it is no top class addition with a guessing game plan, weakness all over the pitch, players out of position, a team scared to play and lost as manager... Sanchez then started to ask more money, we said no as to Ozil; waiting 6 month later to be on last year contract... The all management is nuts and Alexis or any players try until they get fed up, Ozil plays to get fit for wrld cup and his value back...

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

That's before they gave up an almost - ready pitcher to get Eduardo Nuñez, and that's before they gave up their best pitching prospect and a starting - caliber catcher for a reliever.

He rarely gets up from his seat on the bench to give instructions and it often means the fans can get riled up with a lack of motivation on the pitch.

You've got to try to pitch them a little bit different each time up.

The righty's 97.5 average fastball velocity was the second best in all of baseball among pitchers who threw at least 80 IP in 2017, and with a change - up that's a full 10 mph slower, he's got a devastating strikeout pitch to match it.

And wenger has disrupted team structure to have him on the pitch... With bellerin Gabriel and coquellin on the up we get back to the old conclusion... Two or three class players short of challenging the best

They could be a bust this year with such high expectations, but given the quality of their pitching staff and their line up I wouldn't be surprised to see them get 90 + wins.

We need to learn that if you can not pass to anyone then get the ball as far up the pitch as possible not fart around as Mustafi did and not pass without looking as Kos did.

We did manage to create more chances and push up the pitch onto the Clarets much more, but unfortunately could not get that breakthrough goal.

Then he was traded away to St. Louis for pitching help and got messed up trying to pull the ball over Busch Stadium's right - field fence, just 310 feet away.