Opposition defences gobble up those hopeful, long balls from Caldwell and McManus.
Long balls up to an isolated Anelka brought no joy, and Ballack looked short of fitness in a midfield that was misfiring.
There were too many long balls, which we are trying to make sure doesn't happen, but when players are tired it's the easy option.
The desperate long balls into the attacking zone were almost nonexistent.
They held the home side at arm's length and could then have taken the lead when they twice caught out Real's defence with two long balls forward.
St Johnstone shelled a lot of early long balls in the direction of Hibs full-backs Callum Booth and Towell but the teenagers coped with the pressure without too much trouble.
McGeady was tormenting the Andorran defence while the Republic were varying their attacking tactics to good effect with a mixture of precise passing and long balls which were troubling goalkeeper Josep Anton Gomez.
The result does further damage to boss Rafael Benitez's public guarantee that Liverpool will definitely finish in the top four, with Anfield totally subdued at the final whistle as Arsenal dealt comfortably with a succession of aimless long balls.
With Derek Jeter making his first visit to the Bronx this season, Kuroda gave a gutsy performance, Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and the New York Yankees used a flurry of early long balls to outslug the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Thursday night.
He paid people to pitch to him and others to shag balls for long stretches of early-morning and postgame batting practice.
"The suggestion that the decisions were made not on the basis of the best civil service advice... is not true, " Mr Balls, a long-time ally of the chancellor, added.
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The Algerians made their tactical intentions clear from the off, as they were happy to sit deep and play long, in-swinging balls and try to gain free-kicks in good areas, to counter the organised Egyptians.
Raynes is a Hamptons socialite, best known for attending charity balls, competing in Long Island horse shows and spending time with friends Ricky and Kathy Hilton (Paris' parents).
Gambhir recorded the fifty stand with Yuvraj from 43 balls with a six over long-off against Paul Hoffman, playing his final match for Scotland.
She wore a long white gown by Wu for the inauguration balls on 20 January.
Steven Quintavalla, a longtime senior research engineer at the USGA labs, was looking for better ways to quantify how balls struck with drivers and other long clubs bounce and roll out on fairways.
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He smashed three huge sixes - including two straight ones off seamer Elton Chigumbura - and reached 50 from just 40 balls before he was was caught at long-off.
On April 21st Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, mocked as hypocritical a plea for unity by Ed Balls, the schools secretary and a long-time confidant of Mr Brown.
But, in the same over, he went for another big drive and was caught inside the long on boundary by Buttler for 58 off 38 balls - and that prompted a collapse of five wickets for just nine runs as the Essex chase ended abruptly.
Some superb attacking strokes including three sixes off left-arm spinner Claude Henderson, and when Henderson finally had his revenge by having him caught on the long-off boundary Roy had made 76 off 65 balls.
In this sort of form, none of the lower order were likely to resist Anderson for long and Sulieman Benn frankly did well to last 12 balls, before a superb ball swung through his defences to make a mess of the stumps.
The half hour the tourists spent in the field did at least serve to further Broad's reputation as a burgeoning talent with the bat as well as the ball, the 21-year-old crashing three fours through the covers and a six over long-on to add 31 swift runs off 26 balls.
The first ball is on the money, and is clubbed to long-on for a single, 18 needed from five balls.
And fury has been stoked across the party by speculation that Ed Balls, the schools secretary, who has a long career as a pugnacious counsel to Mr Brown, is to replace Alistair Darling as chancellor.
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In fact, the night of the inaugural balls became known this year as The Night of the Long Furs.
His fifty took only 46 balls and he celebrated by hoisting balls from Upul Chandana and Lokuhettige over the fence at long-on.
Mr Balls has got rid of the weakest link in the long chain of tests taken in English schools (there are no SATs elsewhere in the United Kingdom).
But two muffed fly balls by Wilson in center field--this was long before night World Series games, meaning that late-afternoon sun could be a big factor--contributed to a furious A's rally that didn't let up until 10 runs had crossed the plate.
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