So who is our penalty taker?

[kevo]

So far (not including shoot-outs) the following players have taken pens this season: Barnes, Bennett, Murray, Wood and Dicker. They have all missed at least once.

Gus says we need to sort out our problem with penalties for next season. Isn't it usual for clubs to have one player as their regular penalty taker and a reserve if that player isn't playing (with a third as extra back up)? That would be a start.

Was surprised when Dicker stepped up today - thought it would have been Sandaza, given how keen he was to take that pen against FCUM.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Ashley Barnes is our first choice penalty taker, when he is on the pitch. he's scored 3 and had 1 saved if I remember right?

 

[saafend_seagull]

anyone know the split of the 13 taken, and whether they were scored or not?

Does Hoskins take penalties? I think if not, Gus might look elsewhere...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Gus is in no position to judge.

 

[kevo]

anyone know the split of the 13 taken, and whether they were scored or not?

Barnes - scored 3, missed 1
Wood - scored 2, missed 1
Dicker - scored 1, missed 1
Murray - scored 0, missed 2
Bennett - scored 0, missed 2

Total - scored 6, missed 7

Three of the missed pens were taken by other players when Barnes was on the pitch (but they were all earlier in the season).

 

[Lord Bamber]

Thought Sandaza was going throw his carrots out of the horse box when the ball was taken from him for the first penalty.

 

[skipper734]

Gus was asked in the after match interview wether the penalty taker should be changed when you get a second penalty in a match.
" We haven't got one penalty taker and now you want me to have two."

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Christian Baz should be our penalty taker.

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

ashley barnes

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Barnes but when he's out I reckon Ankdergren should take them.

 

[Superphil]

Wasn't the second one quite well saved, rather than missed by Dicker. I thought the ball was well placed just inside the post, but the keeper went the right way and got there.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Leon Knight

 

[Del Boy]

 

[JBizzle]

Currently its Wood isn't it? He scored his last one so he's still the pen taker.

 

[Stat Brother]

Barnes but when he's out I reckon Ankdergren should take them.

I'm fairly sure he will, if we get one when promotion is wrapped up.

 

[Acker79]

Wasn't the second one quite well saved, rather than missed by Dicker. I thought the ball was well placed just inside the post, but the keeper went the right way and got there.

All our unsuccessful penalties were saved.

Some will probably argue they were poorly taken penalty, but I think that penalties are a combination of mind games and luck, a game between the keeper and taker sometimes to try to force each other one side or another, sometimes to see who blinks first (when the taker waits for the keeper to move before deciding which side or the keeper waits for the taker to kick it before diving) and sometimes it's the keeper throwing himself one way in the hopes that's the side the taker has chosen and vice versa.

If the keeper had dived the other way on our saved penalties we would have called them good, confident penalties.

The least I ask of penalty takers is to get them on target, and all of our penalty takers have done that, and I think that should be recognised, the keepers also deserve the credit for winning the mind games, guessing right, doing their research, or just being lucky.

 

[Acker79]

Currently its Wood isn't it? He scored his last one so he's still the pen taker.

Barnes wasn't on the pitch when we got that penalty, which might be the reason wood took it.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

I thought some time back Sparrow was mentioned as the penalty taker (when on the pitch). Was surprised he didn't get the nod for either pen yesterday.

 

[JBizzle]

Barnes wasn't on the pitch when we got that penalty, which might be the reason wood took it.

Could be. Its seemed that this season that when you miss a penalty, the next person steps up. Barnes missed his previous so Wood would have taken in irrespective of Barnes being on the pitch I think. Obviously, this statement is completely impossible to back up until we win a penalty and both are on the pitch.

Lets just say its not Dicker anymore.

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

I thought some time back Sparrow was mentioned as the penalty taker (when on the pitch). Was surprised he didn't get the nod for either pen yesterday.

Ditto - didn't he take one at Woking? I would have thought he would have been the logical choice yesterday.