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Our penalty taking is a FARCE
- Thread starter JBizzle
- Start date
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5 in the league this season. 
saafend_seagull
Well-known member
calderon next to take them please
5 in the league this season.
Nope.
League penalties:
Taken 6
Scored 3
Cup Penalties (including shoot outs)
Taken 6
Scored 3
Cup Penalties (excluding shoot outs)
Taken 2
Scored 0
We have missed/had saved 5 penalties in league and cup, excluding shoot outs.
I really hope Kish takes the next one. Hopefully with his experience he will deal better with the pressure the players are now obviously feeling when they take a pen.
Seagulltonian
C'mon the Albion!
Just seen a replay of the penalty! Muzza got knocked over far worse than that last season, and didn't win any penalties!! 
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
never used to get them ,now we do we can't convert them
mcshane in the 79th
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- Nov 4, 2005
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If only Baz played more often, he is clearly the best penalty taker at the club
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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A) Murray has won pens today / Saints / Brizzle Rovers - is that our last 3 lg games? Alright he buys them a bit but fair play to him.
B) Why the hell do we keep going in the corners at a saveable height? Let's mix it up - put them HIGH. Put some down the middle. Sparrows pen in the Woking shoot out sowed this. I'd rather we missed that way then keep serving the keeper with almost a 50% chance of saving it...
C) I didnt see the pen today but didnt Muzza go to keepers RIGHT? Even I know the FCUM keeper said after saving Benno's that he'd been told all our takers bar 1 (I assume Wood vs Saints) go to the keepers right. Didn't the players hear this comment and think that the Hudds keeper may have been told the same thing?! Most annoying...
B) Why the hell do we keep going in the corners at a saveable height? Let's mix it up - put them HIGH. Put some down the middle. Sparrows pen in the Woking shoot out sowed this. I'd rather we missed that way then keep serving the keeper with almost a 50% chance of saving it...
C) I didnt see the pen today but didnt Muzza go to keepers RIGHT? Even I know the FCUM keeper said after saving Benno's that he'd been told all our takers bar 1 (I assume Wood vs Saints) go to the keepers right. Didn't the players hear this comment and think that the Hudds keeper may have been told the same thing?! Most annoying...
Woods v bristol also went to the keeper's left (high). Baz's went straight down the middle. That's one quarter of our pens that were not to the right. Of the six we've scored only two were not to the right (as far as I can recall). Of the two that went to the left, one was saved - 50%, which is identical to our overall penalty record.
Too much is being made of the FC keeper's comments, imo. It's not just left or right, it's high or low, it's how far left or right, it's how much pace they have on them. etc.
Too much is being made of the FC keeper's comments, imo. It's not just left or right, it's high or low, it's how far left or right, it's how much pace they have on them. etc.
I dunno, it's a least four. I think some on NSC would blame the FA Cup. If we'd lost against FCUM Muzza would have scored the penalty as our league form would be better - I think that's how the argument goes.
Murray is a poor penalty taker and should not take them.
Sparrow's at Woking was good and Calde hits a good ball as well.
At Arsenal I seem to recall that the player fouled did not take the penalty.
Sparrow's at Woking was good and Calde hits a good ball as well.
At Arsenal I seem to recall that the player fouled did not take the penalty.
Point number 2, it seems the art of taking a decent corner has vanished, watch most teams, they have the same problem