Maidenhead away

City miss yet another penalty

0-1 down. Great volley

2-0. Monthe makes a right mess of a long ball and gifts a goal to Tarpey

The principle problems are only too evident. No one capable of scoring, too few scoring chances made at all, might as well get bladud to take penalties, and mistakes made at the back on a weekly basis.

But at least Manny is capable of lashing the ball with sufficient force to get it over the line now and again.

Referee decides to make his mark on the game

Sends Frankie off

Same old same old. Wonder what happened to Broom.

The red card was absolutely ridiculous

From where I was watching, it looked like Artus was fouled. He was certainly upset by the award of a free kick against him and maybe the ref took exception to his response. The problem is that he is continually picking up cards early in games and then walking a tightrope. If anything the decision seemed to galvanise us and an equaliser wasn't unlikely.

Broom's absence was explained - what about McCootie's?

comrade powell wrote:

Broom's absence was explained - what about McCootie's?

Bob Chester said Coots was injured.... saves us a booking!

2 opposing views on the missed penalty...

It made little matter, however, as Hunter sauntered up to the spot and hit a low, meek shot that Pentney barely had to stretch to his right for. (Chronicle)

The penalty wasn't a miss, it was a top class save from a well directed spot-kick.
( a neutral observer on Yuffie's favourite Conf South forum)

For those not there yesterday, the first description is spot on. The only question for me was which was the worst, yesterday's or Morgan's effort at Ebbsfleet?

Yesterday.

What's more galling is they both took far better penalties previously, then changed their technique. Hunter drilled his in the bottom corner against Gosport then basically passed it back to Pentney yesterday. Morgan against Potters Bar effortlessly lofted it in the top corner, then went all Fred Flintstone with the run-up and produced a shot Pebbles could have put more effort in.

Wasn't much better at Twerton. A friend of mine was refereeing our Academy side yesterday and awarded City a penalty when they were 1-0 down.

Player stepped up and...hit the post. Well, not bad for us, I guess.

Still, they went on to win 5-1.

A learned source tells me that 11 outfield players have missed a penalty for us since 2014. I assume he includes penalty shoot outs...

I make it 12 different players:

Dave Pratt - Bromley A - Oct 14
Dave Pratt - Ferriby A - Feb 15
Ross Stearn - Ferriby A - Feb 15
Ashley Kington - Basingstoke A - Aug 15
Ashley Kington - Basingstoke A - Aug 15
Frankie Artus - Hayes H - Dec 15
Frankie Artus - Hayes H - Dec 15
Eliot Richards - St Albans H - Feb 16
Nick McCootie - St Albans H - Feb 16
Liam Kelly - Eastbourne H - Apr 16
Billy Murphy - Hampton A - Sep 16
Lee Marshall - Potters Bar H - Oct 16
Chas Hemmings - Potters Bar H - Oct 16
Marvin Morgan - Ebbsfleet A - Oct 16
Shaquille Hunter - Maidenhead A - Nov 16

During this time we scored 18 times (plus 5 more in shoot-outs).

Junior is never, ever wrong!

yuffie wrote:I make it 12 different players:

Dave Pratt - Bromley A - Oct 14
Dave Pratt - Ferriby A - Feb 15
Ross Stearn - Ferriby A - Feb 15
Ashley Kington - Basingstoke A - Aug 15
Ashley Kington - Basingstoke A - Aug 15
Frankie Artus - Hayes H - Dec 15
Frankie Artus - Hayes H - Dec 15
Eliot Richards - St Albans H - Feb 16
Nick McCootie - St Albans H - Feb 16
Liam Kelly - Eastbourne H - Apr 16
Billy Murphy - Hampton A - Sep 16
Lee Marshall - Potters Bar H - Oct 16
Chas Hemmings - Potters Bar H - Oct 16
Marvin Morgan - Ebbsfleet A - Oct 16
Shaquille Hunter - Maidenhead A - Nov 16

During this time we scored 18 times (plus 5 more in shoot-outs).

I did mine from the start of 2014, the rest of the above list is correct.
Chris Allen has an effort saved against Chelmsford in March 2014 in a 4-1 win.
Ross Stearn also skied one at home to Bromley in Jan 2014. We went on to lose 2-1.

Haven't looked but I think we've scored about another 4/5 in 2014 aside from those missed, probably all of them from Dave Pratt.

So basically we've got a 1 in 2 chance of scoring from a penalty. Hopefully Tyler will be taking them while he is here.

The one he scored against Weston only just squirmed in so I'm still not overly confident if he steps up!

From all my years of watching, I think only Jon Holloway and Marc Canham scored all their penalties, having taken a reasonable amount anyway.

I need to work out how to post that video of Scott Partridge's miss against Bedford with Martin Paul smashing into him in the rebound. Always makes me smile. Didn't at the time.

Yes I thought Tyler scored others but checking it was actually Kelly.