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Have we really had zero penalties this season?

Mendonca In Asdas
Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,685
edited April 2014 in General Charlton
Having this discussion with my son , have we really had zero penalties in the league this season, I find it hard to be true?

And who was our last league penalty against, and how many penalties do we normally get awarded in a season?

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  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,782
    Watford away.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,685
    edited April 2014
    Thanks Clem, the shocking thing is both me and my son were at that match!
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,036
    Was it 86/87 that we got one penalty which was in the last game at home to QPR?

    Hopefully we are due one or two in the last four games.
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,340
    You need to have players in the opposition box to get a penalty
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    J BLOCK said:

    You need to have players in the opposition box to get a penalty

    I was just going to post the same.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,870
    In the prem years we defo had at least one season with no penos
  • UrbanChupacabra
    UrbanChupacabra Posts: 541
    buckshee said:

    In the prem years we defo had at least one season with no penos

    I believe we got one in our first game of the following season

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,809
    It illustrates one of our issues I suppose - we also should have had a few but refs don't give them against us. But all in all, we don't get enough people in the box and we don't have the pace to get behind defences and we don't have the players to go past opponents with skill. I think you need these to get your fair share of pens.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,269
    I think in our four seasons in the old division from 86 to 90 we were not awarded a single penalty away from home in league matches.
  • Gumbo
    Gumbo Posts: 957
    We'd still miss or pass it to the keeper anyway

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,910
    From the penalties I've seen given against us, it would appear refs have been told to only give one when it's a very obvious foul by a player in a red shirt. We don't play against teams wearing red at The Valley, ergo no penalties.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Sod's Law we get one today and whoever's upfront blasts it sky-high or sponge-foots it to the keeper.
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,567
    You don't need to be ultra skillful to win a penalty. Just attack a defender with pace inside the box. The defender is always at risk of mistiming the tackle. We have a number of players capable of doing this, but they need to pick up the ball outside the box, then make a positive run with the ball into the box. Our problem is none of our players every try to do this. It's one of those things that should be practiced over and over again on the training pitch.
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    I think Ipswich away was the most blatant pen not given to us this year. Absolutely shocking decision and Cameron Stewart got booked for diving as well!
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,259
    E-cafc said:

    I think Ipswich away was the most blatant pen not given to us this year. Absolutely shocking decision and Cameron Stewart got booked for diving as well!

    Reading away was a shocker as well. Should have had one there as well.

    The reason we don't get many penalties is because we don't play the right football to win penalties. Lumping it up to the strikers doesn't win penalties you only have to watch Luis Suarez run at defences to see the number of times he causes them to panic and win so many genuine penalties, they could have had another 2 or 3 more at Old Trafford?

    The trouble is when we get the ball at our feet at the edge of the penalty box we pass it sideways or backwards, we don't run at defenders and as such don't win any penalties.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,211
    Richard J said:

    Was it 86/87 that we got one penalty which was in the last game at home to QPR?

    Hopefully we are due one or two in the last four games.

    Whenever I was told to draw something at school, I drew this moment. Was it Mark Reid? Or Colin Walsh?
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,211
    edited April 2014
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Richard J said:

    Was it 86/87 that we got one penalty which was in the last game at home to QPR?

    Hopefully we are due one or two in the last four games.

    Whenever I was told to draw something at school, I drew this moment. Was it Mark Reid? Or Colin Walsh?
    Here it is... 5m37s

    http://youtu.be/xVFTSqR9xZg?t=5m37s

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