Preston Goals

[Bristol Red Rover Jnr.]

Here are the goals from the Preston match. Syers's goal is bloody lucky.
(Apologies for my camera dropping out for the penalty challenge)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lffRmmH-uI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lffRmmH-uI</a>

[Wellred]

Why was Sayers goal lucky? Was he not intending the ball to go where it did? A move from the training ground says DS.

Bloody lucky Rovers again eh.

[donnymatty]

Yeah didn't Saunders say it was worked on in training? It's not lucky if you practice it.

[MachoMadness]

Have to say there looked to be an element of fortune about them all, but I'm not complaining. Can't argue with 3-0! If Syers did mean it though then it's an absolute pearler, unbelievable technique. Same with the 2nd.

How weird is it to be getting 3 goals in 1 game from set pieces though? Night and day from last season.

[Wellred]

Have to say there looked to be an element of fortune about them all, but I'm not complaining. Can't argue with 3-0! If Syers did mean it though then it's an absolute pearler, unbelievable technique. Same with the 2nd.

How weird is it to be getting 3 goals in 1 game from set pieces though? Night and day from last season.

Only one goal was lucky and that was the third as it wasn't a penalty.
It made up for the blatant penalty both the ref and his assistant missed though.

[StocksArmy]

I'm sorry but Cotterill's not meant that in a month of Sundays.

[Wellred]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

[Woodhead Passer]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

The forehead of Rob Jones at the far post

[MachoMadness]

If it was the 1st time he's done it I'd say there was no way he meant it. However this is the 4th/5th time Cotts has scored from either miles out or from a "fluke" free kick this season. I think he's earned the benefit of the doubt!

The keeper should be saving it, mind, but still.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

My mate was at the training ground yesterday and on the way today said watch our set pieces, they spent ages on them yesterday and they were class...

[StocksArmy]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

[MachoMadness]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

People have said this about roughly half of Cotts' goals this season. Every other goal has been some speculative wonder strike that he could "never have meant". Maybe because he is that good and he knows he can get away with it?

[Norfolk N Chance]

yes first two goals were lucky.

Bennett pen was a pen

[uptonson]

yes first two goals were lucky.

Bennett pen was a pen

What a d**khead, don't matter if they are lucky or not they are goals, 3 points, why put a dampener on it.  Greta day, another 3 points.

[Akinfenwa]

There's a skill to delivering a cross in such a way that even if it misses everyone it's on target and has a chance of going in. It's not lucky it's great dead-ball delivery, something we've been deprived of for many years. Cotterill has scored a few like that this season because his dead-ball delivery is excellent. Matt Ritchie at Swindon is another one to look out for who tends to score these 'lucky' crosses quite often.

And the penalty, well I didn't think it was a foul on Bennett but the ref missed a stonewall penalty against Paynter not long before. Justice was done in the end.

[donnievic]

He aims for the far post when ever we get free kick on them sort of positions either hoping rovers or even one of their players to get a flick on or to go straight in if no one gets anything on it and to day it came off to a tee

[pubteam]

I don't think it's a coincidence that Cotterill has scored from that similar situation on a number of occasions this season. He did it against Preston at home in addition to today, and he also put the free kick in at Colchester that was put in for an own goal by the defender. He knows where to put the ball, and recognises that if nobody connects with it, there's a good chance it will at least test the goalkeeper.

Frank Lampard was the master of it a few years ago. He'd get four or five goals a season from swinging free kicks from out wide in towards the goal, and they'd just go straight in because the 'keeper would be expecting a touch.

[CusworthRovers]

Definitely a set move for the first, but not intended to go in that way in a month of Sundays.

Set move for the 2nd, but again I would suggest it was meant for Jones as plan A, and back of the net is plan B

The 3rd was a fortunate penno, but he was making up for the one he and his lino missed earlier, which was one of the most blatant pens I have ever seen not given.

The ref was laughable in the end, but only laughable as we were winning.

[StocksArmy]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

People have said this about roughly half of Cotts' goals this season. Every other goal has been some speculative wonder strike that he could "never have meant". Maybe because he is that good and he knows he can get away with it?

Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

People have said this about roughly half of Cotts' goals this season. Every other goal has been some speculative wonder strike that he could "never have meant". Maybe because he is that good and he knows he can get away with it?

Listen its a cross all day long. I don't think anybody can argue about his other goals this season but that was a misshit. I cant beleive I'm having this conversation.

[MachoMadness]

I guarantee you that won't be the last goal he scores like that this season. As Akinfenwa says, it's an art and it means players like him get goals like that alarmingly often. He hung it up over the keeper so that all it needed was a touch, and if it didn't get a touch then it might sneak in as a result of the keeper being unsighted. It's so hard to do but you see it happen all the time at the top level. Maybe he didn't mean it, but the only luck is that the keeper should probably be more alive to it, I guarantee you he knew exactly what he was doing.

[Dagenham Rover]

Jeez who gives a monkeys uncle if it was meant  it frigging well went in and thats all that matters

[dickos1]

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.

Some people really haven't got a clue.
I suppose you would say a golfer is lucky too when he hits a hole in one.
Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

People have said this about roughly half of Cotts' goals this season. Every other goal has been some speculative wonder strike that he could "never have meant". Maybe because he is that good and he knows he can get away with it?

Explain where was Cotts aiming the ball then?

And some people are stuck up Cotterills ringpeice. How on earth can you think he has tried to score from the angle he was at??

People have said this about roughly half of Cotts' goals this season. Every other goal has been some speculative wonder strike that he could "never have meant". Maybe because he is that good and he knows he can get away with it?

Listen its a cross all day long. I don't think anybody can argue about his other goals this season but that was a misshit. I cant beleive I'm having this conversation.

Misshit?? Surely you ain't being serious!!

[StocksArmy]

I guarantee you that won't be the last goal he scores like that this season. As Akinfenwa says, it's an art and it means players like him get goals like that alarmingly often. He hung it up over the keeper so that all it needed was a touch, and if it didn't get a touch then it might sneak in as a result of the keeper being unsighted. It's so hard to do but you see it happen all the time at the top level. Maybe he didn't mean it, but the only luck is that the keeper should probably be more alive to it, I guarantee you he knew exactly what he was doing.

Now that I agree with but his first intention was to put it on somebodies head.

[Filo]

I guarantee you that won't be the last goal he scores like that this season. As Akinfenwa says, it's an art and it means players like him get goals like that alarmingly often. He hung it up over the keeper so that all it needed was a touch, and if it didn't get a touch then it might sneak in as a result of the keeper being unsighted. It's so hard to do but you see it happen all the time at the top level. Maybe he didn't mean it, but the only luck is that the keeper should probably be more alive to it, I guarantee you he knew exactly what he was doing.

Now that I agree with but his first intention was to put it on somebodies head.

But does it matter? Or should we just count the goals we meant to score?


A goal is a goal, whether it`s a 40 yard wonder strike or goes in off some ones bellend, they equal the same amount!

[Mr1Croft]

Torres scores this and it is a wondergoal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98tj5AlGqg

Syers manages the same, although not as venomous, but is called lucky. I maintain the intent is the same.

[StocksArmy]

The debate was whether we thought he meant it or not. Obviously they all count as 1. I'm not sayin we were lucky for todays win or complaining that we scored 2 lucky goals. Simple as that.

[PDX_Rover]

Funny.... and sad. Some people are just never happy are they? We win 3-0 and still folks are whining like babies.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I'm just thankful we have a player who excels at set-pieces. His delivery is top notch. He puts it in that area of uncertainty which all dead ball specialists practice and as said before, the more you practice the luckier you get ! He's been so lucky all season.

Once you have a player like Cotts who can put a ball in that zone, it's easier to attack the ball and harder to defend.

I'm sure he'll have one or two tricks lined up for his old team on Tuesday !

[benaldo]

Cotterill scores some of the best goals seen at the KM ever in his first 6 months as a Rovers player yet some people still say he flukes them......... 

Listen - He can't fluke them all.

[colin cramb]

Same old story, the harder you work the luckier you get.