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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: NickDRFC on December 18, 2022, 12:33:58 pm
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Saw this on Twitter yesterday and thought it was a good question…
You get two players (can’t be the same) from your club’s history to take:
A) a penalty
B) a 25 yard free kick at goal
Who are you picking?
Easy call for me from my 25 odd years supporting - Stock & Mulligan.
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Micheal McIndoe for the penalty
Copps for the 25y free kick
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Heffernan and Copps
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Stock and Coppinger.
I don't remember Stock missing
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Penalties: Stock
Free Kicks: Cotterell
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Penalties. Stock
Free Kicks. Glynn Snodin
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Stock
Jeffrey
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Alick for both, no question
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Brian Stock cool as a cucumber.
Cameron Stewart. Didn't play that much but had a good conversion rate from free kicks.
Who can forget this...
https://youtu.be/zADEvItKQUI
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Penalties: Martin Woods
Free Kicks: Lewis Guy
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Brian Stock cool as a cucumber.
Cameron Stewart. Didn't play that much but had a good conversion rate from free kicks.
Who can forget this...
https://youtu.be/zADEvItKQUI
I got goose bumps watching that back again.
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Alick for both, no question
That was going to be my answer too, raven but then I re-read the question and found they couldn't be the same.
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Penalties: Stock
Free Kicks: Cotterell
this is the best call for my lifetime watching the rovers. Dave Mulligan could take a mean free kick also.
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Copps for free kick, Billy Sharp for penalty
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Micheal McIndoe for the penalty
Copps for the 25y free kick
Agree entirely with McIndoe. Did he ever miss one for us? He was immense.
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Micheal McIndoe for the penalty
Copps for the 25y free kick
Agree entirely with McIndoe. Did he ever miss one for us? He was immense.
Always felt confident with McIndoe but I do remember him missing more than once. Looked it up and records as follows:
Stock - Took 7, scored 7 (100%)
Sharp - Took 8, scored 7 (87.5%)
Heffernan - Took 7, scored 6 (85.7%)
McIndoe - Took 16, scored 13 (81.3%)
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Danny Andrew ain't to shabby with a free kick from 25 yards and pennos probably Heffs!
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Penalties: Martin Woods
Free Kicks: Lewis Guy
Stock wasn't playing at Newcastle and Heffernan didn't get off the bench that day, but Billy was on the pitch when the penalty was awarded. Annoyingly that would have put us 2-1 up with only minutes left. Obviously he missed and then Andy Carroll scored the winner in the 90th minute. Be a long time before we play them at the same level again, let alone match them from start to finish at their place.
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Penalties: Stock
Free Kicks: Cotterell
this is the best call for my lifetime watching the rovers. Dave Mulligan could take a mean free kick also.
The 2 at Boston when he netted both were immense
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Never seen anyone for us (and not many players for other sides) as deadly at free kicks as Glynn.
I've mentioned it before but he once hit a free kick into the wall (rare error by him). The ball hit a defender's shin. The defender was carried off.
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Pens - McIndoe
Free kicks - Glyn Snodin
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Poss copps for both,know he didn’t take many pens but can’t remover him missing in any shoot outs
Regular
Stock pens
Copps free kicks
Further back
Eddie gormley pens
Glynn snodin free kicks
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Penalties: Martin Woods
Free Kicks: Lewis Guy
Stock wasn't playing at Newcastle and Heffernan didn't get off the bench that day, but Billy was on the pitch when the penalty was awarded. Annoyingly that would have put us 2-1 up with only minutes left. Obviously he missed and then Andy Carroll scored the winner in the 90th minute. Be a long time before we play them at the same level again, let alone match them from start to finish at their place.
Kevin Nolan scored the winner in that game mate.
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Sorry,cannot bring myself not to mention 2nd+3rd choices
Pens 1st Mcindoe
2nd Stock
3rd Heffs
F/Kicks 1st Glynn Snodin
2nd Stock
3rd Copps
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This ain't easy. Some fabulous dead ball kickers here. My dad would have undoubtedly said Aleck and maybe Glynn if he really had to pick a second. Me? Glynn for the 25 yarder every day of the week even though Dave Mulligan was hot stuff. For the pens, I'm stuffed. Stocky or Mcindoe?? How do you choose between them two?!
BobG
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Pen: Stock
FK: Glyn Snodin
Honourable mentions:
Pen: McIndoe
FK: Copps
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Stock revealed his penalty strategy on his Copps podcast. It's actually remarkable that no opposition keepers or coaches picked up on it.
The strategy was simply changing the direction for each one: Left, Centre, Right, Left, Centre, Right (or Left, Centre, Right, Centre, Left - can't remember which way he said it was).
For the Southend playoff game, he spoke with Hayter before the game saying that if he had a penalty, it would be down the middle, following his strategy. And actually debated whether he should change it under the circumstances.
Thankfully he didn't. An unbelievably cool penalty.
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Pens: Stock
FK: G. Snodin
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Norman Curtis.
King Alick.
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Stock on pens, Glynn Snodin on free kicks. Although based on his one season here, and performances from dead balls with his subsequent clubs, second in both categories, Neil Redfearn
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One name I have not seen mentioned for penalties is Vince Brockie. IIRC he had a 100% record for us.
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One name I have not seen mentioned for penalties is Vince Brockie. IIRC he had a 100% record for us.
I had thought about him,not sure how many he actually took though and another one I can’t remember missing was les Robinson another quality player for us
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According to my records Brockie scored 8, and I think I remember an article saying he never missed one for us.
I also have Les Robinson scoring 9 but I don't know how many he missed, if any
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Another vote for Stock and Mulligan. I know Copps scored a few free kicks but Mulligan's conversion rate must be way better.
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According to my records Brockie scored 8, and I think I remember an article saying he never missed one for us.
I also have Les Robinson scoring 9 but I don't know how many he missed, if any
He certainly didn't miss the winner at Chesterfield away new years day all those years back . Pouring rain , a ruined fancy dress topped off with the apoplectic home fans ringing praise or grumble wanting Steve Adams head on a stick.
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Pen John Ryan
FC Louis Tomlinson
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Redfern free kicks Joe Laidlaw penalties
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What was the Joe Laidlaw chant , I can’t remember it all
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What was the Joe Laidlaw chant , I can’t remember it all
5 foot 8, overweight, joey Laidlaws f**king great…..
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Penalty - Stocky
Free Kick - G.Snodin
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Stock on pens, Glynn Snodin on free kicks. Although based on his one season here, and performances from dead balls with his subsequent clubs, second in both categories, Neil Redfearn
Ah yes. Good call on Redfearn.
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Vince Brockie for the pens and Glynn Snodin for the free kicks although Redfearn was about the same that one season he had with us.