Etete today

[Rjk]

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The best thing that can be said about Etete is that his name is a palindrome. We haven't had many of those over the years.

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[J R Hartley]

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How many target men do you see taking penalties?

We had Ralls and Whittingham for the last 15 years.

05/06 Darren Purse was our designated taker

Rickie Lambert was a target man and one of the best penalty takers in English football.

Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham two others who spring to mind.

Harry Kane anyone? Lewandowski too. You’ve had a mare here

[NYCBlue]

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How many target men do you see taking penalties?

We had Ralls and Whittingham for the last 15 years.

05/06 Darren Purse was our designated taker

Target man? Do you know what a target man is?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Rickie Lambert was a target man and one of the best penalty takers in English football.

Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham two others who spring to mind.

Harry Kane anyone? Lewandowski too. You’ve had a mare here

Not all strikers make good penalty takers.

1993. Romania. Bodin.

We had a front four of Rush, Saunders, Hughes and Giggs. None of them were regular penalty takers at the time. Saunders became a penalty taker for Villa. Our most experienced and best penalty taker at the time was Bodin.

I don't think it matters that much where you play. Didn't Paraguay have a keeper who scored loads of penalties for them at international level?

[J R Hartley]

Re: Etete today

Not all strikers make good penalty takers.

1993. Romania. Bodin.

We had a front four of Rush, Saunders, Hughes and Giggs. None of them were regular penalty takers at the time. Saunders became a penalty taker for Villa. Our most experienced and best penalty taker at the time was Bodin.

I don't think it matters that much where you play. Didn't Paraguay have a keeper who scored loads of penalties for them at international level?

1993 Bodin that worked out well didn’t it

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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1993 Bodin that worked out well didn’t it

Aye, but he'd scored lots that season, including the game before. He leathered it. I doubt there have been many harder hit penalties than that. The distance it travelled after it hit the bar was incredible. He didn't miss it because he wasn't a forward.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Etete today

Not all strikers make good penalty takers.

1993. Romania. Bodin.

We had a front four of Rush, Saunders, Hughes and Giggs. None of them were regular penalty takers at the time. Saunders became a penalty taker for Villa. Our most experienced and best penalty taker at the time was Bodin.

I don't think it matters that much where you play. Didn't Paraguay have a keeper who scored loads of penalties for them at international level?

I'm not suggesting that other players can't be good penalty takers. I'm saying a centre forward should be able to score a penalty and certainly shouldn't be afraid of taking one. It's kicking the ball into the goal. From 12 yards. They do it from all over the place with people in front of them and people trying to take the ball from them.

[J R Hartley]

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Aye, but he'd scored lots that season, including the game before. He leathered it. I doubt there have been many harder hit penalties than that. The distance it travelled after it hit the bar was incredible. He didn't miss it because he wasn't a forward.

He missed it because he couldn’t handle the pressure and wasn’t a big game player. Changes his usual penalty taking style in the biggest moment of his life.

Dean Saunders took many penalties and has a 90% success rate.

Any forward worth his salts should demand to be on penalties. You won’t see the likes of Kane, Ronaldo or Lewandowski passing the buck to a team mate.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I'm not suggesting that other players can't be good penalty takers. I'm saying a centre forward should be able to score a penalty and certainly shouldn't be afraid of taking one. It's kicking the ball into the goal. From 12 yards. They do it from all over the place with people in front of them and people trying to take the ball from them.

That's an interesting take. I've thought penalties were more about technique and bottle. Some strikers are great finishers of chances provided to them, getting on the end of crosses, using movement to create a tap in. Striking a dead ball from 12 yards is very different in some ways. How many strikers are good at scoring long range goals? Probably not that many, but some are capable of brilliant moments of skill to score goals.

[J R Hartley]

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That's an interesting take. I've thought penalties were more about technique and bottle. Some strikers are great finishers of chances provided to them, getting on the end of crosses, using movement to create a tap in. Striking a dead ball from 12 yards is very different in some ways. How many strikers are good at scoring long range goals? Probably not that many, but some are capable of brilliant moments of skill to score goals.

Since when was 12 yards long range?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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He missed it because he couldn’t handle the pressure and wasn’t a big game player.

It was his usual style, though. Laces through the ball. I have no doubt that he gave it absolutely everything because it meant so much.

Should we nominate Callum Robinson as penalty taker?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Since when was 12 yards long range?

How many strikers take free kicks from distance? Same sort of principle, striking a non-moving ball. The strikers you mention could also hit a free kick.

[J R Hartley]

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How many strikers take free kicks from distance? Same sort of principle, striking a non-moving ball. The strikers you mention could also hit a free kick.

Not the same principal at all most free kicks are twice the distance of a penalty

[J R Hartley]

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It was his usual style, though. Laces through the ball. I have no doubt that he gave it absolutely everything because it meant so much.

Should we nominate Callum Robinson as penalty taker?

I don’t think we will be seeing much of Robinson moving forward so probably best not to

[WJ99mobile]

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Rickie Lambert was a target man and one of the best penalty takers in English football.

Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham two others who spring to mind.

Harry Kane anyone? Lewandowski too. You’ve had a mare here

Out of context. I’m not saying they can’t be any good. Haaland is as good as anyone on the spot too.

But just because a person is a striker doesn’t mean them best placed or naturally better than some others.