Dear Stattos - Penalties

[Brum Royal]

Interestingly I noticed last night that when Swift was taking the penalty, we had two players (not sure who) running from 25-30 yards out to get into the box to pick up the rebound, starting their run at the same time as the taker (Swift). Not sure if one of them was Beerens or not, but it looks like a definite tactic to react quicker to the rebound than the defender as they would presumably be hitting the edge of the box on the move as the defender is starting to push off from a starting position.

[Ian Royal]

Although I'd like to see Swift take some, I'd have thought he'd be good.

Any more bright ideas?

Er.... Kelly?

[oh_ROAR]

I can see the only consolation of continuously missing penalties is that the players are on their toes for the rebound.

11 Penalties this season, scored 5, missed 5 which have been scored on the rebound. absolute madness. I'm sure Fulham are looking on wondering why they can't get some in on the second attempt

[SCIAG]

Although I'd like to see Swift take some, I'd have thought he'd be good.

As did I, but seems he's caught the same bug the rest of our squad have, and would rather add one to his assist column

Yes tonight was penalty No.11, miss No.6, and rebound No.5

We are now hitting the heady heights of the Shane Long years, with us just one away from the 12 awarded in 2009/10, and on course to break our all-time Championship record of 13 set in 2010/11. Swift's miss tonight means that 09/10 remains the only campaign in which we have had 4 different penalty scorers (Hunt, Sigurdsson, Long, Church), as he failed to join McCleary, Williams and Kermorgant in scoring from twelve yards

We are currently being awarded a penalty every 2.5 games, which would give us around 18/19 penalties come the end of the year, smashing the all-time Championship record set by Cardiff in 2008/09 with 16

We did equal a club record tonight though, which is most penalties missed in a single campaign. Equalling our hilariously incompetent (we can laugh now) 2011/12 side which managed to miss 6 times from the spot (from 8 penalties). We notably that season had two games in which we missed 2 penalties, at home to Barnsley (3 awarded, 1 scored) and Bristol City (1 rebound). Individually, Harte, Hunt, Roberts, and McAnuff all missed spot-kicks that season, this year McCleary, Williams, Kermorgant and Swift have all missed, whilst Harriott failed during the shoot-out in the League Cup against MK Dons

Other than that, we've never had another season in which we've missed more than 3 penalties

I've been onto The Knowledge in The Guardian to see if we have a world record in rebounds scored in a single season. Given though I posted after we'd scored 3 rebounds thinking we might have a record, and we've since scored 2 more, I reckon it might be a given

If we're including cup shoot-outs then Watson, Griffin, and Samuel missed against Portsmouth and Frost missed against Southampton U21s.

Cooper, Wieser, Watson, Meite, Frost, Kelly, Blackett and Mendes all scored in one of those shoot-outs and I think Mendes picked up a few in normal time.

Let's start sticking Mendes on the bench just in case we win a penalty. We shouldn't have extended Fosu's loan!

[genome]

Not The Top 20 on Twitter claiming that our 11 penalties this season is the highest in Europe.

[muirinho]

Although I'd like to see Swift take some, I'd have thought he'd be good.

As did I, but seems he's caught the same bug the rest of our squad have, and would rather add one to his assist column

Yes tonight was penalty No.11, miss No.6, and rebound No.5

We are now hitting the heady heights of the Shane Long years, with us just one away from the 12 awarded in 2009/10, and on course to break our all-time Championship record of 13 set in 2010/11. Swift's miss tonight means that 09/10 remains the only campaign in which we have had 4 different penalty scorers (Hunt, Sigurdsson, Long, Church), as he failed to join McCleary, Williams and Kermorgant in scoring from twelve yards

We are currently being awarded a penalty every 2.5 games, which would give us around 18/19 penalties come the end of the year, smashing the all-time Championship record set by Cardiff in 2008/09 with 16

We did equal a club record tonight though, which is most penalties missed in a single campaign. Equalling our hilariously incompetent (we can laugh now) 2011/12 side which managed to miss 6 times from the spot (from 8 penalties). We notably that season had two games in which we missed 2 penalties, at home to Barnsley (3 awarded, 1 scored) and Bristol City (1 rebound). Individually, Harte, Hunt, Roberts, and McAnuff all missed spot-kicks that season, this year McCleary, Williams, Kermorgant and Swift have all missed, whilst Harriott failed during the shoot-out in the League Cup against MK Dons

Other than that, we've never had another season in which we've missed more than 3 penalties

I've been onto The Knowledge in The Guardian to see if we have a world record in rebounds scored in a single season. Given though I posted after we'd scored 3 rebounds thinking we might have a record, and we've since scored 2 more, I reckon it might be a given

If we're including cup shoot-outs then Watson, Griffin, and Samuel missed against Portsmouth and Frost missed against Southampton U21s.

Cooper, Wieser, Watson, Meite, Frost, Kelly, Blackett and Mendes all scored in one of those shoot-outs and I think Mendes picked up a few in normal time.

Let's start sticking Mendes on the bench just in case we win a penalty. We shouldn't have extended Fosu's loan!

Pretty sure I saw Obita score one in a penalty shoot out this season, but my brain fails me as to when/how/where...

[Sutekh]

Just wondering if there are statistics available that show the penalties missed, awarded, scored on rebound etc. since the inception of the Football League rather than being limited to records since 1992 (when SKY tell us football began).

Have Reading done better or worse in other seasons in other divisions?

And it shouldn't be a surprise we've missed so many as, like last season, Reading are largely utterly woeful at all dead ball situations.

[The Royal Forester]

As did I, but seems he's caught the same bug the rest of our squad have, and would rather add one to his assist column

Yes tonight was penalty No.11, miss No.6, and rebound No.5

We are now hitting the heady heights of the Shane Long years, with us just one away from the 12 awarded in 2009/10, and on course to break our all-time Championship record of 13 set in 2010/11. Swift's miss tonight means that 09/10 remains the only campaign in which we have had 4 different penalty scorers (Hunt, Sigurdsson, Long, Church), as he failed to join McCleary, Williams and Kermorgant in scoring from twelve yards

We are currently being awarded a penalty every 2.5 games, which would give us around 18/19 penalties come the end of the year, smashing the all-time Championship record set by Cardiff in 2008/09 with 16

We did equal a club record tonight though, which is most penalties missed in a single campaign. Equalling our hilariously incompetent (we can laugh now) 2011/12 side which managed to miss 6 times from the spot (from 8 penalties). We notably that season had two games in which we missed 2 penalties, at home to Barnsley (3 awarded, 1 scored) and Bristol City (1 rebound). Individually, Harte, Hunt, Roberts, and McAnuff all missed spot-kicks that season, this year McCleary, Williams, Kermorgant and Swift have all missed, whilst Harriott failed during the shoot-out in the League Cup against MK Dons

Other than that, we've never had another season in which we've missed more than 3 penalties

I've been onto The Knowledge in The Guardian to see if we have a world record in rebounds scored in a single season. Given though I posted after we'd scored 3 rebounds thinking we might have a record, and we've since scored 2 more, I reckon it might be a given

If we're including cup shoot-outs then Watson, Griffin, and Samuel missed against Portsmouth and Frost missed against Southampton U21s.

Cooper, Wieser, Watson, Meite, Frost, Kelly, Blackett and Mendes all scored in one of those shoot-outs and I think Mendes picked up a few in normal time.

Let's start sticking Mendes on the bench just in case we win a penalty. We shouldn't have extended Fosu's loan!

Pretty sure I saw Obita score one in a penalty shoot out this season, but my brain fails me as to when/how/where...

Obita did score a (shoot out winning) penalty in the EFL Trophy, against Portsmouth, I think.
Edit.
Just checked the records, it was against MK Dons in the League Cup.

[Saaaaaaaammmmmm]

Here's a generic compilation video of all our penalties so far this season

https://twitter.com/samstorey147/status ... 8528368640

[CountryRoyal]

Another one to the list.