Penalties, and why we never save one.

[Proctor]

Has anyone else noticed Fraser always seems to dive to his left when attempting to save a penalty?

[tm4tj]

Yep, the penalty takers seem to have spotted this :029:

[Johnboy]

Didn't Mark Brown also have a tendency to dive to his left after a penalty had been struck....  :024:

There's probably some goalkeeping coaching manuel somewhere that states most penalty takers aim to the keeper's left......  :018:

[tm4tj]

Was he a Spanish coach Johnboy, and was he Fawlty. :029:

[RDL]

its nine including the league cup...fraser always goes to his right  :024:

Has anyone else noticed Fraser always seems to dive to his left when attempting to save a penalty?

Well somebody's wrong...

[Johnboy]

its nine including the league cup...fraser always goes to his right  :024:

Has anyone else noticed Fraser always seems to dive to his left when attempting to save a penalty?

Well somebody's wrong...

I think what Michael's trying to say is that he dives to the kick-taker's right - ie - Fraser's left....  :014:

[Mick]

yes im wrong...tho im stickin with johnboys excuse and not the fact i dont know my left from my right  :023: :P

[RiG]

Correct .............. a superb save from Brown in our first SPL Season, with the rebound poorly defended by our surprised defenders.

Wrong. The penalty was saved but they scored from the corner that followed.

EDIT: Just saw tm4tj post from the BBC site.

[dead_ball_specialist]

Why do we never save penalties..?

Mainly because these fiendishly cunning penalty takers always wait to see which way our keeper is going to dive before dispatching the ball into the opposite corner....   

100% correct! He completely sells himself and makes it easy. He should be reading the strikers run up to see where the balls going to go before he commits himself - rather than allowing the striker to read him and slot it in the other side.

[alternative maryhill]

All this nonsense about us being unable to keep out penalties... Does no-one remember the landmark away game at Falkirk in 2000 when our keeper heroically saved 2 penalties?

The custodian in question?

Les Fridge!

Who, I might add, I put a couple past at a church fete "celebrity" beat the goalie in Sneck around the time he signed for Chelsea...

Don't know how this helps us solve our current crisis, mind you - Les as specialist penalty coach? Mikey to do some community service at church fetes around the Highlands until he sharpens up those relflexes?