Great Blades Penalty Takers

[Rodley]

Any spring to mind? Saw a thread on twitter.

I’d have James Beattie and Nick Blackman from recent times. Always remember Dane Whitehouse being decent from the spot and John Pemberton?

 

[S64 Blade]

Michael Brown (apart from the play off final).

 

[FreePaulRodgers]

Duffield

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Beattie for me. Back to the goal with the ball behind his feet. Walk away to the edge of the penalty area, turn round, run up and shoot. Great technique.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Tony Kenworthy

 

[I should coco]

Duffield

Never missed.

For the reet old farts, I'd chuck in Keith Eddy and TK too.

 

[Blade for Sale]

Beattie and Duffield are the best I can recall in the last 35 years. Morris also apparently took a good pen but my recollection of him is missing 2 in one of the first seasons I started going (V Millwall and can't reall the other) so he's sullied his record in my mind!

 

[I should coco]

Morris also apparently took a good pen but my recollection of him is missing 2 in one of the first seasons I started going (V Millwall and can't reall the other) so he's sullied his record in my mind!

Saw him score one at Villa in the 80s but sadly we had to sit on our hands as were in their stand.

Dinno lad Lee Butler was their reserve keeper and got us tickets to sit with player's families/friends. Far from the glitzy WAGs area that might suggest, they had loads of rough young Brummie lads in their squad, who dished out their freebie tickets to some right local pirates. Difficult to keep quiet, especially when you've got a big gob....

 

[pommpey]

Um.

Alan Woodward.

End of debate.

pommpey

 

[Guesty]

Never missed.

For the reet old farts, I'd chuck in Keith Eddy and TK too.

I remember my Dad telling me that about Peter Duffield, never missed for us, and I believe in his career as a whole?

Beattie, Blackman and the underrated from the spot Peter Ndlovu are the best I've seen.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Duffield had a 100% record from at least 7 or 8 taken. All the rest mentioned, including Woody missed a few.

Norwood currently has 100% from 2 taken.

 

[haich1889]

Any spring to mind? Saw a thread on twitter.

I’d have James Beattie and Nick Blackman from recent times. Always remember Dane Whitehouse being decent from the spot and John Pemberton?

TK, Woody & keith Edwards

 

[I should coco]

Um.

Alan Woodward.

End of debate.

pommpey

Have a like for mentioning the wonderful Woody, but he did miss one:

Alan Woodward - Penalty goals

This is the detailed penalty statistic of Alan Woodward of ---. The statistic shows in detail how many penalties the player took in his career.

www.transfermarkt.co.in

As I said, Duffield never missed:

"In his time at Bramall Lane he made 58 league appearances and scored 16 goals, including a perfect penalty record of 7 scored from 7 taken which is a club record.[3]"

Peter Duffield - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Norwood currently has 100% from 2 taken.

Apart from the one he ballooned over the bar on his debut

Going back to TK, I'm going to attempt a 'Silent' and can vaguely remember a real pressure penalty he took, I think, away at Tranmere in the 4th Division promotion season run-in. If memory serves, he'd missed his last 1, v Mansfield ???, and we were 2-1 down with minutes left, he put it away and we picked up a valuable away point. Over to people with better memories than me (or stats )

 

[Geordie Blade]

Duffield had a 100% record from at least 7 or 8 taken.

7 out of 7. They were all put in the same spot too - low to the keeper's right. Including two in one game (vs Portsmouth, I think).

 

[coaxingstar71]

7 out of 7. They were all put in the same spot too - low to the keeper's right. Including two in one game (vs Portsmouth, I think).

Correctamundo.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Apart from the one he ballooned over the bar on his debut

Going back to TK, I'm going to attempt a 'Silent' and can vaguely remember a real pressure penalty he took, I think, away at Tranmere in the 4th Division promotion season run-in. If memory serves, he'd missed his last 1, v Mansfield ???, and we were 2-1 down with minutes left, he put it away and we picked up a valuable away point. Over to people with better memories than me (or stats )

Sorry I wasn't counting shoot-outs, but fair play

 

[BushBlade]

TK, Woody & keith Edwards

Edwards?

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

John Matthews

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

When he had the balls for it.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Woodward, the best of the lot for me.

 

[Wards]

One people forget but had a good record (can't remember him missing one) - Mitch Ward. Took over when Whitehouse missed a couple I think.

 

[Liaminho9]

David Unsworth.

Shame he was still really good at taking them after he left...

 

[CarlingBlade]

Duffield for me, Beattie took a good penalty, but did miss a couple for us, v Blackpool & Leicester.

Bobby Ford also took a decent penalty similar style to Duffield's.

 

[Mouth of the South]

Never thought Duffield would miss when he was on them.

As truly terrible a player as he was, I also had the same confidence whenever Chris Porter was about to take them.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Jagielka – our only reliable one in the 2006-07 season after Unsworth, Hulse, Webber all missed. Don’t think he ever missed one for us.

 

[S40BLADE]

Chris Porter

 

[Sheffsteel]

I’m sure I remember Kenworthy being good at pens.....he had a swagger/ confidence and used to blast them in the corners.

Also remember Colin Morris being really good....he used to calmly “pass“ the ball into the bottom corner.....made it look so easy.

 

[cmbillm]

I’m from the days of TC and Woodward... but there has not been a better penalty taker than James Beattie.

Arrogant, confident, and a unique technique as described by EddieColquhounsLeg earlier; back to the goal - walk away a few steps, then without a pause, spin round run up and score. Always made me laugh at loud.

 

[Akinbiyi]

Neill Collins