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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 10 Feb 08:12
After we were denied a penalty when Andrew Tod appeared to have been fouled in the box on Saturday, the Courier are saying we are the only team in Scotland not to have been awarded a penalty in any competition this season. I don`t think that`s right though as I remember Rory MacLeod scoring from the spot against Stirling Albion in the League Cup way back in July.
It`s still quite a surprising statistic though as I think it covers over 30 games. I can`t recall being denied too many `stonewallers` though apart from the tug on Chris Kane`s shirt against PT. Maybe we don`t commit opposing defenders enough in the penalty box?
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Topic Originator: DJAS
Date: Tue 10 Feb 09:19
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wee eck, Tue 10 Feb 08:12
After we were denied a penalty when Andrew Tod appeared to have been fouled in the box on Saturday, the Courier are saying we are the only team in Scotland not to have been awarded a penalty in any competition this season. I don`t think that`s right though as I remember Rory MacLeod scoring from the spot against Stirling Albion in the League Cup way back in July.
It`s still quite a surprising statistic though as I think it covers over 30 games. I can`t recall being denied too many `stonewallers` though apart from the tug on Chris Kane`s shirt against PT. Maybe we don`t commit opposing defenders enough in the penalty box?
I thought they meant in the league when I seen it. Might’ve read it wrong. I would say it is down to the lack of action in the box.
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Topic Originator: Bandy
Date: Tue 10 Feb 12:59
The thing with statistics is that there are always anomalies, and anomalies aren`t always wrong. But equally they arent always random, sometimes there`s a cause.
Off the top of my head, I can`t think of many stonewallers we haven`t been given.. the Kane one v Patrick was huge, and magnified by the ref sending JCM off so harshly later in the game.
I think there was also a stonewaller in the Raith game, when Kane was caught late and high on the ankle after taking a shot. Although for some reason it seems players are fair game for horrible fouls if they manage to get a shot away.
What`s more interesting is we`ve had at least one howling penalty penalty given against us, and a few `seen them given`. We don`t seem to be on the favourable side of those decisions either?
On the flip side - have we benefitted from penalties not given; if stonewallers not given to the opposition? Can`t think of any myself, but that`s probably selective memory.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 10 Feb 13:15
I think it was Caceres who was sent off v Partick wasn`t it? One thing that always strikes me about referees is that they`ll give free kicks outside the box for the most innocuous contacts but ignore quite physical contacts inside the penalty area.
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Tue 10 Feb 14:23
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wee eck, Tue 10 Feb 13:15
I think it was Caceres who was sent off v Partick wasn`t it? One thing that always strikes me about referees is that they`ll give free kicks outside the box for the most innocuous contacts but ignore quite physical contacts inside the penalty area.
I think that’s because players are more likely to ‘look’ for a foul inside the box compared to outside of it.
Refs will edge on the side of caution therefore.
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Topic Originator: Indiapar1
Date: Tue 10 Feb 14:43
The other way of looking at this is that we are not pressuring teams enough in and around the box to be awarded penalties
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Topic Originator: Bandy
Date: Tue 10 Feb 15:28
Yeah - I was confusing games. JCM got sent off in a different game. the Caceres red was just about deserved, but the dude that provoked him off the ball, got off completely scot free.
I think, and made the point at the time, we aren`t savvy enough - we don`t pressure refs, we don`t give them `decisions to make` by staying down and milking injuries, or exaggerating contact in the box. I hate that those things work, but our opposition are doing it, and it`s working for them.
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