[Zigsuk]

Have we had a penalty either for or against us this season? I can?t recall one. Teams seem to be more savvy about not giving them away.

[Westbars Spireite]

Yes we have.

[warfey is a spireite]

You have to get in the box to get a penalty,

[Siberian Spireite]

The bar for them to be given has been raised so high Sergei Bubka would struggle. Defenders can grab handfuls of shirts.
However, an attacking player farts in the box and it?s a free kick to the defending team.

This post has been edited by Siberian Spireite: 01 February 2025 - 09:42 PM

[spireitetoo]

Zigsuk, on 01 February 2025 - 06:53 PM, said:

Have we had a penalty either for or against us this season? I can?t recall one. Teams seem to be more savvy about not giving them away.

Donny away springs to mind, didn't Madden took that one away.. ?

[warfey is a spireite]

You have to get in the box to win a penalty.

[ralspireite1866]

warfey is a spireite, on 02 February 2025 - 02:35 PM, said:

You have to get in the box to win a penalty.

No you don?t??.shot from outside the box, opposition team member handles it, penalty!

[warfey is a spireite]

Wow we don't need strikers then just shoot and hope for the best

[sewey89]

For:
Donny (A)
Wigan (H)

Against:
County (H)

[Zigsuk]

Forgotten about these. Still not many in over half a season tho.

[Osborne again]

Not so easy getting a penalty these days, holding a player around the neck, not a penalty, pulling shirt of an attacking individual,not a penalty, holding a player down so he can't jump, no penalty and pushing a player in the back,no penalty. Even handball is a fifty fifty decision these days. Will Grigg has probably drawn fouls into double figures inside the box this season and has little to show for them. When was the last time you saw a lino flagging for a penalty, because I can't remember an incident in recent years at a match involving us.

[JonB]

There seems to be this thing these days where it has to be more of a foul to be a penalty when 9 times out of 10 it would be given as a foul without hesitation outside the box! Hear pundits saying it all the time that its not enough for a pen or would be a soft decision....surely a foul is a foul and shouldnt have to be varying degrees of it being a foul for different areas of the pitch.

[Osborne again]

JonB, on 03 February 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

There seems to be this thing these days where it has to be more of a foul to be a penalty when 9 times out of 10 it would be given as a foul without hesitation outside the box! Hear pundits saying it all the time that its not enough for a pen or would be a soft decision....surely a foul is a foul and shouldnt have to be varying degrees of it being a foul for different areas of the pitch.

Exactly where I stand too. It's a crazy situation when the defender has the advantage knowing that unless he commits GBH on a player in the box, the ref won't point to the spot.

[born in 1866]

Osborne again, on 03 February 2025 - 02:34 PM, said:

Not so easy getting a penalty these days, holding a player around the neck, not a penalty, pulling shirt of an attacking individual,not a penalty, holding a player down so he can't jump, no penalty and pushing a player in the back,no penalty. Even handball is a fifty fifty decision these days. Will Grigg has probably drawn fouls into double figures inside the box this season and has little to show for them. When was the last time you saw a lino flagging for a penalty, because I can't remember an incident in recent years at a match involving us.

Instead of watching the corner kick being taken I focus on the box and we're just as guilty. I don't like it but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

[clarevoyant.]

Osborne again, on 03 February 2025 - 02:45 PM, said:

Exactly where I stand too. It's a crazy situation when the defender has the advantage knowing that unless he commits GBH on a player in the box, the ref won't point to the spot.

The last few minutes at Bradford was one of the worst examples, defenders doing what they wanted knowing they wouldn't be punished and then to make matters worse a free kick was invented against us to relieve the ref of his dilemma. No wonder they don't add the correct time at the end knowing they are exposing themselves to such fiascos

[Osborne again]

born in 1866, on 03 February 2025 - 03:36 PM, said:

Instead of watching the corner kick being taken I focus on the box and we're just as guilty. I don't like it but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

There's a lot not to like in football these days mate,but as you rightly say,we can't beat em so join em, and send Jamie Grimes up for every free kick and corner and tell him to run in from deep, as not much stops him running in 😁.

[HaslandBlue58]

JonB, on 03 February 2025 - 02:38 PM, said:

There seems to be this thing these days where it has to be more of a foul to be a penalty when 9 times out of 10 it would be given as a foul without hesitation outside the box! Hear pundits saying it all the time that its not enough for a pen or would be a soft decision....surely a foul is a foul and shouldnt have to be varying degrees of it being a foul for different areas of the pitch.

It's a total farce,and as I have said many times,where is this new rule book available to browse showing officials can make their own rules rather than following the official rule book.
When did the rule come in that stops the line 'person' from making a decision,and allowing the fourth official to make decisions when being twice as far from any event than the lino ?
Watched a game on MOD attacker dragged to the floor,defender laid across him and commentator saying VAR did not think there was enough contact!!!!!!!
Rule book, referees, referees follow rule book.........simples.

[JonB]

born in 1866, on 03 February 2025 - 03:36 PM, said:

Instead of watching the corner kick being taken I focus on the box and we're just as guilty. I don't like it but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Its become a bit double standards with corners with defenders being warned prior to it being taken to stop doing things etc but then once the ball is in flight they will quickly blow up for a foul by the attacking team. There was a push a few years ago in fact it could have been 2018 where there was a clamp down on it and England benefitted from it getting a few pens at the world cup for people holding players etc then like a lot of other things after a big deal of it for a while it disappears again and its back to normal.

[jack bauer]

a whole league season with not one penalty awarded for us in the league at home that has to be a first

[Westbars Spireite]

That's unbelievable. Can't have ever happened before.