[Archived] Northampton Town v Rovers

[JacknOry]

Mulgrew has been a huge miss. He would have slammed that penalty away.

[G Somerset Rover]

Big two points dropped there. Got to hope Shrewsbury don’t get the win to make matters worse.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Conwy is even club captain and captain for the day. He hid when his team needed him to stand up and take the penalty.

[Cherry Blue]

Awful result. Two points given away.

[philipl]

Very simple. You select your penalty takers. They practise like crazy. Get briefed on the opposition keeper. If number 1 taker is on the field, he takes it. If not number 2 etc does.

Can I be manger for today and claim the three points please?

[Husky]

Just now, dingles staying down 4ever said:

Conwy is even club captain and captain for the day. He hid when his team needed him to stand up and take the penalty.

He quite possibly could have been seeing double.

[Bigdoggsteel]

Weird performance. Played badly,but definitely had enough chances to win. Shocker of a peno at a crucial time. I hate those fake attempt nonsense shots. Just put it in the @#/?ing corner. 

[frosty]

For the winning streak to end in that manner is very frustrating. 

Chance to bounce back as early as Tuesday thankfully. 

[AdamRochina]

Pathetic result.. If you we can't beat teams like this we don't deserve to go up it's that simple 

[SoldierMo]

Conway as captain should have stepped up instead bottled it after the miss

[Tom]

Hugely disappointed to throw away 2 points you have to be winning those games with chances like that, still better than a loss 

[Cherry Blue]

Did someone mention they'd been on an xmas party?

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

That's two big points dropped there.

Two massive and WINNABLE home games now....

 

[bluefred]

Not to worry we move on to the next game 

[USABlue]

1 hour ago, Rogerb said:

 

On 12/21/2017 at 02:40, den9112 said:

 

Sounded like we were garbage, still had chances to win it.  Useless.  Sounded to me like everyone was hungover from the party, on holiday already.  Must do better.  Bright nite is it's a point away follow up with a win Boxing day and that's not bad.

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Maybe this is the dose of reality everybody needed. We've been winning but have not played well.

[blueboy3333]

Antonsson is the most obvious looking bottler in the whole team. I mean, Antonsson FFS! Anton-@#/?-sson. Christmas ruined by a near neighbour of Santa's. Ludicrous.

Anyway, we didn't lose, still chance of Top 2 if Shrews lose. Not the end of the world.

Let's smash Rochdale.

[RevidgeBlue]

Meh.

Really wanted us to keep the winning run going and have a crack at beating the Club record for consecutive wins in the upcoming home games. Not the end of the world though. Oldest cliche in the book if you miss penalties you dont deserve the win. 

Arguably shows we have a few key players like Raya Mulgrew Smallwood Dack Chapman (when fit) and beyond that not a great deal? God forbid we get an injury to Dack.

[Guest]

How frustrating. I can forgive a poor half if we create enough chances to rectify, but after missing an absolute sitter, Conway should have stood up and insisted on taking that penalty to make amends. He's proved before that he is a quality penalty taker, so why on Earth was Antonsson taking it? I suppose it's easy to say after the event, but I was hoping at the time that Conway would pick it up and put right a wrong.

Never mind. A point is OK if Bradford and Shrewsbury are held to a draw or less. Still unbeaten, and let's hope that we take that frustration out on lowly Rochdale in three days' time.

[islander200]

3 minutes ago, dingles staying down 4ever said:

Conwy is even club captain and captain for the day. He hid when his team needed him to stand up and take the penalty.

According to the radio commentary Antonnson grabbed the ball the minute the penalty was awarded. But Conway should have put his foot down and took the ball off him

[dingles staying down 4ever]

Just now, islander200 said:

According to the radio commentary Antonnson grabbed the ball the minute the penalty was awarded. But Conway should have put his foot down and took the ball off him

So did Benteke for Palace the other week.

And just as in that case the captain should stand up and overule him  for the good of the team.

[Norbert Rassragr]

Save the tears and cries of anger until the end of the season. Crap result, but it's the end of December. Who knows what will happen?

[Doug]

I thought we would struggle when I saw the starting 11 so will take a draw.

Hope Charlie is fit for Rochdale game.

Still, it's a decent unbeaten run we're on.

 

[Lihamylly]

"Disorganized defense at least at first half, missed penalty."

We probably paid two points for Charlie's illness today. But for sure we can't rely so much on one player in long term. Just hoping and praying Mulgrew won't get injured at the remaining season.

 

[philipl]

Just now, Doug said:

I thought we would struggle when I saw the starting 11 so will take a draw.

Hope Charlie is fit for Rochdale game.

Still, it's a decent unbeaten run we're on.

 

Yes, all my confidence drained away when I saw that line up.