As with a number of situations this season, people are getting angry on here about stuff that they presume does/doesn't happen and is wrong.
We were told last night that penalties have been practised and Ryan Brooke never misses apparently so was the obvious candidate to take the pen last night rather than the strange choice. Training is obviously different to matches (and God knows who takes the next one!) but it can't be discounted.
OK...but just who would have taken a penalty had we been awarded one in the first 42 minutes of the opening half i.e. when Brooke wasn't even on the pitch?
His penalty was ultimately predictably feeble, alas.
Deserved a point.....but a chance of two bonus points squandered.
I have no idea, was just trying to share some knowledge i heard on the coach that the choice wasn't totally random.
It's certainly a worrying issue.
Ecky,
I was fed a similar story by an Alty club representative as we were departing from Guiseley last evening.
He even claimed that Brooke had taken Alty's "best penalty" of the season to date.
In the frustration of seeing us squander the opportunity to collect all three points, my pointed response was that there is a vast difference between taking a penalty when you are 5-0 up at home against Hinckley (and they have an outfield player in goal who makes Chris Senior look like John McAliskey) and facing a late spot kick at Guiseley when you are chasing a play-off position.
Oddly, I think that if we had never been awarded that penalty and the match had just proceeded to finish in a 1-1 draw, I would probably have been feeling quite content at the end rather than relatively crestfallen!