Penalty Shoot Out

[MelvinBragg]

Having read the Motherwell Greatest 100 thread with interest and watching the World Cup the last few days, a question popped into my head. If you could pick five Motherwell players of any era to take penalties in a shoot out, who would you pick?

Having thought about it, I'll stick to players I've seen..

Cooper

Nijholt

Moult

Stamatelopolous 

McFadden

 

Pretty sure I've forgotten an obvious one or two. Higdon or Sutton maybe..?

Who else have I forgotten? 

[dinnae-punt-it]

Rab McKinnon (could smash a ball)

[MelvinBragg]

3 minutes ago, dinnae-punt-it said:

Rab McKinnon (could smash a ball)

Yep. Was trying to think who took penalties in that 93/94 team...

[Yabba's Turd]

10 minutes ago, MelvinBragg said:

Yep. Was trying to think who took penalties in that 93/94 team...

The Cobra?

[wellfan]

Stama would probably pull a hamstring just placing the ball on the penalty spot.

[Electric Blues]

First pick: Brian McLaughlin.

[weeyin]

36 minutes ago, Electric Blues said:

First pick: Brian McLaughlin.

Good shout.

[Kmcalpin]

Shaun Teale.

[dennyc]

One for us oldies. Dave Whiteford. If I remember correctly.

Might be a bit biased though. His first game for MFC was the first Motherwell game I attended. Truth be told I did not know that until 5 minutes ago.  St Johnstone at FP in 1966. 3-3. Went on to partner Joe Wark for many a year. 

 

 

 

[The African]

One for the real oldies, Johnny Aitkenhead. Never saw him myself, but my father claimed that he was the best penalty taker he had ever seen for us. His ability to accurately pass the ball into the corner of the goal was both simple and effective.

[stv]

Did Peter Millar not take a few of our penaltys in the seventies . I was young then but seem to recall him taking them, and scoring a few.

[SteelmaninOZ]

1 hour ago, dennyc said:

One for us oldies. Dave Whiteford. If I remember correctly.

Might be a bit biased though. His first game for MFC was the first Motherwell game I attended. Truth be told I did not know that until 5 minutes ago.  St Johnstone at FP in 1966. 3-3. Went on to partner Joe Wark for many a year. 

 

 

 

Aye Yes Sir! Mr Whiteford Sir!

[cambo97]

I don't remember Richie Foran missing any. 

[grumpy]

Brian Heron.

[AllyMax]

11 hours ago, stv said:

Did Peter Millar not take a few of our penaltys in the seventies . I was young then but seem to recall him taking them, and scoring a few.

He certainly did, which was strange for Peter Millar, cause taking a pen didn't involve flattening an opponent 😁

[weeyin]

4 minutes ago, AllyMax said:

He certainly did, which was strange for Peter Millar, cause taking a pen didn't involve flattening an opponent 😁

To be fair, Millar had other talents. 

OK, one other talent, and that was kicking a ball very very hard. 

[dennyc]

11 hours ago, SteelmaninOZ said:

Aye Yes Sir! Mr Whiteford Sir!

Dalziel HS I'm guessing

[MJC]

8 hours ago, cambo97 said:

I don't remember Richie Foran missing any. 

He missed one in a 0-0 draw at Tynecastle in 2005.

I think Ged Brannan and Kevin McBride had 100% records from the spot for us and they both took a few.

[Yoshi-1991]

Higdon

[stv]

5 hours ago, AllyMax said:

He certainly did, which was strange for Peter Millar, cause taking a pen didn't involve flattening an opponent 😁

Think he gave a few away as well. That's when defenders were real men. 🤬

[Ya Bezzer!]

The joint worst ever penalty I've ever seen was Jim Hamilton against Aberdeen (I think, it was down at the South Stand end, maybe it was someone else) and a Hugo Sanchez one for Real Madrid were it would have hit the corner flag if the corner flag was 80 feet in the air.

 

[weeyin]

12 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

The joint worst ever penalty I've ever seen was Jim Hamilton against Aberdeen (I think, it was down at the South Stand end, maybe it was someone else) and a Hugo Sanchez one for Real Madrid were it would have hit the corner flag if the corner flag was 80 feet in the air.

 

While not the worst I've seen, Turnbull's miss against Dundee contributed to what must be some kind of record of the shortest time between two teams missing penalties during a match.