Or you have to “retire” when you reach 25 runs
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…and six an out , over the railway or the cut.
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Not if it’s your bat everbody is using.
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Or if it’s tea time , and you’ve got to go in … it’s my ball
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“So you smash up the floodlights
And the game was abandoned,
And the dog would bark
And you’d be banned from his house.
And your travelling army
Of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you
And thrown in the bin.”
Lyrics care of Half Man Half Biscuit.
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Frido balls … anybody have one ?
Quality orange coloured placco lol.
You could mend 'em with a hot knife or screwdriver, and blow 'em up again.
Still on the lookout for a proper transformer, I see.
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Thanks @Pingu
I think what our record shows is that penalty shoot outs definitely aren’t a lottery and have a lot to do with confidence and skill.
If you look at the years where we have won penalty shootouts we have had good/successful teams.
87/88 - the promotion year
98/99 - Sir Ray’s beautiful team
14-16 - the culmination of Smith’s work.
I think that is six out of the seven wins, the other one being when we were a second tier side.
The thirteen losses on the whole have been when we have been a poor team or a team very low on confidence.
And that’s about right right for us. More than two thirds of the time we are at least a bit rubbish and this will be reflected when we ask five of our players to put the ball into the net from twelve yards.
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Penalty shoot outs are won on skill, quality and nerve.
Guessing our budget dictates our chances.
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I agree with P.T and Mazza01.
Last year, when we scored only one of five penalty attempts at home to Macclesfield, Keates said that penalty shoot-outs are just a “lottery”. That was when I began to realise that he did not have a clue.
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Probably time to update this thread
87/88 Bristol City H Division 3 playoffs W 4-2
89/90 Bristol Rovers A FL Trophy L 2-3
93/94 Scunthorpe A FA Cup L 6-7
96/97 Burnley A FA Cup L 2-4
98/99 Bristol Rovers H FL Trophy W 5-4
98/99 Brentford A FL Trophy W 4-3
98/99 Cambridge H FL Trophy W 4-3
02/03 Blackburn A League Cup L 4-5
02/03 Reading A FA Cup W 4-1
04/05 Cheltenham A FL Trophy W 4-3
05/06 Swansea A FL Trophy L 5-6
09/10 Bury H FL Trophy L 4-5
11/12 Dagenham H FA Cup L 2-3
12/13 Port Vale H FL Trophy L 5-6
13/14 Wolves A FL Trophy L 2-4
14/15 Tranmere A FL Trophy W 5-4
15/16 Chesterfield H FA Cup W 5-3
17/18 Coventry H FL Trophy L 3-4
18/19 Macclesfield H League Cup L 1-3
19/20 Coventry A FL Trophy L 4-5
20/21 Sheffield Wednesday H League Cup L 2-4
20/21 Bristol Rovers A FL Trophy W 4-2
20/21 Chelsea u21 H FL Trophy L 3-5
21/22 Doncaster H League Cup L 3-4
21/22 Northampton A FL Trophy W 4-2
23/24 Forest Green H FL Trophy L 2-4
In the last 20 years we’ve won 5 shootouts out of 17. We’ve lost the last six at home, and nine out of the last ten at home.
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Wow that’s harsh reading
The defeat at Blackburn was a tough one. We’d played excellently against the competition holders and lost it in a shoot-out. The player who missed was Darren Wrack, who had probably been our best player.
I’m a bit confused by the loss to Cheltenham in 04-05. I thought we won the shoot-out and then lost to Orient in the next round. Am I thinking of another match/year/life? I went to both games, unless I am very mixed up.
You’re right. It looks like either my original source was wrong there or it’s a typo, so that one can be added to the W column.
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Hooray, the memory still works. Some of the time.
I couldn’t figure out how I had seen us lose to Cheltenham and then lose in the next round as well. 
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I’ve corrected the updated list.
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10 wins out of 26 - not very impressive is it?
Won 10, lost 16, but no draws … 
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Thanks for this list, good one to refer to. One thing I’ve noticed, the 4-2 win at Bristol Rovers was in the FLT (not the FLC).
Cheers, but I just updated @Pingu’s original list. Corrected the Bristol Rovers competiton, ta.
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