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Best CAFC penalty taker you have seen

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  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,865
    Superclive, obviously. Bob Curtis from my early days. 
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,680
    Bobby Curtis. Apart from when the pressure was really on in the potential promotion clincher v Preston. Only time I saw him miss.

    Way to go yet, Lyle.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,950
    Di Canio was brilliant 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,859
    Buyens. He didn’t even look at the ball- quality 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,302
    Reid. Never, ever felt like he was going to miss.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,020
    Mark Reid
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,609
    Buyens. Not sure who this Buyers is must be before my time
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,930
    Simon Church
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,575
    Sir Clive.....Mark Reid.
    Cliff Holton........keepers would try to dive out of the way of the ball!!
  • Kessell7
    Kessell7 Posts: 158
    Buyens absolutely oozed confidence.

    According to the official YouTube channel, in that 2014/15 season with Buyens taking and Hendo in goal, we had a 100% record (i.e. every penalty given to us was scored and every penalty given against was saved), that can't have happened too many times!

    https://youtu.be/1cEhi3JVjlc

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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,148
    Buyens by a country mile. Never looked like he’d ever miss 
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,271
    AddicksAddict said:
     Buyers, but imagine if he’d been here the season we didn’t get any. 

    Reid, Killer, Curtis & Clive all good and rarely missed. 

    Seven heroes at Wembley can never be forgotten. 
    And on the flip side imagine if he'd been here last season games like Rochdale and Peterborough could have been won and got us automatic promotion if Buyens was around! I don't recall a keeper getting anywhere near a Buyens penalty you just knew he would always score.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,346
    charltonnick said:
    Bob Curtis , I remember Mark Reid missing one against Palace when we got 3 pens in the same match
    Wasn't that the day we got that piece of paper thrust into our hand 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,424
    Buyens
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Buyens is N/A

    Belgian bloke that only stayed for one season and he's someone Thomas Drieson would attempt to brag about.

    8/8 is obviously pretty decent but to be honest, in my eyes it means f*ck all.

    There is only one winner for me regarding this and that is Darren Bent.

    Excellent penalty taker. Hit very hard and well placed. Tight in the corner....and against premier League opposition. More pressure...better goalkeepers.
  • Kenny Achampong
    Kenny Achampong Posts: 540
    Mark Reid - without question - never saw him miss a pen.
  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    Mark Reid no messing 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,336
    Kenny Achampong said:
    Mark Reid - without question - never saw him miss a pen.
    Saw Reid miss two penalties, both against Palace.

    As mentioned before, his third penalty at the Valley, goalie (George Wood?) went the wrong way but ball hit his trailing foot and over the bar.

    Then at Selhurst, goalie goes one way, ball goes the other and hits the post and cleared. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,088
    charltonnick said:
    Bob Curtis , I remember Mark Reid missing one against Palace when we got 3 pens in the same match
    I remember Bob Curtis missing a penalty in the last game of the 68/69 season against Preston (the year the stripeys went up). We got two penalties that day and Harry Gregory missed the other won! We lost 1-0 and finished third grrr!

    Generally Bob was mustard from the spot, but Mark Reid for me also.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,823
    edited August 2019
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Mark Reid. Absolutely no messing. Drive the ball decisively everytime. Can't remember his ever missing.
    I can. sorry - somebody else has remembered before me.

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,794
    charltonbob said:
    charltonnick said:
    Bob Curtis , I remember Mark Reid missing one against Palace when we got 3 pens in the same match
    Wasn't that the day we got that piece of paper thrust into our hand 
    Yes.
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,968
    Buyens never looked like missing. Bob Curtis and Killer were both good as well.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,964
    Buyens was class.

    Mark Reid was a rare one, cause I never feel comfortable when a left footed player steps up for a Pen - always fancy them to miss for some reason
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,903
    Curtis was very good, but always put them to the keepers left.  The only time he didn't (Preston at home in 69), he pulled it wide! Reid was excellent and very calm, but he did have two saved (one re-taken) in the Palace home game in 85 that deprived him of a hat-trick. With Mendonca, you knew that even if he missed he'd score later.  Buyens was very good, but does one season make a swallow? So, my conclusion is that the best penalty taker we have ever seen for Charlton is Michael Gray!
  • robinofottershaw
    robinofottershaw Posts: 1,963
    As others have said, Bob Curtis and Mark Reid for me. They may have missed the odd one, but was always pretty confident when those two stepped up to take a pen.
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,262
    bobmunro said:
    charltonnick said:
    Bob Curtis , I remember Mark Reid missing one against Palace when we got 3 pens in the same match
    I remember Bob Curtis missing a penalty in the last game of the 68/69 season against Preston (the year the stripeys went up). We got two penalties that day and Harry Gregory missed the other won! We lost 1-0 and finished third grrr!

    Generally Bob was mustard from the spot, but Mark Reid for me also.
    In fairness to Curtis and Gregory, we wouldn’t have been promoted whatever the result.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Lawrie Madden.  The power, the height... 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,156
    edited August 2019
    If the thread title was favourite pen taker I would have gone with Mark Reid or Bob Curtis.
    But it is best and I don't see how you can top Yoni Buyens perfect record.
    He exuded self belief from the spot and I never felt he would miss.And he never did.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,111
    The other extreme end was Jacko and BWP towards the end of their pen duties. Not sure if it’s my mind deceiving me but almost turned into a guaranteed miss
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 935
    Mark Reid for me.

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