Congratulations to Mark Newsham

[Steelihat]

Lincoln set to receive transfer fee from Scunthorpe for Andrew Boyce in January

Might free up a little money to buy a striker

[noughtyforties]

Well its safe to say they'll not be stooping as low as to poach anyone from your place.......

[Steelihat]

Well its safe to say they'll not be stooping as low as to poach anyone from your place.......

 

Boyce came from us (and a share of the fee will be for us)

What other clubs has Newsham played for?

[Seenbetter]

Perhaps he didn't want to play for other clubs. Perhaps at Boston he felt appreciated, got job satisfaction and his dad liked to sit with a better class of supporter.

[B Grimes]

Just got to add my congratulations to the Newsh for his century, (but rather feel he should pass on penalty duties to someone else!) really great achievement and long may it continue

[Pilgrim86]

He is our penalty taker and should stay so, however it's not the first one he's missed deep into added time to salvage a draw. BPA away last season?

[Bostonshire]

he puts most away

[leicester pilgrim]

He is our penalty taker and should stay so, however it's not the first one he's missed deep into added time to salvage a draw. BPA away last season?

Why do we have to have just one designated penalty taker? If we've aspirations of the play-offs then it's not unrealistic to expect that four or five different players may need to take crucial spot-kicks later in the season. Isn't there an argument for sharing the responsibilities around and giving several players the experience / practice?

Newsham has missed a couple, both of which cost us points. I wouldn't want to dismiss the idea of him taking another penalty again for us ever again, but I can'r see the harm in taking the pressure away from him in the short term and letting others step up. We're not short of other candidates. Weir-Daley scored one with the minimum of fuss against Stafford (when Newsham wasn't playing), and I'm pretty sure Miller converted a few penalties for Stamford last season. (OK, Weir-Daley and Miller weren't options at Telford). Then there's Ian Ross. With his ability from corner kicks and free kicks, surely he'd be reliable from the penalty spot?

[joshb]

Surely anyone can run up and whack a football hard down the middle whilst keeping it below the crossbar

[John C]

You'd think so Josh, but the experience of the Supporters Trust 5 a side team in the tournament before the final league game at Wrexham shows this isn't the case.

We lost two penalty shoot-outs (we were the English team as someone later wittily pointed out) and I certainly wasn't the only person not to score. Indeed I stand to be corrected by such as MNH or Daniel Lambert, but I believe the only player not to miss was Pete B, mainly because he didn't take one in the first place.

[kingofnaves]

Lincoln set to receive transfer fee from Scunthorpe for Andrew Boyce in January

Might free up a little money to buy a striker

you would be better off buying some light bulbs!

[kingofnaves]

Its a shame that this post has been hijacked by this  tinhat bloke!

[Pilgrim86]

Newsh hardly trains part-time, his knees won't take full-time!

[Shauneyg]

Listening to newsh video interview on the official site. He seems to really enjoy playing for us and say he wants to score many more goals. I really hope he is here for a few more years yet. True bufc legend.

[Imp Stalker]

You'd think so Josh, but the experience of the Supporters Trust 5 a side team in the tournament before the final league game at Wrexham shows this isn't the case.

We lost two penalty shoot-outs (we were the English team as someone later wittily pointed out) and I certainly wasn't the only person not to score. Indeed I stand to be corrected by such as MNH or Daniel Lambert, but I believe the only player not to miss was Pete B, mainly because he didn't take one in the first place.

Curse his bruised toe nail.