Fowler: From now on, whenever you guys send me your Favourite Moment from the Weekend contribution, post it onto the whatsapp group as well. I received four separate emails all picking the same moment. Only Joel and Duncan went for something different – although, strangely, they both wrote about Jamie Hamill.
Gary: It’s an inexplicably shite goalkeeping attempt.
Shaughan: It says so much about this moment that we all went for it. No humdinger of a goal, no delicate through ball, no gossamer-light first touch. Just a man having a wander.
Cairns: Outfield players going in goals! How could we not?
Shaughan: It’s now a rarely seen phenomenon due to the spoilsport-like expansion of the number of substitutes allowed on the bench.
Tony: Due to being out relatively late on Sunday evening I didn’t see Sportscene till after midnight on Sunday. Or is that Monday? I almost missed it as I was beginning to shut my eyes. There was one eye barely half open when Brown committed the foul. Even then the penalty didn’t stir me.
It was only when I spotted a small bald guy in goal for the pen that they shot open. I even gave them a quick rub to make sure I was away. The only thing running through my head was the voice of random coked-up guy in ‘Superbad’ who spots Michael Cera’s character at the party. “Whooooo’s that guy?”
Cairns: It’s great that we havent seen much of him since he arrived, and then he gives us this.
Shaughan: He could have been like Sylvester Stallone in Escape To Victory.
Tony: I actually paused the highlights and went to the brain trust (our whatsapp group) and asked who on earth was in goals for this pen.
Fowler: Yeah, I told you it was Reguero.
Tony: Yeah, then you responded. Hang on a second… “No! Wait! Shit. It’s Darvydas Sernas. They’d used all their subs.”
Shaughan: He had a recent template to follow. Back in December Lewis Coult proved he wasnt just a haircut perched on top of an overly exfoliated face when he kept out Mortons Declan McManus from the spot.
Cairns: He could have channelled the Cosmin Moti penalty shootout performance for Ludogarets in the preliminary stages of this seasons Champions League. Niall Quinn, Felipe Melo or Mladen Petric; have done it also.
Shaughan: He looked impressive enough at the start, bobbing up and down in an off-putting manner, though his technique unravelled at an alarming rate of knots.
Gary: You could imagine what went through his mind: ‘Do I try Krul-style mind games? Do I go early and dive swiftly, decisively and as spread eagled as possible to one side? Actually, nah, I think I’ll belatedly saunter off to one side taking a wee half-hearted hop along the way.”
Shaughan: It was an odd-looking, bow-legged, shambling stumble, as if he was recreating a story that involved a man with rickets walking to the shop.
Cairns: It was even worse than Lee Wallaces attempt at goalkeeping for Hearts in 2007…
Fowler: (interjects) Didn’t know he could use his hands, attempted to block the shot with a trusty knee-slide.
Cairns: … he simply staggered over to his left-hand side. Thompson just had to fire the ball into the other side of the goal.
Fowler: I want to know what he had planned if Thompson had actually gone the other way. There’s no chance he’s getting his hands down in time to save that.
Tony: At least he was brave enough to give it a bash.
Fowler: Yes, but the entire team must have been thinking afterwards: “Shit, even I could have done better than that.”
Shaughan: Full marks for trying, but I’m guessing that Sernas goalkeeping attribute in Football Manger is 1.
Gary: Jokes aside, it could easily come back to haunt them this season.
Cairns: After Motherwell’s result there are three sides still in danger of finishing in the relegation play-off spot.
Tony: Not too sure he should get the blame for that. In fairness to Sernas it was a good penalty anyway, right in his bottom right corner. And Boyce should have buried the game long before that point.
Craig: I don’t think it should still count as ‘his’ bottom corner after he vacated the property.
Shaughan: We shouldn’t let off Mark Brown for his part in setting this up. What an odd challenge that was on Lewis Morgan.
Tony: Yeah it’s not really his [Sernas’] fault. Mark Brown just gets carried away sometimes.
Cairns: It’s actually about to get worse for County. Reguero is in goals for the next game. He’s previously imitated outfield players in goals.
Tony: Thanks for the memories Sernas.
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