Sentence:  England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance <WSD>pots</WSD> of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=a): a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.