The Robin's centre back was a member of the team that crashed out of the play-offs at Brighton on penalties, with Wembley looming, and was also part of last season's embarrassing FA Cup spot kick defeat at Barnet.
He was quick to step forward though to help Town to a 7-6 shoot out win at Aldershot and into the Johnstone's Paint Trophy second round and insisted afterwards sometimes you earn your own luck.
The Robins were lambasted by boss Maurice Malpas after a shocking display in their 2-2 draw during normal time but Ifil believes a different kind of mental strength was finally shown.
He said: "I was standing there and thinking it is about time a penalty shoot out went our way. It was finally our day.
"Maybe that was a wake up call and maybe we are lucky to still be in the competition.
"They were very good on the day, you can't take that away from them.
"So hopefully we can go forward from here and put in some better performances in the cup.
"Sometimes you need a different kind of strength. When you are not playing well you need the strength to stick in there and then we end up winning on penalties.
"Not all times it is going to pretty, pretty, pretty. Sometimes it will be ugly but we will stick in there and get the result, even an undeserved one.
"Although you could argue you do deserve it if you stick in there."
Ifil enjoyed an eventful 90 minutes at the Ebb Stadium, scoring Town's late equaliser, creating Simon Cox's early equaliser and also conceding the penalty to hand Aldershot the lead.
Goals have been few and far between for the Beast' during his Town career but he admits hitting the back of the net is something he is hoping to do more frequently.
"I gave away the penalty, scored a goal and set one up so it was bit of an up and down game for me," he said.
"I did not catch their lad at all. I was going for the ball but missed it, missed him and he seemed to catch my arm but he was always going to go down so what can you do?
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