Both accidents waiting to happen. Alnwick slightly less so. Could do with a keeper like previous very good ones, Alexander, Marshall, Etheridge etc. What happened to the main aim of keepers, saving shots, collecting crosses and generally keeping the ball out of the net. All this passing the ball out is well and good but keep the ball out of the f'in' net first.
Totally with you - the current 2 are too small and every time they pass it around the back as you state it’s an accident waiting to happen. We’re not Man City. I can’t see the point of risking another Watford mishap by passing it around the box when more often than not it comes back to the keeper who then launches it.
I think these comments are spot on. We're currently a mid table Championship club striving for security before further aspiration. That may well have been achieved by now or at least should be by the New Year. This is essentially a division of grunt rather than skill and we need to accept what we are before trying to emulate the Prem penchant for "playing out from the keeper". The teams that possess the skills are currently those that came down from the Prem and are heading the division as a result. It'll take a lot of money in January to even contemplate copying them. Consolidation is fine, but without ambition it's not for me. The way into that top 6 is just to get better at what we're best at and not get ahead of ourselves trying to copy something we're not capable of at the moment. That doesn't mean lumping it - rather a quick transition through midfield and out wide.
I'd agree with that. Let's not try and be something we're not. We've a few players now who can play a bit. More so than the last couple seasons. It'll take a couple more transfer Windows to get that across the park. A tilt at the top 6 while continuing to evolve. Still concerned that Erol is doing his own thing without a strategy though.
Irwin was a flamboyant keeper whereas Healey was more traditional. I think Bill was from the North whereas Ron was from the south. Recall Ron being chipped by Keegan at Wembley when he came on for Eire to replace Gerry Peyton. Another decent keeper around then was Peter Grotier. Later even Mark Grew John Hallworth and Roger Hansbury and of course George Wood Bywater & Warner were in the Dimi the drop, Michael Oakes, Ben Amos & David Forde category
Not of any real interest, but Warner had a huge todge apparantly, the envy of the dressing room.....Peter Rodrigues too. Bywater was a huge knob! Masky
Interesting that we had two international keepers on the books at the same time. It was when I'd just started watching the city with my dad. I seem to recall Healey getting the most game time. Reserve keepers didn't even make the bench. 1 sub. If the keeper got injured, an outfield player went between the sticks.
The idea was to play out from the back when the other side does not have numbers in our half, not pass it around when they have players around our penalty area.
On exactly 35 minutes after shouting at Robinson we started lumping it long. We won the game so Bullut is taking credit for the changes. I note when we lost he blamed his changes on the subs not doing anything.
Another "Ollie Tanner" from a non league club?............. https://www.footballinsider247.com/...d-bristol-city-in-race-to-sign-jordan-thomas/
If you offered a monkey a hand with one banana and a hand with four bananas even a monkey would choose the four bananas. Now on here given the choice of a player that scored 4 goals and one who scores 1 goal suddenly logic goes out the window.
Sounds like you have a bit of a Monkey on your back where Meite is concerned... no need to go bananas about it though jck.
You don't seem to understand despite numerous attempts at explaining to you. I can't argue against that Ugbo has scored more than Meite however Ugbo does absolutely nothing else to help the team. He is useless at winning balls hit up to him. He has poor control so doesn't hold the ball up when he manages to get it. He is lightweight and gets dispossessed very easily. He is poor at passing to his own players and has little creativity. Meite contributes so much more in those areas and is also physically strong and upsets defenders. Look at Meite's performance when he came on to replace Ugbo at halftime. He physically challenged and intimidated Millwall's defenders and with Colwill's midfield presence the team's game was raised substantially second half. Were you there to see this? Meite to start tomorrow. I'm sure if Meite gets chances within 6 feet of the goal, like 3 of Ugbo's goals, then he would have an equivalent tally.
