Match Day Thread Saints vs Stoke City - Saturday, August 23 - 15:00 KO

To be fair Mad-Eye Moody was great when they brought him in as new GK for the Hogwarts Staff XI .


The fans had been giving the old GK all sorts of abuse, generally calling him Professor Fumble-more

 

The lad has done well so far but I don't recall him having to save many of the type of shots he was letting in 2 years ago ie power shots sort of half way up the goal and not exactly in the corner.

 

If we are including pre-season, he has made some excellent saves including shots like this.

 

I never watched any pre-season games, fair play if he played well then.

 

I'd say the one against Wrexham was exactly the type of shot he was letting in before - down low to his left.

 

I'll be delighted if he plays well all season and ends up being a key player, still early days though.

 

Well the options are Bazunu, McCarthy or Moody at present. Some will prefer McCarthy some will prefer Bazunu, nobody would prefer Moody. If we don’t sign a new keeper then those are the options and, so far, Still clearly prefers Bazunu.

 

You’re criticising him for letting in a decent pen?

Flummoxed

 

Baz
Suga THB Jack Manning or Welly
Downes Matheus Charles
Adarma Stewart or Downs Robinson

That’ll do for me

 

Not to speak for Tom, but pretty sure he’s saying the game winning save he made at 0-1 down towards the end of the game is a save he wouldn’t have made two seasons ago for us.

 

Tom was describing the save he made, not the pen.

 

I assumed he was joking TBF.

 

After two games give Baz a chance! Is he better than Rambo.... No! Donarumma would be the worst keeper in the world with all the mistakes by our defence under Martin. I am not saying he is the best goalie in the world, but the best goalies only need to make a couple of saves each half and lucky penalty stops.

 

Exactly this. Now obviously I'm biased towards Baz but even looking at this objectively I just cannot understand the hate he gets. He came to Saints having only played in League 1 with the fish ****ers. The brilliant and inspiring leadership at SR thought it'd be a top idea to drop him into a PL team which was ****ing **** in the first place.

We unsurprisingly go down and he's asked to play in a system totally alien which involves some incredibly risky tactics of knocking it around our back 4 leading to some hideous mistakes. How is it on Baz that we asked Jack Stephens and Bednarek to turn in to bloody Maldini and yet criticise him when those suicide tactics result in goals?

He's very young for a keeper and would have been much better used as an understudy to Mccarthy with a few cup games for the first couple of years, but no. We threw him in the deep end with an arrogant twat like Martin refusing to give anyone a life jacket.

He's already helped win us 3 points this season again behind a really dodgy defence. Its bizarre people are on his back.

 

Even accounting for the awful defending he was a terrible keeper. The stats were awful. It was widely acknowledged that McCarthy coming in was a big factor in winning the playoffs.

Lets not re-write history and pretend he was a great keeper playing in front of a bad defense.

 

Feck me i am on the same page as Lincs! Never

Name the great goalies that played against an = or worse defence than ours.

 

That would make him a really bad keeper

 

We have no idea if we would have won / lost the play offs with Baz. It’s just your opinion so it’s not rewriting history