Sometimes you just don't get the breaks. Jermaine Easter barely resembles a professional footballer most of the time.
Cheers Roller, two very well taken goals for us, good to see. The defensive record had to go sometime, though I did like Green's reaction to the first going in - not a happy man. As said on another thread Dunne will cost a few goals over a season, but will prevent many more. Certainly when compared to Anton Ferdinand.
lucky deflection back into his feet for their second on another day would have been a corner. Oh well we didnt lose got a point at a ground we have not won at for a long long long long time.
Cheers roller. As said above, 2 good goals scored, 2 poor goals to give away. C'est la vie. You never know, now we've conceded, maybe our attacking game will flourish in the knowledge that the continuing record has gone.
Agreed. But it is interesting that fans are seldom as generous of spirit when it comes to goalies, who are not allowed to make any costly mistakes.
The difference is defenders dont make many mistakes and if they do, they become a Bramble like figure of fun, Dunne is a bit of a joke when it comes to OGs too. Goalies who make lots of mistakes are rightly derided at as thats what should separate them from non league players. Theres also the fact that goalies can cover a defenders mistakes while a goalies mistake is nearly always very costly.
I think that's the point, Flyer; a goalie's mistake is nearly always costly, whereas there's often a teammate around to bail out the errant defender. A team could win 4-1 every week, with the conceded goal being a goalkeeping clanger, and regardless of whether the 'keeper makes half a dozen "worldies" and a penalty save in each match, many fans would be of the opinion that he's the weak link in the eleven.
Easter is a player transformed this season, **** knows what Lomas has done or said to him but it's worked.
Every goalie makes world class saves, that the easy part of the game, the hard part is catching a looping cross 100 times out of 100, especially if you know the forward is going to clatter into you and you have time to think about it. Players like Van der Sar or Schmeichel wouldnt even make 1 error per season. Thats what separated them from others.
I'm not sure how the ball got through to him, but it was a great finish. As for Lomas, he looked to be in severe danger a month back but seems to have turned you around. How do you rate him as a manager?
Agreed as the ball dropped nicely for him but he would have missed last season. Jury still out but at least results have been better other than at Brum & Bournemouth shipping 9 goals after winning the previous three on the bounce!
Dunne at fault for the first and Barton and Dunne got in each other's way for the 2nd. Huge game next week!
That was only because Hill put himself massively out of position challenging for a ball that should have been left to Henry, him doing that means he doesnt exactly have a lot of faith in Henry winning it. If Hills there, hes goalside and Barton doesnt have to come back to tee the ball up.
I think on the second, Col, the problem started with Hill and Henry going for the same header outside the box, and neither of them winning it. The Millwall player that won the ball headed it into the box where I don't think Dunne touched it, but Easter's first touch played a fortunate one-two off Barton for him to then run clear on goal. Had Barton not been there I suspect Dunne could've hoofed it to safety.
