You boys had best watch out cos the Goalkeeping Union President Dr WATSon will be down on you like a ton of bricks!
I'm talking about Goalkeepers which are totally different to outfield players in a number of ways, chief of which is its a specialised position so the only way you'll get in the team is when the other chap seriously fu*ks up. In years past GK's were ready but not anymore. They're full of bloody nerves and not willing to take their rare chance. If it were up to me Smithies wouldn't be rewarded for choking when his opportunity came. I'd play Joanna Lumley next game. (S)he can't be any worse than the other two.
He hardly choked. He made a mistake, if you can call it that, which nine times out of ten the ref would have called a foul for and went on to have a good game including one particularly good save. Being a goalkeeper has little to do with anything. What good does it do the bloke that he makes one error and is dumped for the third choice goalkeeper? Green is available on Saturday anyway but I'd happily stick with Smithies. He's an experienced goalkeeper at this level and if the plan is to consolidate this season with him as the long term keeper then there's no harm in playing him over Green.
Where do you get your leeway for understanding his nerves then Sir? You're forgetting his first appearance. His first action was to kick a ball out of his hands straight out of play, then throw one out and then concede a goal he should have parried. Then in his first full game he coughs one up for Blackburn. Wats you have a very high tolerance level for poor Goalkeeping but each to his own
I was a goalkeeper for many years, albeit not at any sort of relevant level of course. He's quite an experienced player but is a young man in any other walk of life, the very same age as me in fact. If I was from a ****hole like Huddersfield, born and bred, never known anything apart from bloody Huddersfield and found myself transferred to a relatively big (or at least higher profile) London club playing against a team that resembled the Harlem Globetrotters, I'd be a tad nervous. He'll make mistakes but you don't play as consistently as he has at a young age without having something about you.
Apart from the 50k a week we throw away on Green. Why the **** didn't we offload when we had the chance?
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He might have something about him alright Wats. But that something so far doesn't look good enough for the level we should be aiming for.
Thought we scuppered his chance to go to West ham on deadline day. Presumably because that would have left us shy of a keeper. I'm probably wrong though.
It wasn't just the one mistake, there were another 3 or 4 times that rather than catching it he flapped at it with a weak punch. Hopefully that won't be normal and it was down to his ricket for the goal knocking his confidence as the weather was no excuse as their own goalie managed it
