Grendel think you are being a bit silly here... A lot of goalkeepers have prem contracts but it doesn't make them up to standard... Look at most second choice goalies when they are released, the drop down a division or 2... David stockdale-championship
ross turnbull-championship
brad jones- league one
these are just a few examples, number 2's are often of poor standard even at top clubs... So imagine the standard of a number 3?
Quick question. Has Alsop even played a competitive game since his loan with us?
Quick question.
Did you ever play in goal? If not then did you ever play in defence where you would know the difference that a GK with a big gob that comes out for the ball and gets it most of the time makes?
I just don't get how some don't understand the basics. All decent managers have their opponents watched. These days they can even do it online. They take advantage of weaknesses. One of ours is a GK that doesn't go for crosses. So they will be told to keep sending the ball over. If the ball goes to one of their players they have a good chance. If you have a confident GK who claims about everything you get less dangerous balls in the area. If the ball does go in the area you then have someone who can deal with it. Your defenders can then push out a bit as they trust their GK to command his area. If not they have to stay closer to the goal giving their opponents more space in attacking positions.
None of this is saying Burge is a shit GK. But he could be much better in two very important areas.
murphy was 1 of the big reasons we got relegated from championship
burge is a worry,its that simple.
You don't have to shout and scream all the time to be a good goalie. Most notable being David Seaman. This always seems to get picked up in interviews with him and he always confirms that he's not like that. I remember reading an interview with him where he said he only ever shouted at a defender on one ocassion what he expected of them during his career and he did it in the privacy of the dressing room. I don't recall who it was but it was in his Arsenal years. Instead he talks about the understanding between the defence and the goal keeper, if you have that you don't need to scream and shout.
shocking yesterday
Really? Murphy was one of the smallest reasons tbh...
Gunnar, King and Westwood all left for free
Bought in McDonald and that's it... Plus nimley and Norwood on loan
Sold top scorer in january
had Andy Thorn as manager
had a midfield of: Thomas, clingan, baker, mcsheffery, deegan and bigi for most the season only one of which is playing at a higher level.
Had a strike force force of: Nimley, Platt, Juke(half the season) and McDonald...
Had full backs: Christie and Hussey both can't defend and Christie was 18...
yet murphy was one of the biggest reasons? Good one there mate...
Jamie Jones. Pity we couldn't've kept him.
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He's ok as No 2. Nuff said.
I think he was mentioned quite a lot after the Burton game which we won, to be fair I thought that was his best game todayAll gone quiet on this thread then....funny how he's not mentioned when we win
He didn't have too much today, didn't try and catch and just got it away. Made up for a dodgy header from stokes but was quite quiet.
I said this. Was good for us and actually caught the ball. Preston fourth choice and he wouldn't cost much much. Surely better than what we have got.
Hardly pulling up trees is he? Couple of decent saves but still several dodgy kicks and had a let off when Chesterfield's player was sent off for attempting to handle the ball into the empty net when burge stayed rooted to his line.
Let's not get carried away.
Dont get why he gets so much stick on here, one dodgy game ( which we won) did what he's been doing all season today, he's doing fine
i doubt there's any keeper in this league who's pulling up trees, clean sheet 3 points...he'll do for me
Exactly has cost us no points so far.
Funny people having a go at him for a couple of dodgy kicks FFS Oggy was a crap kicker!
made 2 cracking saves but hey he must be shit.
You know wer'e doing well when fans are trying to find something wrong with burge when he's doing nothing wrong. Must be the shock of having nothing to moan about , there's not a keeper in any league who doesn't make mistakes, he'll do
Or it shows his levels of mediocrity when people start mentioning him in games where he had nothing to do as a sign of his ability.
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