Goalkeeping Woes.

[BigLeftToe]

Hopefully. I see Mahady was on the bench for Scotland U21’s the other night, no word about that from the club so assuming he’s left the building?

[Deereyme66]

Shouldn’t have on a month’s loan?

[BarnardFoxtonBarker..]

I think it was only a short term loan to cover the York game. When he was interviewed after the game he said he would come back in a heartbeat if we wanted him.

[mistertonmick]

I think the youth loan is for a month, but only if required

[Deereyme66]

As I understood it

[MK Iron]

Rory was about 14th in the running for MOM for the second Saturday in a row.

[barriethomas]

Should have been wearing a cap yesterday in the first half. UTWI

[Awaywego]

Said before poor management not making the goalie take a cap out when there’s a low setting sun, told Rory before the match at Sutton in 2022 didn’t take any notice then begged for a cap from a fan during the first half, doesn’t appear to have learned if that was the case yesterday.
Worst one I saw was at Barnsley can’t remember who was in goal but just didn’t see the ball at all when they scored bugger me he to then got a cap from the crowd.

[SouthYorksIron]

Awaywego wrote:

Worst one I saw was at Barnsley can’t remember who was in goal but just didn’t see the ball at all when they scored bugger me he to then got a cap from the crowd.

Jak Alnwick. Straight at him from forty yards, and all he could do was flap at it. The sun was blinding from the far right corner that day, and yet didn’t think about a cap till it was too late.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/barnsley-2-scunthorpe-united-0-mowatt-fires-reds-to-victory-140034#

Yesterday was as bad; Rory frequently using his hands to shade his eyes from the sun, but not considering a cap at any point…?

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Awaywego

[Awaywego]

So unprofessional when will they ever learn.
Shouldn’t be a choice for the keeper the manager must insist on it, we had no choice on what we could and couldn’t wear on the steelworks. what role does mussie play in all this very little imo.

[Iron-awe]

Health and safety at work act, Rory must wear a cap when it’s sunny to stop him going blind when peering into the sun?, well maybe not.

[Deereyme66]

‘told Rory before the match at Sutton in 2022 didn’t take any notice’

Similar to those fans you told to go home at half time at Harrogate by the sounds of it.

[Awaywego]

Was right though he ended up wearing one, and I didn’t tell them to go home only encouraged. Depends which protests were acceptable in the end the pitch invading and tennis balls did the trick.
Thinking back I can’t believe we stayed till halftime at Harrogate.

[Rene Artois]

How some react to our ‘goalkeeper crisis’… the dynamic duo need to enter the arena wearing cheekpieces, eye shields, a visor, blinkers, a hood and a tongue strap :-)

[Northumbiron]

Wearing Kenny Everett’s “Brother Lee Love” gloves might help!

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Rene Artois

[apb]

A lot of keepers don’t like caps because it hinders peripheral and upwards vision – even when there is sun.

Oddly enough, I know one keeper who will only wear a cap when it’s raining because he tells me the ph content in rainwater can hinder vision and also cause sore eyes – but if the sun is cracking flags he won’t wear one.

I’ve never played professionally in goal though so don’t think I’m qualified to offer a firm opinion either way.

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Awaywego

[Rene Artois]

Solution?

[Northumbiron]

The last International keeper I saw wearing one was Lev Yashin!

[Siderite]

I see the latest conspiracy is that Campbell isn’t really injured, but that’s a cover for Butler to avoid admitting that he isn’t good enough.

[64]

Ant conspiracy will involve doing Butler down too. What clown is claiming that?

[Siderite]

To be fair, they aren’t outright stating it as such, but there are some too much in the ‘just asking questions’ territory for me. https://x.com/mgell1s/status/1979110960846496194

Dan, being replied to, saying it is ‘strange’ too, as if there is something more going on

[64]

Utter nonsense

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TheJuryeffsOut

[TheJuryeffsOut]

What a load of nonsense.
I don’t know what Campbells injury is but he came out and took part in some of the warm up with Watson and Johnson a couple of weeks ago. He seemed to me under orders – didn’t do any kicking .
He’s lost his place to Watson for sure. Same thing happened to Boyce towards the end of last season, Butler seems pretty fair in that respect.

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Siderite

[unity iron]

Not many about defending Watson this evening after his latest howler.

[mistertonmick]

He wasn’t totally to blame but did his old trick of pushing it back to a opposing player, but the defence made a right hash of it and should have been cleared before it got to Rory, also he handled the ball well first half and a couple of decent saves

[PhilAnders]

I have to say I am hugely relieved at gaining a point at Boston. I don’t like to single out the goalkeepers for criticism because, in my view, they are the last line of defence, and if the defence doesn’t deal with the opposition’s attack first, they leave the GK exposed. Our defence is poor at defending high balls into the box. That won’t change with a GK from a “higher level” and while that defensive weakness continues opponents will always get “tap ins”. I will accept that the GK is part of the defense, and that having a keeper who confidently comes for crosses ( and manages them) may improve the situation, but our opponents counter is to put the crosses in deeper ( beyond the keeper’s reach) and pressurise the fullbacks. I suspect with our current fullbacks (Ollie Rose excepted) we may well then have a “fullback crisis”

[WonderGoals]

Watson dropped another clanger. What’s new there ?

Putting all the supposed conspiracy bullshit regarding Campbell and Butler to one side. Watson isn’t good enough and never will be.

How much more leeway is he going to be given when he keeps making mistakes ?

Granted there were a catalogue of errors in the lead up to the shot which he palmed straight into danger, but come on….he’s got to do better than that. Any GK with basic, good solid fundamentals gathers that in.

Before certain people start wading in with the age old “you hate Butler” or “you have it in for Watson”, which I may add is complete horse shit, please take into consideration that if any other outfield player was continually making the same mistakes I would be saying the exact thing about them.

Phil, I acknowledge the fact there were errors in the build up to them having the shot, but a capable GK easily deals with said shot.

Even commentary from Boston’s end called it a “goalkeeping howler” which it was. We need to be better as a collective unit, but having a GK who is essentially keeps making basic errors, it’s making it worse.

Having a GK who’s so unsure coming off his line to collect high balls into the box is hardly going to get the best out of the CB’s for instance as they’re going to be on edge and stretched feeling the need to compensate for Watson.

What CB would want to play in front of a GK who hugely struggles to command his box and looks so unsure when claiming high balls ?

[TheJuryeffsOut]

Have you seen the Boston goal ?
Long throw straight to their man who can’t be offside from a throw. Evans gets a foot on an attempt to pass to John-Lewis and gives it straight back to their player who blasts it at goal, Watson gets a hand on but it rebounds straight to John-Lewis who taps it in.
Yes, in ideal world Watson parries it away to the side but I think he did well to make the initial save at all. Evans and JB and Horton didn’t deal properly with any of it from the throw onwards. Very harsh to pin that on Watson.

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[Awaywego]

If you want to see how a goalie should punch watch on fan banter Avro v Kidsgrove lol.

[Northumbiron]

A 44yo Joe Murphy playing well at Tranmere these days and a 33yo Connor Jennings scoring at the other end.

What could have been eh?

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