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It was a result of 3 or 4 mistakes the last of which was a bit of fairly poor goalkeeping.
Pretty sure Rory would agree. All goalkeepers make mistakes but those that make too many cease to be number one choice in professional football teams. Pretending they didn’t happen doesn’t make them go away.
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There were a few villains of the piece and Watson wasn’t really to blame.
Evans first attempted clearance after an awful first touch was poor.
The subsequent throw in was taken 20 yards away from where it should have been and gave them a clear advantage as it got them in behind.
A chance to clear on the edge of the box was then squandered.
After Watson had made the initial save (which actually wasn’t a bad one) – the lad who ran in and tapped in did so smoking an absolute cigar without a defender, let alone a challenge, in sight.
Watson probably slightly over dived for the initial save so it went back into the mix but he was well down my list of culprits for that goal to the point he wasn’t actually on the list at all.
He also had a very decent game – lest we forget the one on one etc.
Overall i had no complaints with his performance.
Sone of the analysis on this board is genuinely funny. It’s like listening to a load of 8 year olds – the goalkeeper let them all in so it must be all his fault we just got done 12-0.
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There were a few villains of the piece and Watson wasn’t really to blame.
Evans first attempted clearance after an awful first touch was poor.
The subsequent throw in was taken 20 yards away from where it should have been and gave them a clear advantage as it got them in behind.
A chance to clear on the edge of the box was then squandered.
After Watson had made the initial save (which actually wasn’t a bad one) – the lad who ran in and tapped in did so smoking an absolute cigar without a defender, let alone a challenge, in sight.
Watson probably slightly over dived for the initial save so it went back into the mix but he was well down my list of culprits for that goal to the point he wasn’t actually on the list at all.
He also had a very decent game – lest we forget the one on one etc.
Overall i had no complaints with his performance.
Sone of the analysis on this board is genuinely funny. It’s like listening to a load of 8 year olds – the goalkeeper let them all in so it must be all his fault we just got done 12-0.
Spot on apb. There’s certainly some blow hards around who deem themselves experts in goalkeeping punditry, as tedious and predictable as Match of the Day pundits.
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Having watched the Boston goal on the highlights i dont think you can pin much blame on Watson ,in fact it was and excellent save from a blind shot just unfortunate how the ball came off him to LJL … sloppy marking players switched off from the quickly taken throw but thats about it , i might add Watson kept us in the game with 2 or 3 superb saves so very harsh him getting stick.
of course we all have opinions … mine is above
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Evans has been magnificent this season, however, had he taken either of his opportunities (both routine) to clear then we wouldn’t be discussing Watson.
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Watson stopped a good shot flying with force. It’s not his fault our defence led to that and the player running in and seizing the rebound opportunity. Slow and sloppy defending yet again. Massive room for improvement which I’m optimistic can be worked on and reduced.
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Evans fault this one.
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Perhaps this is why these players are plying their trade in the National League rather than the Premier League?
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England’s Number 1 won’t have slept well this weekend! Worse than anything that our keepers have done this season. It happens to the best, let’s remember that.
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Exactly why this obsession with targeting our keepers as ‘not good enough and never will be’; ‘sunday league’; ‘Dog & Duck’; and so bad some prominent voices want them out the club is driving some of us to distraction. Others squeaking on the sidelines are simply amplifying it. Get a grip.
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The defence of the goalkeeper comes about because there are some, including WonderGoals on this thread, who treat every single goal conceded as a chance to talk about how ‘right’ they are with regards to a ‘goalkeeping crisis’ at the club because they stated there would be one from having Campbell and Watson as goalies.
It was made out we would likely be struggling because of their poor goalkeeping, yet we rarely concede more than one goal a game and many of the goals conceded have others culpable and aren’t the howlers they are often initially derided as. This hyperbolic criticism is bound to get pushback.
I don’t get why the criticism can’t be a little more measured. Watson doesn’t keep as many clean sheets as Fitzsimons and many of the goals he does concede are ‘could do better’ even if they aren’t the Sunday League level howlers they are referred to. Would we need a better goalkeeper to push on? Maybe, but this is the National League and with a few tweaks sorted, Watson at least could be an OK keeper at this level.
It’s hard to have measured debate when a section just want to speak as if we have plonked some bloke from the pub in net.
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