Large put this link on another post, which people may miss. Thought it was worth a seperate airing in true doom and gloom Golfie style.
Carlisle United to face calamity keeper Carl Ikeme
By Jon Colman
Last updated at 16:28, Friday, 30 October 2009
Charlton have prepared for their League One trip to Carlisle this weekend by signing a goalkeeper who conceded six on his last appearance at Brunton Park.
Flashback: Stockport County keeper Carl Ikeme punches the ball into his own net after coming under pressure from United’s Karl Hawley. Carl Ikeme is still fondly remembered by Blues fans for his hapless performance for Stockport when they were beaten 6-0 by United in October 2005.
The custodian has now joined Charlton on loan from Wolves after the Addicks’ first-choice keeper Rob Elliot was ruled out with a leg injury.
He is likely to make his debut at the ground where he suffered the indignity of conceding half-a-dozen goals to Paul Simpson’s League Two title-winning side.
Among Carlisle’s goals that day was an own-goal from the goalkeeper, who farcically punched a Paul Arnison cross into his own net.
He was also beaten by a Karl Hawley hat-trick and two efforts from Derek Holmes.
But Charlton boss Phil Parkinson insists he has signed a quality replacement for ever-present Elliot, who suffered a torn adductor muscle in their 1-1 draw with Gillingham last weekend and will be missing for six weeks.
“Carl is a good goalkeeper. He offers a big, physical presence and we’re looking forward to working with him,” said the Valley chief.
The Addicks’ other senior goalkeeper is former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international Darren Randolph.
United boss Greg Abbott, meanwhile, believes his team are capable of upsetting the odds against League One's second-placed side this weekend.
The Blues recorded their first win in eight games against Southend last Saturday while the Addicks were scrambling a 1-1 draw at Gillingham.
And Abbott believes the Cumbrians' improvement can continue.
“Charlton will get a tremendous amount of respect from me,” said Abbott.
“They are where they are because they deserve to be, but we think we've got a great chance of marching on and putting a run together.
“We are confident we can give them a really good game. The players are in determined mood, the win last Saturday has given them that lift and bit of confidence to say ‘we can do it’.
“We've got to do it on more regular basis now. Were looking forward to Sat probably a bit more than Charlton at the moment.”
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I know and it's what I thought, but it's still got me worried.
That's no experience at all for a rookie keeper.
He's had a run of 13 consecutive CCC games with Wolves since, where he got good reviews before he got injured.
He signed a new 4-year contract with Wolves last Christmas, so they must rate him.
The easy answer.
But it seemed mental to hand Randolph a new contract then not play him. Local goalkeeper for local people, I say.
I don't know which keeper to play, although it would be fair to play Randolph, but lets not forget how he and McCarthy screwed up previously. Keepers make mistakes and come back from them.
Oh yeah, and he should give Randolph a new contract and pay him in hard cash despite believing that he is not good enough for League One
It begs the question of why you'd bother to pay Randolph good money if you believe him not to be good enough to step up when the time comes. Surely we'd have been better letting him go, keeping Binks for emergencies, and relyig on loans.
You do wonder what his state of mind must be at this point. I hope he gets to play the cup games and demonstrate his worth, though I kind of doubt Wolves or Ikeme have agreed the deal for him not to start.
The real - bigger point - is that if you were a player outside of our inner sanctum of Parky favourites, you'd probably look at what's happened to Randolph and say, there is no point in progressing and fighting for my place, because it's a fight I'll never win. Dicko alluded to this when he said that he'd been top scorer in pre-season every year that he'd been at the club, without ever getting a run of starts. It's so important that players outside of the first 14-18 have something to strive for, and I think Parky's methods may be taking that away from them.
From what I saw of the hi-lights none of the goals were down to him. Made a great save from the pen and was very unlucky with the follow up. Midfield and Defence let Kavanagh run and run for his 2 goals.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/10/nigeria-wolves-keeper-carl-ikeme-debut