Am I the only one who thinks we need a better goalkeeper?
AMB is fine but all top teams have a number one who is better than 'fine'.
There's no rush to get one this window but in the summer this should be one of our top priorities.
100% agree. Would go begging for a loan keeper from PL club. Bolton had Trafford last season, Beadle at Oxford.
AMB is learning his trade, he is part of a suspect defence and I would question how he is being coached. Any ball played around his six yard area, he automatically retreats to his goal line, has done that so many times this season and none of it is coincidental. His goalkeeping coach is either not confident in his decision making when coming for crosses or he believes, wrongly, that his strength in shot stopping will get him out of trouble, it won't. He doesn't talk to his back four but that will come in time with greater experience.
To be honest I don’t really want a GK learning his trade and getting his experience with us. We simply must escape from league one next season or the one after latest. We need a good quality solid GK.
I have worked abroad before and have travelled a lot and never found a city better than London. It has culture, history, architecture, great restaurants, theatres, great sport and much more. It's not perfect but no where is. I think English people talk it down toi much at times. Having said all of that I have never understood why more English players don't play abroad. Not sure Hungry Infront of 3,000 people is overly attractive though.
Anyone who slags London off just hasn't been anywhere else much. Yep, parts of it are a shit hole, and the rat race starts here but the clue is.... Why is every other bugger trying to get here?
I could argue why is every other London bugger moving to my town?!
London is a good city to work in (a couple of days a week), a decent night out, maybe even a nice weekend away every so often, but it really isn't somewhere I'd ever want to live.
But then I do live in a nice enough little town and City life ain't my bag.
Got a feeling that transfer activity this window might have dried up due to a crisis behind the scenes. Hope that isn’t the case because we still need reinforcements.
What crisis…..do we unquestionably KNOW there’s one?
Crisis, what crisis? And the answer is, no, we don’t unquestionably know. But from what I’ve read on here there is a ‘difference of opinion’ behind the scenes vis à vis the manager situation, and that might have a knock on effect in other areas.
And it’s clear that they’re trying to make this a statement window, which is all fine if you start winning mates, but which decidedly isn’t if you don’t. How are the investors feeling right now?
Considering the stat thread yesterday and in light of AMB facing 3rd most shots in L1, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until that stat changes. Dont care what league youre in, if youre facing that many shots there will be the odd error.
Am I the only one who thinks we need a better goalkeeper?
AMB is fine but all top teams have a number one who is better than 'fine'.
There's no rush to get one this window but in the summer this should be one of our top priorities.
Since Kiely left I have been amazed at the number of keepers we have gone through, I wouldn’t mind betting none of the other 92 clubs have come even close to our keepers perpetual roundabout! On CL there seems to be an ongoing policy for slagging off goalkeepers no matter who it is…..they’re never good enough for some. This despite many of them going on to have an even better gig elsewhere and carving out very successful careers after being hounded out by our fans. AMB is becoming yet another one…..IMHO he’s a damn good keeper…..distribution not the greatest I admit but in every other respect he’s more than adequate. Leave the guy be FFS!
Am I the only one who thinks we need a better goalkeeper?
AMB is fine but all top teams have a number one who is better than 'fine'.
There's no rush to get one this window but in the summer this should be one of our top priorities.
Great shot stopper, I sit near enough to be able to here him and I dont even know what he sounds like! You never see him lose his rag with the defence, never see him bark instructions, I don't think Isted is right either. If we could I'd get Dillon back and let's be honest, he wasn't amazing but he had that character you want a keeper to have
Am I the only one who thinks we need a better goalkeeper?
AMB is fine but all top teams have a number one who is better than 'fine'.
There's no rush to get one this window but in the summer this should be one of our top priorities.
Since Kiely left I have been amazed at the number of keepers we have gone through, I wouldn’t mind betting none of the other 92 clubs have come even close to our keepers perpetual roundabout! On CL there seems to be an ongoing policy for slagging off goalkeepers no matter who it is…..they’re never good enough for some. This despite many of them going on to have an even better gig elsewhere and carving out very successful careers after being hounded out by our fans. AMB is becoming yet another one…..IMHO he’s a damn good keeper…..distribution not the greatest I admit but in every other respect he’s more than adequate. Leave the guy be FFS!
He's not more than adequate, he's just about adequate as a shot shopper and that's it. The modern keeper needs to have more to his game
We desperately need creativity in the middle of the park. Fiorini will be another Matt Smith etc…… totally forgettable. I would keep Fraser and play him in front of Dobson and Coventry. Just off the front two.
We desperately need creativity in the middle of the park. Fiorini will be another Matt Smith etc…… totally forgettable. I would keep Fraser and play him in front of Dobson and Coventry. Just off the front two.
I don’t think keeping Fraser is an option frustratingly. Will need to hope in next week we get a decent manager and a high quality playmaker at the very minimum.
No inside knowledge on this, but I honestly can't see much incomings now! Who is going to want to join, maybe a couple of loans on deadline day.. I can certainly see a few going out on loan now as well if not sold!
We’ve signed two yet we saw no improvement last night - this for me it’s mainly a coaching and organisation issue. We need to be set up to make us a lot tougher to break down.
Can I raise the issue of League rules about the size of squad and wages. I don't have an idea about how it works, the limits or whether it includes under 21s or loanees like DJ but even with Kirk gone, Fraser, maybe, our squad looks enormous. We now have enough midfield players to field two teams, McGrandles, Taylor, Watson, and Anderson were not even used last night.
Can I raise the issue of League rules about the size of squad and wages. I don't have an idea about how it works, the limits or whether it includes under 21s or loanees like DJ but even with Kirk gone, Fraser, maybe, our squad looks enormous. We now have enough midfield players to field two teams, McGrandles, Taylor, Watson, and Anderson were not even used last night.
Can I raise the issue of League rules about the size of squad and wages. I don't have an idea about how it works, the limits or whether it includes under 21s or loanees like DJ but even with Kirk gone, Fraser, maybe, our squad looks enormous. We now have enough midfield players to field two teams, McGrandles, Taylor, Watson, and Anderson were not even used last night.
Am I the only one who thinks we need a better goalkeeper?
AMB is fine but all top teams have a number one who is better than 'fine'.
There's no rush to get one this window but in the summer this should be one of our top priorities.
Great shot stopper, I sit near enough to be able to hear him and I dont even know what he sounds like! You never see him lose his rag with the defence, never see him bark instructions, I don't think Isted is right either. If we could I'd get Dillon back and let's be honest, he wasn't amazing but he had that character you want a keeper to have
Isted is a much better keeper and should be in the side on Saturday .. will be if Duff takes over
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Maybe Isted will prove me wrong, but in him and AMB it feels like we have 2 backup keepers who'll do a job, but aren't top tier.
London is a good city to work in (a couple of days a week), a decent night out, maybe even a nice weekend away every so often, but it really isn't somewhere I'd ever want to live.
But then I do live in a nice enough little town and City life ain't my bag.
But from what I’ve read on here there is a ‘difference of opinion’ behind the scenes vis à vis the manager situation, and that might have a knock on effect in other areas.
On CL there seems to be an ongoing policy for slagging off goalkeepers no matter who it is…..they’re never good enough for some.
This despite many of them going on to have an even better gig elsewhere and carving out very successful careers after being hounded out by our fans.
AMB is becoming yet another one…..IMHO he’s a damn good keeper…..distribution not the greatest I admit but in every other respect he’s more than adequate.
Leave the guy be FFS!
But replace Appleton with a proper manager and it can all change.