Albions best ever Goal keeper?

[oldalbiongirl]

There are threads on best players (none of which are ever goalies) and on who we would like to get in now for GK but who was our best? Mark Beeney for me. (Although obviously love Kuipers too!)

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Eric Steele

 

[grummitts gloves]

As the name suggests, Peter Grummitt or Mark Beeney as a number 2.

 

[Durlston]

Nicky Rust was a good goalkeeper who played through a difficult time for the club in the mid-nineties but it has to be FDM.

 

[severnside gull]

Beeney or Steele for me with my favourite, Brian Powney, in third.
Never really rated Kuipers I'm afraid - good shot stopper but too quick to blame his defence for his mistakes

 

[bravohotelalpha]

FDM for sure

 

[drew]

Beeney or Keeley (although Eric Steele must be mentioned in dispatches. Interesting that I believe he punched Gary Williams whilst we were playing against Manure and now he is their goalkeeping coach).

 

[Austrian Gull]

Nicky Rust was a good goalkeeper who played through a difficult time for the club in the mid-nineties but it has to be FDM.

He did indeed play through a difficult time for the club but he wouldn't get in the top 10 of best Albion goalkeepers of my time supporting the club (25 years).

1. Beeney 2. Keeley 3. Roberts

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Mark Beeney.

What are the facts behind him going to Leeds? Howard Wilkinson paid us the exact amount for him that we needed to stop from going bankrupt, due to his playing history with us?

(Awful tortured sentence to read I know...)

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Nicky Rust was a good goalkeeper who played through a difficult time for the club in the mid-nineties but it has to be FDM.

Rusty was going to be the next big thing wasn't he. Always played his heart out though I remember.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

Maybe not the best, but I just love John Keeley

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Joe, Joe, Corrigan...

 

[wadhurstseagull]

Joe Corrigan?

 

[grawhite]

Graham Mosley, Joe Corrigan

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Mark Beeney or Ben Roberts for me. Roberts perhaps slightly edges it all round, as Beeney could be a bit iffy at taking crosses for me. I remember a pretty bad mistake he made against Millwall in a game where goals kept going i, though Beeney was probably the best shot stopper I've seen play for us. One on ones was Roberts' only weakness if I remember correctly (beaten by Gallen at QPR, Tyson at Wycombe and Fallon in the Play Off semi-final, which I thought he could have done better with). I can't remember him ever letting in a shot I thought he should have saved. Some posters used to criticise him for coming too far off his line. Bad blow when we lost him after the Play Off final.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Nicky Rust was a good goalkeeper who played through a difficult time for the club in the mid-nineties but it has to be FDM.

I never forgot the time some pissed arsehole, about 18, with a bunch o lads, screaming at Rust after he'd dropped a bollock and cost us a goal "If I see you in a club tonight Rust you're fuckin dead" as much as I didn't like what he said, I was impressed (if that's the right word) that The Albion conceiding a goal meant that much to him, I wonder if he still goes?

 

[swindonseagull]

Brian Powney or Perry Digweed.....

 

[paul pring]

Joe Corrigan

 

[Iamapen15]

You'll never beat John Keeley,
You'll never beat John Keeley,
You'll never beat John Keeley....

Worthy mentions to both Mark Beeney and Eric Steele.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Nicky Rust was very good, but I think he gradually lost a lot of confidence playing behind an increasingly poor defence.