This. In particular the defence performance has plummeted. We have a defence as fast as an asthmatic slug which doesn't work with FH's tactics. This leaves Bart exposed. Time for a new defence or new tactics but not a new keeper.
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[Albion] The Goalkeeping problem since being in the Premier League.
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Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Just thump it as far as you can down the middle and hope...
Mustafa II
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Verbrugen is the best keeper we've ever had, and he's still super young for a keeper.
Any skills he is lacking, he will learn. Will be a worldie one day.
Any skills he is lacking, he will learn. Will be a worldie one day.
Not Andy Naylor
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I must admit I’ve never felt very secure with Bart. Goalkeepers often mature late and I never really understood why a proven performer like Tim Krul didn’t get more of a run in our side.
At which point he'll be plying his trade elsewhere, and we'll have a new young keeper in his place learning on the job. Think that's the source of the ire.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Might as well if you're only going to play one in midfield
American Seagle
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So, in conclusion, our four best ever goalkeepers.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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- Oct 4, 2003
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No because any conversation about our best keepers has to include Eric Steele, Graham Moseley and Joe Corrigan (although his best days were behind him by the time he joined us).
Ben Roberts
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Wasn't that because Steele is going for surgery?
Normal Rob
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I'm sorry but I just can't take anything you say seriously. You are a parody account.
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Yep. The one position we need someone 25+ is goalie.
American Seagle
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For their era maybe. But I doubt they would cope with the style of modern keepers and would probably not fair well as a result, especially regarding distribution.
Ali_rrr
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In fairness, it’s the whole team. It seems we’re allergic to counter attacking again like we were under Potter.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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He has to be doing that because he's been told to do it, else he'd have been told to stop doing it
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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That argument is ridiculous. This whole keeper needing to be exceptionally good with their feet thing is a very very recent development. You cannot discount 100 years of football history because the game is different today to when they played. If they played today they'd have been trained to play the way of the modern goalkeeper, but we cannot know if they'd have thrived or not.
It's a bit like saying Bobby Moore isn't one of the best centre backs to play the game because modern players are fitter and stronger. If he played now he'd have benefited from the modern training methods and sport science developments that todays players do.
You can only judge the player by how good they were in their day, and by that measure the players I mentioned, plus @hans kraay fan club nomination of Ben Roberts (which is a great shout) are in any conversation about the best keepers to ever play for us.
Stuart Munday
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Funny how the keeper, Dunk, Pedro and Mitoma who would be the first names to play have all been below par this season.
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Verbruggen certainly wasn't first name last season !