Who is our greatest goalkeeper of all time??

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

You decide!!

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Tommo is great...but so was Joe Corrigan....

 

[Albion Robster]

Peter Brozovan
Graeme Smith
Scott Flinders
Nicky Rust

Oooops...wrong thread.

 

[catfish]

Peter Grummitt.

 

[Gwylan]

Bizarre list. There was a thread on here not so long ago debating whether Kuszczak was better than Grummitt or vice versa. There was pretty much universal agreement that PIG was the best since PG so to miss the latter out is very strange. The only other goalie in the last 40 years who comes close IMHO was Ben Roberts - and he's also missing.

And it's scarcely the greatest of all time - old supporters speak fondly of Eric Gill and Dave Hollins. Brian Powney played an awful lot of games and if you go back even further, Pom Pom Whiting is a club legend - but no-one alive will have seen him play.

 

[peterward]

You decide!!

how can you have a poll without the imperious, superb johnny keeley?

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Tommo is great...but so was Joe Corrigan....

Have to agree, Thomaz is superb, but so was big Joe. John Keely was great as was the brilliantly named Perry Digweed until that night i watched his testicles being booted over the goldstone and into Hove park. I really can't decide, but those are my candidates

 

[vegster]

how can you have a poll without the imperious, superb johnny keeley?

Without Keelo the poll IS invalid

 

[topbanana36]

Dave Beasant England keeper made the first penalty save in an FA cup final deserves a brief mention.

 

[whitelion]

Brian Powney ....in the day!!!

 

[chrissyboy01]

Have to agree, Thomaz is superb, but so was big Joe. John Keely was great as was the brilliantly named Perry Digweed until that night i watched his testicles being booted over the goldstone and into Hove park. I really can't decide, but those are my candidates

This covers my nominees too.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

FDM won more titles than all others put together... and had the best song

 

[Barry Izbak]

I regret that no one will vote for Eric Steele, but I am glad to see him make the shortlist.

He was my favourite all time keeper until FDM arrived. Like Michel, Eric Steele played like he loved playing for the Albion. I always like that in our players. I like it when they appear to love the Albion as much as I do. It was controversial when he was sold, and unusually he came out on the the pitch at the Goldstone before a game and waved goodbye to the crowd.

And he can't have been too bad, as there are not many third division keepers from the 70s, who are currently coaching at Old Trafford.

So despite all the absent names from the list, and the fact that he was not The Greatest keeper of all time, for me he is well worth a

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I regret that no one will vote for Eric Steele, but I am glad to see him make the shortlist.

He was my favourite all time keeper until FDM arrived. Like Michel, Eric Steele played like he loved playing for the Albion. I always like that in our players. I like it when they appear to love the Albion as much as I do. It was controversial when he was sold, and unusually he came out on the the pitch at the Goldstone before a game and waved goodbye to the crowd.

And he can't have been too bad, as there are not many third division keepers from the 70s, who are currently coaching at Old Trafford.

So despite all the absent names from the list, and the fact that he was not The Greatest keeper of all time, for me he is well worth a

The stylish Eric Steele also made it into the women's page of the Evening Argus in 1979/80
Eric Steele, the fashion king! | The Goldstone Wrap

 

[BensGrandad]

I have voted for Kuszczak because Grummitt Corrigan Beasant etc were at the tail end of their careers when they were on the way down having been great keepers before they came to us but for us it has to between 2, Tomasz Kuszczak and Eric Gill

 

[00snook]

Perry Digweed. "Safe as houses, the goalie in trousers"

 

[Gwylan]

I have voted for Kuszczak because Grummitt Corrigan Beasant etc were at the tail end of their careers when they were on the way down having been great keepers before they came to us

Why do people say this? Kuszczak was 30 when he signed for the Albion, the same age as Grummitt. But as footballers tended to play longer 30 or 40 years ago, Grummitt was further away from the end of his career than PIG was. As it happens, PG did retire early but that's because he was injured not because he was old.

 

[BensGrandad]

PG had a distinguished career before finishing up with us but when he came to us he was not in the reckoning for gaining international caps, possibly due to the other keepers around, and not likely to move to a higher club. The same could be said for Beasant and Corrigan but not TK who could quite easily go to a bigger club than us if there is one and will still be in the running to play for Poland.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

In my time supporting the Albion I would have to say Joe Corrigan or Beeney. However,
Kusczack has the potential to take that mantle.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

In the end, it amounts to how good their performances are for us, rather than what career they had before us, what age they came to us or who they could have gone to instead of us.