Should we sign a keeper in this window?

[TheFinnFan]

Interesting...

 

[Toffeelover]

I think it is all largely immaterial, cannot see RM going out to sign a keeper no matter who, unless there is one available on a free, is a minmum of 34 years old and does not want a big pay packet.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

P!ss off will you? I was referring to when he was at Reading.

Who do you propose then Cech or Begovic?!!! Not a f***ing chance will we get them or even be interested. Martinez is not going to spunk what money he has on a goalie. He's going to hope that Robles will do until Howard is back and then that'll be it until the summer.

 

[SH1958]

Costel Pantilimon
Started 10 games
5 Clean sheets
3 Man of the Match



Crystal Palace 1 : 3 Sunderland
Sunderland 1 : 1 Everton
Leicester 0 : 0 Sunderland(MOM)
Sunderland 0 : 0 Chelsea
Sunderland 1 : 4 Manchester City
Liverpool 0 : 0 Sunderland
Sunderland 1 : 1 West Ham
Newcastle United 0 : 1 Sunderland(MOM)
Sunderland 1 : 3 Hull
Aston Villa 0 : 0 Sunderland(MOM)

 

[GreenTeddy]

David Marshall please. He is class.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Where is the No on Toast option?

 

[Prevenger17]

I voted for all of them. NEA.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Where is the No on Toast option?

This poll is serious s***
Thats why theres no cheese innit

 

[Moomin]

I VOTED OTHER. BILLY THE FISH, HE IS FRIGGING BOSS LAAAAAA

 

[TheFinnFan]

I VOTED OTHER. BILLY THE FISH, HE IS FRIGGING BOSS LAAAAAA

Yer mad laar

 

[ijjysmith]

Finners mate.

I know you got the valuations off that utter crap website but bloody hell they seem way out to me.

 

[SerenityNigh]

This poll is serious s***
Thats why theres no cheese innit

*serious response follows

There are 11 players on the pitch, each of which has a role in defense. If I remember correctly, the three goals at Newcastle were due primarily to errors by outfield players. Two were a direct result of errors by Barkley and McGeady, but can't remember who was responsible for the third.

Against Stoke there was the phantom penalty and at least two missed red cards.

Against Southampton, Naismith and Lukaku both made errors leading up to the first goal...

repeat ad infinitum...

Replacing the GK isn't the answer to the problem, it's the icing on the cake. Right now we've got a crap poor cake made with the wrong ingredients and a cook that closed his cookbook and has been suffering from amnesia. Scraping off the icing and putting on a fresh layer doesn't change the crap performances of the team.

For a team with limited funds and few options for immediate change, replacing Howard (or Robles) is one of the worst, most knee-jerk responses I've seen.

Get healthy
Get wide players
Find attacking players who know how to hold the ball and create attacking options
Field a defense (both players and system) that give the FBs freedom to attack
Play a system that gives your attacking players freedom to move, instead of working 3 or more 6-foot passes on the edge of the penalty area while 6 defenders stand in place awaiting the mistake

Fixing any of these (or all of these!) problems will lead to better defense and outcomes, but simply swapping the GKs does little to help the side, unless you're talking about someone on the level of Cech.

*goes back to requesting cheese on toast

 

[TheFinnFan]

No cheese on toast option.
Choose you infidelz

 

[Groucho]

Cech and Ruddy in, the two current incumbents who aren't up to it anymore, out.

 

[germanblue]

Come on naisy have a talk to David Marshall.