Tim Howard - new contract

[Stephenlloyd]

Apart from his howler of an attempted clearance, TH had a decent game at OT yesterday.

The thing right now is that El Bob needs to tell all the back four and indeed the whole squad that in times of pressure on the defence, finding Row Z is acceptable if it buys a little time to compose themselves and get into position.

I'm sure that if they're critical of themselves that both Jags and TH will wish now that they'd hammered the ball into touch rather than trying for the clearances they attempted that both backfired.

In general though we need to play with more pace, we need to try and play the ball ahead of the runner as much as possible rather than straight to feet or behind as invariably we tend to check and that loses momentum and forward direction.

I for one wasn't expecting much if anything from OT, but to miss a penalty and having had their 'keeper make two top class saves in the final ten minutes still leaves me with a somewhat bitter aftertaste. Di Maria apart, they were no better than average and we failed to get at them enough, particularly first half.

I've never rated Howard from day one and mentioned this in a number of threads
Though I except we defend as a team and the way we play is going to give the other team chances
But it's just basic errors that piss me off
I think his positioning is all wrong look at the 1st goal as the ball goes across our box to Howard's right he moves all the way across to his post by the time it's moved back to di Maria in the centre of our box Howard can't get back and di Maria's shot is not even in the corner it's just off centre and Howard is nowhere

Going back to last season the 3-2 city game aguero's goal to make 1-1 he's a yard off his near post and aguero slots it past him at his near post surely you stand on your near post and force the striker to go across goal I know I'm not a goalie but just seems common sense

Also I think he bottles it someone mentioned this after the derby on another thread
In the gerrard free kick he eyes seen to divert to the post even before he gets a hand on the ball
Scared of getting hurt
The only thing I hope about our new manager is that he will be ruthless unlike our last manager who was way too loyal with a lot of our players who weren't good enough

 

[streeky]

I've never rated Howard from day one and mentioned this in a number of threads
Though I except we defend as a team and the way we play is going to give the other team chances
But it's just basic errors that piss me off
I think his positioning is all wrong look at the 1st goal as the ball goes across our box to Howard's right he moves all the way across to his post by the time it's moved back to di Maria in the centre of our box Howard can't get back and di Maria's shot is not even in the corner it's just off centre and Howard is nowhere

Going back to last season the 3-2 city game aguero's goal to make 1-1 he's a yard off his near post and aguero slots it past him at his near post surely you stand on your near post and force the striker to go across goal I know I'm not a goalie but just seems common sense

Also I think he bottles it someone mentioned this after the derby on another thread
In the gerrard free kick he eyes seen to divert to the post even before he gets a hand on the ball
Scared of getting hurt
The only thing I hope about our new manager is that he will be ruthless unlike our last manager who was way too loyal with a lot of our players who weren't good enough

so you want robles to start against villa. There are more players than tim howard playing badly

 

[roydo]

Already got a dedicated Tim thread lads.