Dithering Dougie
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Most of that was from last season.
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Most of that was from last season.
Hence my final line "He's been very poor since last season."
Some is from this season too.
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Most of those stats from last year that had him down as "the worst keeper" now show he's amongst the "best keepers".
Go figure!
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He should be dropped
You're not going to convince me otherwise mate
I'll just leave it at that
It's stubborn on my part, but I'm NEA
Either way, we need a new goalkeeper next season
Dithering Dougie
Banned
That's what I like about you Mikey.
LydiateLee
Player Valuation: £8m
He is an appalling goalkeeper.
He costs us points far too many points. Robles needs a chance, I thought thats how football and selection policies worked.
He costs us points far too many points. Robles needs a chance, I thought thats how football and selection policies worked.
Bluetintedspecs
Player Valuation: £6m
For Palace's goal, as a team, we were all over the place. You could blame four or five players.
Firstly, Barry created confusion in the first place. Funes Mori was going to mark Dann, but Barry took over and was too busy instructing Funes Mori to mark Jedinak, so had his back to the ball when the corner was taken. Kone and Barkley were also close enough to challenge for the header.
Secondly, Howard should really have come out for the cross. The corner was floated to the edge of his 6 yard box, not whipped in at pace, and hung in the air for a long time. You can't expect defenders to win every single header in the box, so the keeper has to come and claim wherever possible.
Thirdly, the header wasn't a powerful one and was at chest height smack in the middle of the goal. Howard didn't save it because he'd started to move to his right, assuming that Dann would head it into the corner. Apart from his fear of crosses and poor positional sense, he's now started to guess where the ball's going to make up for his declining reflexes, just as he did for Zabaleta's goal against City and two of the Man U goals.
Howard wasn't the only one at fault for the goal, but he was at fault.
Firstly, Barry created confusion in the first place. Funes Mori was going to mark Dann, but Barry took over and was too busy instructing Funes Mori to mark Jedinak, so had his back to the ball when the corner was taken. Kone and Barkley were also close enough to challenge for the header.
Secondly, Howard should really have come out for the cross. The corner was floated to the edge of his 6 yard box, not whipped in at pace, and hung in the air for a long time. You can't expect defenders to win every single header in the box, so the keeper has to come and claim wherever possible.
Thirdly, the header wasn't a powerful one and was at chest height smack in the middle of the goal. Howard didn't save it because he'd started to move to his right, assuming that Dann would head it into the corner. Apart from his fear of crosses and poor positional sense, he's now started to guess where the ball's going to make up for his declining reflexes, just as he did for Zabaleta's goal against City and two of the Man U goals.
Howard wasn't the only one at fault for the goal, but he was at fault.
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bcblue1878
Player Valuation: £50m
Yup, and without the woodwork getting in the way we'd have won convincingly! Fact is most of the goalkeepers in the Division would have made those "very smart saves" last night, but what is also true we currently have a goalkeeper who remains rooted to his line when the ball is in the air in his six yard box then does his starfish impression when it inevitably hits the back of the net, and it keeps costing us! Unfortunately I fear it will cost us again and again during the season as it has done on at least four occasions already this season. Mikey F and others are absolutely right, he needs dropping and Robles given a run of games, then it needs sorting out properly at the end of the season as no-one is going to let a decent keeper go in January!
Dithering Dougie
Banned
The fact is the woodwork did get in the way and Howard did make those saves, that's why he saved us from getting best.
LocalNative
MOSHIRI OUT
The kopite behaviour from some of our fans recently has been absolutely embarrassing. Under every status or tweet there is absolute hammering criticism of Howard, a player who demands much more respect for his service and performances over the years for us. Last night he was great and should take no fault for their goal, which was down to terrible defending.
ijjysmith
Calm
That's inaccuarate mate. Without Howard we'd have had another keeper in who you'd hope would have made the pretty standard saves made last night.
Eric Djemba-Djemba
Player Valuation: £60m
Why should I respect him? He clearly has no respect for the fans.
No, he was very poor last season. He has been above average since last season ended, although clearly vulnerable to crosses. Unfortunately, last season made up the minds of a lot of people so now they only see the goals he concedes and not all the saves he makes (only Pantilimon has made more saves this season, and he's conceded quite a few more goals).
The fans stopped showing him respect long before he stopped showing it to them. I don't know why you'd expect respect from someone you consistently refer to as "toilet".
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