Tim Howard

Coffee and TV · January 10, 2016

If he's that arsed about experience why did he drop 50 year old Distin for a 19 year old Stones?

joger · January 10, 2016

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
So the experience he brings is more important than him actually keeping the ball out of the back of the net.

Haha, well trying to make sense of what Roberto is saying!

jceverton · January 10, 2016

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
What does this actually mean?

“I value his experience a lot, even more than the moment of form you can have on the pitch sometimes.”

No matter how bad you're playing if you're more experienced than the person who is competing with you then you'll play. It's a bizarre statement to make and makes no sense.

jceverton · January 10, 2016

Coffee and TV said:
If he's that arsed about experience why did he drop 50 year old Distin for a 19 year old Stones?

That was personal and down to a falling out that they had obviously had. Another example of his belief in experience would be playing Alcaraz in the Kiev game.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 10, 2016

jceverton said:
No matter how bad you're playing if you're more experienced than the person who is competing with you then you'll play. It's a bizarre statement to make and makes no sense.

Hope I'm wrong, but if Howard has a mare against City on Wednesday, then Martinez deserves putting up against a wall and shot (and I'm a big Martinez fan!)

Probably bench Besic as well.

ilikecheese · January 10, 2016

Martinez popcorning the fan base lol

Just like he did playing Ossie in every game his first season.

jceverton · January 10, 2016

"Moment of form" - well it's one hell of a moment, approximately 18 months!

Peter g · January 10, 2016

jceverton · January 10, 2016

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Hope I'm wrong, but if Howard has a mare against City on Wednesday, then Martinez deserves putting up against a wall and shot (and I'm a big Martinez fan!)

Don't worry if it's not City (Crosses and set pieces headers aren't their strength really) then it will be someone else!

Sennott Street · January 10, 2016

jceverton said:
That was personal and down to a falling out that they had obviously had. Another example of his belief in experience would be playing Alcaraz in the Kiev game.

That was the ultimate in hypocrisy. Plays Alcaraz because he was in the side that kept a clean sheet against Newcastle but drops Joel after 3 clean sheets on the spin. I'll never understand this persistence with TH.

tsubaki · January 10, 2016

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
What does this actually mean?

“I value his experience a lot, even more than the moment of form you can have on the pitch sometimes.”

Hopefully that he wants to hear what he has to say from the sidelines, rather than having him on the pitch.

MikeH72 · January 10, 2016

jceverton said:
"Moment of form" - well it's one hell of a moment, approximately 18 months!

Try 4 years lad

Jeff Jones · January 10, 2016

Charlie Sweet said:
Behave. Respected for picking up £50k a week under false pretences? If we did banners we should do a big one for him advertising cheap one way flights to the States.

No, not for what he's paid and not for his goalkeeping right now, but he's been here for nearly ten years and while he's never been in the
Neville Southall class, he hasn't always been crap. He'll be 37 in March and his reflexes and judgment have slowed.
It's not his fault that RM doesn't seem to have noticed.

sd_1992 · January 10, 2016

So Martinez is pretty much deliberately throwing away points at this point... how can anyone still want him as manager...

Playing Joel in the cup may win us a trophy, but League cup trophies don't keep squads together and our squad is still going to be gutted at the end of this season and honestly, at this point, who can blame any player for leaving a club whose manager clearly has no intention of ever getting us higher than mid-table...