Goalkeeper dilemma

[insider]

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I was up there that keeper was a bloody liability today
Unless Alnwick was injured or Ill I can't see why he was dropped

[Blooburd]

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Not really, I think everyone knows he didn’t start last game and his last was a disaster hence the negative comments before he started.
I actually have no idea what your point was? We shouldn’t judge him over the games we played but should hold Bulut responsible? Is that it? Seems odd.

my point is that perhaps we should consider giving our players more than a 1 game playing streak before condemning them to the reserve team especially since many people on these forums want to give managers 46 games to fully prove how shit they are

[the other bob wilson]

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I’d say it was the only mistake Runnarsson made yesterday, but it was a big one and I believe it takes the number of goals he conceded in the four matches he’s played to ten (albeit some of them were not with our first choice defence in front of him). I’ve not heard or read anything after the match about Alnwick being ill and have to say that, based on what I’ve seen of the two of them this season, he should be our first choice keeper.

[the other bob wilson]

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Erol Bulut's post match interview on the club website has him saying that Runnarrson is a level above Alnwick with the ball at his feet and the intenion was to play the ball out from the back more against this opposition.

[ksbenchpwllheli]

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Also as a former goalie (played for Cardiff Boys in 1960!!), from what I have seen of Alnwick this year,he has looked and played with confidence. I don't think he would have been so high up the pitch as Runnarrsson " our ball playing goalie", so maybe would have had more of a chance to cover for McG's mistake. Anyway, surely Alnwick back for Tuesday.

[JumpersforGoalposts]

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Alnwick for me.
Runarsson showed poor decision making in addition to poor positioning in that if he was unsure of his position he should have closed the striker down.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I’d say it was the only mistake Runnarsson made yesterday, but it was a big one and I believe it takes the number of goals he conceded in the four matches he’s played to ten (albeit some of them were not with our first choice defence in front of him). I’ve not heard or read anything after the match about Alnwick being ill and have to say that, based on what I’ve seen of the two of them this season, he should be our first choice keeper.

You can't do that they were early in the season when we were always conceding loads per game, that's fudging the goals to make him look bad.

That said Alnwick for now, young keepers need a few games to bed in and we can't afford that at this stage of the season.

[the other bob wilson]

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You can't do that they were early in the season when we were always conceding loads per game, that's fudging the goals to make him look bad.

That said Alnwick for now, young keepers need a few games to bed in and we can't afford that at this stage of the season.

I can do that, when we have so little to go on - to be fair to him I should have mentioned that Runnarsson saved a penalty against Blackburn.

I said in my blog that I though Runnarsson was right not to try and get to Osmajic earlier, but, having watched it a few times since, the scorer knocked it about twenty yards in front of him with one of his touches - I now think Runnarsson could have got to that ball first.

[BLUETIT]

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I can do that, when we have so little to go on - to be fair to him I should have mentioned that Runnarsson saved a penalty against Blackburn.

I said in my blog that I though Runnarsson was right not to try and get to Osmajic earlier, but, having watched it a few times since, the scorer knocked it about twenty yards in front of him with one of his touches - I now think Runnarsson could have got to that ball first.

His angles were all wrong as well

[North Cardiff Blue]

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His angles were all wrong as well

Because he was miles off his line when McGuiness gave the ball away, he had to spring back to goal first which threw his angles out and stopped him from being able to run out early and clear the heavy touch.

Looking back on it, it was a bad pass back to McGuniess in the first place, which really was the cause of the other two players mistakes.

[Dave Blue]

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Because he was miles off his line when McGuiness gave the ball away, he had to spring back to goal first which threw his angles out and stopped him from being able to run out early and clear the heavy touch.

Looking back on it, it was a bad pass back to McGuniess in the first place, which really was the cause of the other two players mistakes.

A classic post to demonstrate that we need to stick to basics like playing towards the opposing goal and the keeper doing what he is paid for and staying around his area keeping shots out ( and yes coming out when necessary to sweep up, not living life 40 yards from goal).

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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It's going to be Runnarsson. He's not covered himself in glory and yet Bulut keeps trying to get him back in the side. His angles were all wrong on Saturday which is sort of understandable but he made himself so small, a great keeper would come out like a starfish.