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Presumably George Ratcliffe, unless we get Brian Murphy out of his retirement home
Forgot about him
Think he’ll be okay!
We'll be able to get Alisson on an emergency loan after today.
Isn’t Andy dibble still at the club?
Unfortunately we let Paterson go.
Surely it's the manager asking them to be ball-players, rather than goal-keepers? The guy was only doing what he was told to do, just not very well! Not every side does that 'play it out from the back' business when it comes to goal kicks. The number of times teams have been caught out, you'd have thought they'd have given up on it by now.
The philosophy is that if you want to get at a defence with numbers where four opposing attacking players are pressing high up the field then a ball-playing goalkeeper needs to be part of the system. When it goes wrong like yesterday it looks horrible but it is risk reward where managers back players and shoulder responsibility.
You don't have to go back to Scoular to see alternative approaches. Warnock teams don't play from the back, though the thought of Etheridge playing a 20 yard ball to Morrison to swivel on the half turn to free the advancing Peltier does suggest that this was probably wise.
Watching this geezer might be able to give you a definitive answer to your question.
Quite probably the reason that FIFA changed the ruling on the keeper picking the ball up from a back pass.
https://youtu.be/p-flTPSSvCw
Granted he was a bit extreme, and it's incredible to see some of his in-play decisions, especially as a teammate was assassinated for a footballing mistake.
Legend!