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hahaha come on man, he's on north of £70k a week ffs, 15% of his wages would break our wage structure
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hahaha come on man, he's on north of £70k a week ffs, 15% of his wages would break our wage structure
Of course you can blame Rudd for Crouch’s goal. He may be 6’7” but the goalkeeper is allowed to use his hands to get to the ball, and therefore was the best person to deal with the threat in that instance.
When they were bringing on Crouch, you could see Clarke and Davies discussing it. Neither of them are tall enough to handle Crouch arially. Crouch's size made it absolutely imperative that Rudd should take care of Crouch from set pieces, as it was clear that no one else in the team could get near him. Clarke handled him very well on the ground (not easy as Crouch is pretty tricky with his feet too), but I'd agree with btw that the Crouch goal was Rudd's fault
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Absolute nonsense. No keeper in the world comes for that. Blame Rudd all you want for the Derby goals, they were shite but you can't blame him for that one.
Crouches goal was a cross that he made contact with in the 6 yard box. The keeper should be claiming that ball every time. End of
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Micky probably took that into account when suggesting it would only be four.
I think raefil's point (#124) is a good one... that we play a bit higher up the pitch with Maxwell in goal. It's not just what happens in the penalty area where a goalkeeper can have an influence.
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In the area where crouch headed the ball, there were 6 players around Crouch. Even if Rudd had come for the ball I see no way in which he could have beaten a literal giant to it whilst trying to get through big players like Shawcross and Ashley Williams at the same time.
No pundit on sky blamed him for the goal, and we shouldnt either, beyond Courtouis i dont reckon there is many elite goalkeepers who might have got that ball
Well, he certainly isn't getting a game.
If you don't ask etc.
Whats the worst they could say? No?
I'd rather ask and be fucked off than never ask.
That was my philosophy trying to pull in my younger days. If 1 in a 100 said yeah i was happy lol
Another novel approach is we could look a little further as to why teams are getting more shots on target thus working our keepers more - The 1st goal on Saturday was 100% down to poor defending but Ruud seems to stand for blame in some eyes ?, add to that if we bricked up the nets the best we could hope for is 0-0 due to the fact that our goals if any at all come from set pieces or anywhere other than our striker it becomes obvious to me that our problems are a lot deeper than debates about "sweeper keeper" or "glued to the line"
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In the last 3 games we have conceded 11 shots on target. 6 of those have resulted in goals.
Over the last 3 games Rudd has a save rate of 54%, serious cause for concern.
Our strikers score rate is 0%
I am not debating you are right or wrong about Rudd v Maxwell, I am debating that we have very little money and it needs to be used wisely and that not in changing keepers, its only a heartbeat ago Maxwell was spinning out of his net like he had eaten too many e numbers and drunk too much full sugar pop or going up for catches and totally missing the ball - both have flaws - to err is to be human - but right now I would prefer to get past the 0% strike rate and maybe live with the 54% as you quote
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Both Rudd and Maxwell are OK keepers at this level and I wouldn't be averse to replacing both of them at some point. But we've got much bigger problems with which to spend the spare tenner Trev has found in the pocket of his house trousers.
Oddly see 152 which i posted 1 second earlier than your offering my friend - I 100% agree with you
Its picky I know but its actually £8.40
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I disagree about the Crouch goal, I feel he could have come and punched but we'll agree to disagree on that. Couldn't agree more with the rest of your post, though.
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Just because we have other issues doesn't means that we should ignore this one.
Criticism of Rudd is fair for his mistakes on Saturday, but I do think at the same time, the thing with Maxwell seems like a classic case of you're never better than when you're not playing.
He's a decent enough (but slightly error prone) keeper, we saw that when he was playing regularly. Suddenly now he's out of the team, he'd be claiming absolutely everything that Rudd isn't, and would've be strutting out of goal and jumping above Peter Crouch and claiming the ball.
Unfortunately I think both just aren't THAT good. Problem is we can't be changing keepers every 5 games.
He's a decent enough (but slightly error prone) keeper, we saw that when he was playing regularly. Suddenly now he's out of the team, he'd be claiming absolutely everything that Rudd isn't, and would've be strutting out of goal and jumping above Peter Crouch and claiming the ball.
Unfortunately I think both just aren't THAT good. Problem is we can't be changing keepers every 5 games.
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Bugger, couldn't he have done without his newspaper today?
Not really. Most teams have three keepers. Chelsea brought in Rob Green - he will never play but he's there just in case.
If there was still an emergency loan window then we probably wouldn't need a new keeper but if Rudd of Maxwell get injured then we will be left with a youth keeper on the bench. Let Hudson go out and get some experience and you never know he could be our new number one in a few years time.
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After years of watching our Keepers glued to their lines ( I assume it's coached into them ) it was like a breath of fresh air when Herman arrived... He may not have been a regular " worldie " Keeper but bloody hell he didn't half take the pressure off the defence ( and us ) by just striding out and plucking it safely out of the air. There's nothing worse ( imo) than watching the dam ball bounce about all over the six yard box hoping that a defender will be the first to fling himself at it which is what happens regularly with purely agile stoppers that root themselves to the line.........
I think folk see great saves and see great keepers which is fair enough but I believe the better keeper is the one that drops a howler now and again but the other work (commanding their area) that they put in stops much of the need for worldies in the first place.. I reckon a lot of what he does goes completely unnoticed but helps cement the defence big time, which is why he'll always get my vote.Rudds a good keeper at this level but he aint my cup of tea if I had to make a choice between him and Maxwell.
I think folk see great saves and see great keepers which is fair enough but I believe the better keeper is the one that drops a howler now and again but the other work (commanding their area) that they put in stops much of the need for worldies in the first place.. I reckon a lot of what he does goes completely unnoticed but helps cement the defence big time, which is why he'll always get my vote.Rudds a good keeper at this level but he aint my cup of tea if I had to make a choice between him and Maxwell.