Gavin Bazunu

[Sheaf Saint]

Wrong thread.

Edited September 14 by Sheaf Saint

[HKsaint]

Congrats. Got a clean sheet. 

[skintsaint]

Just now, HKsaint said:

Congrats. Got a clean sheet. 

Looked solid with aerial crosses for once.

Lucky their striker couldn't finish a roast dinner though on a couple of occasions.

[HKsaint]

We both got only one shot on target. 🎯 

[SouSaint]

Comfortably the worst goalkeeper in the league. 

[Miltonaggro]

Look at the positioning for the first goal against Hull:

 

[sfc4prem]

I've said it before, he has crisp packet hands and wrists. 

 

He frequently dives late. It's almost comical, like he's been instructed to do so to take the piss out of us.

 

His attempt at diverting the header for the first goal to safety was comfortably one of the worst parries I've ever witnessed.

 

I swear the bloke must be some sort of Portsmouth spy sent to fuck us over.

 

Has he cast a spell on the people in charge? If they were lazy, all they would have to do is look at the raw data about his shot-stopping ability.

 

Terrible.

[bugenhagen]

As long as we persist with him in goal, we will let in most shots on goal. Doesn't matter if we play Russball or Stillball. He reacts so slow. We will need to score more than 2-3 goals most matches to get draws and wins, and as horrible as we are on the pitch right now... this is gonna hurt!

[Gloucester Saint]

Still safely in possession of the keeper jersey in my worst ever Southampton XI for any division. 

[saintant]

1 hour ago, SouSaint said:

Comfortably the worst goalkeeper in the league. 

Again? Surely not. We are so unlucky. Has anyone considered buying someone better?

[bpsaint]

It’s honestly got to the point where I’m starting to think the bloke has a contract clause that means he is guaranteed to start. I can’t wrap my head round it otherwise, he’s fucking shite and if he’s doing it in matches you can bet he’s doing it in training. That many managers and coaches can’t be blind to something so obvious surely.

[LGTL]

Worst GK in the league two years ago. And the worst GK in the league this year. Not exactly a surprise is it. 

[S-Clarke]

Is there really any point debating this fool anymore?

He's an absolute abomination of a goalkeeper - this is from my eyes, not from stats. That first goal was a disgrace and I'd drop him for that.

The club massively ballsed up on two things in the summer - thinking George Long is all we needed as GK competition, and giving Jack fricking Stephens, Captain Supremo, a 3 year contract.

Those two decisions right there will make the new signings almost null and void.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Is there really any point debating this fool anymore?

He's an absolute abomination of a goalkeeper - this is from my eyes, not from stats. That first goal was a disgrace and I'd drop him for that.

The club massively ballsed up on two things in the summer - thinking George Long is all we needed as GK competition, and giving Jack fricking Stephens, Captain Supremo, a 3 year contract.

Those two decisions right there will make the new signings almost null and void.

Which is why I appreciate your post about Will Still and agree that last season was bound to be damaging but I’m 100% certain Will Still is NOT the answer.

And for the reasons you’ve put here. No DoF working with me makes those two decisions. Or they get a blast in public if they did it regardless.
So he’s either a piss weak yes man (SR speciality) or as I suspect more, he has a dreadful lack of judgement. I cannot believe that Bazunu suddenly turns into Gordon Banks in training.

[S-Clarke]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Which is why I appreciate your post about Will Still and agree that last season was bound to be damaging but I’m 100% certain Will Still is NOT the answer.

And for the reasons you’ve put here. No DoF working with me makes those two decisions. Or they get a blast in public if they did it regardless.
So he’s either a piss weak yes man (SR speciality) or as I suspect more, he has a dreadful lack of judgement. I cannot believe that Bazunu suddenly turns into Gordon Banks in training.

I just don't see the answer in swapping out a manager after 6 games, and especially when it's SR who would appoint the next one.

He may well be a yes man, but as long as SR are in charge, all we'll appoint are yes men - so getting rid of him doesn't really change anything, we'd just pivot to someone worse.

We've got to give him a chance to try to reset what went before. But the core problem at this club isn't necessarily Bazunu, Stephens or Will Still - it's Sports Republic and what their muddy hands have done to us.

[Gloucester Saint]

5 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I just don't see the answer in swapping out a manager after 6 games, and especially when it's SR who would appoint the next one.

He may well be a yes man, but as long as SR are in charge, all we'll appoint are yes men - so getting rid of him doesn't really change anything, we'd just pivot to someone worse.

We've got to give him a chance to try to reset what went before. But the core problem at this club isn't necessarily Bazunu, Stephens or Will Still - it's Sports Republic and what their muddy hands have done to us.

I broadly agree on the club and SR - only prospect of any sustained improvement is them selling - but there’s no pattern of play whatsoever, Bazunu is still in goal and the defence looks every bit as bad as when Martin was here. Midfield doesn’t exist. There’s nothing to build on. Someone like Carrick knows the division and should stop the worst of the stupid goals. And stops the successive relegation we are on the way to.

Edited 19 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Wade Garrett]

He’s fucking dogshit.  Should not be making a living from the game.  Absolutely criminal that he’s our first-choice keeper.  

[die Mannyschaft]

RUBBISH 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

He’s fucking dogshit.  Should not be making a living from the game.  Absolutely criminal that he’s our first-choice keeper.  

Even if he did fuck dogshit, most of it would drop limply on the pavement.

Gloves would be clean though. 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 minute ago, Wade Garrett said:

He’s fucking dogshit.  Should not be making a living from the game.  Absolutely criminal that he’s our first-choice keeper.  

I still can't get my head round how shit he was for that first goal today. The header has no power in it whatsoever, but his reactions are so mind bogglingly bad that by the time he got down he had no chance of making what should have been an easy catch, and just threw his hands at it in a blind panic with absolutely no idea where it would end up. 

I've seen better keepers than him at my local 5 a side centre.

It really does beggar belief how someone at Saints decided he was worth the £12m we paid for him.

[Football Special]

2 hours ago, SouSaint said:

Comfortably the worst goalkeeper in the league. 

This post was made today, but of course this very point was made at the fans forum two years ago, Sports Republic know this and carried on anyway 

Whole team was terrible today though ,so can't blame young Gav 

[O_Lord_Marian]

3 minutes ago, Football Special said:

This post was made today, but of course this very point was made at the fans forum two years ago, Sports Republic know this and carried on anyway 

Whole team was terrible today though ,so can't blame young Gav 

If there is a massive hole in the ship, vis a vis Bazunu, everyone gets wet.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

McCarthy should have a run in the side now, can't believe I'm even putting this forward. Absolutely done with Baz now. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

He’s fucking pony. 
 

Need to get AM back in, he’s poor, but still a level above Baz. 
 

He’s going to cost us, over and over. 

[beatlesaint]

Hopefully McCarthy will have a blinder against Liverpool reserves on Tuesday and make it virtually impossible not to pick him next Saturday.

And no, I cannot believe I’ve written the above sentence, it just shows what a shitshow this club has become !!

[Saint NL]

McCarthy is shit.

 

But Bazunu is worse.

How did it come to this?

[Saint_clark]

Haven't seen the goals from today yet but I see people are unimpressed. Not sure why anyone is surprised. He's been the worst keeper in the league every season he's played for us. 

[Sheaf Saint]

29 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Haven't seen the goals from today yet but I see people are unimpressed. Not sure why anyone is surprised. He's been the worst keeper in the league every season he's played for us. 

Just wait til you see the first one.

[Mboto Gorge]

3 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

I just don't see the answer in swapping out a manager after 6 games, and especially when it's SR who would appoint the next one.

He may well be a yes man, but as long as SR are in charge, all we'll appoint are yes men - so getting rid of him doesn't really change anything, we'd just pivot to someone worse.

We've got to give him a chance to try to reset what went before. But the core problem at this club isn't necessarily Bazunu, Stephens or Will Still - it's Sports Republic and what their muddy hands have done to us.

Exactly. They don’t have the credit in the bank to be making more catastrophic lack of judgement errors like thinking yet again that Bazunu is fine as number 1. He’s synonymous with these charlatans unfortunately as one of their first key decisions was hanging their hat on him being the future of our goalkeeping department. 

[Gloucester Saint]

49 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Haven't seen the goals from today yet but I see people are unimpressed. Not sure why anyone is surprised. He's been the worst keeper in the league every season he's played for us. 

If SR take us down as far as the National League - if Solak really wants to rub it in on behalf of Milan Mandaric - Bazunu would still be the worst keeper in that division.

Only consolation of his latest Frank Spencer display is that even Spors might actually think twice about giving the Irish Tommy Forecast a new contract. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Sheaf Saint]

3 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

If SR take us down as far as the National League - if Solak really wants to rub it in on behalf of Milan Mandaric - Bazunu would still be the worst keeper in that division.

Only consolation of his latest Frank Spencer display is that even Spors might actually think twice about giving the Irish Tommy Forecast a new contract. 

Oh he will though. Because there's no way SR are going to let him leave on a free after the amount they've invested in him. So we'll undoubtedly give him a 2-3 year extension in the vain hope that he will improve over that time* and we can recoup some of that £12m.

* which of course he won't, because so fundamental are his flaws, like reaction time and positional sense, that no amount of experience or coaching is ever going to improve those aspects of his game.

[Gloucester Saint]

18 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Oh he will though. Because there's no way SR are going to let him leave on a free after the amount they've invested in him. So we'll undoubtedly give him a 2-3 year extension in the vain hope that he will improve over that time* and we can recoup some of that £12m.

* which of course he won't, because so fundamental are his flaws, like reaction time and positional sense, that no amount of experience or coaching is ever going to improve those aspects of his game.

It’s a bit like Barings Bank doing the same with Nick Leeson - ‘we sent him on all of those regulatory banking and ethics courses he ignored, but after the prison sentence it’ll be alright’.

Edited 15 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[AlexLaw76]

Just a shite keeper.

Was crap last time we were here, crap again now.

 

 

[Badger]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

It’s a bit like Barings Bank doing the same with Nick Leeson - ‘we sent him on all of those regulatory banking and ethics courses he ignored, but after the prison sentence it’ll be alright’.

Nick Leeson. Wasn’t he recruited by Rupert Lowe ? Probably the most damaging he ever made if so.

At least he didn’t leave his worst appointments until he came tonSaints. Or perhaps he did. 

[Sheaf Saint]

1 hour ago, beatlesaint said:

Hopefully McCarthy will have a blinder against Liverpool reserves on Tuesday and make it virtually impossible not to pick him next Saturday.

And no, I cannot believe I’ve written the above sentence, it just shows what a shitshow this club has become !!

Macca already played a blinder in the last round against Norwich. He made 3 or 4 really good saves, of the kind that Bazunu never does, and was of course promptly dropped for the next league game. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Badger said:

Nick Leeson. Wasn’t he recruited by Rupert Lowe ? Probably the most damaging he ever made if so.

At least he didn’t leave his worst appointments until he came tonSaints. Or perhaps he did. 

It appears so 

 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Macca already played a blinder in the last round against Norwich. He made 3 or 4 really good saves, of the kind that Bazunu never does, and was of course promptly dropped for the next league game. 

That was bizarre. Either Still has appalling judgement or he’s wet behind the ears and told by the SR board to play Bazunu. 

[sledger]

ive said this before,if its on target then its nearly always a goal or maybe hes just unlucky or maybe hes just shocking.

[Miltonaggro]

10 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Macca already played a blinder in the last round against Norwich. He made 3 or 4 really good saves, of the kind that Bazunu never does, and was of course promptly dropped for the next league game. 

Further evidence that Still and Co. either haven’t got a fucking clue or are taking instructions from the suits! 

[Chez]

11 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Macca already played a blinder in the last round against Norwich. He made 3 or 4 really good saves, of the kind that Bazunu never does, and was of course promptly dropped for the next league game. 

Doesn't Macca look, well, a little bit too old and slow? I've stuck up for him in the past, but is he genuinely a better option at this moment? 

[S-Clarke]

Just now, Chez said:

Doesn't Macca look, well, a little bit too old and slow? I've stuck up for him in the past, but is he genuinely a better option at this moment? 

Anyone is a better option than Gavin Bazunu, but the fact is the the club have somehow managed to fill our GK ranks up with 3 truly horrific players. Not one of them should be anywhere near a Championship side, let alone one who aspires for promotion.

That George Long signing was everything that is wrong with us wrapped up in a single transfer. This is why so many people called it out at the time, a truly disgusting decision by the club. This wasn't personal against George Long, it's because the club had the opportunity right there to get better than Bazunu - the opportunity was right in front of them, but they flinched.

Shameful. 

[dsrdorset]

I never want to see Bazunu between the sticks ever again. 

[Osvaldorama]

Genuinely the worst keeper I’ve seen play for us, in any league. 
 

And yet he keeps playing. 
 

This football club is relentless with how stupid, unenjoyable and terrible it is

[Willo of Whiteley]

George Long was a comedy loan signing, seemingly with noise of celebrations coming from east anglia when that transfer was completed.

Alex McCarthy has been shocking for years, and one of our most expensive players.
It’s maddening that this guy was third choice two years ago, yet out of the blue played the final 6/7 games and got a new two year contract!

But the fact we’re debating one of the above challenging Gavin Bazunu sums it up really.
Too much too soon when we bought him. We’ll never recoup that money. Just another £10m pissed down the drain.

[beatlesaint]

They had the choice in the summer if they weren't prepared to do both. One was get a proven striker at Championship level who would benefit from the Still style of crosses in the box, the other option was to get a decent goalkeeper.

They did niether. Pathetic and even if Still does get them playing well the lack of a good striker and keeper will bite us on the arse time and time again.

[Mboto Gorge]

49 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

Genuinely the worst keeper I’ve seen play for us, in any league. 
 

And yet he keeps playing. 
 

This football club is relentless with how stupid, unenjoyable and terrible it is

Ask yourself what or who the key components are in you and I feeling this way. Sport Republic. They are killing this club with every poor decision after poor decision that they make. The club is falling to bits piece by piece under their “guidance”. Every season we get that bit worse than the previous one.
They need to fuck off and start being put under pressure from the fanbase and be called out in a public manner so the wider football circle can see what idiots they are: after 4 years of this shit enough is enough. Another 4 years and we will almost certainly be in league one and that’s being kind to them,

Edited 3 hours ago by Mboto Gorge

[badgerx16]

Do our strikers look good in training as they are going against our goalkeepers, or do our GKs look good because they are facing Downs, Stewart, et al ?

[badgerx16]

58 minutes ago, dsrdorset said:

I never want to see Bazunu between the sticks ever again. 

Prepare for disappointment.

[HarvSFC]

There was absolutely nothing stopping the club from loaning a new number one this summer after loaning out Ramsdale, one of our two good players from last season. Yet, we replaced him with a third choice on loan, because he's a good character to have around the dressing room. Surely, McCarthy already covered that criteria?

This is the same club that went into the Premier League season with McCarthy as number one and Lumley as number two while Bazunu recovered from injury. It then became apparent that was a big fuck up and they panic bought Ramsdale in the last days of the transfer window. Unfortunately, our poor start to the league season didn't get the board to act in the goalkeeper department this summer.

Looking at the free agent list for a Boruc like signing and there isn't a lot available, but Forster (shudder), Rui Patricio and Guaita are there to cover for a season and then reassess a new long-term number one in the summer.

[Mboto Gorge]

2 hours ago, HarvSFC said:

There was absolutely nothing stopping the club from loaning a new number one this summer after loaning out Ramsdale, one of our two good players from last season. Yet, we replaced him with a third choice on loan, because he's a good character to have around the dressing room. Surely, McCarthy already covered that criteria?

This is the same club that went into the Premier League season with McCarthy as number one and Lumley as number two while Bazunu recovered from injury. It then became apparent that was a big fuck up and they panic bought Ramsdale in the last days of the transfer window. Unfortunately, our poor start to the league season didn't get the board to act in the goalkeeper department this summer.

Looking at the free agent list for a Boruc like signing and there isn't a lot available, but Forster (shudder), Rui Patricio and Guaita are there to cover for a season and then reassess a new long-term number one in the summer.

They’re obsessed with Bazunu being our goalkeeping poster boy, that’s why. They were adamant they weren’t going to block his path to being our number 1 again for the championship. They literally don’t know what they’re doing. At first they thought he was prem level when he first signed, then after promotion even they had to admit they couldn’t go into another prem season with him between the sticks, so signed Ramsdale. But this season was their big chance to show everyone how good he is at this level , to somehow justify all the money and faith spent on him so they weren’t going to let anyone better than him ruin that chance. Absolute charlatans running this club , obsessing over a guy who’s literally costing points on a regular basis by being a genuinely terrible goalkeeper 

Edited 52 minutes ago by Mboto Gorge