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ant

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Every week (OK, not so much today...) we see opposition keepers that could improve us. 

Most could've been pried away for a reasonable price. They might not do us in the Prem. But how about we fucking focus on getting there first?

You could permanently demote Bazunu to play with the kids and he would still be shown up.

There's sunk-cost fallacy and there's... This. One of the clearest examples of Sports Republic's insanity.

 

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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7 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Or even, as stated above, McCarthy.

Now you're just being ridiculous. 

Not many goalkeepers outside the Premier League will save that shot today. We're not supping at the top table any more.

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stknowle

stknowle

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1 hour ago, HKsaint said:

He is a liability. Every game, we need to score more goals to make up his deficit. 

He is and we do HK my old pal. We’ve got away with it last two matches but his balls up(s) are going to cost us point(s) if this madness continues.

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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44 minutes ago, stknowle said:

He is and we do HK my old pal. We’ve got away with it last two matches but his balls up(s) are going to cost us point(s) if this madness continues.

No balls up today. Normally at QPR. You expect too much.

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Football Special

Football Special

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7 hours ago, ant said:

Every week (OK, not so much today...) we see opposition keepers that could improve us. 

Most could've been pried away for a reasonable price. They might not do us in the Prem. But how about we fucking focus on getting there first?

You could permanently demote Bazunu to play with the kids and he would still be shown up.

There's sunk-cost fallacy and there's... This. One of the clearest examples of Sports Republic's insanity.

 

I just can't understand it, he's been terrible since he's been here , remember the fans forum from August 2023 the point was made clearly that Bazunu isn't good enough, it's been obvious to fans for years but SR refuse to accept it 

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Football Special

Football Special

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1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

No balls up today. Normally at QPR. You expect too much.

We just want a competent goal keeper who.can save shots and catch crosses, most of us know what that looks like and unfortunately for Gav he will never be it 

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Wade Garrett

Wade Garrett

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5 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Now you're just being ridiculous. 

Not many goalkeepers outside the Premier League will save that shot today. We're not supping at the top table any more.

My Nan could have stopped it.

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stknowle

stknowle

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2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

No balls up today. Normally at QPR. You expect too much.

Will have agree to differ Whitey. Expecting competence is not expecting too much. A competent keeper does not concede those 2 goals.

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Saint86

Saint86

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In his defence for the goal yesterday, I thought he was unsighted when the shot was taken, and then it's hit down and bounces up whilst at the same time he has to get right in the corner.

Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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The goal wasn't a howler, by any means. I'm more pissed off with the outfield players who just stood off and allowed Amass to breeze through our midfield and get a shot away completely unchallenged. But Baz was incredibly slow to react, as he always is. Quite simply, a more competent keeper saves that nine times out of ten. Whereas with Baz there's never any question that shots like that will go in, every fucking time.

But the bigger howler for me, that he got away with, was when he punched a cross that even a mediocre keeper could easily have caught, got no height or distance at all on the punch and it fell nicely to an oppo player in the box. This meant he then had to tip over the resulting shot, and once again he did that party trick of his to make a straightforward save look more challenging than it really was.

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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I think to lay the blame on Baz is harsh. That being said, he is a terrible keeper and the poster boy for everything that is wrong with Sports Republic.

Shame we can't shift him off to Goztepe (or France)

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saintant

saintant

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1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

In his defence for the goal yesterday, I thought he was unsighted when the shot was taken, and then it's hit down and bounces up whilst at the same time he has to get right in the corner.

If he's unsighted from a ball struck outside the box when the nearest players are 18 yards away from him he's doing something radically wrong - like not moving his feet and making sure he has a clear sight of what's going on. It's not like he had a bunch of players a few yards in front of him. 

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Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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12 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

I never thought it possible....there is another keeper more shit that Baz.

The Sheff Wed keeper today was on another level of awfulness.

He’s not their first choice though. Their first choice is injured. 
 

So we’ve finally found a keeper from an opponent we wouldn’t swap for Baz. The reserve from a team bottom of the league, haven’t been paying their players and are on minus points…..

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Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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5 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

No balls up today. Normally at QPR. You expect too much.

 

1 hour ago, Saint86 said:

In his defence for the goal yesterday, I thought he was unsighted when the shot was taken, and then it's hit down and bounces up whilst at the same time he has to get right in the corner.

More excuses for The Ghost. He must be the unluckiest goalkeeper ever to don the gloves. 

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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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1 hour ago, saintant said:

If he's unsighted from a ball struck outside the box when the nearest players are 18 yards away from him he's doing something radically wrong - like not moving his feet and making sure he has a clear sight of what's going on. It's not like he had a bunch of players a few yards in front of him. 

 

1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

More excuses for The Ghost. He must be the unluckiest goalkeeper ever to don the gloves. 

Yep, the amount of times I've seen the "he was unsighted" defence trotted out for him is just ridiculous. It's something that used to be used once in a blue moon, but with Baz it's multiple times per season.

There's obviously a good reason for that other than just really bad luck.

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spyinthesky

spyinthesky

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1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

He’s not their first choice though. Their first choice is injured. 
 

So we’ve finally found a keeper from an opponent we wouldn’t swap for Baz. The reserve from a team bottom of the league, haven’t been paying their players and are on minus points…..

Did anyone see the 'keeper errors at the Millwall v Preston game???

Another level which would have caused apoplexy by some on here!!

spyinthesky

spyinthesky

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2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

He was unsighted for yesterday's goal wasn't he? Not sure yesterday's goal is the gotcha a lot of people seem to think it is.

And he made one pretty decent save in the first half.

Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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11 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

And he made one pretty decent save in the first half.

Not only does Baz face an unbelievable amount of unstoppable shots, but he also has his saves exaggerated beyond belief. Routine saves are suddenly “pretty decent” and decent saves suddenly become “world class”. Had AM still been in nets, we’d have had 2 clean sheets this week, no doubt in my mind. 

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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Off the top of my head, the only save that he has made this season that I thought was a very good/excellent save, more so given the timing/circumstances, was the Ryan Hardie shot at home to Wrexham. It would have killed the game (we were dreadful for the most part), and it was a darn good save.

Other than that...nope

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Mboto Gorge

Mboto Gorge

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57 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Off the top of my head, the only save that he has made this season that I thought was a very good/excellent save, more so given the timing/circumstances, was the Ryan Hardie shot at home to Wrexham. It would have killed the game (we were dreadful for the most part), and it was a darn good save.

Other than that...nope

To be honest that’s pretty much the only “great” save I can remember him making in his career for us, let alone this season.

lambtiss

lambtiss

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4 hours ago, Saint86 said:

In his defence for the goal yesterday, I thought he was unsighted when the shot was taken, and then it's hit down and bounces up whilst at the same time he has to get right in the corner.

I thought the blame for that goal was the 40 yard pass from a defensive position straight to the Sheffield player who scored. Quite an assist

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Galway saint

Galway saint

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4 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

To be honest that’s pretty much the only “great” save I can remember him making in his career for us, let alone this season.

There was another - WBA away a couple of years back. 

As someone else said it’s a boring debate now. He's so obviously not up to it but the club spent a load of money on him and whoever made that decision isn’t prepared to admit it was a bad decision even after four years.

I actually think he’s got worse in that time albeit his confidence must be rock bottom so that wont help. 

People say McCarthy is crap but I think he’s ok for us at this level and had been in goal it’s pretty likely we would have had to clear sheets.

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Mboto Gorge

Mboto Gorge

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1 minute ago, Galway saint said:

There was another - WBA away a couple of years back. 

As someone else said it’s a boring debate now. He's so obviously not up to it but the club spent a load of money on him and whoever made that decision isn’t prepared to admit it was a bad decision even after four years.

I actually think he’s got worse in that time albeit his confidence must be rock bottom so that wont help. 

People say McCarthy is crap but I think he’s ok for us at this level and had been in goal it’s pretty likely we would have had to clear sheets.

Agree totally, also with McCarthy he has bags of experience too, he doesn’t doubt himself whereas Baz clearly does and is like a rabbit in the headlights. Mccarthy just looks like a keeper and acts like one, Bazunu doesn’t. 

The Kraken

The Kraken

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8 minutes ago, lambtiss said:

I thought the blame for that goal was the 40 yard pass from a defensive position straight to the Sheffield player who scored. Quite an assist

There were 3 foul ups for the goal. Giving the ball away so cheaply. Flynn Downes made a mess of intercepting and got wrong side allowing the player to drive through. And Bazunu doing another demonstration of his crisp packet wrists.

The fact that there was more than one error doesn’t mitigate much, it was crap play all round. The fact that Bazunu’s part gets highlighted in particular is that it’s yet another repeat of the same failings we see time and again with him.

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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how long was his deal? Surely, given the draw down of paying Man City, we are in the realms of just loaning him out with a view of him never returning, and it not impacting the financials from a net loss PoV?

HKsaint

HKsaint

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9 hours ago, stknowle said:

He is and we do HK my old pal. We’ve got away with it last two matches but his balls up(s) are going to cost us point(s) if this madness continues.

Why the club play him at all costs is beyond me. 

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Osvaldorama

Osvaldorama

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2 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

He’s not their first choice though. Their first choice is injured. 
 

So we’ve finally found a keeper from an opponent we wouldn’t swap for Baz. The reserve from a team bottom of the league, haven’t been paying their players and are on minus points…..


He’s genuinely the only keeper I’ve seen that is a similar level to our own

Saint_clark

Saint_clark

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1 hour ago, Sheaf Saint said:

 

Yep, the amount of times I've seen the "he was unsighted" defence trotted out for him is just ridiculous. It's something that used to be used once in a blue moon, but with Baz it's multiple times per season.

There's obviously a good reason for that other than just really bad luck.

If he isn't unsighted then he's facing world class shots that no keeper in the world would stop. Apparently he doesn't let in easy chances. 

Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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50 minutes ago, Galway saint said:

There was another - WBA away a couple of years back. 

As someone else said it’s a boring debate now. He's so obviously not up to it but the club spent a load of money on him and Rasmus isn’t prepared to admit it was a bad decision even after four years.

I actually think he’s got worse in that time albeit his confidence must be rock bottom so that wont help. 

People say McCarthy is crap but I think he’s ok for us at this level and had been in goal it’s pretty likely we would have had to clear sheets.

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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So here’s the question. Is it more likely that we have picked up 6 points because we brought back Baz and Stephens or is it more likely we did so because we finally managed to put away some of our chances?

If our finishing had been better in the previous games Still would still be in a job. Bottom line.

Galway saint

Galway saint

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49 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Edited for you 

You may well be right 

It’s odd though that we spent a considerable sum on Edozie and he’s been banished to the back of beyond yet Baz is still front and centre. Edozie hasn’t set the world alight but he is actually competent in his position 

Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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5 hours ago, saintant said:

If he's unsighted from a ball struck outside the box when the nearest players are 18 yards away from him he's doing something radically wrong - like not moving his feet and making sure he has a clear sight of what's going on. It's not like he had a bunch of players a few yards in front of him. 

The shot hit the side netting. 

DT

DT

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He's a terrible goalkeeper in a pool of two terrible goalkeepers. It's no way to run a football club, it really isn't.

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Jack

Jack

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15 hours ago, Football Special said:

We just want a competent goal keeper who.can save shots and catch crosses, most of us know what that looks like and unfortunately for Gav he will never be it 

Ridiculously, we have one sitting on the bench 

skintsaint

skintsaint

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9 hours ago, Mboto Gorge said:

To be honest that’s pretty much the only “great” save I can remember him making in his career for us, let alone this season.

Pretty sure he was nominated for save of the season in the PL. Can't remember which season.

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