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1 hour ago, Miltonaggro said:

Start him vs the inbreds, at least he doesn’t lose his bottle in big games!

It did work in 2019. Angus Gunn was our league goalkeeper, Alex McCarthy was our cup goalkeeper. So, fortunately we went to Fratton Park with McCarthy. They went all out at the start of the match too and McCarthy had to make a few smart saves, which I wouldn't have banked on Gunn saving.

Just over a month later, after the Leicester match McCarthy took Gunn's place in the league team.

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Incredible some posters on here. Yesterday was the second worst keeper in the history of the world, beaten only by Long. Tonight he’s the best we have. Amazing!

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2 hours ago, trousers said:

Which posters said that?

Never let hyperbole ruin a poor argument. The point is genuine. Yesterday McCarthy was being slagged off with our other two keepers but now he is the best we have. 

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15 minutes ago, Pwoite said:

Never let hyperbole ruin a poor argument. The point is genuine. Yesterday McCarthy was being slagged off with our other two keepers but now he is the best we have. 

It’s a low bar to be fair, but he is the best.

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7 hours ago, Pwoite said:

Incredible some posters on here. Yesterday was the second worst keeper in the history of the world, beaten only by Long. Tonight he’s the best we have. Amazing!

We've got three.  Being the 'best' of three pretty shit keepers isn't the glowing endorsement you're making it out to be.

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48 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

We've got three.  Being the 'best' of three pretty shit keepers isn't the glowing endorsement you're making it out to be.

The point still stands that on Monday people were calling for him to either be our number 3 or have his contract paid up. A day later, and it's give him the gloves. 

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2 minutes ago, egg said:

The point still stands that on Monday people were calling for him to either be our number 3 or have his contract paid up. A day later, and it's give him the gloves. 

That would be a day after we signed a Norwich reject on loan signalling to all and sundry that there's no way we are looking to bring in anyone better, so we may as well choose the 'best' of our three shit keepers.

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8 minutes ago, egg said:

The point still stands that on Monday people were calling for him to either be our number 3 or have his contract paid up. A day later, and it's give him the gloves. 

Was it the same people saying both those things or different people with different opinions each time...? (Woe betide anyone expressing a different opinion to someone else on here... ;) )

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People are getting way too carried away with one solid but unspectacular performance against Norwich reserves. He made two good but not exceptional saves (the one low down to his left and the one that came through the crowd), and two basic routine saves (the one up to his right and the one that would have been an OG). 

He also played us into trouble three times by getting caught with the ball at his feet or passing out into trouble. Fortunately Norwich weren’t good enough to capitalise on it when he did. 

Then there was a low one in the second half which beat him but went wide. He might have had it covered but possibly not. 

See MaccaWatch (tm) in the match thread. 

It was a perfectly decent one-off performance for a championship level keeper but it really wasn’t anything special. Most pro keepers would expect to make those saves more often than not. 

We all know his weaknesses because he’s had the same ones since he joined us 8 years ago. I’m glad he did ok last night but unfortunately he’s too unreliable for a run of games and always will be. 

With all that said, I’d still play him against the Skates as they will single Baz out for dogs abuse as a former player, and he’s played in bigger games before so will probably handle the atmosphere better and be a calmer presence. He also did well last time we went down there. For that particular game, he is probably lower risk. 

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Just now, benali-shorts said:

Was it my imagination, or did he actually jump over the ball as it came back off the post for their second?

All the reactions of a stoned sloth. 

But still 300% better than the alternative.

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The GK situation is another massive SR masterstroke. The guy Bristol City had was signed on loan from Man Utd, but pushed himself into contention which goes to prove that there are PL GK's out there who are happy to come in as backup, and then take their chance.

But we decided to go and get Norwich's worst keeper on a loan. Truly mind boggling.

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1 minute ago, benali-shorts said:

Still's GK coach mate from Lens said that Bazunu was good enough, so that's enough total fucking idiot we've got in the backroom staff. 

Bazunu is a club pick, the club pushes him on whoever manages. Same as Stephens.

Those two decisions in the summer showed me that nothing had really changed. The Stephens new deal was truly a signal of intent for the season.

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Just now, S-Clarke said:

Bazunu is a club pick, the club pushes him on whoever manages. Same as Stephens.

Those two decisions in the summer showed me that nothing had really changed. The Stephens new deal was truly a signal of intent for the season.

That was utterly bizarre, wasn't it

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12 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Bazunu is a club pick, the club pushes him on whoever manages. Same as Stephens.

Those two decisions in the summer showed me that nothing had really changed. The Stephens new deal was truly a signal of intent for the season.

The McCarthy deal the summer before last as well.

We just don't learn, do we? It's laughable. 

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37 minutes ago, benali-shorts said:

Was it my imagination, or did he actually jump over the ball as it came back off the post for their second?

All the reactions of a stoned sloth. 

He did - should have hoofed it but for some reason only known to himself he decided to jump over it. I can only assume he was oblivious to any imminent danger in his own six yard box. Very strange decision.

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10 hours ago, saintant said:

He did - should have hoofed it but for some reason only known to himself he decided to jump over it. I can only assume he was oblivious to any imminent danger in his own six yard box. Very strange decision.

One problem is McCarthy makes a ridiculous amount of stupid errors that Bazunu doesn't. The other problem is Bazunu can't seem to save anything.

How are we in this position 🤦

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9 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

One problem is McCarthy makes a ridiculous amount of stupid errors that Bazunu doesn't. The other problem is Bazunu can't seem to save anything.

How are we in this position 🤦

We are in this position because when they should have gone out and signed a decent and competent keeper in the summer they decided some guy from Norwich who sounds like he might be worse than Lumley was a better choice cos Bazunu and McCarthy are such excellent, top class keepers !

Ditto Downs and the centre forward situation. Absolute incompetence to ignore both !

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11 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Bazunu is a club pick, the club pushes him on whoever manages. Same as Stephens

Except that both have been dropped in the past and there is zero reason or motivation for this imposition.

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2 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Except that both have been dropped in the past and there is zero reason or motivation for this imposition.

Politically there is - Ankerson along with Shields was co-responsible for Gavin’s signing and we know they hate admitting any kind of mistake at SR boardroom and avoiding the need like any business to write off mistakes. You can see it with Downs remaining on the bench despite being totally unselectable and Still clearly uncomfortable using him unless there is no other option. That comes back to the stupidity and lack of planning around Stewart as well but SR’s idiocy knows no bounds.

As for McCarthy that pre-dates SR but they’ve carried it on. The whole saga around ‘are we going to give Alex or Fraser a bumper pay rise as #1’ under Semmens - just purchase a better keeper FFS. They weren’t that expensive at the time either. They burned their fingers on Gunn but if they lost their confidence on recruitment for keepers, ask Mendes or one of the other agents to find one. Not rocket science. 

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1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Politically there is - Ankerson along with Shields was co-responsible for Gavin’s signing and we know they hate admitting any kind of mistake at SR boardroom and avoiding the need like any business to write off mistakes. You can see it with Downs remaining on the bench despite being totally unselectable and Still clearly uncomfortable using him unless there is no other option. That comes back to the stupidity and lack of planning around Stewart as well but SR’s idiocy knows no bounds

Again, that makes zero sense. A significant number of players have been signed under SR and then moved on when they were deemed not to be up to standard. There is no reason at all to suggest Bazunu is different and no self respecting manager would accept a job where the team is being picked over his head. Downs is on the bench because with Stewart injured there’s nobody else and we’re hardly going to give up on a player after eight games.

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