Daniel Peretz

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Peretz is just what we needed. He has a habit of being in the right place to save snapshots that are fired at him. Has a tendency to spill the occasional shot though but usually makes amends for it. One brainfart last night where he passed to a team member in our own crowded penalty area. Luckily the opposition were even more surprised that we were.

Worth holding on to. 

I won't comment on Baz at the moment for the reasons that I gave in an earlier post. He's injured, he's not even at the club and I doubt that we shall see him here again. 

Why bring up his name?

Because a minority of people insisted he was never an issue here and that he wasn't a terrible keeper who was costing us points. Now that we have Peretz it is even more obvious that Bazunu was shite.

[Hoggins]

10 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Does anyone have a video 😂😂😂

[Toadhall Saint]

18 hours ago, pingpong said:

He was good today, still showing the same flaws, but he certainly has luck on his side - the misplaced pass, the two fumbles from straightforward saves and once again, the oppo commentators picked him out as a weakness - I think a lot of credit needs to go to the back 4 (manning aside) for the way they have tightened us up.

I'm just hoping he stays lucky through the cup finals.

 

Baz me old mate? Where you been?

[Whitey Grandad]

7 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Because a minority of people insisted he was never an issue here and that he wasn't a terrible keeper who was costing us points. Now that we have Peretz it is even more obvious that Bazunu was shite.

Not as good as we needed but not actually shite. However, why keep harping on about him? I see that McCarthy doesn't get a mention.  Nor should he.

[SNSUN]

16 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

If we don't go up, i really hope we keep this team together. Add a striker, a right AM and perhaps strengthen the full back positions and we will piss the League next year. I'd personally take the options up on Cyle and Peretz. Cyle has no re-sell value but his experience and leading the line skill would be invaluable. And he's only 30, he's not old. Peretz is a no brainer. 

[Maggie May]

Nothing better than Peretz at Home. 

[stknowle]

3 hours ago, Midfield_General said:

Said it before and I'll say it again - the way the club just apparently refused point blank to accept that Bazunu was crap is like nothing I've ever seen before in terms of going all-in on a single player. 

Look at Downs. We bought him, we played him, we saw he was crap, we tried to persevere for a bit to give him a chance but after four months it was obvious he wasn't up to it so we shipped him out. His value will take a knock but so be it, that's football. 

With Bazunu, he got three and a half years, the majority of which was first team football. A few contrarians will try to find a way to defend him, but he was incredibly average to poor the entire time - everyone could see it with their eyes and every single metric backed it up, consistently, for that period. What the hell was going on that he gets three and a half years? Even after we finally loaned him out the first time because he was consistently rubbish, he came back and went back into the first team for yet another go, and - shock horror - was still rubbish. 

It can't just be that we didn't want his value to depreciate - he only cost £12m which really isn't a lot now and wasn't when we bought him either. Downs was £7m and he only got four months.

Something very, very odd went on there. 

Agree 100% with all that except the description of him as ‘average to poor’. He is/was absolutely fucking awful.

Edited 22 hours ago by stknowle

[hypochondriac]

7 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not as good as we needed but not actually shite. However, why keep harping on about him? I see that McCarthy doesn't get a mention.  Nor should he.

Because McCarthy barely played. It's a message board and the current performance of our keeper heaping further embarrassment on our shite previous keeper -statistically the worst keeper in the league over two seasons -is worthy of discussion. Failing to replace him in the summer is definitely one of the big reasons we aren't going up automatically so it's relevant to this season.

Edited 18 hours ago by hypochondriac

[Miltonaggro]

On 18/03/2026 at 21:55, pingpong said:

He was good today, still showing the same flaws, but he certainly has luck on his side - the misplaced pass, the two fumbles from straightforward saves and once again, the oppo commentators picked him out as a weakness - I think a lot of credit needs to go to the back 4 (manning aside) for the way they have tightened us up.

I'm just hoping he stays lucky through the cup finals.

 

Fuck a duck!

[Badger]

19 hours ago, Maggie May said:

Nothing better than Peretz at Home. 

Several people have commented how vocal he is towards the back 4, which is great.

No idea what he's saying, but if he's bollocking them with a few f, b's, and c''s thrown in for good measure, might it be a case of Peretz Syndrome ? 

[Lighthouse]

13 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Because McCarthy barely played. It's a message board and the current performance of our keeper heaping further embarrassment on our shite previous keeper -statistically the worst keeper in the league over two seasons -is worthy of discussion. Failing to replace him in the summer is definitely one of the big reasons we aren't going up automatically so it's relevant to this season.

Peretz is a better keeper than Bazunu but it's nowhere near this level of hyperbole. We might have a few more points but if you think we'd be automatic promotion candidates with Will Still in charge and Peretz playing behind a back five, with Wood in the middle and Fellows and Manning as wing backs, I disagree.

[Zorba]

33 minutes ago, Badger said:

No idea what he's saying, but if he's bollocking them with a few f, b's, and c''s thrown in for good measure, might it be a case of Peretz Syndrome ? 

That’s what we need..

someone shouting “N_ _ _ _ S!” from the back.

 

 

(uncensored) “NO MORE FUCK UPS!”

Edited 5 hours ago by Zorba

[RedArmy]

14 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Peretz is a better keeper than Bazunu but it's nowhere near this level of hyperbole. We might have a few more points but if you think we'd be automatic promotion candidates with Will Still in charge and Peretz playing behind a back five, with Wood in the middle and Fellows and Manning as wing backs, I disagree.

If we were 6 points better off we’d legitimately be in the hunt for the top 2 in my opinion. 
 

You can absolutely attribute those 6 points (at least!) solely to mistakes that Baz made in the first half of the season. 

It’s a relevant point. 

 

 

[Whitey Grandad]

4 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

If we were 6 points better off we’d legitimately be in the hunt for the top 2 in my opinion. 
 

You can absolutely attribute those 6 points (at least!) solely to mistakes that Baz made in the first half of the season. 

It’s a relevant point. 

 

 

Mistakes? Six points is a lot. And all down to just the one player. Wow. Any in particular tgat you'd care to share? Conveniently ignored the points that he gained for us, of course. 

Personally I think that five at the back was significantly more significant.

Edited 5 hours ago by Whitey Grandad

[Lord Duckhunter]

20 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

but not actually shite.

You’re right in a way, he wasn’t shite every game. Shite was him in form, most of the time he was worse. 
 

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Mistakes? Six points is a lot. And all down to just the one player. Wow. Any in particular tgat you'd care to share? Conveniently ignored the points that he gained for us, of course. 

Personally I think that five at the back was significantly more significant.

You're so desperate not to admit that your judgement about Bazunu has been catastrophically wrong. Just give it up.

[hypochondriac]

2 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

Peretz is a better keeper than Bazunu but it's nowhere near this level of hyperbole. We might have a few more points but if you think we'd be automatic promotion candidates with Will Still in charge and Peretz playing behind a back five, with Wood in the middle and Fellows and Manning as wing backs, I disagree.

Respond to what I actually said "One of the big reasons we aren't going up automatically." it's not the only reason obviously. I'm confident that we could have gained the few more points needed to be in the conversation for automatics if we'd had a really strong keeper like Peretz earlier in the season.

Edited 3 hours ago by hypochondriac

[RedArmy]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Mistakes? Six points is a lot. And all down to just the one player. Wow. Any in particular tgat you'd care to share? Conveniently ignored the points that he gained for us, of course. 

Personally I think that five at the back was significantly more significant.

He let in 6.6 goals more than he was expected to. I was being conservative with 6 points as that’s where I feel we’d be involved in the automatic race. 

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Personally I think that five at the back was significantly more significant.

Nope... The formation had nothing to do with our bad form... No-sir-ee...

[Willo of Whiteley]

Whilst agreeing that changing from five at the back to four at the back has made us a lot better, it’s worth also pointing out that for example last minute save against Coventry - Bazunu lets that in. The last minute against Norwich - Bazunu lets that in also.

This is why Peretz is significantly better. He will do the basics right, something that Gavin Bazunu and Alex McCarthy haven’t managed.

[Weston Super Saint]

What do the stats say about Peretz compared to crisp packet hands?

I know, I know, stats right!  But we know Baz was consistently bottom on pretty much every stat measured, is Peretz the same or perhaps he may be higher up the rankings to coincide with our better results?  Who knows, maybe there's even something in this stats malarky