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 Thursday at 19:24 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 Friday at 00:01 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 Friday at 12:56 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 Friday at 12:53 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 Friday at 14:33 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  

[RedArmy]

18 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

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

 

Best save % in the league at 76.7%. 
 

 

[Turkish]

18 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

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  

The stats don’t tell you the quality of the strike. Some of the finishing Peretz has faced is vastly inferior to Baz. We have data over 3 1/2 years proving Baz got unlucky facing world class finishes, he also got lots of occasions where he had bobbles, deflections, unsighted etc to contend with which Peretz hasn’t had yet 

much of the stuff Peretz has faced has been routine saves, even the one as Coventry every one says was amazing if you watching closely it wasn’t a clean header and almost straight at him I thought he could have caught it personally. 

[Midfield_General]

‘Bazunu wasn’t one of the big factors in why we were crap’ is right up there with ‘managers and formations aren’t that important’ as the gold standard for the most staggeringly deranged viewpoints we’ve had on here this season, and there have been some absolute belters 

Edited yesterday at 12:05 by Midfield_General

[coalman]

49 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

Best save % in the league at 76.7%. 

Bazunu has a 100% save percentage this season.

Playing for Stoke.

[RedArmy]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

The stats don’t tell you the quality of the strike. Some of the finishing Peretz has faced is vastly inferior to Baz. We have data over 3 1/2 years proving Baz got unlucky facing world class finishes, he also got lots of occasions where he had bobbles, deflections, unsighted etc to contend with which Peretz hasn’t had yet 

much of the stuff Peretz has faced has been routine saves, even the one as Coventry every one says was amazing if you watching closely it wasn’t a clean header and almost straight at him I thought he could have caught it personally. 

Don’t forget it was the defenders fault too. Good job we also signed a new back line in January or Peretz would be having a torrid time. 

[Sheaf Saint]

On 20/03/2026 at 12:53, 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.

Off the top of my head...

Stoke home

Watford away

Hull home 

Oxford away

All games where we basically gifted goals to the opposition because of Baz being so fucking hopeless.

It's impossible to say how differently those games would have panned out otherwise, of course. But it's not unreasonable to suggest that we might have got a fair few more points from them if our keeper had been even semi competent for this level.

[Turkish]

6 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Off the top of my head...

Stoke home

Watford away

Hull home 

Oxford away

All games where we basically gifted goals to the opposition because of Baz being so fucking hopeless.

It's impossible to say how differently those games would have panned out otherwise, of course. But it's not unreasonable to suggest that we might have got a fair few more points from them if our keeper had been even semi competent for this level.

Middlesbrough away at least 2 of the goals were down to him, okay we lost 4-0 but we might not have lost had he not been so shite 

not to mention his general all round shitness lack of command of the box, flapping at crosses, composure, failure to deal with basic shots at him all these things effect the game, you know the opposition keeper is shit at certain things you’re going to pepper the penalty area to expose it. 6-8 points minimum directly many more indirectly 

Edited yesterday at 20:06 by Turkish

[johnnyboy]

Adam Blackmore has said we only have option to buy Peretz if we get promoted.

[Whitey Grandad]

On 20/03/2026 at 14:24, hypochondriac said:

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

Because my judgement wasn't wrong. 

[Give it to Ron]

58 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Because my judgement wasn't wrong. 

Nurse Whitey needs his meds topping up….its ok being a contrarian but at least be sensible Baz is a terrible shot stopper, doesn’t control area, rooted to line and awful on crosses.

He is very good with his feet but the main thing as a keeper he fails on, he can’t save shots across him.

[Wiggles31]

3 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

Adam Blackmore has said we only have option to buy Peretz if we get promoted.

Yeah I heard that. But haven’t heard that anywhere else. 

[Toadhall Saint]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Because my judgement wasn't wrong. 

One of the problems with this site  - people unable to accept when they are wrong. They think it’s a sign of weakness when in fact it’s the opposite. We all know Baz is a worse keeper than Peretz it’s as obvious as the nose on your face and to suggest anything else is just plain ridiculous but because whitey has stuck up for Baz in the past then he feels compelled to keep doing it. 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Because my judgement wasn't wrong. 

What makes you right?

[Lord Duckhunter]

17 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

Adam Blackmore has said we only have option to buy Peretz if we get promoted.

Makes sense, there’s probably zero chance he’ll want to play in the championship next season. The way he’s playing for us, he’ll get a starting gig in one of Europe’s top leagues, even if it’s one of the weaker leagues like France ,or Holland.
 

It will be interesting what we do if promoted because we’ll need to either shift Ramsdale or not take up his option. Alfie House has consistently said Newcastle won’t take up their option on Ramsdale, but maybe that will change the more he plays and the further nick pope declines. Personally, I’d prefer DP on a new 4 year deal, than Ramsdale for 2. I think he’s mentally stronger & better with his feet, without being particularly worse as a shot stopper. Remember, as well as Ramsdale played in our relegation season, he didn’t impose his mentality on the team the way DP has. 

Edited 13 hours ago by Lord Duckhunter

[Crab Lungs]

On 20/03/2026 at 12:53, 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.

Seeing as you’re now asking people to explain themselves… why don’t you do the same from earlier this week when I asked you to do the same?

And what points did he gain for us?
 

Please, do tell. You’ve obviously got stellar recollection of those crucial Bazunu moments yet, strangely, no recall on how fucking useless he was in nearly 100 games for us. 
 

Come on, don’t be shy. Educate us children. 

[Osvaldorama]

On 19/03/2026 at 10:25, S-Clarke said:

The biggest thing for me is why did it take so fricking long for a professional football club, full of professional scouts, analysts and coaches to realise we needed an actual goalkeeper to be succesful? This Bazunu project has been to the detriment of this club, and even if he returns this summer, I hope this experience with Peretz hammers home the fact that we've been playing without an actual goalkeeper for quite some time, bar the few games in the PL with Ramsdale.

If this doesn't concentrate minds, I don't know what else will. I'd love us to sign Peretz, but even if that ship sails and he has other options, I want this experience we've had to be used as club-wide realisation that we need spend on a goalkeeper either way.

It is actually absurd. 
 

We spent tens of millions of pounds and started the season with league 1 (or worse?) level goalkeepers and strikers. Which was completely obvious to almost everyone. 
 

2 good signings and we now look like we should have won the league. Incredible stuff really. 

[Osvaldorama]

On 20/03/2026 at 12:53, 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 easily cost us 6 points lol 

[Danbert]

15 hours ago, Give it to Ron said:

Nurse Whitey needs his meds topping up….its ok being a contrarian but at least be sensible Baz is a terrible shot stopper, doesn’t control area, rooted to line and awful on crosses.

He is very good with his feet but the main thing as a keeper he fails on, he can’t save shots across him.

He's not that good with his feet even IMHO