The stats for Steele and Bart are based on 50% less games of our two first choice keepers Steele is higher on the list.
Firstly, I don’t get the point you’re trying to make with the first paragraph. But statistically Steele’s been worse than Bart in almost every area.
That 'sentence' doesn't make sense. It obviously needs some punctuation to make it comprehensible, but I can't work out where it should be put to make it make sense.
Don’t need stats to see what is blatantly obvious, which is that sadly Steele (and Bart to a lesser extent) are miles off the level that is required when facing PL quality opposition week in week out.
Bob wasn't part of any rotational game; he was just dropped.
In defence of statistics: Our chairman became a billionaire becuase of his understanding of them, and our hugely successful recruitment of the last 4-5 seasons has been primarilty based on them. They will often show things that the eye doesn't see (or doesn't want to see).
He was. He was in goal in the semifinal at Wembley, then the next game it was Steele. That was one of the reasons he threw a strop, because he ‘kept a clean sheet’.
He could be, but he also dropped too many clangers (and balls).
No, let's get this straight. He was dropped as first-choice keeper after the Fulham defeat and Steele played in goal in 6 consecutive PL games before he missed Chelsea away due to injury. Sanchez also played against Man U as it was a cup game, but RDZ then reverted straight back to Steele for the next 4 PL games (culminating in the 1-5 v Everton) despite Sanchez being avaiable. That is not being rotated; it is being dropped to 2nd choice.
The defence needs to be included in that as well as the keeper. Estupinan, Van Hecke, Webster, Veltman and yes, Dunk.
As he is now at Chelsea. Same place on the bench but more money.
100% this.
Every team in the PL will create chances and get shots on goal, no matter how good the defence is. It simply isn’t sustainable to have a keeper who concedes those chances at the rate we do. The fact we were the last club to keep a clean sheet out of the whole 92 tells is own story.
And? That doesn’t re-write history of him being unambiguously dropped as 1st-choice keeper by RDZ a long time before he downed tools.
Did you look at the appearances on my post? Sanchez played 4 more games than Steele. 25 to 21.
Are you being deliberately obtuse or can you just not accept you were wrong about this one? 22 of Sanchez’s starts were upto and including the Fulham game. After that he played 1 PL game when Steele was unavailable and the 2 cup games, which is not unconventional for a back-up keeper.
I’m being deliberately obtuse because some people will not accept that Sanchez turned up late for training and refused to be part of the team, instead of fighting for his place.
