I don't think I've ever seen a keeper look so out of place as Pickford in the current England team when we try to do a bit of keep ball or play out from the back.
This possibly belongs on the BHA loaners thread, but pertinent to a GK discussion. Here are the basic stats for Sheffield Weds 3-0 win - a MASSIVE win in every sense:
By all accounts the stats don’t lie with Beadle being ranked as MOM on Owlstalk as well -...
I don't think it's a case of not expecting Steele to do the standard goalkeeping stuff; we do expect him to do that, and he generally does. However, that is his ceiling, and he doesn't have the ability to do anything exceptional like pull off the type of saves that win 'undeserved' points...
I’m not sure that there’s any other manager in the PL that would play him as first-choice keeper. He spent the rest of his career at Championship level for a reason.
I don't think the GK rotation has anything to additional fixtures - keepers don't get tired - so I'm sceptical as to whether Bart is going to get a decent run of games going into the last quarter of the season. There's a reason that every other team sticks with one man for every game with the...
The blame should definitely be directed at RDZ. Steele is a professional and is no doubt giving his best, but his best is the level of a back-up keeper and he should not be regularly being put in the firing line when we've got a bloke on the bench who's being selevted for a top-10-ranked...