Flying Hogans wrote:
Smokin Joe wrote:
We' also need a quality keeper, Hayes is adequate as a back up but IMO should not be a shoe-in for first choice.
TBH I can see why Southend let him leave now. For a big bloke he doesn't command his area for set pieces - stuck on his goal line like Ben Killip. Decent shot stopper - apart from a tendency to spill some shots right in front of him. And his antics before the last 3 penalties were a bit of a joke - no point in trying to put the pen taker off if you dive the wrong way!
Spilling shots is a common fault in football nowadays at all levels, pushing it out towards the onrushing attackers, are those massive gloves they wear the problem, years ago keepers very rarely wore gloves. A keeper should for me not be trying to guess which way the ball is going at a penalty as some times it goes straight down the middle.There was one the other week, the taker thought he could fool the keeper into diving, he didn’t, then he tried to pass it into the middle of the goal, the keeper just bent down and collected the ball.
TBH at the level Pools play you are never going get the ‘perfect” keeper, there is always a ‘mistake’ in them.