Worst Goalkeeper of our L1 Years

[Slim Man]

Starting a series of threads to celebrate promotion.

This one is dedicated to some of our famous goalkeepers... for all the wrong reasons.

Simon Moore misses out for being actually decent.

 

[bigbirdblade]

Howard was decent. Wouldn't have him on the list.

 

[Slim Man]

Howard was decent. Wouldn't have him on the list.

Unless the shot was from any further than 18 yards

 

[Bladesman]

It will always be Simmo.

 

[Ricky]

Simmo was infuriating and cost us promotion.

 

[blackydog]

Don't understand why we need to ridicule previous players? Past is past.

 

[South Bucks]

Simmo for the way he ran off the pitch at Orient after another clanger, complete lack of bottle.

 

[JayGreen17]

Worst set of thread creations over the last 6 years......

 

[Bladesman]

Don't understand why we need to ridicule previous players? Past is past.

We are bored and its rather fun to pin the blame on former players.

 

[ElephantBlade]

That penalty still haunts me.

 

[Jehovah]

Long by a country mile. Haunts my nightmares.

 

[sitwell]

How can anyone pick Howards over the car crashes Long and Simonsen

 

[YorkBlade]

Can't vote on this, Simmo made the best save I have ever seen at Newcastle away when we lost 2-1.

 

[Harry's Game]

Simmo was a disaster but at times at least looked like a keeper. Long looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights most of the time. Both dreadful though.

Never got the hate for Howard I thought he was decent, not in the same class as Moore but I saw a lot worse in League one.

 

[1889]

To be fair, Simon Moore might've also featured on this list, if he'd had to play behind some of the midfields and back fours we've turned out in the last five years

 

[Slim Man]

Worst set of thread creations over the last 6 years......

Clearly not

 

[LJBlade]

Long by a country mile. Haunts my nightmares.

Didn't Long break some sort of clean sheet record while playing for us in league 1? I'm sure I've seen it mentioned on here before

 

[Jehovah]

Didn't Long break some sort of clean sheet record while playing for us in league 1? I'm sure I've seen it mentioned on here before

Not sure. If he did it will have been down to the defence.

 

[LJBlade]

Not sure. If he did it will have been down to the defence.

But when he played badly the defence had nothing to do with it?

 

[Slim Man]

Not sure. If he did it will have been down to the defence.

You can't just say that to be fair.

I think Long has gone downhill but it's due to wrecked confidence. He's not an awful keeper.

 

[LenTednTony]

Don't think Long was anywhere near as bad as Simmo. Long is a good shotstopper for me, just doesn't command his area AND suffered a ridiculously inept defence. That poor defence also made it difficult for Long TO command his area.

 

[SB_90]

I dont mind these, but dont take them seriously there partly light hearted anyway

But i cant vote in this because all 3 had games were i wanted to ripped there head off but there was also many games where they saved us big time

 

[1066blade]

Simmo for the way he ran off the pitch at Orient after another clanger, complete lack of bottle.

Yep, remember my 10 year old crying his eyes out after that late equaliser/bollock drop.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Fuck league one!

 

[Jehovah]

You can't just say that to be fair.

I think Long has gone downhill but it's due to wrecked confidence. He's not an awful keeper.

All opinions mate, I never rated him even when more fans were praising him. Decent shot stopper but his lack of communication was outrageous.

 

[Champagneblade]

Simmo was infuriating and cost us promotion.

I counted at least 11 keeping errors he made when we got relegated.

So detailing the subsequent promotion was some effort!

 

[finlaytheblade]

Long by a country mile. Haunts my nightmares.

Nothing between Howard and long (who needs to move on for his careers sake )

 

[I should coco]

Don't think Long was anywhere near as bad as Simmo. Long is a good shotstopper for me, just doesn't command his area AND suffered a ridiculously inept defence. That poor defence also made it difficult for Long TO command his area.

I agree completely with that and Long was unlucky that he generally played behind worst defenders. One of his problems was his youth and lack of verbal command of the muppets in front of him. Then when the inevitable goal was conceded, 'legend' Collins would have a pop at him.

I really thought Howard was the one and he started very well but suffered a niggling injury (thigh/back?) that really affected him. The later Howard was a liability as pointed out above, especially with long shots. Maybe undiagnosed short sightedness?

Moore is not perfect but has the confidence to get over the odd error. He is always bawling at the defence and was a massive part of our early season turnaround and in September/October, was probably a more important player than Fleck, Coutts or Billy.

The only reason he wasn't closer to being POTS, is he had bugger all to do in the last few months.