Current Player #26 James Golding

Shame we've not got a few more wins so we'd be able to see some more of McGinty, Golding and Johnson (off the top of my head), along with Goodrham and GO'D.
 
No more than he deserves. Watching him play in those early games I’d have him starting in the first 11.
 
LowerSouth said:
Get a grip.
He is not the reason we are fighting for survival.
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Swaby39 said:
He’s a bloody big part of it, I’m afraid!!
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Don't know why goalkeeping is such a blind spot for our fans - but it is.

I don't really want to mention xG (as it gets some so irritable) but we're not conceding tonnes of good chances - we may be flaky we're but not getting over-run. We simply concede far too many of the relatively few chances we face.

Invariably this will be met with cries of 'Eastwood has made some saves' - as though that isn't his job. The starting position for a professinal goalkeeper isn't 'every shot faced is already a goal - any saves are a bonus'.

To flip it around, if we were creating tonnes of chances for a striker playing every week, and he had only scored 4 all season, you wouldn't cry 'he has finished well 3 or 4 times' - you'd rightly point out that another striker would have had 15+.

If we had a keeper of the calibre of Michael Cooper we'd be about 10th.

Eastwood is nowhere near good enough and goalkeeping needs addressing this Summer.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Don't know why goalkeeping is such a blind spot for our fans - but it is.

I don't really want to mention xG (as it gets some so irritable) but we're not conceding tonnes of good chances - we may be flaky we're but not getting over-run. We simply concede far too many of the relatively few chances we face.

Invariably this will be met with cries of 'Eastwood has made some saves' - as though that isn't his job. The starting position for a professinal goalkeeper isn't 'every shot faced is already a goal - any saves are a bonus'.

To flip it around, if we were creating tonnes of chances for a striker playing every week, and he had only scored 4 all season, you wouldn't cry 'he has finished well 3 or 4 times' - you'd rightly point out that another striker would have had 15+.

If we had a keeper of the calibre of Michael Cooper we'd be about 10th.

Eastwood is nowhere near good enough and goalkeeping needs addressing this Summer.
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And not the only position that needs addressing.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Don't know why goalkeeping is such a blind spot for our fans - but it is.

I don't really want to mention xG (as it gets some so irritable) but we're not conceding tonnes of good chances - we may be flaky we're but not getting over-run. We simply concede far too many of the relatively few chances we face.

Invariably this will be met with cries of 'Eastwood has made some saves' - as though that isn't his job. The starting position for a professinal goalkeeper isn't 'every shot faced is already a goal - any saves are a bonus'.

To flip it around, if we were creating tonnes of chances for a striker playing every week, and he had only scored 4 all season, you wouldn't cry 'he has finished well 3 or 4 times' - you'd rightly point out that another striker would have had 15+.

If we had a keeper of the calibre of Michael Cooper we'd be about 10th.

Eastwood is nowhere near good enough and goalkeeping needs addressing this Summer.
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not at the moment as he is out for the season - though yes he is very good as Plymouth are now wobbling
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
Don't know why goalkeeping is such a blind spot for our fans - but it is.

I don't really want to mention xG (as it gets some so irritable) but we're not conceding tonnes of good chances - we may be flaky we're but not getting over-run. We simply concede far too many of the relatively few chances we face.

Invariably this will be met with cries of 'Eastwood has made some saves' - as though that isn't his job. The starting position for a professinal goalkeeper isn't 'every shot faced is already a goal - any saves are a bonus'.

To flip it around, if we were creating tonnes of chances for a striker playing every week, and he had only scored 4 all season, you wouldn't cry 'he has finished well 3 or 4 times' - you'd rightly point out that another striker would have had 15+.

If we had a keeper of the calibre of Michael Cooper we'd be about 10th.

Eastwood is nowhere near good enough and goalkeeping needs addressing this Summer.
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Everything in the corner seems to fly in, yes, though I think it’s partly because we’re so bad at protecting the box that we allow strikers a clear shot.
 
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