Highly regarded by who and at what level? Top and bottom of it is that he’s just been sacked by a league one manager.So I do have ‘inside’ knowledge of Brown’s coaching ability and he is regarding as a very good GK coach. Unfortunately fans judge his coaching by his performances when he was a player.
He coached the keepers to how the managers wanted to play. It isn’t Brown’s fault that Eastwood isn’t a keeper that can play out from the back, that is just the keeper Eastwood is and it has never had to play out from the back until now then it’s the old saying of ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’.
Eastwood was excellent up until his confidence was shot after a couple of mistakes and Steven’s was an excellent keeper up until his illness (Villa even wanted to pay money for him). Neither of those things are Brown’s fault.
If it were all the fault of the keepers at his disposal, why hasn’t he been given the chance to work with Beadle?
You’re right in that Eastwood has never been a good distributor but Stevens was OK at one stage and got worse. But both got progressively worse with the gloves. Eastwood seemed to concede from the same thing on a loop last season. He may have his limitations but Brown has to take a lot of accountability.