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Current Player Thread Simon Eastwood

I think I'm correct in saying that if Eastwood is signed on a playing contract, he would be deemed a senior player and therefore we wouldn't be permitted an emergency loan if Cumming and Ingram were injured.
 
CaptainOx said:
I think I'm correct in saying that if Eastwood is signed on a playing contract, he would be deemed a senior player and therefore we wouldn't be permitted an emergency loan if Cumming and Ingram were injured.
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I doubt he would be registered but even if he is, Ingram and Eastwood as back ups in league 1 isn’t the worst situation. After all, we got promoted with Buchel and Slocombe as our keepers!
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I doubt he would be registered but even if he is, Ingram and Eastwood as back ups in league 1 isn’t the worst situation. After all, we got promoted with Buchel and Slocombe as our keepers!
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That was from League Two though. Whole different ball game down there
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I doubt he would be registered but even if he is, Ingram and Eastwood as back ups in league 1 isn’t the worst situation. After all, we got promoted with Buchel and Slocombe as our keepers!
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If he's on any form of playing contract, he'll be a registered player.
Would you fancy going into a big game with Eastwood who hasn't played any minutes (of any kind) since early 2024 dropping in.
 
Boris said:
That was from League Two though. Whole different ball game down there
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Especially given the quality of outfield players we had, nearly all of whom had had or went on to have careers one or two levels higher. Wouldn’t be to worried about whoever played in goal for us next season if we had a team of prem and championship players in front of them.
 
Most clubs are now registering their no.1 Keeper (literally!) a reserve, and a third choice that isn't expected to play. This is either an older experienced pro (Eastwood) or a younger development option (Knightbridge).

Where league one and two clubs can register any number of goal keepers, you may have clubs registering a 4th, but it is from this pot that any emergency loans would likely come from, or those not registered at higher clubs.

So the argument is not about Eastwood v Cumming, its about Eastwood v another clubs 4th choice keeper or worse.

Eastwood is in training every day, knows the players and the way the manager wants to play. And he is a relatively cheap option that also helps coach and develop our youth keepers who will ideally be soon ready to challenge Easty for that 3rd spot.

Not ideal, but when it comes to squad management this is actually a fairly sensible use of resources.
 
Scotchegg said:
Most clubs are now registering their no.1 Keeper (literally!) a reserve, and a third choice that isn't expected to play. This is either an older experienced pro (Eastwood) or a younger development option (Knightbridge).

Where league one and two clubs can register any number of goal keepers, you may have clubs registering a 4th, but it is from this pot that any emergency loans would likely come from, or those not registered at higher clubs.

So the argument is not about Eastwood v Cumming, its about Eastwood v another clubs 4th choice keeper or worse.

Eastwood is in training every day, knows the players and the way the manager wants to play. And he is a relatively cheap option that also helps coach and develop our youth keepers who will ideally be soon ready to challenge Easty for that 3rd spot.

Not ideal, but when it comes to squad management this is actually a fairly sensible use of resources.
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He even gets a mention in this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8pm9zdmy9o
but still 3rd. in the pecking order
 
CaptainOx said:
If he's on any form of playing contract, he'll be a registered player.
Would you fancy going into a big game with Eastwood who hasn't played any minutes (of any kind) since early 2024 dropping in.
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He's been on a playing contract for the last 2 years but still wasn't part of the registered squad (26 players, or whatever it was). I suspect that's what was meant.

Personally I would far prefer having him drop in rather than an emergency loan. He knows the team, the manager, the club, the stadium, and lives in the area, so will just need to actually get on and play, rather than have some Championship/Prem 3rd choice keeper who also hasn't been playing much 1st team football yet/lately and needs to adapt quickly to a sudden change in circumstances.

He's a safe pair of hands in League One.
 
Emilio said:
He's been on a playing contract for the last 2 years but still wasn't part of the registered squad (26 players, or whatever it was). I suspect that's what was meant.

Personally I would far prefer having him drop in rather than an emergency loan. He knows the team, the manager, the club, the stadium, and lives in the area, so will just need to actually get on and play, rather than have some Championship/Prem 3rd choice keeper who also hasn't been playing much 1st team football yet/lately and needs to adapt quickly to a sudden change in circumstances.

He's a safe pair of hands in League One.
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Goalkeepers had to be included in squad limits in the Championship, so Eastwood was player registered only in order to effectively become our own emergency loan.

Now with Goalkeepers exempt, I can see him (and maybe a fourth) keeper fully registered in the squad.
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
I really don't want to get into it with the Eastwood fanclub (it's second only to that of Sam Long in it's prickliness) but he was actually appalling, at this very level, a whopping four seasons ago.
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Not true. After Manning came in and got us defending as a unit, Eastwood looked much better and made some outstanding saves in our run in that contributed to us staying up.

Prior to that he was susceptible to shots from distance, but our defence was so porous that we almost needed 2 keepers to keep everything out.

But this is irrelevant to the situation now.

Last season our second keeper (Ingram) played 3 times. Before that our second keeper (Ingram) played 4 times. And the season before that, our second keeper (Eastwood) played 8 times. Almost all of them cup games.

You have to go back years to a time when we needed to call on a 3rd keeper. So it makes no sense to focus any resources on a position that we haven't needed for a decade.

But of course, this view must come from a fully signed up member of the Simon Eastwood fanclub because no one can possible have a different objective view that yours!!
 
SirAndyOfCrosby said:
I really don't want to get into it with the Eastwood fanclub (it's second only to that of Sam Long in it's prickliness) but he was actually appalling, at this very level, a whopping four seasons ago.
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Appalling is maybe overselling it a little but he was certainly very poor but a lot of people were so conditioned to it so couldn't see it.

Manning came in and was pretty dismayed by our goalkeeping options and a large part of our tactics for the remainder of the season revolved around protecting Eastwood who ended up getting a fair chunk of credit for keeping us up despite having very little to do and us neutering ourselves a bit going forward for this to happen.

I made a post here about it. He was a large part of the reason we were down there in the first place, he was terrible early on and cost us a good amount of goals and points. If Cumming had that run of form there would rightly be calls for him to be dropped and the highlights won't show how poor he is in possession too.

It's very unlikely to come to it but he was a long way from a solid option when I made this post three years ago and I don't imagine he's improved much since then being older and having had next to no game time.

Edit, not sure link is working but there was a discussion here in 2023 https://yellowsforum.co.uk/threads/summer-2023-transfer-window-thread.9581/page-70#post-709698
 
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Basham Wonderland said:
It's ok - he did an alright job for us last time we were in League 1.
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We nearly got relegated and it was over 3 years ago.

Pray JC doesn’t get sold then pray he doesn’t get injured, Eastwood will need to dive now to get down to a shot hit in March.
 
Basham Wonderland said:
Nah Harris, Eastwood both great options, might as well get Jake Wright back too.

It's all ok because they did a job for us once upon a time.
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Harris is fine in league one, your hatred of of him is over the top, Eastwood is a semi retired training keeper now, just need to pray he is not called upon.

Just read that Harris might be our only senior centre forward next season with Prelec off, so you will enjoy this season. I do think that might be asking a bit much of Harris, I had him down as adequate back up so the season is looking good.
 
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Basham Wonderland said:
Nah Harris, Eastwood both great options, might as well get Jake Wright back too.

It's all ok because they did a job for us once upon a time.
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I hear Jake Wright is now a head of year at a school. However, I'm not sure whether that's actually true, as I only read it 15 times on Yellows Forum.
 
holdsteady said:
We nearly got relegated and it was over 3 years ago.

Pray JC doesn’t get sold then pray he doesn’t get injured, Eastwood will need to dive now to get down to a shot hit in March.
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I don’t think JC is getting sold under any circumstances now!
 
Wallop said:
I don’t think JC is getting sold under any circumstances now!
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Depends on whether he is one of the players with a relegation release clause. I suspect not, else there's no way we would have let Ingram leave if the door was also open for Jamie to also be picked up.
 
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