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I’d love to see this lad given a run in the first team as I thought he was a decent keeper. Obviously we don’t see him in training everyday but seems a waste to me to bring kids through but never give them a decent opportunity.
Shocked we still have him really. Made one mistake in his run in the side and was cast aside. Carson and Ali were shite at times.
Should have been given the number 1 shirt as soon as we left the prem for me.
The management and coaches must have seen something wrong as they did with Riera, Delort etc, etc. They know best don’t they??
Shocked we still have him really. Made one mistake in his run in the side and was cast aside. Carson and Ali were shite at times.Should have been given the number 1 shirt as soon as we left the prem for me.
Very true Egg, think his mistake was a European game??
Jussi is doing well at the moment, but I hope we keep Nicholls as Jussi must be ready for hanging his gloves up sooner rather than later.It was Zulte’s first in the home game, perhaps one of those incidents where he was thinking who to throw it to before he’d caught it and took his eye off the shot. Seemed harsh that the one error led to him not really being given a chance. On the other hand, he’s been with us for years now, should really be impressing and pushing for a first team place, but have all the managers since Coyle really been wrong? Maybe he just hasn’t developed as we all thought he might.
I haven’t seen a massive amount of him but I’ve never been overly impressed when I have seen him play.
Saw him in a reserve game once away at Liverpool & he was awful – feet stuck in concrete all game & his positioning at free kicks was poor too
Saw him play against City in a league cup game in 2013 in our first championship season & (whilst the opposition were obviously of top quality) I thought that he showed the same deficiencies in terms of his movement & positioning.
Seemed to be doing okay when he got a run in the side & then came that horrendous gaffe against Waregem which brought them back into a game that Latics had been dominating, shook the confidence of the team & they wound up losing.He obviously came back from Northampton with rave reviews but, as Abram has pointed out, no manager we’ve had seems to have had much faith in him. Even Coyle (who gave him most games) purchased a keeper as one of his first buys after realising he only had Ali & Nicholls (which admittedly since Coyle sold Ali at Bolton may say as much about his opinion of Ali than it did of Nicholls). He hasn’t come back from Bristol Rovers with rave reviews either
So what is the story with O’Donnell? Dropped to third choice on Saturday. Is there more to this than just form?
Nicholls made a howler against Leeds in the league and that seemed to be it for him after that! If I remember correctly he let the ball through his hands in a simple stop scenario!
Judging him based on YouTube clips is a bit harsh. It’s made the likes of Julius Agahowa look like world beaters. He only seemed at fault for the first one there, when the striker bullied his way through. The other was a great strike and for the third there was a terrible bright sun in his face. Welcome back, Lee. You didn’t let us down in the Championship (unlike three quarters of the team), and you’re surely good enough to fill in for Jossy and O’Donnell.
The first one was an own goal, and it’s only my humble opinion but even though its his own defender who puts it past him, Nicholls is caught in no mans land- he starts to come for it then stops & winds up neither coming to collect the cross or being in the best position to stop an attempt at goal. I’d also guess from the defenders look & body language to Nicholls, that he didn’t get a shout. A couple of guesses in there but to me he hasn’t covered himself in glory
For the second he drops an absolute b0ll0ckFor the third one, I don’t know whether the ball takes a deflection or a big swerve, but he seems to dive at waist height & the ball is over head height which to me shows he may have misread the flight of the ball or moved too slowly
And for the fourth I just think that he’s beaten by a good strike
Personally I’d love to see him succeed at Latics but I have my doubts as to whether he’s good enough due to no manager being prepared to install him as #1, what I’ve seen of him & when a manager of a League 2 club where he’s just spent 3 months describes his spell as “hit & miss” then I’m not sure that he’s good enough to fill in for either of the other keepers
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