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Kirkland is out for 3 weeks due to him damaging his collar bone in an accident on the training ground…….
Personally, I thought he should have saved that 1st goal and his positioning was awful for the 2nd. Neither of the goals should have happened though, due to poor defending on Amaya’s part BUT in the 2nd half he made around 3 or 4 good saves so all in all it looks as though he got better as the game went on so hopefully he’ll do a job whilst Kirky’s out injured starting at Blackburn wednesday which is a big game which I think we should win.
I’ll be honest enough & say that I can only judge him from the highlights & he looked alreet. Having said that though the GMR commentator I heard on my way back from refereeing said (shortly before Scotland scored) that the keeper looked very shakey
Seemed to have pretty good reflexes though & having seen the goals I can’t really understand the criticism of him for either. The first was a good one on one finish & how a keeper is supposed to save a free kick curled over his wall & into the far bottom corner I don’t know. If he’d stood behind the wall & davies had put it in the other corner he’d have been slated for poor positioning but the whole point of having the wall is to guard one side of your net whilst you guard the other. If a player is good enough to curl the ball up & over into the far corner then you have to hold your hands up to the taker.
Actually on that free kick – did anyone else notice that Notts County took it a good 5 or 6 yards further forward than where the foul was committed? There were what look like rugby markings on the pitch & the foul is well committed well on one side of it (though Hughes’s fall eventually stops on the other side) but they bring in forward the other side of the line & in range for a shot – cheating bastards tryna derail our wembley dream!!!!
He is very lazy in training & I don’t think he’s experienced enough to know about how to deal with certain teams style of play.
The canadian keeper we had on trial has been sent back to canada – thank god
perhaps he should have done better with the second goal but how many has kirkland missed like that this season-the one at home v manure, by anderson i think, was a disgrace – the larson/birmingham not much better (wasnt that pollitt)
but one thing is for sure he kept us in the game -only for him it could have been a repeat of the spurs scoreline.the other thing no one has mentioned is how quick he moved the ball and found a player after he had caught it-kirkland wants an hour before he releases the ball.
his debut in my opinion was pretty impressive all in all.
You are right with the examples you give re Kirkland and Pollitt – same corner, same set up with the wall and same positioning in the goals now new keeper does it. In my opinion all should have been saved
Goal keeping coach influence anyone?Be grateful…
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