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Underwhelmed

The lower league Stuart Taylor, judging by his CV.

He's more than happy to play as little football as possible.

Hopefully won't be needed but good to have more cover.

Marquee signing AT LAST

This could be a lengthy thread.......

What's the problem? Would you rather not have back up?

Downhill all the way this transfer window. Desperate times.

I guess it's hard trying to find someone to come in to be 3rd choice, but this does smack of signing any old keeper to fill the spot.

People were dismissive of Heaton when he first arrived, that hasn't turn out to badly has it,assume he will be 3rd choice anyway, so unlikely to feature unless we have a crisis.

We need cover and once we get a third goalkeeper it will allow us to get Conor Mitchell out on loan for some experience. Who were people expecting as a third choice goalkeeper?

Get a youngster in, we appear to have forgotten you can play football before you're 25.

Well, we have a third choice keeper.

It shows the complete lack of ambition that the board have that we didn't try to persuade Buffon to join

We have a youngster you fudd. His name is Pope.

Why are some moaning about signing a player who is unlikely to see 5 appearances this season and is purely signed for cover?

Because if he's that unimportant sign a youngster with promise not an old hack.

Why not send out Conor Mitchell anyway and call him back if we get into a crisis situation?

This transfer window has been pathetic to say the least.

1. England international who is literally first name on the teamsheet.

2. Young player to learn from number 1.

3. Experienced player for young player to learn from when England international is busy.

4. Mitchell (Another young player) gets to go out on loan for first team experience.

Your obsession with youth is quite worrying ABlueCoyoteLiar. Maybe you should stick to making up evidence and lies?

Guess it depends on the purpose of a third choice keeper.

If he's literally there to make up the numbers at training and reserve games, then I guess anyone will do.

Last year the model appeared to be Heaton backed up by a vastly experienced former international keeper and one with a lot of promise.

Right_winger wrote:This transfer window has been pathetic to say the least.

I am all for signing an experienced guy as third choice keeper, to pass on his vast experience to our younger keepers, but Legzdins has no experience of anything other than getting splinters in his arse

I'm a bit surprised by this, too.

I'd have thought the question is quite simple. Would you be ok with any of the three goalkeepers starting a game this season if needs be?

Last season I think the answer was yes. Robinson had a hell of a career behind him and Pope had just been an ever-present in the Championship.

ablueclaret wrote:Downhill all the way this transfer window. Desperate times.

Just a quick reminder that we've very recently posted our highest league placement in decades.

Hardly desperate times

What is the point of putting a youngster in at 3rd choice? A youngster (Connor Mitchell) needs game time to develop not to be sitting getting splinters with little chance of a game. Legzdins is very leftfield but if he is happy to sit there and be backup then fair enough. Very unlikely we will have to rely on him but then again Robinson (our alleged 3rd choice) got the nod over Pope when Heaton was out so who knows.

UpTheBeehole wrote:I am all for signing an experienced guy as third choice keeper, to pass on his vast experience to our younger keepers, but Legzdins has no experience of anything other than getting splinters in his arse

Well he'll be used to it then, won't he ? Problem solved.

Right_winger wrote:Why not send out Conor Mitchell anyway and call him back if we get into a crisis situation?

Because we're not allowed to recall loaned players outside the transfer windows.

I sort of see the point being made here, but we have an unmoveable first choice, a very promising second choice and now an experienced third choice.

I get the negativity to a point, but this signing does make sense.

ablueclaret wrote:Because if he's that unimportant sign a youngster with promise not an old hack.

We have youngsters but they are not ready for Premier League if necessary.If we signed another youngster he would not be ready for PL.What do you not understand that we are signing a 3rd choice keeper in case of an emergency if Tarka isn't available to go in goal.

UpTheBeehole wrote:I am all for signing an experienced guy as third choice keeper, to pass on his vast experience to our younger keepers, but Legzdins has no experience of anything other than getting splinters in his arse

Correct! He's 30 and done almost nothing. This is not a replacement of Paul Robinson - such a frustratingly confusing signing when we should be focusing on elsewhere! Why aren't we spending?

Right_winger wrote:Why not send out Conor Mitchell anyway and call him back if we get into a crisis situation?

This transfer window has been pathetic to say the least.

Another one who doesn't understand.Would you really want to see an inexperienced youngster in goal in the Premier League.

If only dyche had gone to palace..

Young_Claret_91 wrote:Correct! He's 30 and done almost nothing. This is not a replacement of Paul Robinson - such a frustratingly confusing signing when we should be focusing on elsewhere! Why aren't we spending?

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How do you know we are not focussing elsewhere.Window hasn't shut yet.We need a 3rd choice keeper.

Lancasterclaret wrote:I sort of see the point being made here, but we have an unmoveable first choice, a very promising second choice and now an experienced third choice.

I get the negativity to a point, but this signing does make sense.

Makes absolute sense to me and should allow Conor to go out on loan to get some experience

When will Nick Pope go on loan and get some experience?

He's older than Jack Butland and Jordan Pickford, and he hasn't been entrusted with a Premier League game yet. Is he not good enough? If he isn't, why's he remaining 2nd choice?

He'd scare the living daylights out of me when faced with Aguero, Hazard, Lukaku etc

UpTheBeehole wrote:When will Nick Pope go on loan and get some experience?

He's older than Jack Butland and Jordan Pickford, and he hasn't been entrusted with a Premier League game yet. Is he not good enough? If he isn't, why's he remaining 2nd choice?

He'd scare the living daylights out of me when faced with Aguero, Hazard, Lukaku etc

He eventually moved up to second choice last season with the manager saying that had always been the plan so I'd expect him to be on the bench on Saturday. He's looked more than competent enough in the cup games he's played.

We still need a winger and a centre half, and to be quite honest all seems to have gone quiet on both fronts.

We knew we were signing a keeper, so why the fuss?

Pope is fine, but this signing makes no sense at all other than wasting a bit more money and clogging up a place.

Seems to fit the profile for me. Experienced but happy to bide his time. Low cost keeper to challenge Pope. No brainer really. I'm not sure what people were expecting. You'll be hard pressed to find a keeper willing to be happy sitting on the bench who is of any outstanding quality. Randolph buggered off from West Ham as soon as the ink had dried on Hart's contract and he's nowhere near as good as Heaton.
That's one less place to worry about. Mitchell needs game time and we needed back up in case Pope or Heaton were injured. Seems a shrewd bit of business.

You wouldn't want someone who is prepared to sit around you want a youngster to challenge your top two.
Experience all only get you so far, somewhere along the line this club needs to remember it's talent that counts at this level.

ablueclaret wrote:Pope is fine, but this signing makes no sense at all other than wasting a bit more money and clogging up a place.

Keeper is a Premium position. Outfield players can play generally in several positions and do a job. I.E. Dyche trying Taylor in Central Defence in pre-season offers us an option, should Dyche see him as an option to play centre half, and/or left back, or even left wing. A keeper is just that. A keeper. Unless you envisage Tarkowski as our third choice keeper as well as a midfielder. We needed another keeper!

ablueclaret wrote:You wouldn't want someone who is prepared to sit around you want a youngster to challenge your top two.

Isn't that Conor Mitchell?

It might well be, we certainly don't need another geriatric at the club.

I think it is the one position you are allowed to make an emergency loan on, but I might be wrong about that.

30 years old is geriatric?

I haven't been impressed by Pope when I've seen him.

His kicking in particular was woeful last Tuesday, with one from his hands looping out before reaching half way, and two real shanks with his left foot which only made it about 30 yards.

A decent PL team would capitalise on that. They'd press him and force him to kick with his left, and mop up the miskicks. There aren't any other PL keepers that poor with their wrong foot, being able to welly it at least half way is a bare minimum requirement for anything above Sunday League, surely.

Then your looking forward to Legzdins Walton.

ablueclaret wrote:Pope is fine, but this signing makes no sense at all other than wasting a bit more money and clogging up a place.

That shows how little knowledge you have because it does not clog up a place but fills a hole which also allows a young goalkeeper to go out on loan an gain some experience. We can't go into a season with only two goalkeepers.

SGr wrote:We still need a winger and a centre half, and to be quite honest all seems to have gone quiet on both fronts.

What's that got to do with the potential signing of a goalkeeper as cover?

Sounds like Heaton will need to stay fit.

If he were to be injured, it would be interesting to see who steps in.