Im 32 i will start 1. Heaton 2. Crichton 3. Gavin Ward worst: 1. Michopolous 2. Kiraly 3. Diego Penny

Best -
Heaton
Stevenson
Beresford

Worst -
Neenan
Penny
Hansbury

Best is Heaton or/and Stevenson in his prime. Worst: I would unfortunately have to say Billy O'Rourke and Mark Kendall, despite the fact that in the bigger picture they were taken away before their time as human beings, God rest their souls.

There can't be too many keepers who were beaten from a drop kick by the opposition goalie, who almost had two but for the top of the crossbar.

By all acounts Billy was a nice bloke but a shocker of a no 1.

Mark Kendal takes the prize for worst. His displays at Derby and Blackpool were shocking.
Adam Blacklaw, Harry Thompson and Colin McDonald take some beating, literally

Roger Hansbury affectionately known as TEFLON !!!!

Heaton
Nicky Walker
Marriott

Kendall
Penny
Coyne

Best

Heaton
Walker
Ward

Worst (who played regularly enough)

Kiraly
Neenan
Chris Woods

Given we brought him all the way from South America, the most disappointing has to be Diego Penny. Also, I don't think that Cennammo lad was a goalkeeper at all!
Best for me will always be my hero, Sir Adam Blacklaw!

Mark Kendal at Blackpool. I must have been about ten and thought how has this guy made it in professional football.

Best:

Heaton
Kiraly
Ward


Worst:
Pearce
Russell
Muchopoulos

Another vote for Kendal.

Can't remember if it was Boxing Day or New Year's Day but that trip to Blackpool was gutting.

Wonder if there's any footage out there for the masochists amongst us?

Best: Heaton,Beast, Bereford,
Worst: Kendal, Kendal, Kendal

Didn't see Penney play and don't remember if I saw Luigi cenamo grace the pitch in any form of contest

I remember Watching Ian Walker and thinking he was superman!

Edit - Nicky! Walker

Best: Heaton,Walker, Marriot
Worst: Kendal, Neenan, Woodworth

Special mention from Chris Pearce

Michopolous: not our best but certainly nowhere near our worst, imho.

Great debut at Huddersfield Nicko!

From watching live the best without doubt is Heaton and the worst is Mark Kendall closely followed by Wayne Russell.

I only saw Penny against Wigan and I don't think he conceded!!

Nicko was a great keeper until one day he let in a long range effort... then a week later he did it again, then the weakness was revealed

I forgot about Frank Petr Kval!

Heaton by a country mile. Beresford and Jensen in promotion season others.
Worst was Kendall

I think it goes to show what generations are using the forum. Since the 90's we've been OK with keepers in general, relative to the quality of the team.

Niko, Coyne, Woods were hardly terrible, Kiraly was a nuts though

Lee Grant is the forgotten man in this thread though

Blacklaw Stevenson and Heaton.....


the crap ones are way too numerous to be listed here

Heaton
Walker
Marriott

Kendall
Kiraly
Russell

Heaton.
Stevenson, until his last year.
Blacklaw

All opinions garnered by how many times and at what stage they were with us of course.

Best:

Adam Blacklaw, we won the 1st Division title with him.
NIcky Walker, only played about 7 games for us whilst on loan (I saw them all I think) but he really did boss the defence and his area.
Tom Heaton looses rank because of his lack of dominance in his area.

Worst:

Mark Kendall, our so called goalkeeping coach and yes that 5-2 performance at Blackpool was awful.
Billy O' Rourke, QPR away 7-0 and then home to watch it all again on MOD or was it on Sunday afternoon. Incidentally Burnley actually had just about the same amount of chances on goal as QPR but no matter what they did they just couldn't score I'll never forget that.
Beresford and Pearce at the end of their time with us.

Well at least Billy O´Rourke got to play for the Clarets. That´s more than thousands of us can say.

South West Claret. wrote: Tom Heaton looses rank because of his lack of dominance in his area.

Have you been on the Scrumpy all day?

Just to clarify, you think Walker was better than Heaton?

I'll not consider anyone who only played a small number of games although accept that Kendall's performance at Blackpool ranks amongst the worst.

My best three
Adam Blacklaw
Tom Heaton
Alan Stevenson

Heaton now above Stevenson on my list. Will he ever go past Adam? No chance.

Worst three
Joe Neenan
Chris Pearce
Nik Michipoulos

Close call for third place between NTG & Roger Hansbury but the worst two are well clear on my list.

KlyBfc wrote: Didn't see Penney play and don't remember if I saw Luigi cenamo grace the pitch in any form of contest

Saw Luigi in his one and only appearance replacing Nik at Cheltenham. He looked small for a keeper and his stats were two shots, two goals, didn't play again.

I was sulking when Grant left. I'd forgotten about him until the reminder further up the thread. Just goes to show, we keep moving on.

Here's some quality keeping - Niko on the first half, Marlon in the second -

https://youtu.be/RmelWzBK6m8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best: Stevenson, Heaton and Marriott with a VERY honourable mention for Nicky walker who may only have played 7? games, but they were massively important games in our promotion season (Mansfield away in a hurricane force wind was one I think?) and would have been a fantastic permanent signing if only.....
Worst: Kendal ( I was also at Blackpool on THAT day!)

Best Blacklaw, Heaton and Stevenson

Worst Peter Mellor!

claptrappers_union wrote:Here's some quality keeping - Niko on the first half, Marlon in the second -

https://youtu.be/RmelWzBK6m8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I never ever understood all the praise Beresford got and still think selling him and bringing in Woods kept us up in 1998.

This link was the last time Michopoulos and him played for us on the Turf. It's the worst afternoon of goalkeeping I've ever witnessed.

Heaton, Beresford (first time), Marriott

Russell, Penny, Pearce

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Have you been on the Scrumpy all day?

Just to clarify, you think Walker was better than Heaton?

If anyone's been on the scrumpy around here it's certainly not me...go back read again and "think".

Jack Hillman

Best
Heaton
Walker ( but didn't play so many)

Worst
Kendall

I will answer both questions...

BEEEEAAAASSSST!

Best Heaton

Worst Hansbury

South West Claret. wrote:If anyone's been on the scrumpy around here it's certainly not me...go back read again and "think".

I've read it again and had a think.

Have you been on the Scrumpy all day?

Best Blacklaw Heaton Beresford worst Kendall though Tony Waiters was well past his best in his short spell in goal.

Herts Clarets wrote:Best Heaton

Worst Hansbury

Worserer than Neenan?

Bin Ont Turf wrote:I've read it again and had a think.

Have you been on the Scrumpy all day?

Say good night Dick.

burnmark wrote:From watching live the best without doubt is Heaton and the worst is Mark Kendall closely followed by Wayne Russell.

I only saw Penny against Wigan and I don't think he conceded!!

Wayne Russell was second choice for most of the time,I recall him taking training sessions with young goalies at gawthorpe.I thought he was an ok guy and it appears he went on to pick up winners medals and played in the champions league so he must have had something about him.

claptrappers_union wrote:Here's some quality keeping - Niko on the first half, Marlon in the second -

https://youtu.be/RmelWzBK6m8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Didn't Wednesday also use 2 keepers that game as well?

Best
Tom
Marlon
Worst
Peter Mellor

Cirrus_Minor wrote:Jack Hillman

How old are you? He got banned for trying to bribe the whole Nottingham Forest team. A good shop keeper and could catch 1/2 a crown from about 10 m. His England cap used to be displayed in his shop window.

Jerry Dawson on the otherhand was a blacksmith and owned some property just off Albert Road.

IMO
Best - Heaton then Stevenson then Peyton

Worst - Kendall / O'Rourke

Goobs wrote:Heaton, Beresford (first time), Marriott

Russell, Penny, Pearce

I remember Pearce played against Bradford in a league cup game and the telegraph football headlines read "world class" keeping! But then they say don't believe everything you read.

South West Claret. wrote:Say good night Dick.

No need for that, my name is not Richard.

I'm not after upsetting you.

You've chosen Blacklaw as the best, fair enough.

Then you've chosen Walker above Heaton and made a comment about Heaton's supposed deficiency, so the question is (again)....

Do you think Walker was better than Heaton?

Best

Blacklaw
Heaton
Beast (purely for the promotion season)

Worst

Penny
Beresford (2nd spell)
Nik Michipoulos (was he not part of the throw one season)