Jump to content

Wildsmith


Recommended Posts

Guest LondonOwl313
4 minutes ago, 83owl said:

Plenty of people on here have already said they would keep him for next year. 

Depends on money though doesn’t it. He’s only fit for half the games so we’d need another competent keeper to play the other half. A league 1 number one is probably worth about 5k a week so he’s worth half that to us.. 2.5k a week. If he’d sign for that then it’s a no brainier but he’d likely turn it down. That’s why in an ‘ideal world’ isn’t in the real world 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

34 minutes ago, Inspector Lestrade said:

Close your eyes and blame the goalkeepers

 

Our problems on the pitch are obviously not solely down to the goalkeepers but none of them are ideal to be our number 1 next season.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 minute ago, LondonOwl313 said:

Depends on money though doesn’t it. He’s only fit for half the games so we’d need another competent keeper to play the other half. A league 1 number one is probably worth about 5k a week so he’s worth half that to us.. 2.5k a week. If he’d sign for that then it’s a no brainier but he’d likely turn it down. That’s why in an ‘ideal world’ isn’t in the real world 

I'd love to see his face if he got offered 2.5k a week.

 

Not to mention you will happily keep a player who you have just said yourself is only for for half the games. What next an A team and a B team one can play one week and one can play the next week?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, 83owl said:

I'd love to see his face if he got offered 2.5k a week.

 

Not to mention you will happily keep a player who you have just said yourself is only for for half the games. What next an A team and a B team one can play one week and one can play the next week?

 

Unfortunately that's not much different from what we've had for the majority of the past 3 years with Jos & Monk failing to determine which is the number 1 and swapping them every so often when the errors get too much to take.

 

As for being available half the games, how often has the younger and supposedly fitter Dawson been available this season? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

37 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

Unfortunately that's not much different from what we've had for the majority of the past 3 years with Jos & Monk failing to determine which is the number 1 and swapping them every so often when the errors get too much to take.

 

As for being available half the games, how often has the younger and supposedly fitter Dawson been available this season? 

There’s a massive difference between a keeper who gets one bad injury that needs surgery and keeps him out for the season and another that breaks down time and time again in warm ups abs games.

 

But you know that

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, torryowl said:

Giving westwood a new contract  is not an ideal world ...

 

I've been a big advocate for Westwood coming back as he's clearly the best keeper on the books at the moment... 

 

There's absolutely no way on earth we should be offering him a new contract though given his age and injury record this season. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, torryowl said:

Giving westwood a new contract  is not an ideal world ...

Low wage not as number 1.... you sure ?

 

We need to recruit top side of ten players. Do we really need to get 2 keepers if Westwood is willing to stay ??

Edited by Dutch McLovin
Link to comment
Share on other sites

12 hours ago, Ian said:

There’s a massive difference between a keeper who gets one bad injury that needs surgery and keeps him out for the season and another that breaks down time and time again in warm ups abs games.

 

But you know that

Find it incredible that you can back Wildsmith or Dawson yet you slated Nuhiu from pillar to post. Honestly incredible 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 hours ago, LondonOwl313 said:

Depends on money though doesn’t it. He’s only fit for half the games so we’d need another competent keeper to play the other half. A league 1 number one is probably worth about 5k a week so he’s worth half that to us.. 2.5k a week. If he’d sign for that then it’s a no brainier but he’d likely turn it down. That’s why in an ‘ideal world’ isn’t in the real world 

Where your theory breaks down is that you need to find another number one who is going to accept not only playing in half the games but on half the wages as well.

 

Thats just not going to happen

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If Wildsmith or Dawson play another second of this season then the 12% chance of staying up goes to 0%. 

 

Both of those players have hugely contributed to the car crash this season has been. If Westwood had played more games we wouldn't be here now. 

 

A good goalkeeper is worth 10 - 15 points a season. 

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 hours ago, LondonOwl313 said:

Since start of 2019/20, and we're giving the advantage to you anti Westwood guys here because apparently he's been crap and not worthy of a place over that time:

 

Games played:

 

Westwood 28

Dawson 32

Wildsmith 28

 

Games where we conceded 3+ goals:

 

Westwood 1

Dawson 7

Wildsmith 7

 

So they've all played a similar number of games yet Dawson and Wildsmith have conceded 3+ goals 7 times more often. Seems my memory wasn't far off, although I did forget Westwood played at Millwall.

 

 

And our results over those games played by the three of them in the last 2 seasons 

 

Wildsmith

P28 W5 D6 L17

 

Westwood

P28 W10 D7 L11

 

Dawson

P32 W11* D8 L13

* one win he is credited with is at Reading first game of last season when he came on for the last 10 mins after KW was sent off.

 

So our record with KW and CD playing is fairly similar. But significantly worse when JW plays.

 

What is clear is we need a new experienced No.1 next season, with Dawson as back up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, hirstyboywonder said:

 

Unfortunately that's not much different from what we've had for the majority of the past 3 years with Jos & Monk failing to determine which is the number 1 and swapping them every so often when the errors get too much to take.

 

As for being available half the games, how often has the younger and supposedly fitter Dawson been available this season? 

All of them before his surgery. None of them after his surgery.

 

Hope that answers your question.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Brad_owl said:

If Wildsmith or Dawson play another second of this season then the 12% chance of staying up goes to 0%. 

 

Both of those players have hugely contributed to the car crash this season has been. If Westwood had played more games we wouldn't be here now. 

 

A good goalkeeper is worth 10 - 15 points a season. 

I like how both the number two keepers have hugely contributed to this "car crash" season yet the Number 1 keeper that can't even get through a warm up because hes got a bad groin/shoulder/undiagnosed broken rib is still held as a saviour of what could have/should have been. Ridiculous.

 

We have played 29 games since KW was brought back from his supposed exile so plenty of time for us to turn around this "car crash season" yet our results havnt improved so holding Westwood up as some kind of saviour is absolute balls. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 hours ago, Ian said:

There’s a massive difference between a keeper who gets one bad injury that needs surgery and keeps him out for the season and another that breaks down time and time again in warm ups abs games.

 

But you know that

 

Except the injury that Dawson got was not supposed to keep him out all season but he has had setbacks, not a good sign at his age. Wonder how injury prone he will be by the time he is as old as Westwood currently is. 

 

Wildsmith's save percentage compared to every other goalkeeper in the Championship doesn't make good reading. Any excuse for that? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...