Wiedwald

[norfolk white]

Let's face it, he's a poor keeper and Christiansen seems hell bent on proving everyone wrong, he doesn't control his box and some of his saves are redemption of his own mistakes....he flaps at crosses worse than silvestri did, when a keeper makes a mistake it's usually a goal.....we can't lose precious points by letting a keeper learn at our promotion expense.

[Jezleeds]

God forgive me for listening to a game on the radio. I forgot not being at ER for one game renders anyones opinion redundant.

I know exactly what a sweeper keeper is, we aren't good enough to use one. I've seen him 'perform' and I've seen him cost us games and being unable to make even basic saves. You know he's guff when the best defense of him is the fact he can pass it around with the back four and that somehow makes his inability to save a ball properly null and void.

x2 (on both points).

On a lighter note, is anyone going to the Ipswich game on the train that goes through Peterborough?

[WTF11]

So basically he is repeating the same mistakes...can the boy learn???

No

[Billyni]

x2 (on both points).

On a lighter note, is anyone going to the Ipswich game on the train that goes through Peterborough?

Does it go via Co.Tyrone?

[BelfastAndy]

Move house Billy. The big smoke is where it's at.....

[OldWhiteTaff]

I keep asking, all this talk of 'he cost us before' - can someone give me the example of a single point we've lost as a direct result of a Wiedwald mistake ? To repeat an earlier post:
"Of those draws and defeats when Wiedwald has played, how many could we say were genuinely down to Wiedwald - obviously not the 0-0 draws, and I don't think you could fault him for the Villa goal, and of the defeats, Sheff Wed I think we'd have lost with Gordon Banks in goal, Millwall, from the match report "Leeds goalkeeper Felix Wiedwald then pulled off a string of saves to deny Morison again, Shaun Williams and Shaun Hutchinson", and Cardiff I think anyone would struggle to say we lost that specifically because of Wiedwald."

Whilst I'm not blindly supporting the guy, saying he has 'already cost us' is simply not true. And it would be very hard to argue against the fact that we seem to play best when he's in the team - certainly on this season's evidence so far. Is he a great keeper - no, that's pretty clearly true, but, has he cost us even a single point this season so far - no, does the team seem to perform better with him in goal - it looks that way. So, what I'd like to know is who should we bring in that is going to A) Guarantee better performances as a GK and B ) Guarantee that all-round team performances will be at least as good and C) that is actually a realistic target for LUFC ???

[Jezleeds]

I can ask when I get on if that helps? 😊

[Jezleeds]

Goalkeepers affect the defence positively and negatively. He's cost us with his mistakes by leading other teams to realise we are vulnerable and he in particular. Which has then led to us being under the cosh and shipping goals that have lost points

Keepers can also do the opposite to their own team and the opposition. Which is why it's doubly important to have a confidant and secure one.

QUOTE=OldWhiteTaff;38735290]I keep asking, all this talk of 'he cost us before' - can someone give me the example of a single point we've lost as a direct result of a Wiedwald mistake ? To repeat an earlier post:
"Of those draws and defeats when Wiedwald has played, how many could we say were genuinely down to Wiedwald - obviously not the 0-0 draws, and I don't think you could fault him for the Villa goal, and of the defeats, Sheff Wed I think we'd have lost with Gordon Banks in goal, Millwall, from the match report "Leeds goalkeeper Felix Wiedwald then pulled off a string of saves to deny Morison again, Shaun Williams and Shaun Hutchinson", and Cardiff I think anyone would struggle to say we lost that specifically because of Wiedwald."

Whilst I'm not blindly supporting the guy, saying he has 'already cost us' is simply not true. And it would be very hard to argue against the fact that we seem to play best when he's in the team - certainly on this season's evidence so far. Is he a great keeper - no, that's pretty clearly true, but, has he cost us even a single point this season so far - no, does the team seem to perform better with him in goal - it looks that way. So, what I'd like to know is who should we bring in that is going to A) Guarantee better performances as a GK and B ) Guarantee that all-round team performances will be at least as good and C) that is actually a realistic target for LUFC ???[/QUOTE]

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

OK so Felix is crap, fact is he's our gk and he will play games and we won't get another gk in January. Support him to give him a slight chance to improve or boo the crap out a him to guarantee he makes mistakes and then we drop points every match!

[Jezleeds]

OK so Felix is crap, fact is he's our gk and he will play games and we won't get another gk in January. Support him to give him a slight chance to improve or boo the crap out a him to guarantee he makes mistakes and then we drop points every match!

Or we could just agree to disagree and see what happens, hoping for the best but knowing that we all have different views about how to achieve that. That would be less extreme than either of those options wouldn't it?