v Sunderland (h) Sat

[TerryTheTerror]

Seeing some negative comments about Eriksson. I thought he was decent on debut. He had 3 good saves, commanded the box & looked the part. Forget the own goal, he appears to like an advanced role when we've got the ball! Charlie & he will get it together.

That was not Eriksson's fault anyway. I thought he was decent as well to be honest.

[GUNBOAT]

That was not Eriksson's fault anyway. I thought he was decent as well to be honest.

Its funny how an icon will not get the blame for a glaring error but a debutant will instead.After that incident and the dodgy punch for the first goal the poor guy's confidence was shot to pieces.

I hope he has a big heart because some keepers never recover from these things,the Dee goal into the same end springs to mind the season we got relegated.

[ARAbCHNID]

Its funny how an icon will not get the blame for a glaring error but a debutant will instead.After that incident and the dodgy punch for the first goal the poor guy's confidence was shot to pieces.

I hope he has a big heart because some keepers never recover from these things,the Dee goal into the same end springs to mind the season we got relegated.

Boat, he's a 27-y-o international goalkeeper, not a spindly youth debuting from Gussie Park.
I'm confident his heart will be big enough to enable him to 'recover'.
Once he's able to sleep again

[JamesMcClean]

Of course it doesn’t help that there’s unfounded rumours going about that he’s been shocking in training, so even before he’s barely played a game punters are turning up fearing the worst. The guy’s on a total hiding to nothing.

‘Ben’ Siegrist had more than a few shockers last season (thinking about the first at Tynecastle, the second against Celtic in the Cup, Funny FC’s first at Tannadice) all of which cost us in some shape or form………….

[TerryTheTerror]

Of course it doesn’t help that there’s unfounded rumours going about that he’s been shocking in training, so even before he’s barely played a game punters are turning up fearing the worst. The guy’s on a total hiding to nothing.

I can't be doing with stuff like that. Judge a player on what you see, give him a chance and some time. We've seen nothing of him so far.

[ARAbCHNID]

I can't be doing with stuff like that. Judge a player on what you see, give him a chance and some time. We've seen nothing of him so far.

That 'shocking in training' is absolute pish of the highest order.
Who makes up that sh!te?
So instead of seeing his good points (3 x Ben-style saves, good distribution, good kick on him, good body language) he's blamed for the OG and a punch that rebounded off their right back's napper.
Moaning Minnies.

[BudMill90]

That 'shocking in training' is absolute pish of the highest order.
Who makes up that sh!te?
So instead of seeing his good points (3 x Ben-style saves, good distribution, good kick on him, good body language) he's blamed for the OG and a punch that rebounded off their right back's napper.
Moaning Minnies.

That rumour has grown arms and legs way too fast.

Started because we were all asking the question "why isn't he getting a chance" ... the obvious reason was that every game towards the end of the season was massive for us so why wouldn't you stick with your tried and testing no.1? But others saw this as "he must be sh1te" and it grew from there.

Showed on Sat he is a competent goalie. I don't think its a surprise that we are looking for another one to compete with him. But even in that 90 mins I'd say I'm happy enough with him being our no.2 for the season once the Aussie is in.

[the_arab]

Showed on Sat he is a competent goalie.

Seeing some negative comments about Eriksson. I thought he was decent on debut. He had 3 good saves, commanded the box & looked the part. Forget the own goal, he appears to like an advanced role when we've got the ball! Charlie & he will get it together.

Dont agree tbh. I took the sh1te in training with a pinch of salt as well, and tbh mistakes can happen to any keeper as we seen numerous times with Seigrist in the last 6 months of last season, but removing his 2 errors.

1. He was never looking to start attacks, slowed down everything and resorted to kicking it high to Niskanen/Watt area. The most frustrating one for me was in first half, 2 of their players fell off the park, smith was open down right and we could have broke 3/4 on 4 as the other half of their team was still in box. He decided to hold on to the ball and let their 2 players get up, come back on to the pitch, completely get back in to formation then punt it to Niskanen

2. A couple of times he jumped to collect the ball he didn't look comfortable, one time he was caught under it due to miss timing his jump and actually caught it 2 hands behind his head a bit all whilst being under no pressure

3. he slid out a few times, never looked comfortable, and lost it once which we nearly conceded from

Even the Sunderland fans were mocking him every time he touched it


Honestly, i thought he had a shocker bar 1 save. Hopefully he gets better but on that showing he's not even a good back up

[weegiearab]

Benji struggled at the start to his united career but trained hard to cement himself as our no1 before moving to one of the arse cheeks.

Training is training...as long as the work ethic is there..then I am happy! A poor player who is working hard to improve is vastly different to a poor player who is not working hard to improve themselves.

We don't have any players who are good enough to not be busting a spud at training to improve themselves....every single one of our team has made mistakes during a game...goalies just have it magnified much more.

[ARAbCHNID]

Dont agree tbh. I took the sh1te in training with a pinch of salt as well, and tbh mistakes can happen to any keeper as we seen numerous times with Seigrist in the last 6 months of last season, but removing his 2 errors.

1. He was never looking to start attacks, slowed down everything and resorted to kicking it high to Niskanen/Watt area. The most frustrating one for me was in first half, 2 of their players fell off the park, smith was open down right and we could have broke 3/4 on 4 as the other half of their team was still in box. He decided to hold on to the ball and let their 2 players get up, come back on to the pitch, completely get back in to formation then punt it to Niskanen

2. A couple of times he jumped to collect the ball he didn't look comfortable, one time he was caught under it due to miss timing his jump and actually caught it 2 hands behind his head a bit all whilst being under no pressure

3. he slid out a few times, never looked comfortable, and lost it once which we nearly conceded from

Even the Sunderland fans were mocking him every time he touched it


Honestly, i thought he had a shocker bar 1 save. Hopefully he gets better but on that showing he's not even a good back up

You're a hard judge mate. 'He had a shocker'??
We're all entitled to our own opinions but when we hear comments like that one wonders.
The 'mocking' was purely on account of the comic passback og, not because of his 'slide outs' or 'catching it 2 hands behind his head' (Is he meant to be catching the ball with one hand?)

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