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just a comment about our recent match. viewers of skysports and skysports themselves rated pompey's performance higher than ours by a goodly amount, with most of our players ranking in 6/10. it's a good thing that we can win without our players performing, however, fergie needs to know that our big guns must feature and feature dominantly in next week's fixture against palace, without hurting themselves

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Don Domenico said:
I don't agree with that statement. Frey is worldclass and he has matured a lot since his inter days.

I think at a big club his reputation could even exceed the reputation of Buffon.
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Don do you still think rooney and ronaldo are not that good... i know this was your opinion of them last year
 
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haha i remember that argument, yea mate, has your opinion changed of them after what you've seen of them this year? :mrgreen:

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Has anyone noticed that Tim Howard STILL hasn't played a game with Rio this season.
 
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Was watching MOTD Saturday night and Schmeichel made a good point about Howards positioning for the goal we conceded. Maybe we should hire him as our goalkeeping coach. It will be alot cheaper than trying to buy a top rate keeper.
 
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Yeah. Schmeichel always knows what he's talking about on MOTD when it comes to goal keeping. He'd make a great coach.
 
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knh4 said:
Was watching MOTD Saturday night and Schmeichel made a good point about Howards positioning for the goal we conceded.
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That was my first thought too, when I watched it. He got plenty of a time to get back to a better position but he just stood somewhere on his right in front of the goal.

And I also think that SAF should buy a real experienced keeper and not someone who's young and "talented". It's time to get someone who played many international games and don't do many mistakes. What's the matter about those talents who aren't selfconfident?
 
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Buying a new keeper won't completely solve the problem. We've bought great keepers in the past but they all failed because they couldn't live under the expectations and the shadow of Schmeichel.
 
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Maybe the problem is that they are being pressured heavily by the fans and media, and one mistake would lead to suicide. United have had great keepers such as Barthez (remember his first season?), Bosnich (he wasnt amazing but he wasnt bad at the time), Howard (good first season) and some others which i dont think i know. Dudek for Liverpool was great his first season, Cudicini was amazing for a few seasons before his blunder.

Its clear that the problems of the GK's in england are confidence problems, it is probably the fault of the media or pressure from fans.

Maybe the best way is to find methods of boosting their morale and confidence.
 
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Gotta believe. .wanna believe. . have to believe. .that TimHo is gonna play well with a healthy backline in front of him. I thought he was caught off his line in that goal he conceded, but he had come forward in anticipation of an earlier charge that caused the ricochet to the goal scorer.

At any rate, the ball was superbly struck and 9 times outta ten, it wouldnt have been that well placed given the circumstances.

Didnt see the game tho. . so how was TimHo in general?
 
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I dont think we need a new keeper. Tims got all the ability needed for a keeper, all he lacks is a bit of experience. He could do alot better though if someone like Schmeichel was coaching him. I remember when Cassilias first started. He had tremendous ability but he used to make the silliest of mistakes. With the more games he has played the more experience he has gained and just look at him now.
 
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ghazi said:
Didnt see the game tho. . so how was TimHo in general?
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He had nothing to do. And, I don't think he had a chance with the Pompey goal. I don't think anyone expected the kind of curl the guy put on the ball.
 
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Tim Howard and Roy Carroll are both muppets and aren't good enough to play in the premier league for one of the shite clubs battling relegation, let alone Man United. Fergie needs to lay off the Scotch and open his eyes to the fact all the keeprs he has recruited in the past years have been complete an utter shite. Bosnich the coke snorting drug fien and the Italian Tiabi was fuckin woeful, as was the bald head clutz Bartez. Things need to change and change now they do. Bring Shay Given to the team and European success is guranteed.
 
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I wouldn't mind Shay Given but that wouldn't be fair on Howard cuz the guy really does have the ability.

I'm tellin' ya. Play him behind Rio and he'll be back to his best. Rio gives you that confidence that Silvestre and Brown don't have.
 
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smango said:
Tim Howard and Roy Carroll are both muppets and aren't good enough to play in the premier league for one of the shite clubs battling relegation, let alone Man United. Fergie needs to lay off the Scotch and open his eyes to the fact all the keeprs he has recruited in the past years have been complete an utter shite. Bosnich the coke snorting drug fien and the Italian Tiabi was fuckin woeful, as was the bald head clutz Bartez. Things need to change and change now they do. Bring Shay Given to the team and European success is guranteed.
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are you kidding me, howard has only been playting european football for 1 and a half years.. he is an 18 year old
in this sense, Dida from Brazil was horrible his first two years in the san siro and now he is a top five goalie in the world. Roy Carroll is shit cause he has been in european football for many years and has had his chance, i agree on that with you. But I would not count howard out yet. Give him time...
 
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csaunders said:
are you kidding me, howard has only been playting european football for 1 and a half years.. he is an 18 year old
in this sense, Dida from Brazil was horrible his first two years in the san siro and now he is a top five goalie in the world. Roy Carroll is shit cause he has been in european football for many years and has had his chance, i agree on that with you. But I would not count howard out yet. Give him time...
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Couldn't agree more, Howard was immense in his first season, I still can't understand why Ferguson would go with Carroll for any long period of time. Tim used to command the box, you could hear him somteimes from the sideline mics! Unfortunately because of how the whole thing was handled, it'll be some time before he gets back to his best, but he definitely has whwat it takes. He's big, agile, fast and intimiating, i'm not sure carroll is any of those, though he has made some good saves this season. Someone said earlier, what united is a good goalkeeping coach, not a new keeper, because this has been a problem for a long while now.

Give Tim til Christmas, if he isn't one of the top goalies in the prem by then, fine, but give him a good run.
 
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I think the best thing for Howard would to be loaned to somewhere he'd get consistent first team action, since experience is what he lacks and the bench isn't helping him. But who knows what Fergie has planned for him.
 
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lumlum said:
I think the best thing for Howard would to be loaned to somewhere he'd get consistent first team action, since experience is what he lacks and the bench isn't helping him. But who knows what Fergie has planned for him.
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i have been reading the english press, looks like SAF is going to give him the first team expereince until the season is over, will give tim a chance to prove himself, again......
 
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"The coward's way would be to leave," said Howard. "I am going to fight.
"I enjoy the challenge of improving and doing well and I plan on staying here.
"Of course I am frustrated when I am not playing.
"If you are enjoying not playing then there's something wrong."
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IMO he'll get rid of Carrol and draft Robinson in, Howards is still 2-3 years away from being at the standard we need but he's got all the attributes required to be a top keeper.
 
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Vannizzlefashizzal said:
IMO he'll get rid of Carrol and draft Robinson in, Howards is still 2-3 years away from being at the standard we need but he's got all the attributes required to be a top keeper.
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you think spurs are going to give up robbo?
 
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csaunders said:
you think spurs are going to give up robbo?
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lol they wont have a choice, Robbo's a life long red (regardless of his leeds connections) and we will offer good money for him, maybe even a player aswell...

remember you heard it here first!!!
 
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They'll snap up £5million. I still think Howard should be the first choice. Give him a good run of games with Rio infront of him and he'll start to gain that confidence back.
 
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Like i've said before, the mistake we made with Howard was putting him in the 1st team straight away, Fergie should have put him in reserves for a year then gradually brought him thru this year, IMO GK's rarely get the experience until late 20's and that can be after a career in top flight football, never mind coming from a country where football isnt the top sport.

Carrol is a c**t anyway, i wouldnt want a pint with him put it that way, the combination of Howard/Robbo will be much better....
 
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Vannizzlefashizzal said:
Like i've said before, the mistake we made with Howard was putting him in the 1st team straight away, Fergie should have put him in reserves for a year then gradually brought him thru this year, IMO GK's rarely get the experience until late 20's and that can be after a career in top flight football, never mind coming from a country where football isnt the top sport.

Carrol is a c**t anyway, i wouldnt want a pint with him put it that way, the combination of Howard/Robbo will be much better....
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but being an american, howard is not going to settle for second best, its not in our blood, he will leave if they bring robbo in, he will want first team expereince, and bringing in the england number 1 is going to probably crush any hopes of howard getting first team exp any time soon for the red devils.... if they bring robbo in, howard should ply his trade elsewhere in europe IMHO
 
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ha, firstly i dont think it's that easy to cure (but maybe it is, i dont know). secondly, tourettes is more than have an adrenaline rush. there are other symptoms to having tourettes syndrome, like sudden unexpected actions and a lot of twitching, which we see in timmy.

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footieBalla said:
ha, firstly i dont think it's that easy to cure (but maybe it is, i dont know). secondly, tourettes is more than have an adrenaline rush. there are other symptoms to having tourettes syndrome, like sudden unexpected actions and a lot of twitching, which we see in timmy.

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Atleast he has a genuine excuse for his blunders. Carroll on the other hand really IS shite.
 
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