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Post by dozintheseventees on Jan 13, 2014 13:46:16 GMT
I'm amazed that anyone can criticise Butland at all. He was playing his first full 90 mins in the Prem, up against the best striker in the league by a country mile, AND he was playing behind the utterlyfuckingshambolic excuse of a defence that we were. 10/10 from me, Butto. OS. I'd have given him 8/10 Owd but agree with all the rest. A good debut for a very young keeper at this level.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 13, 2014 13:55:06 GMT
I'm not sure he is to be fair. I know from experience how difficult it is to play in goal when you haven't played any football for 2 seasons. It is tough and you need games to get that sharpness. Tommy didn't let us down in the games he played over Christmas and whilst he didn't have the best of games against Birmingham, he has been absolutely fine in other cup ties.
I would take Tommy's experience over Butland for now, assuming of course that Tommy is close to being fit. Better still, we need Asmir back ASAP. Maybe next season, with us being a year further on in our development as a team, our position won't be so perilous but I would be worried sick if we had to rely on Butland for any length of time this season.
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 13, 2014 14:40:56 GMT
I'm amazed that anyone can criticise Butland at all. He was playing his first full 90 mins in the Prem, up against the best striker in the league by a country mile, AND he was playing behind the utterlyfuckingshambolic excuse of a defence that we were. 10/10 from me, Butto. OS. I'd have given him 8/10 Owd but agree with all the rest. A good debut for a very young keeper at this level. It was an angry 10, Corporal Doz. OS.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 13, 2014 16:36:47 GMT
Mark Hughes has plenty of faith in him obviously and that is all that matters.
He has said in his latest comments something along the lines of "I have no worries about Jack. He just needs some experience of games at this level and that is something that I am planning on giving him over the next few weeks".
I'm sure Butland will become a very fine goalkeeper. I just hope that as he plays a few games, he grows in stature. We have some very big games coming up that could ultimately shape the future of our club.
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Post by Miles Offside on Jan 13, 2014 17:27:29 GMT
He looks to me like a terrific prospect.
We got a few good seasons out of Tommy (signed on a free) and, in Asmir, we landed one of the world's best keepers for peanuts.
Now JB looks like another great bit of business.
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