Well I think he's turning in to a good keeper, what he had to do today I thought he did well he must be our most improved player since last season. Suppose I'm gonna get shot down now.

Goalkeeper union, we stick together.

yeh did some good things today but one thing that worries me is he can't really judge a cross. Was a few times today when he should of been out collecting the ball as it was inside the 6 yard box. Same thing lead to the 2nd goal we conceded against Colchester

Yeah he did great at standing on his line as crosses came in about 3 yards off his line.

Must have been at a different game to me then!

Me too

I thought there keepers first save was one off the best i have seen at the vic for a very long time.


top draw save that was.

Im still baffled as to how one game where yet again he aint kept a clean sheet means he is suddenly our most improved player?

He had hardly no shots to save if any. Caught one cross, punched one and stood like a pint of milk on his line as 2 crosses came in about 3 yards out at about 6ft high.

If this counts as a good performance then we really are in deep shit.

Can someoen actually tell me what his strengths are? It certainly aint shot stopping or taking crosses or his decision making. Maybe he has banter with the town end and that makes him a good keeper like Taffy?

Hang on a bit Mr Tree With Hamster, ALB got dropped after the 1st game of last season V luton to give Budtz a game v Scunthorpe in the league cup, not because he'd done anything wrong, but then Budtz stopped everything that was shot at him, we won and Budtz kept his place. ALB eventually got back in late in the season and it was blowing a hurricane, and yes he didn't know if he was sticking or twisting, and from that he was immediately tarred with the same brush as Budtz, give him a break, he's looking more accomplished with every game.
I don't get the bring back Dimi thing, is everone forgetting how dodgy he was with crosses.

Im not tarring him with any brush. I fail to see what he is any good at and if you care to answer then feel free.

And if you want to be taken seriously then dont even mention Dimi in the same breath as these clowns we currently have in goal.

dimi will go where the best offer is financially i think he has had his time at pools and dont think kh would consider it unless it was on the cheap i say leave him where he is

Be fair Chip - he's played just about everywhere else!!

Has to be said - that was a cheap shot

All i'm saying Mr Tree With Hamster is give ALB a break, I don't think he's done anything badly wrong this season and the defence has looked sound and ALB is part of it. He did nothing wrong today.

Because Dimi is not deemed to be good enough for the championship and rumour has it he might want to come back, it seems poor ALB is taking uncalled for criticism.

Im still waiting for you to answer my question about what his strengths are?


Oh I thought he was shite way before we talked about Dimi coming back.

so i am not allowed an opinion then chip?

read again it says i think that is not a fact but merely an opinion

It was obvious when we signed ALB that he wasn't going to be good enough, and he has done very little to change that. When teams put us under the cosh for long periods which will happen we will see how he copes but i personally haven't gota lot of faith that he'll be any good. We are in League One, ALB might be worth a gamble in the league below or the blue square premier but to be challenging in the top half we need a better keeper.

Like has been mentioned we need a keeper who can put in match winning performances and make glorioussaves when the pressure is on -sadly ALB isn't that man.....

I'm not on the wind up Mr ADG, all I've said is I think ALB is looking better every game, get off his back and give him a chance, he's done very little wrong this season.

I don't want Dimi back, too expensive and wont win us games.

Funny isn't it that last season when Budtz, Antwi, Nelson were letting goals in for fun, poor Barker and Boland were getting all the stick, yet in the 2 games where the attack have failed to convert any of the numerous chances we created, all of a sudden it's the goalies fault.

As for Power I saw him yesterday have a good first half but unfortunately couldn't find him in the 2nd half.
Looked ok against Scunthorpe mind.

so if he is that good then why is he coming back to us ?
is that progress for him and us
for some like me the leaving has left a bitter taste

Would you say the same thing about Tommy Miller or Boyd?

Things havent quite worked out for him at Coventry, so what?

He made a move to a bigger club for more money, ANYONE would do the same, or is the board full of people who are ever so 'umble and would stay put in the same job for the same money??

And why has it left a bitter taste?, he was the best keeper we had in over a decade, with the obvious exception of loan signings who would never have played long term for us anyway

so again you seem to be adding stuff i have not said
did i say he failed
my point was we are a small club we will probably always be a small club
he has said two higher league clubs are chasing him yet he prefers pools? is that ambition?

ALB is average...for division 2, we are merely seeing the result of not having any money and resorting to talking up what we're stuck with, just as Foley and Robson were bulled up in the summer in the hope we'd not notice.

I'll tell you ALB's biggest problem: he's bad at judging angles. He thinks he has the ball covered when in fact it's on the way into the net or onto the toe of an opponent's striker.

That shot that hit the bar... I stand towards the rink end in the mill house, and ALB touched that ball onto the crossbar. although it was a minor touch, he touched it all the same.

Sticking to his LINE... I dont recall Dimi being the greatest commander of his box during his spell. In fact i recall a few nicknaming Dimi as Dracula

I'm glad that it wasn't just me who noticed that. It was a cracking save.

Yep.......a cracking save.

Errrmmmm........with the famous rose tinted Bunker spectacles, available at Timlins opticians, off, who was our goalkeeper for the season we got relegated?? Y'know, when we got hammered 6-4 at home off Walsall?? When hapless Peterborough came back from 2-0 down and that??

Dimi was either immense or fookin' risible, how many times did he go walkabout and lose the ball?? Yes he kept clean sheets in the fourth division, in the company of Nelson and Clark, but so could Fat Dibble and Codyakker Dave with Billingham Poolie in goal. In this division, they were all found wanting.

And still are being.

Anyone else find it hilarious that if you tip the ball onto the bar or post then its an astonishing save but if you tip it over the bar or around the post, people dont bang on about it as much?

i always thought any tipping style save was impressive?

I think you will find that we didn't get beat 6-4 in our relegation season. it is obvious to anyone sensible that ALB is no where near as good as Dimitrious. The ssoner we sign a new keeper the better.....

I disagree.

I think that ALB is playing better at the moment than Dimi did in his first dozen or so games.

You know that fookin' great gap between the relegation season statement and the new statement about letting 6 goals in.......... Denoted by two question marks?? Which negates the necessity for a full stop??..................

So when did ALB leak six against third division opposition?? With much the same defence in front of him??

Eh?? Eh?

He might have kept us in 'em but we didn't win 'em.

But I do concede the point that with seven less goals conceded last season, the picture would have been a whole lot rosier. I do believe though that it's not all down to the keeper and your statement would appear to back that up. With a combination of Budzt and ALB we lost seven more goals than we did with the big Greek stopper between the posts.


That's surely not the disaster that everyone is bumping on about??

I wouldn't argue with any of that and I think I'd rather we had a budding Dimi in the squad than a keeper walking on hot coals.

We can only deal with what we've got though and like I said in the Biz, teams concede goals not keepers and that last minute situation on Saturday is the classic sucker punch. Either the player or the ball should have been sat on the Odeon roof.

alb did fantastic last night against higer opposition did he not?

Are saves more difficult to make against higher opposition?? You could argue that a keeper will get more chance to impress against a top side as he will have more saves to make/croses to collect

Yes he did. He's getting better with every game and I reiterate the point that I made many months ago in that he looks like a proper keeper with potential who will get better and better with a good run in the team.