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graphex said:
Valid point??

He bottles crosses and coming off his line on corners and when fully fit,averages giving 6 goals away a season..

Just look at the Stoke game last year down there..
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Remind me how many goals we conceded from corners today because of Gordon not coming off his line?
 
0'Neill described him as very commanding. I thought he caught everything he came for, made two excellent saves and his distribution was superb overall he was very good
 
graphex said:
Valid point??

He bottles crosses and coming off his line on corners and when fully fit,averages giving 6 goals away a season..

Just look at the Stoke game last year down there..
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I was talking about the insinuation about not seeing players live, and the amount of games a person may attend.

As for Stoke, it's one game, and a game in which the officials made mistakes leading to the goals.
 
Dexter said:
Remind me how many goals we conceded from corners today because of Gordon not coming off his line?
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I've only scratched the surface of his faults..

What would the score have been today if Mig was in goal??
 
Ernie said:
well, Gordon doesn't take risks and look what happens. I said "at the very least" he should have got something on it. If it was a one off I could forgive him ..but it isn't...he has stayed rooted/got himself out of position regularly since his arrival. His brilliant reflexes (and I do mean that) get him out of a lot of trouble, but a lot of the time it's trouble he has made for himself.
Have a look at the goal again. If you are telling me there was NOTHING he could have done to stop the goal, then I guess we will just disagree on this.
But until he sorts out his dodginess on crosses, for me he will never be more than an average Premiership keeper.
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The trajectory on the ball was too high IMO, it landed perfectly on Davies head. Gordon would have had to come, make a punch at best, and clatter the players.

Kilgallon should hae dealt with it, end of.
 
graphex said:
I've only scratched the surface of his faults..

What would the score have been today if Mig was in goal??
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2-2 at best, no way would Mig have saved either goal.

TBH, whatever Gordon's rights or wrongs generally, to criticism him today is ridiculous and undermines the legitimate arguments the anti Gordon lot have.
 
I must have been seeing things when I saw Gordon come to the edge of his box and commandingly take a freekick in the first half.
 
Gordon plays the modern game.
If you are not out of position then you have a chance of a goal.
If he comes and misses then its very likely a goal.
If his defence do their job and challenge the striker, the striker then needs to do a very good job to beat the goalkeeper as well.

Gordon comes for the ball when he knows he can get it, any doubt he stays in position.

If he started plucking balls out of the sky all around the box on his first game back from injury then he'd be a goalkeeping god and be playing for a team a lot better than us.
 
If Davies ultimately can get to the ball, why couldn't Gordon? Answer me that, Gordon also has the advantage of an extra two feet reach at least.
 
Ernie said:
well, Gordon doesn't take risks and look what happens. I said "at the very least" he should have got something on it. If it was a one off I could forgive him ..but it isn't...he has stayed rooted/got himself out of position regularly since his arrival. His brilliant reflexes (and I do mean that) get him out of a lot of trouble, but a lot of the time it's trouble he has made for himself.
Have a look at the goal again. If you are telling me there was NOTHING he could have done to stop the goal, then I guess we will just disagree on this.
But until he sorts out his dodginess on crosses, for me he will never be more than an average Premiership keeper.
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Hindsight really is wonderful, isn't it?

Had Gordon known exactly when the cross was coming in, the pace it was coming in at, the trajectory it was coming in at, and the positioning of the defenders and attackers, then perhaps he could have got there first. That you seemingly fail to take any of this into account is telling.

I like how you make 'doesn't take risks' out to be a negative. He's a goalkeeper.
 
mackemliam said:
you've nailed the whole thing at the end of your posts, people criticise gordon for it, but love somebody who is just as bad if not worse.

It really is a dying art and only the top top keepers do it.



what did he say mate?
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just said the mig got his chance after westwood injury and it was gordons chance today to keep a place. id love him to stay
 
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