• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Antonin Kinsky

What a ridiculous statement! How many minutes did David Raya play in the world cup? Sunderland GK is 3rd choice for the Dutch. Lammens is a reserve for Belgium.
Wolves GK is Portugal 2nd choice. Then there is Henderson and Trafford.....

There will obviously be outliers where counties have more than one top level keeper.

The point is, the level of clubs keepers get to is a far better measure of ability than being the best for their nation because the majority of national teams are crap and international football is nowhere near the level of the top leagues.
 
There will obviously be outliers where counties have more than one top level keeper.

The point is, the level of clubs keepers get to is a far better measure of ability than being the best for their nation because the majority of national teams are crap and international football is nowhere near the level of the top leagues.
I only took examples from the premier league, and most of the PL GK's in the world cup were NOT their countries first choice GK, so your attempt to rescue your statement falls short.
 
From what I've seen from Kinsky over the past few months, I’m happy to have him as our starting GK.

From what he adds to our build-up play, to his steadiness (as opposed to Vic’s twitchiness) and his shot-stopping, the guy has earned the right to play week in, week out.

All players including GKs make mistakes and we need to give him some latitude when he does to help him grow into the player we hope he will be.

If he’s good enough, then he’s old enough.
 
I thought he was toast and would never play for us again after the Athletico Madrid game. How little I knew. Immensely impressed by how he has moved on and improved afterwards, with seemingly no consequence for his confidence whatsoever.
Terminator
 
I thought he was toast and would never play for us again after the Athletico Madrid game. How little I knew. Immensely impressed by how he has moved on and improved afterwards, with seemingly no consequence for his confidence whatsoever.

When I was younger one of my managers told me he judged people by how they handled setbacks and I've found that useful, it shows strength of character to bounce back and the will to learn from any mistakes.
 
When I was younger one of my managers told me he judged people by how they handled setbacks and I've found that useful, it shows strength of character to bounce back and the will to learn from any mistakes.

I was always told you learn more from a failed project than you do from a successful one.

They must have learned loads from the VAR implementation in football :tearsofjoy:
 
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.
He's very good with the ball at his feet but he got very lucky with at least one of them in that compilation.

2 or 3 of the saves were outstanding. I'd still have a big question mark over him on shot stopping particularly from distance though.

On the mentality thing, obviously he is resilient to play the way he did at the end of the season and credit to him. However, I do think the catastophisation of the Madrid performance by people in the media who should know better, as if he would just crumble forever more, a bit OTT. The lad is a good goalkeeper, has a good mentality but let's see how he goes this season. He still has a bit to do to be our long term 'keeper. He does deserve his chance to prove himself though.
 
He's very good with the ball at his feet but he got very lucky with at least one of them in that compilation.

2 or 3 of the saves were outstanding. I'd still have a big question mark over him on shot stopping particularly from distance though.

On the mentality thing, obviously he is resilient to play the way he did at the end of the season and credit to him. However, I do think the catastophisation of the Madrid performance by people in the media who should know better, as if he would just crumble forever more, a bit OTT. The lad is a good goalkeeper, has a good mentality but let's see how he goes this season. He still has a bit to do to be our long term 'keeper. He does deserve his chance to prove himself though.

I think a lot of keepers seem to have problems with long shots, Vicario has let a few in, it might be the balls they use now.
As long as none of our keepers are like one of our old keepers Ron Reynolds who had poor eyesight and was one of the first players to wear contact lens.
 
Back