Joel Robles

[hktoffee]

Give him half a season to see what he can produce, if he cant, sign butland or begovic in the summer. Howard is a write off at this point,

Cannot see why the second choice keeper of Stoke will be the solution. Butland.

 

[Christiffa25]

Still not for me, although he's come in and performed well enough to justify a No.2 status.

However, if we want to be seriously challanging up the top end and in Europe we need a better keeper.

 

[Zatara]

I think he has shown enough now to keep his place and barring a disaster Howard is now number 2.

However Joel is still not top quality and we need to bring in someone like Karius to compete with him.

Oh, and ditch Howard for MLS immediately. Cant have a second choice with a contract till hes 40ish on first choice wages.

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

very handy sub keeper, and at 24 he's got a lot of time to improve

 

[jinkyali]

What he really needs now is to have a performance where he saves us from defeat or puts in a game saving save in.
Confidence is massive for a gk.
He has all the attributes to be a good gk.

 

[TheFinnFan]

What he really needs now is to have a performance where he saves us from defeat or puts in a game saving save in.
Confidence is massive for a gk.
He has all the attributes to be a good gk.

Think he got stuff out of yesterday too

 

[MartSlinger]

Mad how giving him a run of games is helping him.
He's showing us that he's actually a decent goalkeeper. Is right Joel lad, keep it up.

 

[royvernon39]

Actually I thought he did well not to come out despite Stones' shouts.

That ball had to be dealt with by Stones.

Like most people on this thread, I think he is growing into the job.

 

[WA Toffee]

Where the hell did this come from? 2 weeks ago everyone is slagging him off because he was so awful, now he should be our first choice. Not saying people are fickle or anything......

 

[l4toffee]

Mad how giving him a run of games is helping him.
He's showing us that he's actually a decent goalkeeper. Is right Joel lad, keep it up.

nothing mad about it mate. Every player needs a run of games under his belt to build his own confidence and prove his worth .

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

He reminds me of when Coleman was thrown in the deep end and he seemed to thrive.

 

[MartSlinger]

Ill be disappointed if Howard comes straight back in when he's fit. Joel deserves until the end of the season IMO. Howard has cost us numerous times this season, and ill be honest, he'll be lucky to put the shirt back on again.

 

[Kurt.]

Loving the backtracking in this thread lol

 

[ThebanksoftheBramleyMoore]

Where the hell did this come from? 2 weeks ago everyone is slagging him off because he was so awful, now he should be our first choice. Not saying people are fickle or anything......

welcome to football

 

[Hangleton]

Ill be disappointed if Howard comes straight back in when he's fit. Joel deserves until the end of the season IMO. Howard has cost us numerous times this season, and ill be honest, he'll be lucky to put the shirt back on again.

He will be back -our penalty shootout hero in the Europa League Cup final.