2020/21 Jordan Pickford

[Bullens Rd]

I bet he will, Carlo will have him back for Leeds

Gutted. Completely unnecessary. Needs dropping for good, not kin rotated.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Not posted on here for a while .... but full disclosure, I’m a Burnley fan.

Now obviously that means two things :-

1. I’m biased towards Nick Pope.
2. I don’t watch huge amounts of Pickford.

I did watch your game last night and I was stunned at what I saw. He has a shocker for the goal, making three distinct bad decisions. No real need to go into that further.

The thing that surprised me though was just how edgy and chaotic everything Pickford did was. Pope, largely speaking, is a very calm keeper. When he comes for a ball everybody knows he’s going to catch it usually, you also know when he’s coming for a cross pretty much as soon as it leaves somebody’s foot. A lot of saves go straight down his throat because his positioning is solid and whilst he does make flashy saves a lot of the time he makes good block saves - as in he gets his position right and then just makes himself big.

Origi missed a one-on-one against him last week when he hit the bar and I’m convinced strikers aim for the top corner constantly against us because they know otherwise Pope is saving. He made two one-on-one saves from Watkins and Grealish last night just by being big.

I legitimately think for us he’s worth 12-15 points a season. He wouldn’t be for you because you don’t play the way we do, but he definitely wouldn’t cost you the 6/8 Pickford does.

Where Pope is calm Pickford is manic. Even last night I lost count of the times a Leicester play was slipped in on the angle and Pickford takes a couple of steps out to the ball before retreating and then making a diving save. Pope waits for the ball to come to him whereas Pickford is aggressive - too much so to my mind. He has good reactions and if he could get his feet right he’d have a extra second or two to react (I say “if”, I don’t think he will).

The goal you conceded, he doesn’t get his body behind it and it slips through his hands. This is basic stuff and not the first time he’s done it. Pope has better hands and routinely gets his body behind it - which we use to time waste and take the sting out of things. It calms everybody down and allows us to reset.

One last point - I saw somebody say Pope wouldn’t work as you couldn’t play out from the back. Steady on lads .... you’re not Pep’s Barcelona. Pope isn’t that bad with his feet and if your goalie is substantially getting involved with your build up play with his feet you’re doing something wrong.

Good post mate. I can't say I've paid too much attention to Pope, but you are bang on about Pickford.

He's like a 5 year old full of pick n mix on a bouncy castle. I'm not sure if he is trying to give himself extra momentum to cover extra ground when he dives (he's not the tallest) or if he is just hyped and all over the show. Regardless, he's not confidence inspiring.

 

[Nymzee]

So basically he will only get dropped in the league for Newcastle matches because he's a mackem.

 

[number4.]

Gutted. Completely unnecessary. Needs dropping for good, not kin rotated.

So basically he will only get dropped in the league for Newcastle matches because he's a mackem.

In Carlo we trust and all, but this seems really really weak. Concern here is he has no faith in Olsen either.

 

[Thomasc]

My daughter got me the Everton calendar for Christmas, so I’ve had to look at this slack jawed prick staring at me every time I go in the kitchen all January.

thank Christ the month is drawing to an end, it’s Seamus in February and the human land slug but handsome Andre in March.

 

[Goat]

My daughter got me the Everton calendar for Christmas, so I’ve had to look at this slack jawed prick staring at me every time I go in the kitchen all January.

thank Christ the month is drawing to an end, it’s Seamus in February and the human land slug but handsome Andre in March.

Seems like you really like Everton players hey.

 

[maccavennie]

Seems like you really like Everton players hey.

tbf its bang out of order putting the crap ones first. Stick a James or an Allan in early doors just to break it up a little.

 

[Goat]

tbf its bang out of order putting the crap ones first. Stick a James or an Allan in early doors just to break it up a little.

Why it isnt just 12months of Hamez I don't know.

 

[Encoder]

Why it isnt just 12months of Hamez I don't know.

tbf its bang out of order putting the crap ones first. Stick a James or an Allan in early doors just to break it up a little.

The only calendar that matters.

 

[maccavennie]

Why it isnt just 12months of Hamez I don't know.

Exactly

Jan : Hamez getting out if steam room
Feb : Hamez living weights
March : Hamez holding towel around neck after getting out of swimming pool
April : Hamez scoring a left footed volley in training
May : Hamez in action in a proper match
June : Hamez celebrating a blammo with his team mates
July: Hamez in a suit picking up his world player of the year award
August : Hamez sliding over wet soapy bonnet of his car
September : Hamez with FA Cup aloft
October: Serious looking Hamez as he does his charity work for all mankind
November : Hamez dressed as John Travolta doing his staying alive impression
December: nice image of Hamez and his missus and kids as he puts blue baubles on his blue tree with blue presents and his kids and missus painted blue and all done in a nice blue room with fat gerbil head Ronko Koemo looking in from a window all cold and crying

 

[Khalekan]

Use olsen until the summer. When the Barcodes get relegated, we should have a look at darlow. (Dubravka is also a good keeper and is only out of the team after his injury because darlow has been class)

One thing Pickford has surely highlighted.

Don’t buy a relegated team’s goalkeeper

 

[Ebrell22]

One thing Pickford has surely highlighted.

Don’t buy a relegated team’s goalkeeper

Or dont buy a midget goalie.
Or an arrogant prat.
Or an absolute divvy
Etc etc

 

[Richard Alex]

Can’t believe he is in with a chance of still being in the squad
Start with Olsen and put Lossil on the bench

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Exactly

Jan : Hamez getting out if steam room
Feb : Hamez living weights
March : Hamez holding towel around neck after getting out of swimming pool
April : Hamez scoring a left footed volley in training
May : Hamez in action in a proper match
June : Hamez celebrating a blammo with his team mates
July: Hamez in a suit picking up his world player of the year award
August : Hamez sliding over wet soapy bonnet of his car
September : Hamez with FA Cup aloft
October: Serious looking Hamez as he does his charity work for all mankind
November : Hamez dressed as John Travolta doing his staying alive impression
December: nice image of Hamez and his missus and kids as he puts blue baubles on his blue tree with blue presents and his kids and missus painted blue and all done in a nice blue room with fat gerbil head Ronko Koemo looking in from a window all cold and crying

There is help available out there macca you know lol

 

[everton1953]

He did a mistake and I think we can say this but it doesn’t change for me and his teammates the confidence we have. He’s made fantastic saves in the past and been solid. Pickford was better in the last period than before. There is no doubting his quality
If this is truly a quote from Carlo, I can visualise the Mersey full of dead bodies.