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TIM HOWARD THOUGH

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toffeejack said:
ha, you don't get it mate. when people blame howard, they're not saying he's the only one to blame we'll ignore everyone else's mistakes. this is a tim howard thread, they're just highlighting his mistake again. he made 4 or 5 tonight it must be said. i only remember that one comfortable save from range he had to make. 2 shots on target 1 conceded, keeping up with his average and he was again at fault. the cross in the second minuter when he palmed it away straight through the box could have fallen to any of their players. it was a simple catch to make. even the save he made he had enough time to get his body behind and catch instead of diving and palming away from a corner. then there was when jags headed the ball up in the air 8 yards out and he stood rooted to his line having to watch a header fly past him and into the side net. he was pretty terrible in a match where he's had nothing difficult to do again.
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Is anyone in the Garbutt thread decrying how he lets the cross in easy?..or the Alcaraz thread saying he should have left the header, just like half off goodison heard?...or the Barkley thread on how his man lost him like a toddler in the supermarket? ...or the McCarthy thread about him leaving the near post unguarded?

No their not are they! yet again the sole responsibility gets placed on Howard and everything else gets ignored. That's what you clearly don't understand, the need for a scapegoat.
 

Dithering Dougie said:
Is anyone in the Garbutt thread decrying how he lets the cross in easy?..or the Alcaraz thread saying he should have left the header, just like half off goodison heard?...or the Barkley thread on how his man lost him like a toddler in the supermarket? ...or the McCarthy thread about him leaving the near post unguarded?

No their not are they! yet again the sole responsibility gets placed on Howard and everything else gets ignored. That's what you clearly don't understand, the need for a scapegoat.
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Maybe if he had a keeper behind him who was confident enough to claim the ball ,he'd of got the shout to actually leave it.
 
maccavennie said:
Don't blame him for the goal, great finish. Problem ( and it's as clear as day ) is NO ONE trusts him in defence. He comes rushing out when he doesn't need to, stands on his line when he should be coming out. Basically his decision making has gone to shyt. He's causing a lot of issues at the back because of this but hey, can't blame him because the manager picks him.
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Spot on, their goal wasn't his fault, but he was poor tonight, again.
 
Dithering Dougie said:
Is anyone in the Garbutt thread decrying how he lets the cross in easy?..or the Alcaraz thread saying he should have left the header, just like half off goodison heard?...or the Barkley thread on how his man lost him like a toddler in the supermarket? ...or the McCarthy thread about him leaving the near post unguarded?

No their not are they! yet again the sole responsibility gets placed on Howard and everything else gets ignored. That's what you clearly don't understand, the need for a scapegoat.
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Actually Doug, a few have said that Garbutt is lacking in the defensive side in his game. The thing about Garbutt is, he's not the first name on the teamsheet, he'll be dropped as soon as Baines comes back, and rightfully so. Howard is our number one, apparently.

Edit: Also, Barkley gets it in the neck regularly her as of late. McCarthy rarely puts a foot wrong and is tireless, we're not going to rip him for one of the few errors he makes in a season.
 
Near post again says everything! Don't matter what happens on the training ground, cover your posts, basics, he is shoite, move on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:red:(n)
 

Woolly Blue said:
Spot on, their goal wasn't his fault, but he was poor tonight, again.
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I think we can all agree is that every game we talk about him and it's never positive because there's so many things we can see that is wrong. There's 3 players who played tonight who imo are hindering what Martinez is trying to do but he still picks them. 1 of them I'm not going to slate because he puts in a tremendous shift but I think there's 3 that everyone would pick, Howard being one.
 
Prevenger17 said:
Actually Doug, a few have said that Garbutt is lacking in the defensive side in his game. The thing about Garbutt is, he's not the first name on the teamsheet, he'll be dropped as soon as Baines comes back, and rightfully so. Howard is our number one, apparently.
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Yeah because Robles is worse Prev and that's the top and bottom of it really, ignore the 3 clean sheets one was against a team who had no intention of going over the half way line, the other two he made awful errors that Howard would have been strung up for.

It's clearly an area that needs looking at but were hardly strong anywhere on the pitch! Martinez (if he's here) will address the situation in the summer because he said in the January window he wanted more competition for Howard. We'll get a young competition understudy who can push him and hopefully make the postion his own but it won't be a big purchase the money's needed elsewhere in this squad at the moment.
 

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