Maik Taylor

[Blue Maniac]

For a club with such a proud history of world class keepers, it amazes me just how little people know the difference between a good 'un and a bad 'un. Poole was garbage yet is held in high esteem. Similarly, the likes of Walker and Keller were ludicrously overblown.

Ture. Walker was half the keeper he had been for Tottenham, and even at his best wasn't much cop. Keller's distribution was bobbins but he was an O'Neill player so he's automatically held in higher regard than he should be. It's the same for a lot of his signings. Not all of them, obviously. For example, everyone knew Fenton was shit.

On the other hand, Flowers had a marvelous first season with us and is hardly remembered.

Bit harsh that. Surely we all know how valuable Flowers was to us?

And Martin Hodge was an excellent keeper for a while before going off the boil rather badly.

Erm...

There have been some pure shockers that we can all agree on like a Douglas or a Kalac.

I have a list of them...

There have also been those that promised much and disapointed like Andrews or Muggleton.

I always cringe when I hear their names mentioned with genuinely good keepers.

Come to think about it, we haven't half had some shite in goal over the last twenty years or so.

A sample of shit keepers off the top of my head: Poole, Ward, Muggleton, Kalac, Arphexad, Keller, Walker, Coyne, Royce, Douglas, Henderson, Pressman, Stockdale, Martin, Warner, Ikeme, Kirkland, Weale, Ricardo, Logan.

 

[pds]

Was Poole really a shit keeper? Apart from a couple of games in his last season I thought he was a very decent dependable keeper.

Excellent in his first couple of years.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

Pegguy was the finest shit stopper since Shilts.

 

[Motown Fox]

Shilts got into more shit though later in his career:icon_bigg

 

[H T B]

KP was most certainly not garbage, and doesn't deserve to be in BMs list.
I'd add Mark Grew to the list, though.

 

[Motown Fox]

What about the hot dog kid himself.

Russell Hoult is still playing as well which is a thing with a lot of ex City keepers who go on playing to a (very) mature age

 

[Blue Maniac]

KP was most certainly not garbage, and doesn't deserve to be in BMs list.
I'd add Mark Grew to the list, though.

My recollection of Poole is he was adequate on his best day. I was still a cynical, impatient teenager when he left the club though.

 

[londonfox]

Kevin Poole was FAR from garbage. And I agree about Walker and Keller being over-rated.

 

[bocadillo]

Three times since the end of last season apparently.

Good job you let me know. I would have set off in quite the wrong direction.

 

[Brown Nose]

Kevin Poole was FAR from garbage. And I agree about Walker and Keller being over-rated.

I recall him lacking any presence. He needed his central defenders to do all the work for him. He was too short, getting chipped and generally passed too easily - for example when Cambridge put five past him one Sunday lunchtime. Or Newcastle put seven past him. And he was awful in the play off match v Swindon.

Not the worst by any means, but generally a very mediocre keeper.

 

[lazzer]

steve cherry ?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Theo Zagorakis.

 

[pds]

Theo Zagorakis.

Didn't Richard Smith go in goal one home match too? I've got Watford at home in my head early 90s? Could be Oxford?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Didn't Richard Smith go in goal one home match too? I've got Watford at home in my head early 90s? Could be Oxford?

Oxford. Muggleton got injured, Smith played the second half in sticks. I have other reasons for loving Richard Smith

 

[pds]

Oxford. Muggleton got injured, Smith played the second half in sticks. I have other reasons for loving Richard Smith

He was my first ever favourite player, purely because we share the same surname. (And the Palace goal)

 

[Blue Maniac]

He was my first ever favourite player, purely because we share the same surname. (And the Palace goal)

That's the one my first FA Cup game. Wonderful memory.

 

[bocadillo]

That's the one my first FA Cup game. Wonderful memory.

And the first time we had won an FA Cup tie in years.

I still hate Owen ****ing Archdeacon.

 

[lanxfox jnr]

A sample of shit keepers off the top of my head: Poole, Ward, Muggleton, Kalac, Arphexad, Keller, Walker, Coyne, Royce, Douglas, Henderson, Pressman, Stockdale, Martin, Warner, Ikeme, Kirkland, Weale, Ricardo, Logan.

I though that Poole and Ward were good goalkeepers?

 

[Miles Away]

I though that Poole and Ward were good goalkeepers?

Ward was a liability.

 

[londonfox]

Theo Zagorakis.

I met him in London once on a Friday evening. He was in his Leicester tracksuit. Think we were playing away at Spurs the next day. He was a really nice guy.