Nigel Pearson's Blue & White Army!
We may also get a few more chances to perve on Matt Oakley's arse also. And could you imagine if NP brought Morrison back? *Drools*
At least in this time if we do get Pearson back we at least had a decent 'keeper... I can still remember Pearson saying he though David Martin was good, and signign Carl Ikeme on loan. Shudder.
But if he had never managed us, then Pearson would be a good signing! It's only because we feel like we're going backwards that he looks less appealing.
Ikeme was one of Sousa's ****ups, wasn't he?
I don't remember David Martin ever being particularly bad, in fact I remember him being quite good for us in League 1 - BBC says 13 clean sheets in 26 games, that's surely nowhere near appalling? There are a lot of keepers who've played for us recently who I'd rank as far worse than him for sure - Kirkland, Ricardo, Ikeme, Warner, Weale and Logan spring to mind.
I watched a lot of games that season. In many of those games where he kept clean sheets I would doubt whether he was tested much if at all.
A lot of people did think he was good though, I imagine often being told I was being a nob for consistently slagging him off. I probably am.
David Martin was appalling
Martin did a good job for us in League One and we had to look for replacements due to injury, mostly short-term loanees. Weale did a good job for us under NP in the Championship.
I don't have any particular qualms over NP's goalkeeping selection, they weren't amazing, but hardly crap either.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 20 | 47 |
2 | Arsenal | 21 | 43 |
3 | Nottm F | 21 | 41 |
4 | Newcastle | 21 | 38 |
5 | Chelsea | 21 | 37 |
6 | Manchester C | 21 | 35 |
7 | Aston Villa | 21 | 35 |
8 | Bournemouth | 21 | 34 |
9 | Brighton | 21 | 31 |
10 | Fulham | 21 | 30 |
11 | Brentford | 21 | 28 |
12 | Manchester U | 21 | 26 |
13 | West Ham | 21 | 26 |
14 | Tottenham | 21 | 24 |
15 | Palace | 21 | 24 |
16 | Everton | 20 | 17 |
17 | Wolves | 21 | 16 |
18 | Ipswich | 21 | 16 |
19 | Leicester | 21 | 14 |
20 | Southampton | 21 | 6 |