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You wanted ROD to stay on his line when the lad is clean through and make it as easy as possible for the striker to score?

Everything, and I mean everything, you read about that situation will tell you that keepers should come out and narrow the angles giving the striker less of the goal to aim at.

 

POC is a walking Red card. There's no way he'd be getting the captaincy from me. Having said that though, there's very few options so probably Canavan as you suggested.

 

No he came out far to early, If you cannot beat him to the ball outside the box then stay on the line as long as possible so the goal gets smaller before coming out and spreading yourself giving a good chance you will block it, What you do not do is what OD did and give the advantage to the striker by getting caught in no mans land

 

All those pictures do is confirm to me that Hornbys positioning was wrong for Carlisle's third.

I mentioned it on the matchday thread but hadn't seen it back since.

 

Because you only come off your line to narrow the angle as the forward approaches, Watch top keepers and this it what is coached because it drastically reduces the forwards chance of scoring, Watching TV games you will see forwards running through free and the keeper not coming out until around the 6 yd box and blocking it usually with body or legs

 

If AOC and ROD are arguing, but AOC and Hornby DIDN'T, doesn't that imply that AOC takes over when Hornby is in goal rather than the other way round?

Wouldn't it be likely that the defenders have LESS trust in Hornby so they try to put MORE blocks in?

If that argument was going to hold water, I'm not sure it's because Hornby is a better organiser - maybe the argument should be that if ROD is in goal, there are too many voices (too many cooks spoil the broth).

I'm not advocating this argument at all, but I think that's more feasible than Hornby being a master strategist.

 

I've never seen Hornby pass it short. He's always booted it long. In fact there was a statistical comparison in a WOAP article the other week between the two which said just that.

 

If someone is clean through keepers don't stay on their line until the striker reaches the 6 yard box. We'll have to agree to disagree but I find what you're suggesting bizarre.

 

No two criticisms in this thread have been remotely the same.

I think there must be quite a few Richard O'Donnell's playing, with our fanbase all watching a different one.

 

A criticism of ROD's play is his technique when faced with a one on one situation with an opposing player.
When the shot is taken, instead of attempting to make himself big by spreading himself, ROD turns his back on the ball.
Watch highlights of him, he does it often.
In the first half v Scunny, a shot was taken, he luckily saved it with his back, he had no idea where the ball was.
He really needs to develop a better method of goalkeeping in these situations.

 

All the players we could have a go at in the team and we’re talking about o donnell , a keeper most clubs in division 1 or two would love to have in their team

 

Twaddle!

 

Agree. Hornby is always looking for a roll out or pass out. O'Donnell is a kicker.

Be interested to see the stats though if someone has a link but even then, it will be biased one way or the other because they've played under different managers and styles.

 

Give over

 

O'Donnell's another who's still getting blamed for the relegation season

 

Anyone want to go back and pull a few photos of Hornby commanding his box and the defence in front of him winning their aerial duels?

Because all three goals we conceded against Carlisle were headers, two from corners, one from a cross, and he was on his line for all of them.

Against Bolton, Doyle had a gilt-edged free header, and Hornby was on his line. He put it wide.

Against Walsall, their goal was a corner headed home, Hornby was on his line.

Against Newport, the handball that gifted them the winner was obviously an out-of-character shocker, but that was a long throw that our defence failed to deal with. Hornby, quite rightly this time, was on his line.

In every single example from ALL of Hornby's games, he's on his line for every attack and every cross.

Now I know the obvious defence is that Hornby collecting a cross isn't going to make a highlight reel, but are people actually sure he was that good at it?

Are people sure his distribution was better, even though it's a fact that it isn't?

Or are we all a little bit hysterical because we had a good run, it ended, they brought ROD back, and the results haven't gone back to being good again?

 

my observations of the two (ive not seen the highlights of the colchester game so can’t comment). they are both decent options for this league. ROD stands out for his shot stopping, Hornby is better with distribution. the stand out factor is who makes the defence play better; for me, thats Hornby. The defence looks shaky as feck recently with ROD playing. That being said, neither are overly amazing. people are banging on about positioning as so forth; what do you really expect from a forth division goalkeeper? they wont be the finished package otherwise they’d be playing in a higher division. If its a case of who to keep out of the two, Hornby as hes young enough to improve his mistakes. in an ideal world, we need a better goalkeeper for the long term future

 

I think you've been watching a different game. So Hornby can inspire the defence in front of him? Sorry. But I want a keeper who can command their box better than 1/10