Former Motherwell Fc Players Thread

[Yabba's Turd]

Who would you have in goals after Gunn?

[wellfan]

4 hours ago, David said:

You mean appointment? He's not an experiment 😂

Aye, appointment, but you knew that’s what “experiment” meant in this context. Pedantry over terminology when there’s an actual point being made is hardly much of a contribution.

[joewarkfanclub]

11 minutes ago, Yabba's Turd said:

Who would you have in goals after Gunn?

Thats the problem......

[weeyin]

2 hours ago, Yabba's Turd said:

Who would you have in goals after Gunn?

One of the other keepers Clarke developed over his long tenure when he switched up his team in all the friendlies to allow new faces to get experience.

What do you mean he wasn't astute enough to do that?

[David]

3 hours ago, Yabba's Turd said:

Who would you have in goals after Gunn?

I'd give Bain a shot. 

[joewarkfanclub]

8 hours ago, David said:

I'd give Bain a shot. 

Its hard to know whether this would be a good idea or not.

Ive heard people that know say that Gunn is the better goalkeeper. Ive also heard the same people say that Bain is better with his feet.

Given our experience last year, having a keeper thats good with their feet can certainly help with the system Poconogli wants to play.

If Bain is better with his feet, can he really be much worse than Gunn at catching it? It always feels like Gunn is a second slow going down to everything and his poppadom wrists are difficult to ignore.

That said, if teams keep cutting thru us like a knife thru butter, does it matter who we play in goals?

Maybe Lennon could get a shot there? 😆😆😆

[wellfan]

24 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:

It always feels like Gunn is a second slow going down to everything and his poppadom wrists are difficult to ignore.

It feels like he’s slow to react to almost every shot at or near him, while those hit directly at him too often seem to go straight through him. At least 2 or 3 of the goals we conceded across those four games came directly from these obvious weaknesses. Can we bring Gordon out of retirement?!

Off-topic. Sorry.  

[weeyin]

Liam Kelly should have stayed with us, or gone to a team where he'd be starter. Then he might have been a viable option instead of head cheerleader on the bench.

[stv]

11 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Liam Kelly should have stayed with us, or gone to a team where he'd be starter. Then he might have been a viable option instead of head cheerleader on the bench.

Kelly couldn't catch the cold he was terrible at cross balls. 

Never an international keeper in a month of Sundays.

We were his leval . Liked him when he played with us.

[Jonesy]

1 hour ago, weeyin said:

Liam Kelly should have stayed with us, or gone to a team where he'd be starter. Then he might have been a viable option instead of head cheerleader on the bench.

I couldn't have coped a minute longer with having to watch Liam Kelly cosplay at being a goalie.

As good as he was when he first came in end times Liam Kelly is one of the worst goalies we've had.

[grizzlyg]

2 hours ago, Jonesy said:

I couldn't have coped a minute longer with having to watch Liam Kelly cosplay at being a goalie.

As good as he was when he first came in end times Liam Kelly is one of the worst goalies we've had.

Kelly was great when he first came in. Kept us in division but his last season he was poor and was right time to go.  Certainly not the worst though, been a right few worse than him......Aaron Chapman anyone!

[MJC]

Yes I don’t think anyone can deny that Kelly was excellent for us in his first couple of seasons. He arguably saved us from relegation when he came in in 20/21 as he was a clear upgrade on the aforementioned Chapman and Jordan Archer.

He is a good solid goalkeeper at our level but his weakness IMO is that he is a bit on the small side for a goalkeeper and lacks presence in his box.

Being Captain wasn’t good for him or us either.