greensalt":14p9peko said:I am not criticizing Cooper because he's a promising young player and great shot stopper.
Defences benefit enormously from a keeper who comes out and takes balls in the air and who is also very vocal in organising the defenders in front of him, which you cant expect from someone so young.
Many of those pro-Cooper pre-season (myself included) argued that if you're good enough, you're old enough. Surely the relevant question is would you expect an Argyle first team goalkeeper to be able to organise, and to come and take balls in the air? I want Lowe to stick with Cooper, but he's got to learn quickly - it's not acceptable, over a longer period, to say that it's ok for our first choice keeper to lack these skills because he is young.
On a different tangent, I wish people hadn't banged on about how Cooper will earn us x million in the future, or that he will play in the Prem. Purely speculative claptrap that does nothing but increase expectations unnecessarily, and heaps more pressure on.