Is Macey the best keeper we have?

[Balham Green]

So how often have you actually seen Cooper or Letheren?

 

[Steve Evans]

So how often have you actually seen Cooper or Letheren?

more than once in both cases and both these chaps are infinitely better than matt macey.what are matt maceys strong points in your opinion please?

 

[Tugboat]

So how often have you actually seen Cooper or Letheren?

more than once in both cases and both these chaps are infinitely better than matt macey.what are matt maceys strong points in your opinion please?

So twice?

Surely if they were both as good and ready as you suggest Adams would have they involved?

 

[Balham Green]

So how often have you actually seen Cooper or Letheren?

more than once in both cases and both these chaps are infinitely better than matt macey.what are matt maceys strong points in your opinion please?

Good shot stopper. Quite important really!. Has stopped more shots than any other keeper in the Division

 

[Steve Evans]

So how often have you actually seen Cooper or Letheren?

more than once in both cases and both these chaps are infinitely better than matt macey.what are matt maceys strong points in your opinion please?

Good shot stopper. Quite important really!. Has stopped more shots than any other keeper in the Division

:funny: what about catching the ball,his kicking,commanding the area,directing players in front of him and getting beaten at the near post more than once this season?

 

[Balham Green]

Never said he was perfect but better than the alternatives. When didcyou see Cooper play?

 

[Ghost]

Never said he was perfect but better than the alternatives. When didcyou see Cooper play?

What's a Didcyou?

 

[justanotherfan]

For the 1st goal, ASB should have cleared the ball, ergo no goal, for the second goal Canavan should have hoofed the ball as far away as possible instead of a stooping header into the deck. When keeper is only able to parry a stinging shot then it is hoped the defence will further clear.

 

[Glynn]

Being an ex keeper myself I am baffled with how quiet he is and that he rarely strays away from his line.

I can't imagine he gives his back line much confidence.

I would love Kello Roos or Remi Matthews back, the keeper and back 4 need addressing in January if we are to have any hope of survival.

 

[samjones]

YES Macey is our best goal keeper.
Letheren looked absolutely awful on his last couple of outings and seriously over weight
Cooper is a young prospect not ready to have his confidence totally shattered behind our woeful defence


Macey is not the real problem, the absolute shit3 defence is the biggest problem and he is being dragged into the same conversation now.
Yes his kicking is weak and yes he doesn't shout a lot but neither of those items make him culpable for the woeful defending and goals conceded IMHO.
As another poster has said even David de Gea would look ordinary in this team.

Given we will have a limited if any budget to spend in January we need to concentrate on 4 half decent defenders before a GK

 

[Willis88]

First 2 goals came from defensive fails the 3rd Macey should have done a lot better.

Edwards for the 2nd time this season failed kick an easy ball and let a striker in on goal for the first.

Canavan should have smacked not headed his clearance for the 2nd (ironically something Mellor was bad for doing).

Macey should have come off his line ages before he did for the 3rd then committed to coming forward. He delayed then stopped, giving the striker plenty of time.

Is he the best we have? Maybe. Do we need better? Without a doubt.

The defence are on edge because of their keeper and the keeper is on edge because of the defence.

 

[r4h4al]

I honestly believe you could put David De Gea behind the current defence and we wouldn’t be much better off.

Because he's of the same ilk as Macey.

 

[r4h4al]

Being an ex keeper myself I am baffled with how quiet he is and that he rarely strays away from his line.

I can't imagine he gives his back line much confidence.

I would love Kello Roos or Remi Matthews back, the keeper and back 4 need addressing in January if we are to have any hope of survival.

Agree.

 

[Knibbsworth]

Pretty unimpressed with his performance yesterday once again.
First of all, he’s a superb shot-stopper. Yet there’s more to being a good keeper than that alone.
Parried two shots out right into the danger zone for their first two goals, didn’t come out enough to attempt to block the shot for their third, scuffed an attempted clearance yet again right to one of their strikers in our half, doesn’t appear to inspire confidence in any of the defenders.
People go on about our poor defending, which is right, but where does it all begin?

Seems very harsh to me to blame him for the first two goals. Preventable shots that were not followed up by our defence, a case of the opposition attack wanting it more. The alternative to parrying them was catching, which seems a high standard to expect considering he did well to react to the shot at all. The third goal was a calamity of timing and judgement. I do agree he is not the best keeper, and behind Roos and Matthews but some of these goals aren't his fault and a change of keeper won't fix it.

 

[philevs]

Surely if they were both as good and ready as you suggest Adams would have they involved?[/quote]

Perhaps Macey is very good in training, so DA keeps picking him on that?
If Letheren was as bad as some on here say, how come he did well at the start of our good run last season? Also, what does that say about DA’s judgment if he’s crap but keeps getting on our bench? I dob’t Believe he can be crap!