Next incoming - a keeper? (Jack Ruddy signs)

[Kentishgreen]

Yes I think Chris Barker was one of them

 

[cheshiregreen]

Short term contract confirmed.

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/ ... le-4489513

 

[LipsonJock]

Welcome Jack.

 

[justanotherfan]

I accept Cooper must get his chance but most teams would be looking to loan him out to get experience rather than throw him straight into the rough and tumble of league 1. Massive error in not getting Palmer back in my opinion if available. I accept the Exeter Academy comparisons but they’re still in league 2. I do honestly think Palmer would make the difference between auto/playoffs and mid table mediocrity ... and then the momentum is lost - perhaps a debate for a separate thread.to lose out to Lincoln wants to make me cry quite honestly !

Man up. :twisted:

 

[Keepitgreen]

I take it the club won't announce it until clearance is received. Welcome to HP Jack.

 

[philevs]

I accept Cooper must get his chance but most teams would be looking to loan him out to get experience rather than throw him straight into the rough and tumble of league 1. Massive error in not getting Palmer back in my opinion if available. I accept the Exeter Academy comparisons but they’re still in league 2. I do honestly think Palmer would make the difference between auto/playoffs and mid table mediocrity ... and then the momentum is lost - perhaps a debate for a separate thread.to lose out to Lincoln wants to make me cry quite honestly !

You don’t seem to have heard RL’s interview a few weeks back in which he said Mike Cooper was the number 1 keeper this season, and that in fact he was good enough for the position last season, only being kept out by Palmer’s brilliance, part of which was down to the pushing he was getting from Cooper!
That’s why RL did not need Palmer this season.

Ruddy has evidently been signed on a short-term contract as second-choice keeper to replace the injured McCormick.

 

[Emu]

I accept Cooper must get his chance but most teams would be looking to loan him out to get experience rather than throw him straight into the rough and tumble of league 1. Massive error in not getting Palmer back in my opinion if available. I accept the Exeter Academy comparisons but they’re still in league 2. I do honestly think Palmer would make the difference between auto/playoffs and mid table mediocrity ... and then the momentum is lost - perhaps a debate for a separate thread.to lose out to Lincoln wants to make me cry quite honestly !

Ryan Lowe seems to think he is good enough for the first team, and if that is the case, that is good enough for me.

 

[Quintrell Green]

I accept Cooper must get his chance but most teams would be looking to loan him out to get experience rather than throw him straight into the rough and tumble of league 1. Massive error in not getting Palmer back in my opinion if available. I accept the Exeter Academy comparisons but they’re still in league 2. I do honestly think Palmer would make the difference between auto/playoffs and mid table mediocrity ... and then the momentum is lost - perhaps a debate for a separate thread.to lose out to Lincoln wants to make me cry quite honestly !

Ryan Lowe seems to think he is good enough for the first team, and if that is the case, that is good enough for me.

It was interesting yesterday afternoon after the QPR game, that whilst RL went around 'knuckling' players of both teams, together with Rhys Wilmot, they homed in on Mike Cooper and they seemed to be doing a spot of coaching with him around the centre circle. I wonder what was said at the time.

 

[briangreen]

I accept Cooper must get his chance but most teams would be looking to loan him out to get experience rather than throw him straight into the rough and tumble of league 1. Massive error in not getting Palmer back in my opinion if available. I accept the Exeter Academy comparisons but they’re still in league 2. I do honestly think Palmer would make the difference between auto/playoffs and mid table mediocrity ... and then the momentum is lost - perhaps a debate for a separate thread.to lose out to Lincoln wants to make me cry quite honestly !

Think you are badly underrating Cooper for a start and I still reckon if they put someone else in front of him he would have been asking for a transfer. You can only hold a talent like that back for so long.

 

[HC Green]

Mike Cooper should have been first choice last year, a year wasted in his career.

 

[philevs]

Mike Cooper has a great future in the game, in my opinion.
He handles the ball well, is a great shot-stopper, his distribution and kicking are excellent, and he may earn the club a nice big transfer fee one day if we aren’t doing well enough for him! This would not have been the case with Palmer.
Unlike in previous seasons, I have full confidence in the judgment and the abilities of our coaching team.
He had a very good game against QPR, and it was good to see RL go straight to him after the match to give him some immediate on-the-spot coaching - imagine all that happens that we don’t get to see! That’s why players want to come to Argyle now.

 

[Nobby]

Mike Cooper should have been first choice last year, a year wasted in his career.

Last year the best keeper in League Two was ahead of him. If you want to talk wasted years... What was the managements excuse the year before with Macey and Letheren?

 

[Biggs]

Mike Cooper should have been first choice last year, a year wasted in his career.

I don’t know if you saw the interview MC gave to Plymouth College, but he said the lowest moment of his career thus far was Derek Adams telling him he wasn’t good enough to be number one (or two, I think) at the start of the season before last. I could be wrong, but I doubt very much if he’d made him first choice a year later.

I was a DA fan too, but Ryan Lowe is the superior (and current!) manager. So can we/you move on??

 

[oldage]

Cooper deserves his chance to be first choice keeper. Hopefully he will get even better with age. Why train other club's keepers when we have our own promising goalie? If he's good enough he's old enough.

 

[arrythewurzel]

I’ll start believing in Cooper when I see a string of clean sheets. Until then I’m reserving judgment.