Nick Pope out for a month with knee ligament injury (Various)

[Sibierski]

8 minutes ago, Conjo said:

Don't think Dubs is nearly as bad as some say. We'll be worse off without Pope, as any team who loses its first choice keeper to injury would be, but we'll be fine. 

I want to be optimistic, but then the stats last season when Dub came in and we suddenly started to shift in more chances and goals says otherwise.

 

Either that just coincided with everything else going to shit, or we’re fucked. Because we’re conceding chances quite a bit already.

[Nucasol]

Just now, RUHRLYASLEEVESUP said:

Getting in 1st

Pope saves that 

 

Crisp packet hands strikes again.

[Gottlob]

There are two desirable outcomes in my opinion: Dubravka comes in, plays well and we win the match, the obvious choice; or Vlachodimos plays and proves implausibly bad, tripping over his own feet and throwing the ball into his own net several times over. He can be this generation's Fumaca or 'Yohan Kebab', a cause to look back and laugh, the type of thing that over the long haul can really serve to bring a fanbase together. And after all, what's more important than that?

[AyeDubbleYoo]

There can’t be much between Dubs and Vlac. He’s a Greek international, he’s not a work experience kid. 

[Paully]

Gillespie deserves a chance for his loyalty!

[wyn davies]

Déjà vu this, should we cancel his contract also bearing in mind he's becoming a wilsonite, and were just gonna continue with Dubs as Vlachs ain't going between the posts under Howe

[LFEE]

Confirmed out for a month.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

9 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Confirmed out for a month.

At least we don’t have many games this month.

[GEFAFWISP]

We're already shipping 3 a game with Pope, can only imagine what we'll be conceding with Dubravka back in goal. Christ.

[Collage]

2 hours ago, Menace said:

Dubravka is horrible. I don't really rate Pope either to be honest.

 

[TRon]

15 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Gillespie literally doesn't count.

 

 

Then what the fuck is he doing here?

 

It's like the Jack Alnwick situation from a few years back. On our books but when he was finally called on, was letting anything on target fly in.

[SteV]

1 minute ago, TRon said:

 

Then what the fuck is he doing here?

 

It's like the Jack Alnwick situation from a few years back. On our books but when he was finally called on, was letting anything on target fly in.

They want him for numbers in training. I have no idea why having 5 keepers as opposed to 4 is particularly beneficial in a training sense, but they seem to feel it is.

[El Prontonise]

2 minutes ago, SteV said:

They want him for numbers in training. I have no idea why having 5 keepers as opposed to 4 is particularly beneficial in a training sense, but they seem to feel it is.

 

I think it's even numbers so a GK always has someone to train with.

[Chris_R]

Gillespie is there to just take shots in shooting practice.

 

You don't want the "main" keepers shattered from constantly having shots pinged at them for hours on end, plus it increases the chance of injury, so Gillespie is there mainly for that from what I understand.

 

Plus if you're shooting at Pope during shooting practice and he saves almost all of it it'll be quite demoralising. If you're shooting at someone a bit shit then you'll feel like a superstar when everything half-decent hits the back of the net.

[GEFAFWISP]

I think people underappreciate having players like Gillespie, Ritchie or even Dummett around the training pitch and amongst the group for support, morale, all that shit. To be fair that's also a coaches and leadership groups job too but it can help, especially when Trippier's gallavanting and Lascelles is long term injured.

[Choppy Chop Chop]

3 hours ago, Menace said:

Dubravka is horrible. I don't really rate Pope either to be honest.

FFS go and support someone else 

[bobbydazzla]

Pope unavailable over Xmas, again

 

We should sign a keeper called Barbeque then he’d only ever be injured in the summer 

 

[Fak]

4 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

Pope unavailable over Xmas, again

 

We should sign a keeper called Barbeque then he’d only ever be injured in the summer 

 

 

Not unless he's from down under. 

 

[Shak]

Us having to choose between Dubravka and the Greek lad is about as wonderful an example of PSR working exactly as intended as you'll get.

 

Instead of buying an upgrade on or quality understudy for Pope we've had to buy some lad that we don't want instead or else face a points deduction.

 

We'll doubtless drop points in the coming weeks now.

 

Great stuff, brilliantly organised sport.

 

 

Edited Friday at 13:54 by Shak

[wormy]

Something tells me with a 'knee ligament injury' that he ain't gonna be be back in a month.

 

 

Edited Friday at 13:17 by wormy

[TRon]

58 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

I think people underappreciate having players like Gillespie, Ritchie or even Dummett around the training pitch and amongst the group for support, morale, all that shit. To be fair that's also a coaches and leadership groups job too but it can help, especially when Trippier's gallavanting and Lascelles is long term injured.

 

It's another expose of the ridiculous blowback from PSR, that's the issue. I'm sure we'd all be quite happy to have players employed by the club as cheerleaders or human cones for that matter if money was no object. It's when we aren't able to buy players we genuinely need for the first team because we are balancing the books that people get pissed off.

[PauloGeordio]

So there’s a chance! 

[St1pe]

Throw Vlahcy in. See what happens. 

[bobbydazzla]

4 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

So there’s a chance! 

A chance of good news for Pope and his leg will only be amputated below the knee rather than at the hip  

 

 

Edited Friday at 13:33 by bobbydazzla

[TBG]

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