Nick Pope

[andycap]

I'd rather have popey in the sticks rather than an onana type. 

Pope majority of the time is a corking keeper with his only downside been his distribution. 

 

[Danh1]

12 minutes ago, andycap said:

I'd rather have popey in the sticks rather than an onana type. 

Pope majority of the time is a corking keeper with his only downside been his distribution. 

 

Pope is class. Hugely underrated keeper. 

[midds]

I'm at the point now where I'm just telling him to launch it down the line or down the middle if he's under any pressure. I get the fact we're trying to play it out and build nice attacks from the back as it's a bit fashionable but he's not up to that technically. He's a great keeper and I'm not having a go but he's really poor with the ball so let's limit that as much as possible and just deal with the second ball, eh? Seems like the more we trust him in our own third the more likely we are to concede. He can still do the sweeper/keeper thing but it's got to go long when it trickles through to him. Play the percentages

[timnufc22]

56 minutes ago, midds said:

I'm at the point now where I'm just telling him to launch it down the line or down the middle if he's under any pressure. I get the fact we're trying to play it out and build nice attacks from the back as it's a bit fashionable but he's not up to that technically. He's a great keeper and I'm not having a go but he's really poor with the ball so let's limit that as much as possible and just deal with the second ball, eh? Seems like the more we trust him in our own third the more likely we are to concede. He can still do the sweeper/keeper thing but it's got to go long when it trickles through to him. Play the percentages

Logic like this is seemingly looked down upon by coaches these days in favour of playing “progressive” football, or something like that. 

[Ketsbaia]

At least he's not Dubravka.

At least he's not Dubravka.

At least he's not Dubravka.

[Kanj]

2 hours ago, midds said:

I'm at the point now where I'm just telling him to launch it down the line or down the middle if he's under any pressure. I get the fact we're trying to play it out and build nice attacks from the back as it's a bit fashionable but he's not up to that technically. He's a great keeper and I'm not having a go but he's really poor with the ball so let's limit that as much as possible and just deal with the second ball, eh? Seems like the more we trust him in our own third the more likely we are to concede. He can still do the sweeper/keeper thing but it's got to go long when it trickles through to him. Play the percentages

Little different when trips Schar and Botman are with him no?

[Lush Vlad]

Said in the match thread. It felt noticeable that we were going back to him more often than usual. Hopefully more because Bournemouth forced us to. Rather than by design. No Schar and Trippier in the back 4 will do that, I guess. 
 

Anyway. Despite him possibly being the worst keeper with his feet in all of the leagues. He is a top drawer ‘goalkeeper’. His save with his leg today looked routine. But it really wasn’t. 

[Andy84]

Him being in goal = 10 more points at least across the season vs Dubs

[James]

14 hours ago, James said:

With Ruddy on the bench today I’m confident a new keeper is coming next week.

Told you

[Guest]

Something just seems off first few games. We knew his kicking was always poor but he's not even taking the crosses that last season we were calling Dubravka out for "not claiming like Pope would" at the moment. 

[huss9]

night off tonight.

[duo]

1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Something just seems off first few games. We knew his kicking was always poor but he's not even taking the crosses that last season we were calling Dubravka out for "not claiming like Pope would" at the moment. 

Give him time - just needs more minutes. 

[ChrisMcQuillan]

Back in the England squad.

[Mazzy]

Would rather he wasn't tbh. 

[Smal]

happy for him. Clearly knocked his confidence a bit when he was dropped. 

[Lush Vlad]

Definitely something in his head about that shoulder. Went with two hands and didn’t try and catch it on a weak shot first half. Then went down and looked so awkward for the goal with whatever the fuck he was trying to do  

 

I didn’t think his kicking and passing out was as heart attack inducing today. Which was a big plus. But it’s still bad. 
 

Hopefully in time. With the likes of Hall, Schar, Trippier and next year, Botman. He won’t need to be on the ball so much. 

[Heron]

Was awful today.

 

Two good saves around the 75min mark otherwise our worst player.

[Zero]

What? I think he has a great game. How many shots he saved?

[Aiston]

Poor game from him, especially with that big mistake..surely isn't confident in his shoulder and consistently putting us under pressure with his kicking.

 

63% of his passes weren't successful.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2024 by Aiston

[The College Dropout]

I don’t blame him for the goal. Not a great save in the lead up. Blocked the shot that was going wide or out and Burn blasted it into the net. 
 

Poor on the ball as usual. That’s a given. 

[midds]

Awful mistake/decision for their goal, can only assume he's still not sure about going full stretch to turn shots around the post of he can possibly help it. Maybe scared of the landing he'd get? Not sure but he also made 3 or 4 excellent saves too. The mistake will be highlighted but he also kept us in the game too

[cubaricho]

To be fair to Pope, if Burn doesn't touch the ball it goes wide. Pope made the save.

[Aiston]

2 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

To be fair to Pope, if Burn doesn't touch the ball it goes wide. Pope made the save.

 

Wouldn't have needed to be done if Pope didn't just pass the ball to the Spurs player though.

[Lush Vlad]

8 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

I don’t blame him for the goal. Not a great save in the lead up. Blocked the shot that was going wide or out and Burn blasted it into the net. 
 

Poor on the ball as usual. That’s a given. 

I’m Pope’s biggest cheerleader on here. But it was a terrible mistake IMO. 

 

Does well to get a hand to Son’s shot and Burn should do better, as well. But that’s all come about from his clanger in the first place.  
 

So many of our players look a bit rusty and starting slow is nothing new. Fingers crossed he sorts his head out in relation to that shoulder or that it’s just me imagining it. As I still think he is the best keeper I’ve seen play for us. 

[gbandit]

No one should ever go back to him when we have possession, it’s basically a 90% chance turnover of possession if he kicks it