Nick Pope

[r0cafella]

4 minutes ago, 80 said:

Ah right. But even so, with him still not fully over dislocating his shoulder a second time, I think we'd have been looking at breaking even at best.

 

 

 

Possible, it’s still something I’d have looked to do mind. 
 

and to be clear, he’s the best stopper I’ve seen play for but FFP means we have to box clever. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

20 hours ago, Ronson333 said:

It’s the shoulder, you’ll notice he only does it to shots on his left. 

The Burn own goal was a scoop to the right, I think?

[Lush Vlad]

On 23/09/2024 at 07:40, Coffee_Johnny said:

The Burn own goal was a scoop to the right, I think?

 

Nah.  It was his left.  Ball came back in, he saved it after his fuck up and Burn blasted it in for some reason  

 

On 23/09/2024 at 00:31, 80 said:

Ah right. But even so, with him still not fully over dislocating his shoulder a second time, I think we'd have been looking at breaking even at best.

 

 

 

 

Agree with this.  What sort of money would we be getting for him off the back of that injury?  Who were we going to replace him with when we were already struggling with PSR and that Marmaduke fella was being touted for about £30-40m?  Get Trafford in and hope he suddenly gets better at such a young age, but for quite a large fee?  Would it even make sense at the numbers quoted at that point to change keepers for a bit of a loss or for no gain PSR-wise? 

 

Obviously we could have got yet another keeper in.  As we didn't spend fuck all  but I doubt that was expected by many. 

[janpawel]

Surely Pope would be worth loads to any team to don't play with a high line / play out from the back? He's an unreal shot stopper 

 

Cant say I watch them, but wouldn't he do well at West Ham who sit deep and don't really play 'football' as most teams try to? 

[Lush Vlad]

1 minute ago, janpawel said:

Surely Pope would be worth loads to any team to don't play with a high line / play out from the back? He's an unreal shot stopper 

 

Cant say I watch them, but wouldn't he do well at West Ham who sit deep and don't really play 'football' as most teams try to? 

 

Arguably his greatest asset for us, has been how good he is as a sweeper keeper.  Meaning we can push higher up the pitch. 

 

But we haven't played with such a high line since the 4th place season and he also doesn't seem quite as confident/suicidal with flying off his line these days, anyway.  

[PauloGeordio]

Like the old “Spot the ball” Mark ‘X’ where you think the ball will go.

[Scoot]

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

Ten bob boots 

[gbandit]

Just terrified any time the ball is at his feet and someone’s running at him 

[Pilko]

Got away with one first half but really stood up second half, some good saves particularly the last one.

[Holloway]

Extremes, unusual to be so good/ bad at something at top level team sport !

[PauloGeordio]

 

[wiseman]

Been a few times already this season he's shown what we were missing last year without him. 

[Joelinton7]

Just seen the lazy pass out again.  It’s just never on. Really needs to stop doing this stupid shit (along with kicking it out of play 5 times a game). Really undermines his other wonderful talents. 

[CPL]

3 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

Just seen the lazy pass out again.  It’s just never on. Really needs to stop doing this stupid shit (along with kicking it out of play 5 times a game). Really undermines his other wonderful talents. 

It was on, just a terrible pass behind the player. 

[Joelinton7]

8 minutes ago, CPL said:

It was on, just a terrible pass behind the player. 

Ok it was “on” but it was totally the wrong pass to make. I put it down to him being exposed to too much Brexit ball at Burnley. 

[Tsunami]

I watched him do a 10 minute drill pre match where he had to control a pass and hit out to the left, middle and right off either foot. 
 

He did ok but the drill needs to include someone closing him down. 
 

His shop stopping by far out weighs his skills with his feet. We should allow him to hit long more often. Asking him to play a difficult pass into Bruno’s feet who is shouting for the ball with an opposing player rapidly closing him down is just asking for trouble. 

[Tiotes Witch Doctor]

Some incredible saves but is still saving some routine shots awkwardly and seems like he doesn't want to catch the ball, it's quite strange at this point.

 

Obviously his kicking we all already know is dreadful.

[Tsunami]

His pre match warm up didn’t suggest any issues with his shoulder. I got in really early today and him, Dubs & Ruddy were already out going through drills. He dropped a few crosses under pressure from Ruddy.
 

Wouldn’t fancy a clip off Ruddy mind. He’s a bit of a unit.

[andycap]

As long as he saves shots like today he can put the ball into the dugout whenever he wants 😂. Keeper first player second. 

[The Butcher]

Expected his shoulder to fall off when he crashed into Haaland tbh.

[1964]

13 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

Like the old “Spot the ball” Mark ‘X’ where you think the ball will go.

That's not in the spirit of the game, the x has to be in the shot

[NUFC91]

Noticed so much yesterday how nervous the back 4 feel when wanting to go back to him, times when they having to look long. His ability to kick imo gives no option but to upgrade.

[The College Dropout]

It’s a problem.  You can see how a ball playing keeper will help us tremendously. 
 

 

But I still prefer Pope to 90% of goalkeepers. I wouldn’t swap Pope for the likes of Vicario at this moment. 

[Sibierski]

23 hours ago, Tsunami said:

I watched him do a 10 minute drill pre match where he had to control a pass and hit out to the left, middle and right off either foot. 
 

He did ok but the drill needs to include someone closing him down. 
 

His shop stopping by far out weighs his skills with his feet. We should allow him to hit long more often. Asking him to play a difficult pass into Bruno’s feet who is shouting for the ball with an opposing player rapidly closing him down is just asking for trouble. 

Problem there, if the idea is to play through Bruno, you can’t rip up the blueprint just because that one player can’t do it. You have to persist with it, as rest of team is drilled into it and you upgrade the players that can’t do it.

 

Going long, just masks Pope limitations but doesn’t help us as a side going forward when we do upgrade him and want to start playing more.