Nick Pope: "on track" for return before end of season (Hope)

[jackyboy]

 

Pep got rid of Joe Hart of Joe Hart because of his weakness with the ball at his feet and I think Hart was England number 1 at the time. Modern day managers don't want to see the ball hoofed up the field, they want it passed out from the back

[gbandit]

Strangely shaky a couple of times tonight claiming the ball. Very out of character, hope it doesn’t knock his confidence 

[Dr. TC]

Man of the match today in my book

[wormy]

Fucking mad man at times. But I love him.

[LiquidAK]

Scares the absolute shit out of me sometimes but he's so, so good

[Ginola]

Brilliant goalkeeper

[The Butcher]

Banter keeper

[joeyt]

Putting on a show for his boss rising from the dead tomorrow

[Zero]

What a season for him, and for us

[Aiston]

Some good saves and some shakey moments.

 

 

[SteveM]

1 minute ago, Aiston said:

Some good saves and some shakey moments.

 

 

His distribution is awful a lot of the time, but pulls some brilliant saves. Sometimes when he’s pressured on the ball I close my eyes 

[CheikBoom]

His pen save was fantastic by the way. Dips right ever so slightly then dives left.

 

Sold Toney down the river.

[wyn davies]

10 minutes ago, CheikBoom said:

His pen save was fantastic by the way. Dips right ever so slightly then dives left.

 

Sold Toney down the river.

Unlucky with the second , pulled us out of the crap a couple of times also

[toon25]

Love him. What a keeper. What a signing.

[Hanshithispantz]

His Chris Benoit style diving headers every other game are mad like, has he taken up sniffing fet?

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

Special day for him today 

[The College Dropout]

For someone so aggressive off his line he’s not very good with his feet. It’s that bravery which makes him a much better player than the likes of Dubs who is glued to his line. 

[magvicar]

Who would swap Nick Pope at this point?

Not me. Not for any keeper.

[jackyboy]

He just seems jittery at times and more so since he was sent off. 99% of his game is fantastic though

[huss9]

got lucky again when he came out. jumped up with his back turned and erm out - lucky again it hit him on the back.

he's brilliant but he's always inches from a red.

 

 

Edited April 9, 2023 by huss9

[Optimistic Nut]

Think a switch was definitely flicked with that red-card, like. Used to have so much faith in him sweeping up behind the centre-backs and coming out for crosses but he has me on edge ever since now and doesn't seem as commanding. 

[Dr Venkman]

In the same way that I wasn’t surprised when Dubravka was upgraded, I wouldn’t be surprised if Pope was upgraded this Summer, although to a lesser degree I suppose. It’s less of a priority but he has looked very nervous since Liverpool. Hopefully he shakes it off over the Summer and resets.

[Rich]

He’s definitely lost confidence since Liverpool and he’s still not great with his feet, though improving/has improved, but let’s not forget he was at consistent levels higher than most/any of us had seen from any keeper until that game. He’s still got loads of credit in the bank.

[Optimistic Nut]

Said in the match thread I hope it's not his Ginola/Dixon in that he's not the same player after it. He's still been good overall since then but he's went from elite level before Liverpool to 'good'. 

[Rich]

Teams have clocked us a bit as well, I think, in that our press is lethal and our back four is seriously lacking in athleticism for the style we play, and are going so direct against us compared to earlier in the season. Even Liverpool and Man Utd played a lot of percentage balls against us, and Villa lived off them yesterday.

 

I feel like early on he was coming up with critical world-class saves a lot, but he was needed to sweep much less than he seems to be now, and he wasn’t being involved so much in general play by the outfielders. They would deal with stuff themselves or between themselves without going back to Pope.

 

Trippier and Schär still do, as much as they can, but Botman and Burn are struggling in that respect for me. Their quick, short use of the ball has been lacking and they struggle to get out of trouble on the dribble or with a turn at times, so the ball ends up with Pope. We want him having as few touches as possible.

 

Just another symptom of us somehow becoming a top-level PL team overnight, it’ll get sorted, but I hope Pope’s got a while left in him yet. We will reach a point where we can sign someone who does everything he does to a similar level but can also play, I’m sure, and it will give us another dimension. But that’ll cost about 5-8 Popes in the current market.