Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: PaulTheVillan on December 05, 2011, 07:15:10 PM
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Torn hamstring.
Guzan will never get a better chance.
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Fortunately it won't make a difference - we'll lose the matches with or without him.
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Marvellous.
Time for Guzan to prove he's up to it.
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Be interesting if we get someone in on loan. Always thought he could be a top 'keeper given a bit of luck but he's really fell out of the picture the last year or so.
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A big blow, but a chance for Brad. He's a decent penalty stopper which is a bonus i suppose.
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Fortunately it won't make a difference - we'll lose the matches with or without him.
That's the spirit!
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if things wernt bad enough already,but come on Brad take your chance
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use rains and pours in a sentence
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I have every faith in Brad Guzan.
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I have every faith in Brad Guzan.
I don't. Apart from his penalty-saving prowess he did very little to inspire me the other season. Please prove me wrong, Brad Jnr.
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Have to say Brad looked pretty composed when he came on.
He's been learning from to great keepers in Freidel and Given and Genoe is one of the best keeper coaches.
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I have every faith in Brad Guzan.
I don't. Apart from his penalty-saving prowess he did very little to inspire me the other season. Please prove me wrong, Brad Jnr.
Did you miss the first 120 minutes of the Sunderland cup match?
He's had one atrocious game, the 6-4 game against Blackburn. Other than that, he's done very little wrong at any point.
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Yes, I did miss it. Seriously, how did he do?
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A blow. Maybe Guzan will be the new Spink! Shot stopping us to, eh, an unexpected draw in December?
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Yes, I did miss it. Seriously, how did he do?
Brilliant. From what I remember anyway.
As I said, I can't remember much he has done wrong apart from the Blackburn horror show.
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Given out is not our problem. Guzan will be fine it's the others.
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A fair few of the goals we have conceded appear to have been a result of poor communication (See spurs 2nd goal for example). When various keeper were being touted around in the summer one of the criticisms of Given was that he did not organise his defence or command his area properly. Maybe, just maybe the louder Guzan might help encourage our motley crew to play as a better unit.
How's that for unjustified optimism?
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Guzan did everything asked of him on Saturday, if he continues like that he'll be fine.
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Fortunately it won't make a difference - we'll lose the matches with or without him.
That's the spirit!
Superb. Thanks, C&D.
Still laughing!
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I thought Guzan was one of our better players on Saturday [I realise that's not exactly a ringing endorsement].
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I have every faith in Brad Guzan.
I don't. Apart from his penalty-saving prowess he did very little to inspire me the other season. Please prove me wrong, Brad Jnr.
Did you miss the first 120 minutes of the Sunderland cup match?
He's had one atrocious game, the 6-4 game against Blackburn. Other than that, he's done very little wrong at any point.
I agree. I reckon that he's not really been given a fair crack yet and people have been too quick to write him off based on that very limited exposure. We'll definitely know if he'll cut the mustard after this month, as with our fixtures and defence he'll be seeing a lot of use.
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Shame for Shay, just hope Brad takes his chance
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I read the thread title and I have to say that, before I realised it was about Shay, my first thought was that some hapless cricket team had met the umpire from hell.
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IT will be interesting to see us from set pieces to see if he comes from his line more than Shay or Friedel.
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Yes, I did miss it. Seriously, how did he do?
Brilliant. From what I remember anyway.
As I said, I can't remember much he has done wrong apart from the Blackburn horror show.
I thought it was Blackburn Horror Shows in plural as he seemed to struggle in the other cup games he played against them. It depends if he has learnt how to deal with crosses under pressure whether he will do well. Most of the rest of his game was quite good.
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I remember a relatively comfortable 3-1 win and the semi final first leg where he could have spent most of the game asleep in the six yard box.
One goal conceded in the other 180 minutes isn't too bad.
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He's a bit dodgy with crosses, but otherwise a fine stopper with good reflexes.
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I remember a relatively comfortable 3-1 win and the semi final first leg where he could have spent most of the game asleep in the six yard box.
One goal conceded in the other 180 minutes isn't too bad.
It might be all the cup matches running into one that I was getting confused in the cup matches although I though their one in the 2010 match was his mistake against Kalinic. The other one I'm thinking off where he was off his game was the Sparta Prague match, but then not many of the defence came out of that with glory. As that was one of the last matches we saw him in competitively, you can understand the apprehension. How well did he do on loan?
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Fortunately it won't make a difference - we'll lose the matches with or without him.
That's the spirit!
Don't worry it was said tongue-in-cheek (sort of)
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Guzan did everything asked of him on Saturday, if he continues like that he'll be fine.
I tend to agree. if anyone has long term experience of dealing with those two plodders in front of him then its brad jnr
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The thing I'm most nervous about is how none of our defensive players are able to pass out of the back, and now with Guzan between the sticks there will be even more nervous energy back there. Long balls and deep clearances will be needed more than ever. I can see McLeish yelling at training now, "Just get it out."
If we drop Bolton, I'll lose it.
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I fear the worst with guzan in goal, a good shot stopper but absolutely awful on crosses and corners -i hope he has learned from past mistakes and improved greatly over the last 12 months-if not we are going to be up the creek.
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He's like most other modern day keepers - good shot stoppers - suspect on corners/crosses and doesn't talk enough to his defence. And yes I am being critical - just like Given!
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Can we not sign Gabor Kiraly on loan?
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A fair few of the goals we have conceded appear to have been a result of poor communication (See spurs 2nd goal for example). When various keeper were being touted around in the summer one of the criticisms of Given was that he did not organise his defence or command his area properly. Maybe, just maybe the louder Guzan might help encourage our motley crew to play as a better unit.
How's that for unjustified optimism?
Funny, 'cos I felt with Friedel that the communication bit cannot have been happening very well.
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I think Guzan will be fine. At least it's only a month for Given, back for the New Year.
Any news on Jenas? It looked like he snapped his Achilles to me.
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At this level they are all brilliant shot stoppers on their day - rare today do you see keepers dominate the box on crosses - i would imagine that the new balls and the change in direction in flight has a lot to do with this
Gone are the days when a ball into the box was claimed by the keeper under immense pressure from forwards
In fact the last 2 i remember being particulary good at this were both ours - James and Sorensson
It takes so much pressure off set pieces but just seems to have been coached out of modern keepers
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Can we not sign Gabor Kiraly on loan?
Don't think we need to get anyone else in as it's only for a month. Andy Marshall will be on the bench so we only need to panic if one of them gets injured.
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Can we not sign Gabor Kiraly on loan?
Don't think we need to get anyone else in as it's only for a month. Andy Marshall will be on the bench so we only need to panic if one of them gets injured.
It must be the best job in football - reserve keeper
Never gets a game for first team - not even on bench when Given and Guzan are fit
Hardly gets a game in reserves as usually the younger players get in
Good money for a bit of training each day!
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I don't think Guzan is as bad as made out tbh. As Dave says, he was pretty dodgy in the Blackburn games (still kept a clean sheet in the first leg) and has been brilliant up at Sunderland in the cup and at Prague.
Only real game I worry about him is Stoke away but in the others I don't expect to be much different in what we concede whether it's Given or Guzan in goal.
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I remember a relatively comfortable 3-1 win and the semi final first leg where he could have spent most of the game asleep in the six yard box.
One goal conceded in the other 180 minutes isn't too bad.
In the 3-1 cup game at VP in 2010 (not last season but the one before, easy to get confused!) their goal came from him dropping a Pedersen corner into the net.
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Is Siergiest making an impact for the reserves/youths?
Anyone think he has the tools to succeed in top level English football?