Villa Goalkeepers

[Ron Manager]

A bowler and the funniest man you could wish to meet.

Jim used to drink in The Sportsman in Harborne occassionaly.He was going through a bad spell with catching high balls at the time.Anyway this bloke asked him if he would mind signing his autograph for his son,He handed Jim a pen which our goalie immediately dropped on the floor amid howls of laughter!  I think he did it on purpose! Always had a smile on his face.

[Pat McMahon]

A bowler and the funniest man you could wish to meet.

In the 70s my mom used to work for a company selling trinkets on Soho Rd and the 2 bosses were Albion fans. They were mates with Cumbes and John Osborne, who used to pop in to the office once a week. My mom said they were both two of the most genuine and down to earth lovely men you could ever meet.

[Dave Cooper please]

Talking of goalkeeping wicket keepers, Andy Goram is the only man to play first class cricket (four games for Scotland including two in the Nat West Trophy) and win a Scotland cap in football.

[Pat McMahon]

Talking of goalkeeping wicket keepers, Andy Goram is the only man to play first class cricket (four games for Scotland including two in the Nat West Trophy) and win a Scotland cap in football.

Are you sure it was one and the same, Dave? Rather famously,  "two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams"......

[ADVILLAFAN]

Darts commentator was saying that Gary Anderson has made three 147 breaks in snooker as well as various 9 Darters.

That's showing off being good at both sports like that.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

[wittonwarrior]

Burridge most expensive keeper in our history he cost us a championship in 76-77.   With rimmer we would have won a double or even treble I am convinced

[ADVILLAFAN]

Darts commentator was saying that Gary Anderson has made three 147 breaks in snooker as well as various 9 Darters.

That's showing off being good at both sports like that.

Just noticed that I posted this on the wrong thread, only 5 months later....

[cdbearsfan]

I see you haven't got any better at maths in the meantime.

[ez]

John Burridge was the goalkeeper when i started going but Jimmy Rimmer is my favourite. He would take several pairs of gloves onto the pitch and would be changing them throughout the game.

[Holte L2]

Bosnich on his day was the best I've seen. Bit erratic sometimes and lousy kicker but still a top keeper. Spinksy was good, James OK except for the final. Schmeichel made a lot of mistakes in the second half of his season. Friedel the best in recent years.

Am starting to wonder if I should go back and re-watch some of James' performances for us as I remember him being very sloppy at the time, better post-Villa IMO, but then maybe the mistakes just got highlighted too much and were made at crucially bad times for us.  The rest I agree with.  I like Schmeichel as a signing, but I think he was signed more for his personality and actually seemed to be cruising a lot of the time.  Guzan could go on to be the next Friedel fingers crossed.

James was fantastic.  Superb shot stopper and was always in control of his pentalty area. Great at coming for crosses.

[Oscar Arce]

A bowler and the funniest man you could wish to meet.

In the 70s my mom used to work for a company selling trinkets on Soho Rd and the 2 bosses were Albion fans. They were mates with Cumbes and John Osborne, who used to pop in to the office once a week. My mom said they were both two of the most genuine and down to earth lovely men you could ever meet.

Saw Jim Cumbes the other week, still a very jovial guy with a big booming laugh.
Anyone remember John Osborne coming to wards the Holte End and bowing, I think it was an Albion defeat 4-0 springs to mind but he made some great saves and was applauded by the Holte at the end.
He played with no teeth in, and looked completely knackered, always going down injured in games I seem to remember.

[wittonwarrior]

Opinions will differ on this topic depending on your era.  For me Rimmer by a country mile.  Bossie more spectacular but more risky and distribution was shit.  James generally very good but I keep remembering the Chelsea game sorry.

[peter w]

1. Rimmer
2. Bosnich
3. Spink
4. James
5. Day

[villan from luton]

Opinions will differ on this topic depending on your era.  For me Rimmer by a country mile.  Bossie more spectacular but more risky and distribution was shit.  James generally very good but I keep remembering the Chelsea game sorry.

Totally agree with you, you knew with Rimmer there was never going to be a massive error and he was just so good. I liked Bosnich, but not in same class and Jimmy never tried to do anything spectacular.