Sam Johnstone - now retired

[mr underhill]

Gollini was a better keeper, end of.

[Nastylee]

Has to be Bunn for the remainder of the season. Not great but he can generally catch a tame shot from 25 yards.

[Walmley_Villa]

To get out of this league you need an experienced keeper like Leeds have Green etc. We haven't had a decent keeper since Friedel.

[wittonwarrior]

Bit concerning where the advice came from to bring Johnstone in.  Not many players leave It and better themselves   gollini was not good enough and now it appears neither is his replacement and please no more slow Bunn

[Havencheese]

A hypothetical.

One wonders out of sheer curiosity whether former Villa keeper Shay Given at 40 would be better than both Gollini and Johnstone right now and what he may have been able to offer here in the Championship.

[olaftab]

We must be unlucky with keepers. In his short tenure so far he has already cost us two defeats.

[rougegorge]

Since Given left, we have been lacking in the keeping department, both first choice and backup. It's amazing that non of the managers have addressed the issue properly.

[in exile]

I'd rather have Johnstone than Bunn starting.
Does anyone know how far off Steer is from returning?

[Rudy65]

A hypothetical.

One wonders out of sheer curiosity whether former Villa keeper Shay Given at 40 would be better than both Gollini and Johnstone right now and what he may have been able to offer here in the Championship.

No Given was past it at the 2012 Euros and generally woeful for us

[Dave]

Since Given left, we have been lacking in the keeping department, both first choice and backup. It's amazing that non of the managers have addressed the issue properly.

Apart from one excellent season from Guzan, we've been lacking in that department since Friedel left.

[ktvillan]

Johnstone looks pretty solid at times but has cost us at least two goals by parrying/fumbling shots back into the danger zone.  Gollini did it a couple of times too (Bristol away?) and Guzan was a bugger for it.  I thought it was a fundamental of goalkeeping that you train to push it away to the side or round the post if you aren't sure you can keep hold of it.

[Chris Smith]

Johnstone looks pretty solid at times but has cost us at least two goals by parrying/fumbling shots back into the danger zone.  Gollini did it a couple of times too (Bristol away?) and Guzan was a bugger for it.  I thought it was a fundamental of goalkeeping that you train to push it away to the side or round the post if you aren't sure you can keep hold of it.

It looked to me yesterday as though he misjudged the bounce, whether that was him or the pitch only he will know, but instead of collecting it the ball bounced off him and straight to the striker.

[SoccerHQ]

Was surprised we didn't get McGregor from Hull, SB signed him after all. He went to Cardiff this window.

[Leicester_Villian]

Johnstone is not the keeper we thought he would be ....... at times he looks positive but there always seems a mistake in him

[MillerBall]

It is certainly strange that given we have spent significant sums of money on defenders, strikers and midfielders that the important position of goalkeeper has essentially been ignored. Collectively the goalkeeping position at Villa is nothing special in relation to the other championship teams.
It is with reluctance that I would criticise Villa keepers but over the last few seasons we have had the hapless Gazzoon and his misplaced passes and alas whilst the situation is slightly better it appears that lessons have not been learned.