No keeper on the bench.........

a positive tactic or a slightly dodgy move?

Do you think that teams look at sides without a replacement keeper on the bench and target the existing keeper for a bit of rough stuff or provocation? Did I see that last night Carlton Cole was throwing himself into KD resulting in a bit of pushing and shoving from Kelv? It could have been a coincidence that he was getting that treatment but I wouldn't put it past Fat Sam.
I accept that having to replace the keeper is fairly rare and I love Nigel's positivety, but having no sub keeper bothers me a bit.

To any football agony aunts out there....Am I worrying unnessecarily?

 

Obviously if KD is injured or sent off, there is a problem, but it is rare, and it's nice to have 5 outfield choices on the bench, especially with the depth we have.

 

To be honest i find outfield players going in goal so exciting/funny i wouldnt mind haha.... Well as long as we are 3 nil up and coasting

 

Anyone remember Dexter Blackstock in goal?

 

Isn't Bart on the bench like us having one keeper anyway

 

So who goes in goal if Kelvin is injured? I reckon Jos...or Guly for additional comedic effect.

 

Richardson. I personally think it's an ok move, as the chances of a goalkeeper being sent or forced off are probably 5%, but maybe the FL should have 5 outfield players and a GK ruling?

 

95%? Did you mean 5%?

 

Haha yes my bad best get a few GKs on the bench in this case

 

Although that would mean putting Forecast on the bench

 

i know who would have stepped up few years ago.... PAPA WAIGO!!! top lad. Loved that guy

 

Positive, definitely; with the five-sub rule, every team should be doing it, really.

 

Yep, I remember. He was a good lad. And I'm sure Papa Waigo would have been up for it too.

It's a gamble, that Nigel plays. I wonder if he'll continue to play it. It's not as if he can use every substitute he names - only a maximum of three from normally four outfielders, so careful selection is paramount. But he has so many outfield players to choose from now that he obviously doesn't want to waste the opportunity of the play safe back up keeper option. It'll bite him one day. But perhaps not this season. And hopefully, it won't matter next season, with seven subs on the bench.

 

Bart is crap that's why he wasn't on the bench.

 

Absolutely NOT..!

 

Either way it must be pretty deflating for Bart to not even be making the bench at the moment.....

 

Yes,he is.

 

I'm not going to get into some sort of pantomime routine with you, Adam.

 

Yes,because you know you'll lose.

 

That'll be the day.

Those were my last words on this.