Joe Gauci

We had 2 loan keepers last year…..

Roberts Mk1 before Christmas.
Roberts Mk2 after Christmas.

 

"The issues with the keeper are as much to do with how much confidence the defence has in him"
Tbf that's pure speculation isn't it?

 

yeah that too, it’s just lucky our attack is….oh wait a minute

 

...cack?

 

It's what the evidence of my eyes told me re Slonina and Killip.

Now we'll find out if Gauci is better than Slonina in that regard.

 

If he is, we'll soon coach it out of him.

 

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at our recruitment meetings...

"Right then Mladen, it's your turn to put the blindfold on. Darrell, theres a pack of 130 football stickers there - pin them to the board and Mladen will throw the first dart"
"can all the other coaches look away, no helping. Connor, ssshhh don't tell him where the strikers are "
"3-2-1, it's a keeper. Oh he's a new one, must be a new pack of stickers, never heard of him. Stats look ok, 3 games and he's only an apprentice so good for the National Minimum Wage"
"Your up next Darrell, hang on Neerav's on the blower" "Unfortunately, we've just found out he's a Premier league keeper, so we've no more budget, it's 8m to keep the lights on. Put the darts down Darrell."

 

Yeh but to put him in charge of this defence,could make or break him,we can't keep crosses from coming in,maybe new lad can hopefully catch them or punch them clear.

 

Killip might be gone before deadline and Smith as number 2.

 

Not if ours is not ready yet for L1 no.

 

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Welcome t'tarn joe

 

Smith on a 5 year deal is the strange signing for me, like Fonzie says if we are skint we should be prioritising every single penny for the here and now.

 

I reckon it's Killip that's said he doesn't want to play behind that defence again

 

Didn't we learn anything with the Slonina signing, as unfortunately for us and him, it just didn't work out.
Now we're taking exactly the same 'risk' again, its a surprising choice to be honest.
Although I admit that all signings are a risk, of some sort.

 

It's really rare clubs bring in 6 players in Jan. Doubt we will be any different.

 

That won’t happen. They want smith to get game time. They’ll run down Killips contract with him on the bench.

For what’s it’s worth I think he’s been our best player over the last 2 games. Which says to me it’s others not doing their job properly rather than Ben!

 

Dike was a bigger risk with even less experience

 

Yeah and in fairness, we got lucky and he did really well with us.
But he's just been in the treatment room at West Brom since then.

 

Conway wanted Oulare at the time, and Dane Murphy had to fight to get Duke instead.

Conway got his man eventually though, and also found a way to overpay him massively to do absolutely nothing.