So why the hate? Seen the goal he conceded, but he obviously couldnt do anything about it as it took a really harsh deflection. He did nothing less than Steele to be honest. In fact his kicking is spot on. Good under pressure
Young Hemsie winds people up to such a point, they take a dislike to the players he is trying to champion. Many lad's natural inclination would be to support the fringe players, but take an opposite stance because of his constant bashing of the senior pros. Ben Alnwick does deserve our support, but he won't get it off many now, people will only see the negative because of HT's irrational and incessant slating of Luke Steele. I've made this point before, people say he's harmless but he's not. He's bad for all the players, even the ones he fancies. I'm already sick of hearing about Digby, I'm probably going to give him a wedgie and nick his dinner money when I see him. But it's not my fault, I've been driven to it.
Hemmsy is the most divisive poster on here by a country mile In fact he's that good at it, I'm sure the yanks are using him as a secret weapon in the middle east to get the Arabs feighting amongst themselves
Can't believe some people are slating Alnwick because HT rates him. As Spartacus said 'idiots' and quite frankly it's moronic! I almost mistook this forum for Owlstalk then.
Alnwick is OK as a no. 2 keeper and that's abart it really. Can't lace Steele's boots.......not in same league.
A thread slating a BFC player? With no mention as yet of McNulty? Whatever next! And while I'm at it, anyone who refers to McNulty as 'McNumpty' - how fcking old are you, 12?
Back on topic, I will support Ben Alnwick whenever he plays for the club. Which is likely to be on few occasions. Despite hemsworth's opinion, I think it's plainly apparent to the majority of us that he is quite inferior to Luke Steele in most aspects of goalkeeping, be that shot stopping, positioning, handling or decision making. Steele isn't the greatest at dealing with crosses or the ball at his feet. From what I've seen Alnwick is no better - and he's nowhere near as good at the other things mentioned IMO. Hemsworth has strong opinions on certain players. I noticed a slight softening towards his stance on Steele on a recent post (I applaud this as Steele is blatantly going to play and should be supported by all of us) - but he still bigs up Alnwick as some kind of modern day Lev Yashin, despite the facts that prove this ridiculous, because he doesn't LIKE Steele rather than he thinks Alnwick is better. He must be judging on this criteria because as daft as some the posts he makes are, I don't think he's so deluded he genuinely thinks that Alnwick is better. Why he says what he does I've not much interest in. He can say what he wants. He's as entitled as anyone else and I think some of the reaction he gets is over the top - to the point where after this much time I can only assume that to be the reaction he craves. If flicker agrees and plays Alnwick over Steele, then Ben will get my support though. There's no point in being hateful towards a player because I think a different one should be playing. It's flicker's call. But if Alnwick starts the season first choice (unless Steele isnt fit and available of course) I'd honestly be dumbfounded.
Hooray! Get behind all of 'em. Can't wait till McNulty powers in a header from a corner and wins us the game at Blackburn. OMG you Mchaters are gonna get it, big time.