(That long since we've had any, couldn't find the thread)

Alan Nixon: "Top Liverpool starlet Cameron Branagan will Ben allowed out on loan in Jan.

Bolton lead the race for the 20 year old midfielder"

Edited December 11, 20169 yr by Ratwhite

Indeed.

A replacement for Lee then perhaps.

2 hours ago, Whitesince63 said:

I fully accept he wasn’t good enough but when he first came in the defence in front of him wasn’t the best and after we signed Trafford he got virtually no football from week to week as he wasn’t even playing regularly for the B Team. Just throwing him in occasionally just wasn’t fair to me and it was no wonder that the lad always looked nervous and lacking confidence. I do think he’s a better keeper than he’s showed here and I just hope that out of the spotlight and playing regularly at Hartlepool he can get his confidence back and show that.

2nd choice goalkeepers very rarely get any game time.  Calling him up for the occasional game isn't treating him shabbily, it's giving him chance to prove he's up to the job, but he failed pretty much every time.

6 minutes ago, DazBob said:

2nd choice goalkeepers very rarely get any game time.  Calling him up for the occasional game isn't treating him shabbily, it's giving him chance to prove he's up to the job, but he failed pretty much every time.

We only lost 1 game when he was in goal last season, and that was against Aston Villa. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sorry to see him leave. Just think his "failure" has been massively over-egged.

Edited June 5, 20233 yr by Cheese

So he didn't make any fuck ups in any of the other games he played?

Just now, DazBob said:

So he didn't make any fuck ups in any of the other games he played?

If conceding a goal is a "fuck up", then yes he made a few. So did Trafford. So does the best goalkeeper in the world.

Tying ourselves in knots here about an exceptionally ordinary at best low division/non league goalkeeper.

So, bye ... & thanks for all the fish and all that.

10 minutes ago, Cheese said:

If conceding a goal is a "fuck up", then yes he made a few. So did Trafford. So does the best goalkeeper in the world.

Conceding a goal isn't a fuck up.  Conceding a goal through a horrendous error is a fuck up ... and Dixon made far too many.

If you don't agree then fair enough.

He was absolutely biz at Tranmere, I know that.

19 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Conceding a goal isn't a fuck up.  Conceding a goal through a horrendous error is a fuck up ... and Dixon made far too many.

If you don't agree then fair enough.

I neither agree nor disagree. I just think his level of "failure" has been massively exaggerated.

29 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Conceding a goal isn't a fuck up.  Conceding a goal through a horrendous error is a fuck up ... and Dixon made far too many.

If you don't agree then fair enough.

Felt like every game he was given a chance. There's conceding and there's just being not good enough and error prone, like De Gea but more common.

29 minutes ago, Didledee said:

Felt like every game he was given a chance. There's conceding and there's just being not good enough and error prone, like De Gea but more common.

De Gea, the gift that keeps on giving.  I don't think he did one thing in the cup final that Dixon couldn't have done equally.  Then again neither did City's keeper.  

As much as anything else a keeper needs to instil confidence in the defence and at Pro level the crowd. 
 

 

Dixon did neither at Bolton. I was at Hartlepool when he made probably his biggest fuck up. The abuse he got that night when trying to apologise was disgraceful, he was a long way off our worst player that night. 
 

The fact he came straight after Crellin I think people were already nervous and the fact Trafford was so good magnified his shortcomings. The level he has dropped to probably reflects how badly his time here went. 

Great news on Sheehan 

2 hours ago, Cheese said:

I neither agree nor disagree. I just think his level of "failure" has been massively exaggerated.

😂 Slow news day on the argument front today Cheese?

27 minutes ago, tomski said:

😂 Slow news day on the argument front today Cheese?

No idea what you mean.

3 minutes ago, Cheese said:

No idea what you mean.

😂

Dixon never knew where his goal was. His positioning was shite.

1 hour ago, tomski said:

😂 Slow news day on the argument front today Cheese?

He’s trying his best to create one.🤣

Just now, Mounts Kipper said:

He’s trying his best to create one.🤣

By saying I neither agree nor disagree? 😂

2 hours ago, tomski said:

Great news on Sheehan 

Indeed.

10 hours ago, L/H White said:

 

Surely an agent trying to drum up interest for his player, this is the sort of signing that would signal a lack of interest at promotion.

14 minutes ago, Zog1 said:

Surely an agent trying to drum up interest for his player, this is the sort of signing that would signal a lack of interest at promotion.

Why?

23 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Why?

We should be going for Benzema.

23 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Why?

Dont, please dont

Just now, gonzo said:

We should be going for Benzema.

Is he not out of contract

If so, not what we need