LoI keeper howlers - 2024 edition

[Nesta99]

Quick reaction from Pierott but if Waterford miss out on Europe by 3 points that will be pointed to. Dundalk get relegated by such points it wont be a season of being rubbish but that conspiracy!!

[brendy_éire]

No video uploaded yet, but Kian Moore had an absolute shocker for UCD against Longford there.

[joey B]

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I guess the sun must have been in his eyes but it’s still a shocker…

[2 Year Contract]

Ah mother of Jaysus the overall standard of goalkeeping in the league has fallen through the floor given how frequently we’re seeing these absolute calamities

[pineapple stu]

Crikey. Third time we've featured on this with two different keepers too. Just behind Dundalk with three separate keepers.

I know highlights of every game means you can see all the blunders - but still. I don't recall them being near as frequent 20 years ago, say

[total hoofball]

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I guess the sun must have been in his eyes but it’s still a shocker…
Any half decent goalkeeping coach would have ensured the keeper would have been in possession of a baseball cap in evening sunshine glare facing towards them, whether the keeper would use it or not is another story still it's the goalkeeper final responsibility on that

Looks like he also pulled out of catching or punching the ball at the crucial final moment, if a keeper commits to like that knowing there is glare they have to follow through with it, really shocking goalkeeping all round

[pineapple stu]

I think a cap can be of limited use under a looping high ball like that though, when you might be looking up more directly into the sun. Still a howler though. I wonder will Hery claim he deliberately looped a weird-looking shot in precisely so he could try take advantage of the sun? Bit like a skewed cross that somehow ends up in the top corner, which turned out to have been the intention all along.

I do like the commentator claiming "What a goal!" Eh, not quite...

[Nesta99]

We must have all recruited David Seaman as our keeper coaches secretly, every one of these recent errors involve jumping too early and letting the ball lob overhead - as was said about Seaman after the Nayim lob our keepers should be given high heeled football boots. Losing the flight of the ball in the sun is an excuse but only just.

[nigel-harps1954]

Any half decent goalkeeping coach would have ensured the keeper would have been in possession of a baseball cap in evening sunshine glare facing towards them, whether the keeper would use it or not is another story still it's the goalkeeper final responsibility on that

Looks like he also pulled out of catching or punching the ball at the crucial final moment, if a keeper commits to like that knowing there is glare they have to follow through with it, really shocking goalkeeping all round

As P-Stu points out, cap is completely ineffective in those situations. There are very few goalkeepers who wear them anymore.

[Acornvilla]

Used to play in goals myself, very badly mind you, but I hated a cap, if anything it just cuts out some peripheral vision, you just have to look at the sun and do your best :D

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Fully agree with that. Cap is not a good thing to wear playing in goals.

[2 Year Contract]

In this case it’s not like the sun was behind the ball blocking his vision or anything anyways. It was to his right hand side, so although not ideal, he should still have been able to see the ball and at worst tip it over the bar

[seanfhear]

Would sun-glasses be, jumping the shark ? !

[Acornvilla]

Edgar Davids made it work tbf

[Nesta99]

If one did it a tonne would be donning the ray-bans! Dont see why the Davids kind wouldnt work though his were for galucoma and not everyone an use contacts. Maybe he had an exemption of some sort.

[Acornvilla]

It's pretty common for kids with poor eyesight to wear prescription goggle yolkes much like Davids' while playing sport, remember a couple did in my GAA club when I was a kid anyway. Reckon it would really hurt if you took a shot to the face thou, which probably happens to keepers more often than anyone else

[John83]

If one did it a tonne would be donning the ray-bans! Dont see why the Davids kind wouldnt work though his were for galucoma and not everyone an use contacts. Maybe he had an exemption of some sort.
I think he did have a medical exemption to wear them, yes.

[pineapple stu]

We go again!

Pohls against Waterford tonight. It's not great keeping - there's worse howlers on the thread I think, but it's the lack of ****s given when the ball goes past him that sells it for me. Very similar to his reaction for the goal against Bohs earlier in the thread.

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[pineapple stu]

And it wouldn't be the howlers thread without a contribution from Dundalk, at 1:15


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8e2LtOXSM8&t=321s

[oriel]

He's an idiot, OG for me.

[Philosophizer]

How many howlers does Pohls had this year that have lead to goals?

I can think of at least 3:
Rovers v Bohs
Rovers v Pats
Waterford v Rovers

And they all involve him coming off his line.

Still a good shot stopper though.

[joey B]

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Not sure if it’s in howler category but that doesn’t look great from McGinty,wicked bounce deceived him I think….

[Philosophizer]

Freakish bounce to be fair.

[nigel-harps1954]

Anang almost contributed to proceedings too.

[Nesta99]

Freakish bounce to be fair.

Yeah those natural grass pitches can be a lottery the way the ball can bounce oddly!!

[Jack B]

I think McGinty was unlucky with the bounce of the ball, a shot struck that well bouncing right in front of the keeper is tough to deal with. He should have done better obviously but compared to the other examples in this thread it's quite forgiveable.

Elsewhere in the game Anang almost had an absolute disaster. He's a great keeper but can be...eccentric and have his moments as a result. Somehow this didn't make the highlights package, nor did Lennon hitting the bar at the other end.

https://x.com/LeagueofIreland/status/1820169501729509452?s=19

[Philosophizer]

Watched the highlights of Rovers v Drogs and saw Pohls spilled another cross. Blessed it didn’t end up in his net.

[2 Year Contract]

Welcome to League of Ireland football Louis Jones

https://x.com/leagueofireland/status/1816912014385574059?s=46

He's only gone and done it again!

https://x.com/leagueofireland/status/1827074999741772055?s=46

[Shinkicker]

Bohs keeper gave a howler and paid the price. Shels keeper has 3 and got away with them

[trevy]

He's only gone and done it again!


https://x.com/leagueofireland/status/1827074999741772055?s=46
So annoying to lose to a goal like that. Awful mistake. The assistant flagged that it crossed the line. It's a pity he wasn't at RSC last week.

[Nesta99]

Pleto of comments on the ball not being over the line, at the point of the fumble the keeper was standing behind the line and the ball was more or less behind the keeper so it was fully over the line. Awful stuff, maybe he lost the flight of the ball in floodlights, but more likely he just took his eye off the ball. Great block to prevent Hoban getting near a challange on the keeper though if he had there was a good chance a foul would have been given rather than a goal.