In my opinion it would have to be Darren Quigley of the students. Very impressive any time ive seen him. Just pips Devine IMO.
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In my opinion it would have to be Darren Quigley of the students. Very impressive any time ive seen him. Just pips Devine IMO.
Mick Devines saves this year have been unbelieveable, especially in Prague. He's the best.
Murphy!
Devine has stood out this season. Young keeper would be between Quigley or Murphy, both great prospectsQuote:
Originally Posted by bambi
Quigley, Devine and Murphy are well ahead of the rest IMO. I'd go with Quigley but then I'm biased!
Delaney has done pretty well since getting into the Shels squad as well, Forde with Derry has also had a good season.
Devine because he has competed on a different level to all the others this season.
Devine IMO. Has been top keeper since he was in Waterford. One player I was really sorry to see go.
I'm going to be harsh and say that Quigley is not tall enough. He doesn't catch enough crosses. He's brilliant at stopping shots but he flaps and punches too often.
Threads like these are so stupid imo, I mean, most people are gonna vote for their own keeper:rolleyes:
Russel Payne! I challenge you to nominate a more entertaining keeper to watch who played in the eL this season.;)
Russel Payne was a superb keeper with us for a while!
Forde has been superb this season, saving us away to $hels in the cup and home to Cork. Devine has also been fantastic. Both are however prone to rare strange errors. Devine against Harps springs to mind and Forde has dropped a few cathces during the season.
Devine has been way ahead of all others. Murphy has done well but not at high level to notice him Quigley good but again not enough top class action. Devines saves in Prague showed he could rise to big occasion & IMO should be in irish squad.
Where does Nicky Colgan play?
Murphy, Forde and Devine.
Devine.
Has made a fairly good centre-back pairing look excellent and has won a good 8 to 10 points single-handedly.
2nd place Quigley.
3rd place Biscuits. :D
colgan is with barnsley in league 1. (edit: oops sorry wrong div- its actually league 1)Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
hopefully no cork fan ever gets to manage ireland - through foot.ie i've seen outraged cork fans call for doyle, the drunk-driver, kearney, o'flynn and now devine (i'm probably missing a couple more) to be included in the irish squad :eek:
In the squad, they have all hit some sort of internmational form reciently.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinR
In fairness, Colgan is in the 4th English division, while Devine has played 11 times in Europe over the last year and a half, surely thats worthy of being the 3 choice Irish keeper?
[QUOTE=Speranza]Russel Payne was a superb keeper with us for a while!
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Heard he was your POTY a few years back:eek:
Oh we've had a few beauts the last couple of years with Payne and Mooney:D
Anyway best keeper would have to be Devine. Amazing performance in Prague and has been consistently good despite his size.
But Barry Murphy has been a revelation especially considering he had to jump in the deep end after Payne threw the ball in the net at Richmond. Week in week out he has saved us. If Payne was still around we would have been relegated in May:D
KOH
Clearly international class then. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinR
Cullen for us has been outstanding, even though he one of the worst defences in the league in front of him.
Only for himself and McHugh we'd have been relegated a month ago.
Alan Gough(our keeper) by far the best in the 1st Divison...has saved us i don't know how many times.:o
For me one of the more unimpressive keepers ive seen this season id have to say, far to chunky :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fbtn
You can take it from me, and I know about goalkeeping, Barry Murphy is too good for this league. Would definitely make any team in the SPL and will soon be 2nd keeper to Shay Given.
If Rovers had Murphy at the start of the season and if we had our 8 points back ( I know, I know ) and if we had a sensible manager and if we had another few bob we would be ahead of Shels in 3rd spot. That clown Payne cost us 9 points.:mad:
Nearly all keepers have one great season! Its just wether they can consistantly do it over a few years that makes them the best keepers as opposed to good keepersQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam Savic
He's certainly the busiest keeper in the league anyway, don't know if he's the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Savic
Well if you mean overall, then you can't look too much further than Steve Williams - he's been keeper of the season the last two years and has been the victim of injury and very poor decision-making by Nutsy. But my keeper of the season is Barry Ryan by a mile
Spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
Barry murphy. best keeper ive seen at Rovers in the 10 years im following the Hoops.
Probably Devine ahead of Quigley. Murphy's impressed me when I've seen him. Forde has looked very dodgy every time I've seen him though!
Surprised it took so long for someone to get the right answer. Williams is consistently the best, with Devine second as far as I'm concerned. Crazy for Shels to drop him when they lost a few games (Crawley, Rogers more culpable). Delaney's not a patch on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by sfc red
This season, Barry Ryan has been excellent, Devine brilliant as usual, Barry Murphy is very impressive. I haven't seen enough of Forde to judge. Quigley looks a good shot-stopper too and Chris O'Connor on his day.
Have to punt in with Barry ryan. The only reason we're not relegated this season. Superb keeper
Impressed with the Rovers kid aswell
Barry Murphy. Without any doubt, by a country kilometre. Anyone who doesn't rate him hasn't seen him, imo.
The busiest would generally indicate he's the best, Peadar. :rolleyes: The least busy would indicate that the keeper has the best four in front of him. There's a difference.Quote:
He's certainly the busiest keeper in the league anyway, don't know if he's the best
Not a chance, he's just a big blob in the goals:rolleyes: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Conor H
To be honest I'm still laughing at Russell Payne, what a legend:)
Noel Mooney, absolute nutcase, often worth the admission fee alone :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
As for the Galway fans saying Goughie, hes small, slightly round and very past it. Best keeper in the division is between O'Hara with Sligo and our own Mr. Mooney :ball:
Agreed;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Plus, he has the funniest run in the world! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Hey its not a run, its a proud trot :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rover 2 U
You can be busy picking the ball out of the back of the net too, that doesn't mean you're any good.Quote:
Originally Posted by d f x-
A couple of good games isn't enough to give the title to Murphy.
Devine, Williams etc. have done it consistently, both at home and in Europe.
For some reason there are a genuine number of keepers in contention.
Both Devine for CCFC and Forde for Derry have been instumental in thier clubs' success.
Clubs further down Ryan has been very good for Pat's, O'Connor likewise for Bray and Murphy has been outstanding for Rovers.
Someone mentioned degree of competition, Quigley has been great for UCD and was worth his U21 call-up.
IMO.
1. Devine (I honestly believe he should be in the Irish Squad too, plays at a higher and more consistent level than Colgan, don't see how anyone can argue with that, he's also done it for a number of years at this stage)
2. Murphy (almost single handedly keeping Rovers going for a while there)
3. Quigley