Hi,
I hear Alvin wasnt playing on Friday nite and heard he was in Monaghan. Also heard some rumours of him going for trials in England. Any truth in any of that????
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Hi,
I hear Alvin wasnt playing on Friday nite and heard he was in Monaghan. Also heard some rumours of him going for trials in England. Any truth in any of that????
He wasnt due in Galway until Saturday and played against Waterford on Saturday night we won 3-1.
Aw right! Grand so! Just wondering what was the story. Did he do well? Do you think he will get the no 1 jersey?
Is he still the best of craic,aww I miss him:(
He may have lost his fun when he went to Galway but he was good craic with us!!
I don't think he will. Rogers will hold his position I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Oh well. Hopefully we get you in the cup and you let him play that day so we can slag him when we score!! :D
Ditto, i know very little about Rouse but I don't see him gettin ahead of Rogers any time soon, barring injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by Con-Con
Alvin Rouse isn't anywhere near the keeper that Gary Rodgers is.
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Originally Posted by sadloserkid
I dont think Rodgers is great so is Rouse a poor keeper?
IMO Rouse is a reasonable first division keeper and no more than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by gordongekko
The little I know about Rouse is that he's meant to be a tiny bit dodgy. Going on last season Rogers was very reliable imo.
Rouse is an unreal shot stopper, the rest of his game is dodgy though. Always had brilliant games against us for some reason :mad:
If memory serves me right, he frustrated us quite a bit too when playing with the Ben Bulben Boys
Why have we got 2 very average goalkeepers it seems a waste of money?
Who here thinks Rogers is only average? Granted he had a bit of a dodgy start last year, but with goughie training him he has come on leaps and bounds, and I think he is an excellent keeper now. I for one am more than happy to have Rogers in goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by gordongekko
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Originally Posted by gordongekko
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Originally Posted by Square Heir
You have answered the question yourself he was dodgy at the start and ended up average at the end of the season. now we have according to other posters got a dodgy keeper as back up?. Hardly top 6 material
Gary was brilliant in the second half of last season and im quite happy to have him as first choice. I wont make up my mind about Rouse until I actually see him play. The negativity is astounding sometimes.:rolleyes:
1 minute our keeper is off to England the next he only good enough for the first division and our other keeper is somewhere between dodgy and brilliant. At least the matter is now cleared up.
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Originally Posted by gordongekko
The only part of his game that was dodgy early on was his distribution. That's not an issue anymore. I feel we have an excellent keeper, definately not an average keeper. Definatley the best since Goughie was Utd's keeper in the mid 90's.
Gordongekko, What would you expect from our keeper that Gary can't deliver? Please don't refer to the first series of games last season, as that's not exactly relevant anymore.
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Originally Posted by Square Heir
Im not saying anything against Gary he is our number one keeper i just said i think he is average and that im not sure why we added another keeper who may be dodgy or not depending on who you believe. surely we should have added a keeper who is better than what we have?. I just cant remember Gary having any game winning matches or him making any top drawer saves so i just think he is average and there is nothing wrong with him being average. Hopefully he will have improved during the off season and will now be above average. But he is no where near as good as Alan was when he was playing.
you obviously werent at many away games last season. 2 games in particular the Longford game away and Bray Away he was as good as any Keeper ive ever seen in a Galway Jersey.
some of his saves were some of the best ive seen at any level last season - top drawer
Agreed...Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Rogers won us a lot of points last year with some top quality saves. His kickouts in his first few games were so bad, consideration was being given to mounting a Triple B Campaign - Bring Back Brinias - but he improved in that area as the season went on.
gufct and square heir - the positivity is astounding at sometimes - also
I've seen both of them. I rate Gary Rodgers tbh, not top class but certainly up to Galway's needs right now. Similarly my negativity towards Rouse is based on the fact that he's fairly dodgy at times, can look excellent one second but always well capable of dropping a clanger too.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
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Originally Posted by gufct
was it this match against Bray your talking about?
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Jbblc7VIo
NO, it was the game when we beat bray 1-0 away for our first win of the season, he made 2 crucial saves . one from delaney in particular was world class.Quote:
Originally Posted by gordongekko
how about the save on 59 seconds? http://youtube.com/watch?v=3KtA9dU0t4o
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Originally Posted by Olander
It was a decent save but where was he for the longford goal?
If you watched the video you would see that he parry s the effort on front post. I can't believe anybody would complain about our defense!! we conceeded less goals (by alot) then sligo, bray, longford, waterford, ucd.
last year we only conceeded more than 1 goal on 2 occasions. i would be alot more concerned upfront than in defense. there isn't many better goalkeepers than Gary Rogers knocking around the place, Rouse will only be cover.
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Originally Posted by Olander
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxFD4srCt7Q
A good save here around the 3min mark and again around 3.30 but gave away a peno and should have saved the second goal