LoI keeper howlers - 2024 edition

[pineapple stu]

I'm sorry but people would not have missed the Kerry goal.

I've seen plenty of things missed on our videos from using, say, members of the 19s to video games down the years. It does happen. And I've not seen too many goals missed on our highlights (granted I haven't been watching them every time). I think the point is blown a bit out of proportion to be honest.

[joey B]

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Minogue for Athlone with this week’s Division One howler …..

[pineapple stu]

Ross Munro of Dundalk flying the flag here at 1:15. Genuinely don't think I've ever seen that.

[pineapple stu]

Dundalk the beneficiaries of a howler today, against Pat's...

[2 Year Contract]

Welcome to League of Ireland football Felix Goddard

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[pineapple stu]

The third Dundalk keeper to feature on the thread

That's mental stuff

[Nesta99]

Having not seen tonights game I just knew when I saw an addition to this thread it would be a Dundalk calamity keeper moment. Simialr to a previous one where trying to hook it back it was put over the line, if in doubt push it over the bar!! Going behind in Drogheda is tough to get back in to it if they sit in on the narrow pitch, gifting a lead is just a killer for the players.

[total hoofball]

Dennison was also horrendous for Dundalk's late goal going out into no man's land

[2 Year Contract]

Welcome to League of Ireland football Louis Jones

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[Shearer]

Welcome to League of Ireland football Louis Jones

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United Park must be haunted. Two away keeper errors in as many weeks, both debuts too?

[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]

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]

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