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Spoonley better than Paston??

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Spoonley better than Paston??
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Would it not have been wiser keeping young Spoonley and dumping Paston? He would cost a lot less and frankly, Paston fails to impress me both on his one appearance last season and his All Whites appearances.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Would it not have been wiser keeping young Spoonley and dumping Paston? He would cost a lot less and frankly, Paston fails to impress me both on his one appearance last season and his All Whites appearances.


As long as Moss is playing well all other keepers will be warming the bench. Spoonley is young and deserves to be playing more to develop his game. As the article says, he could be the Nix keeper in a few years.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
With the youth league being set up i hope he goes to Canberra.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago


As long as Moss is playing well all other keepers will be warming the bench. Spoonley is young and deserves to be playing more to develop his game. As the article says, he could be the Nix keeper in a few years.
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Moss was probly the most important signing last season as he saved us many times. But spoonley does need more playing time in order to get better so yes I agree.
 
Do you think he will come back to the nix?
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Paston is a very good keeper. He showed that at the Knights.

Spoonley is also very good, the Nix were blessed with good keepers. You only need 2 keepers, as 1 can be bought in for injury cover anyway
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I agree Ben, Paston is class he just had a rough go of it last year. Spoonley is better of somewhere he is playing week in week out, he can always come back later.

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Experience over youth. Not a hard decision here. Spoons just needs more game time to grow. A reserve keeper has to close and equal to the number one keeper and Spoons is nowhere Paston or Moss ability. He is very talented and full of potential but he's not getting a game with the other two keepers around. And frankly you can't just develop a 3rd keeper with the limited games that A-League plays currently. A reasonable experienced short contacted keeper would do the same job if need be but we are really holding him back.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

What are the oppotunitites they are talking about overseas, is it just the possbible move to Camberra and the youth team, in which case why release him, or are they looking further abroad?

 

Paston just needs some confidence.

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Would it not have been wiser keeping young Spoonley and dumping Paston? He would cost a lot less and frankly, Paston fails to impress me both on his one appearance last season and his All Whites appearances.
 
I agree 100%.
Paston was decidedly dodgy both times I saw him last year.
 
It has been quoted that Spoonley needs more game time in order to progress, but that must apply equally to Paston surely?  Even the Number 1 Phoenix keeper aint playing that many games a season, compared to European players.  I would think they are all spending too much time practicing and training and not enough playing.
 
Why arent both Spoonley and Paston playing in the NZFC, is it down to this ludicrous transfer rule? Regulations need to allow our down under players to get more proper games in a year.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I disagree. It would be nice to keep both, but if I have to choose a backup I go with the experienced keeper who is proven. The problem with that is keeping him motivated. One game for the Nix is not a fair basis on which to judge him. Anyone can look better or worse than normal in a single game.
 
Browner - yeah agree on the number of games. This goes back to what we were discussing elsewhere about season lengths.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
this all wouldnt have been a problem if we had our youth league

and yeah you really only do need 2 Keepers 
because the chances of happing what happened to Chelsea are once in a BLUE moon
HK_Keeper2008-03-30 11:57:16
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