observerfromuh wrote:MannyMuscatsBrother wrote:Josh is piss poor for the league. He would not start for a club like Wellington Olympic. If we re-sign him and potential signings see this, they should be like yeah nah.martinb wrote:I just have not seen anything to show Josh would be a top keeper though? He collapsed in all derbys, is so shaking at claiming anything in his area, he hoofs the ball when passed back to him. What am I missing that some people here are seeing that say, lets keep him.Rock Hopper wrote:At the moment best keeper in the league won’t be Duncan or either of the young guys we’ve got on our books.
In recent history, Nix have been at their best when we've had seasons with arguably the best performing keepers in the league that season. Kurto, Marinovic, Sail, Paulsen all had spells where you could make a very good case that they were in career best form and the best shot stoppers around each respective year. That steep drop off in quality between the sticks has been one of the factors in us losing our mojo over the last two seasons. When you combine that with the theory mentioned above that to carry an import slot you'd hope the player was streets ahead of local talent available - I just cannot get behind the enthusiasm to resign Josh Oluweyemi.
The young guys need some game time, and it’s bad, bad news we’ve been booted out of the Australia Cup. We should be making louder protests on behalf of Lacey Brook and Girdwood-Reich. Paulsen was a good keeper anyway, but that penalty shootout and that campaign helped him a lot.
If Josh eliminated errors I could see him having a near top season, but also I enjoyed McCarron catching corners.
Do people on here want to improve or do we want to keep players cause "they're nice guys"...?
Teams that win trophies are ruthless and sign the best players regardless if they are nice guys or not.
Well who’s starting for Wellington Olympic? Let’s sign them.
Josh is a better and more reliable shot stopper than McCarron or AKH as of this season.
The point was made about our top keepers- Kurto, Paulsen, Sail of recent times and none of our 3 options are near those guys when they were in form. And Marinovic too. Sail dropped off in his last season though.
Josh is the most reliable of the current 3. If you’re taking shots at him, put names of better keepers out there.
I don’t think Duncan would be a significant upgrade personally, but might allow us to rearrange our imports and be equally good as what we currently have.
With our midfield. Roa Conchie…sorry to say but don’t think he’s Rufer waiting to have a breakthrough. And I don’t want Retre. Nagasawa I much much prefer playing one of the wide 10s in the 4222 that Greenie seems to like or that used to be the club model. Back up 6 at most.
So we need two new starting 6s if Rufer is gone and at least one if he’s staying.
Josh is a better and more reliable shot stopper than McCarron or AKH as of this season.
The point was made about our top keepers- Kurto, Paulsen, Sail of recent times and none of our 3 options are near those guys when they were in form. And Marinovic too. Sail dropped off in his last season though.
Josh is the most reliable of the current 3. If you’re taking shots at him, put names of better keepers out there.
I don’t think Duncan would be a significant upgrade personally, but might allow us to rearrange our imports and be equally good as what we currently have.
With our midfield. Roa Conchie…sorry to say but don’t think he’s Rufer waiting to have a breakthrough. And I don’t want Retre. Nagasawa I much much prefer playing one of the wide 10s in the 4222 that Greenie seems to like or that used to be the club model. Back up 6 at most.
So we need two new starting 6s if Rufer is gone and at least one if he’s staying.