Walsall Boy wrote:
One thing I cannot understand on here is the negativity towards an import spot filled by a goal keeper.
GK is one of the positions in a football team, some will argue more important than others.
How much did Paulsen's contribution make to the season coming second? Same as Kurto in Rudan's season. On the other scale, the mistrust in goal keeping in 2017 and the Keegan Smith fiasco. Not his fault though. The unmentioned coach threw him under the bus.
Can it be explained why goalkeeping cannot be an import?
Chris Greenacre really ought to get 5 foreign player leaders in the outfield. Greenacre/Ifill/Riera/Krishna/Taylor/Ball were important as foreign outfield leaders. Can be done. Having a foreign goalkeeper immediately means they can't have 1 more proven foreign player in either defensive midfield, centre back or left back. They have suffered in the outfield under Chief for 2 seasons, and that needs all the help it can get. & some aussies will only play for a Melbourne or Sydney club. If they were able to secure Austin Ayoubi, Harry Politidis, Kosta Grozos and Ben Gibson with a flick of the fingers, then maybe I would agree, but I don't think it's that easy.