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Post by pclaude on Aug 3, 2024 9:12:50 GMT
He’s completely wasting the last quarter of his career. This shows how alot of modern day players put their bank balance before playing. They have lost all sense of reality, they have no idea on real life, sad, very sad. You would take a 80% or so pay cut just like that would you? |
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Post by fireboy0610 on Aug 3, 2024 10:04:40 GMT
This shows how alot of modern day players put their bank balance before playing. They have lost all sense of reality, they have no idea on real life, sad, very sad. You would take a 80% or so pay cut just like that would you? How do you know it would be 80%? And my point is, even 20% of what he's on I'd suspect is more a month that what any of us mere mortals are on a year. |
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Post by pclaude on Aug 4, 2024 13:14:05 GMT
You would take a 80% or so pay cut just like that would you? How do you know it would be 80%? And my point is, even 20% of what he's on I'd suspect is more a month that what any of us mere mortals are on a year. He is a benchwarmer now at Championship level. He’s on EPL wages of what is quoted as around £40k a week. The average salary per week is £10k. He will not be a a starter at that level according to most in this thread. So say about £8k a week. So that is an 80% reduction. I also said or so. You are of course of right with your last point but our careers finish at 67 not 37. That said I would agree some high earners lose a lot perspective on life….which is actually part of society’s problems |
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Post by fireboy0610 on Aug 4, 2024 13:32:32 GMT
How do you know it would be 80%? And my point is, even 20% of what he's on I'd suspect is more a month that what any of us mere mortals are on a year. He is a benchwarmer now at Championship level. He’s on EPL wages of what is quoted as around £40k a week. The average salary per week is £10k. He will not be a a starter at that level according to most in this thread. So say about £8k a week. So that is an 80% reduction. I also said or so. You are of course of right with your last point but our careers finish at 67 not 37. That said I would agree some high earners lose a lot perspective on life….which is actually part of society’s problems The top championship players are on more than 10k, he's definitely that level if he plays constantly. Most clued up players invest whilst they are playing so don't really have to work when they finish. |
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Post by talyfan on Aug 19, 2024 18:05:00 GMT
On the bench
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Post by garynysmon on Aug 20, 2024 15:31:42 GMT
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Post by jbt95 on Aug 20, 2024 16:15:11 GMT
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Post by athenempadu on Aug 20, 2024 19:33:10 GMT
The reserve keeper wasn't injured last season either |
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Post by rushy on Aug 27, 2024 19:31:10 GMT
He's playing tonight.
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Post by CrackityJones on Sept 24, 2024 18:12:05 GMT
Starting in the cup again tonight
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Post by winsumluzsum on Sept 24, 2024 20:53:54 GMT
Saves all 3 Walsall penalties to send Leicester through. That's at least one more game for him for Leicester this season...
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Post by underwood on Sept 24, 2024 20:57:24 GMT
Saves all 3 Walsall penalties to send Leicester through. That's at least one more game for him for Leicester this season... And three more penalties than he managed to save back in March…. |
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Post by iot on Sept 24, 2024 21:04:24 GMT
Tuned in for the shootout, the commentator mentioned a great save he pulled off during the game too. It's a shame those Polish pens were so good, because Ward really is a penalty specialist - those saves against France and Turkey, the penalty shootout he essentially won for Huddersfield that got them into the Prem, and a couple of other shootout wins for Leicester as well.
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Post by insertname on Sept 25, 2024 8:56:29 GMT
Tuned in for the shootout, the commentator mentioned a great save he pulled off during the game too. It's a shame those Polish pens were so good, because Ward really is a penalty specialist - those saves against France and Turkey, the penalty shootout he essentially won for Huddersfield that got them into the Prem, and a couple of other shootout wins for Leicester as well. I thought he was poor in that shoot out personally. The penalty he should have saved was Lewandowskis because he did 90% of the work by not committing. You could see Lewandowski was a bit bamboozled as he completely stopped his run up to stall and figure out what to do, then just before he eventually goes to kick the ball Ward then decides to commit but goes too early and Lewandowski has enough time to react and put it the other way. We then saw him have a penalty saved in the Euros (a marker as to what Ward *should* have done) before the wanker of a ref made him take the penalty again for the keeper being off his line. In my book if you stop dead the keeper should be fully entitled to come off his line. But anyway, it felt like that was the opportunity because it was Poland’s poorest pen. Saying that I don’t recall he even went the right way for any of them. So yeah it maybe something he’s good at but whether it’s due to lack of match practice or whatever I felt he under-achieved in that penalty shoot out rather than it being a case of Poland’s penalties being exceptional because he never read their run up correctly. |
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Post by iot on Sept 25, 2024 10:53:17 GMT
Tuned in for the shootout, the commentator mentioned a great save he pulled off during the game too. It's a shame those Polish pens were so good, because Ward really is a penalty specialist - those saves against France and Turkey, the penalty shootout he essentially won for Huddersfield that got them into the Prem, and a couple of other shootout wins for Leicester as well. I thought he was poor in that shoot out personally. The penalty he should have saved was Lewandowskis because he did 90% of the work by not committing. You could see Lewandowski was a bit bamboozled as he completely stopped his run up to stall and figure out what to do, then just before he eventually goes to kick the ball Ward then decides to commit but goes too early and Lewandowski has enough time to react and put it the other way. We then saw him have a penalty saved in the Euros (a marker as to what Ward *should* have done) before the wanker of a ref made him take the penalty again for the keeper being off his line. In my book if you stop dead the keeper should be fully entitled to come off his line. But anyway, it felt like that was the opportunity because it was Poland’s poorest pen. Saying that I don’t recall he even went the right way for any of them. So yeah it maybe something he’s good at but whether it’s due to lack of match practice or whatever I felt he under-achieved in that penalty shoot out rather than it being a case of Poland’s penalties being exceptional because he never read their run up correctly. Disagree, I think that’s harsh. I remember thinking at the time that both sets of pens were really good (to my surprise, I fully expected us to fluff most of ours!), and just thought Ward didn’t really stand a chance - most of the Polish pens had such pace and accuracy that no keeper would get close even after guessing the right way. Ward’s track record speaks for itself, he has a really good success rate for every team he’s played for. |
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Post by insertname on Oct 30, 2024 20:34:40 GMT
Gets a rare start and concedes 4 first half goals. Leicester fans must be sick of the sight of him
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 31, 2024 10:24:47 GMT
I don't ever recall a time where our goalkeeper options looked so bleak.
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Post by insertname on Oct 31, 2024 12:21:02 GMT
I don't ever recall a time where our goalkeeper options looked so bleak. I think Darlow, while not ideal, has to be the starter going forward. Ward is clearly not premier league quality. Haven’t checked the stats but doesn’t Darlow have a handful of premier league appearances where he at least didn’t embarrass himself? I think there’s just too much that isn’t right about Ward at the moment. If I was in charge I’d be telling him to get his act together by dropping down a level or two, play regularly and put a run together that inspires some confidence. We tend to hark back to his Aberdeen and Huddersfield loan spells when trying to argue for his quality and that in and of itself, says a lot about where he is right now. I expect Bellamy will keep picking him, which may be fine for Nations league division 2 sort of stuff but in nations league A (were we to get there!) could get problematic the longer he goes on with no competitive football so he can improve as a keeper. |
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Post by quetzal on Oct 31, 2024 14:00:15 GMT
I want to say Danny Ward wasn’t at fault for any of the goals. Which he appeared not to be. But positioning is off I reckon. Just not there for a top class keeper. It’s his own fault because he should have left Leicester a long long time ago.
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Post by vaulksthrowfanclub on Oct 31, 2024 14:35:06 GMT
We need Eddie Beach to get a better loan in the second half of the season. Played once for Crawley thus far.
Longer term thinking, we need to pull out all the stops for Aidan Stokes too.
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Post by insertname on Oct 31, 2024 18:21:59 GMT
I want to say Danny Ward wasn’t at fault for any of the goals. Which he appeared not to be. But positioning is off I reckon. Just not there for a top class keeper. It’s his own fault because he should have left Leicester a long long time ago. That’s always been my feeling too, when you watch some of his goals against back critically he seems to expose too much of the goal on one side and of course it seems to be well known by now that he has a habit of conceding shots from range moreso than any other keeper does which speaks to a positioning problem. |
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 31, 2024 22:11:59 GMT
Ward is on the bench for a crap Premier League team, Darlow is on the bench in the Championship, Beach on the bench for a crap League One team. Quite simply, this has to change.
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Post by winsumluzsum on Nov 1, 2024 11:24:48 GMT
If things have to change and if the requirement is a goalkeeper who's playing regularly, then the choice is Cheltenham's (league two) Owen Evans or Connor Roberts of TNS. Would you seriously prefer either of these to Ward, Darlow or Davies?
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Post by 1gwaunview on Nov 1, 2024 12:58:15 GMT
Wasted his career (except financially perhaps). Not improved as he would/should have done by playing more games. Played well enough for us in the delayed Euros. Poor since.
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Post by insertname on Nov 1, 2024 13:05:06 GMT
Ward is on the bench for a crap Premier League team, Darlow is on the bench in the Championship, Beach on the bench for a crap League One team. Quite simply, this has to change. Not unless the players involved want it to, unfortunately. You’d hope at least that Bellamy has put his foot down and insisted on first team football to play for Wales. Ward’s contract has to be up soon and it seemed Bellamy was hinting at Darlow moving in the last window so maybe there will be some positive change on the goalkeeping front in January or the close season at the latest… |
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Post by insertname on Nov 1, 2024 13:08:30 GMT
Wasted his career (except financially perhaps). Not improved as he would/should have done by playing more games. Played well enough for us in the delayed Euros. Poor since. He was a steady presence but iirc our defence was very well drilled back then and he didn’t have a great deal to do for much of the tournament. Of course Page later made the decision to bring back Hennessey for the WC play off and WC itself. |
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Post by iot on Nov 1, 2024 15:40:37 GMT
I'm not too concerned personally. I'm trying to think of the bad games he's had for us where he's cost us. Page's last game in charge (Slovakia away) is the most recent example, where his howler led to the floodgates opening when we were playing ok. Before then, I can remember his howler out in Prague, potentially poor positioning against England in the World Cup, and then I'm struggling. So in 43 apps, he's had like 3-5 games where he's cost us - around once in every 10 games?
It's not an ideal situation at all, but I think it's being exaggerated as an issue
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Post by iot on Nov 1, 2024 15:47:17 GMT
Ward is on the bench for a crap Premier League team, Darlow is on the bench in the Championship, Beach on the bench for a crap League One team. Quite simply, this has to change. Not unless the players involved want it to, unfortunately. You’d hope at least that Bellamy has put his foot down and insisted on first team football to play for Wales. Ward’s contract has to be up soon and it seemed Bellamy was hinting at Darlow moving in the last window so maybe there will be some positive change on the goalkeeping front in January or the close season at the latest… "seemed Bellamy was hinting at Darlow moving in the last window" It's funny how that rumour has become widely accepted. I remember watching the press conference, and it was just a case of a journalist asking about Darlow being brought in and making the point that he's yet another non-playing keeper, and Bellamy just responded (and this was before the transfer window shut) to glibly say that no one knows what the situation will be further down the line as part of a much longer answer. I didn't get the impression that he was sharing some inside knowledge, just making the point that no situation is static when it comes to players' club appearances and that he gives us another option. Some people took that as Bellamy slipping Darlow was about to move, and then others hearing it 2nd or 3rd hand have just ran with it, and now it appears to be an accepted fact on here. An interesting case study on how quickly and spuriously rumours spread ha! |
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