I was so gutted when he left, he got sent off on debut if I remember.
Best if you do, Nick. I've just heard from a mates mate who's uncles cousin is a window cleaner in West London that SkyBlueSam has just been refused entry to the Ecuadorian embassy.
How we let his contract run down I'll never know. Fair enough him moving onto a Premier League club (at the time) but to let him leave for nothing was the biggest travesty. Joins the likes of Gunnarsson, Fleck, King and Christie in players we should've tied down sooner. Sometimes that's football but in that 2-3 year period the club had a horrible habit of letting contracts run out. Westwood has been immense since his return back into the Wednesday side though and still one of the best goalkeepers in that division in my opinion, which says a lot about his pedigree. One of the few ex-Coventry players in recent years I can genuinely say I'd love to have back at the club (if wages weren't an issue obviously).
Don't know about other players mentioned but Fleck was made the best offer the club could afford and we really tried to keep him
Unfortunately he got a much bigger offer from Sheffield United
Unfortunately he got a much bigger offer from Sheffield United
And then we went one better a few years later and did the same with Tudgay.
Can’t believe that Ipswich let him go to Sheff Utd and now because of the lack of goal scoring amongst other things have gone down.
I think had he had more competition behind him, he’d have lost his place long before now. Addai wasn’t going to offer that and imo was purely stepped up to make up the numbers on the bench and very last resort
Like last season, we had keepers rotating after each made a balls up or two. We’ve not had that option this year
Would be interesting to know why obrien has been unavailable for so much of the season? Don’t think that’s ever been shared has it? And on that subject I do think he would have been crucified if he’d made the same errors Burge has, but then again he’s not got the protective ‘Cov kid’ status
I didn’t agree with the mid game ironic cheers towards Burge but I can’t defend that he’s not had the best of seasons
Said last year he’d found his level
Like last season, we had keepers rotating after each made a balls up or two. We’ve not had that option this year
Would be interesting to know why obrien has been unavailable for so much of the season? Don’t think that’s ever been shared has it? And on that subject I do think he would have been crucified if he’d made the same errors Burge has, but then again he’s not got the protective ‘Cov kid’ status
I didn’t agree with the mid game ironic cheers towards Burge but I can’t defend that he’s not had the best of seasons
Said last year he’d found his level
I’d say if we’d treated him badly we wouldn’t have kept him on past his 16th birthday? I think we’ve been quite generous as a Club, overly generous of anything, by keeping him as log as we have!
We’ve seen it with too many academy graduates keeping them on the books hoping one day they will come good.
He had an excellent start to the season. Went down hill after Walsall
Not sure about an excellent start to the season, didn’t he miss half the early games with an injury or is that what you meant?
Tbf to Pete here, burge was turning the corner and the consensus on here was that finally, people's hearts weren't in their mouths every time the ball went near him. Unfortunately that lasted about 7 games
His handling has always been poor. Always surprises me. When my lad has been mascot and pitch side as they catch the balls his handling was phenomenal!
Burge set the bar so low for himself any sign of remotely looking like a goalkeeper elevated him to international class in some people’s eyes.
Pete was the same with that other dire excuse for a footballer Haynes - now a bench warmer at a club lower than us
Pete was the same with that other dire excuse for a footballer Haynes - now a bench warmer at a club lower than us
MoM aren’t much indication these days. Most of the time it ends up being someone who has had a reasonable game.
You do realise two people on the whole ground could technically vote for him to get that award?
Mom is done by somebody being asked in a box when I was in there they chose somebody they wanted to meet
Viper Goalkeeping must have sponsored 9 or so matches.
It was the improvement you didn’t think he was capable of. Pretty sure bakayoko will embarrass you too
