Mildenhall

[Napster]

There are two types of goalkeepers..

You're right. Good ones and bad ones.

 

[TBV_Dan]

Listening to the radio last night, it sounds like Mildenhalll produced save after save to keep us in it, he commands his box much better than Flavs, ok, his distribution is not perfect, but no-one's distribution can be perfect. Come on, lay off him, he is a good player in my opinion.

 

[Andy_S]

For a keeper of his height, I think Mildy is very poor when it comes to coming out and claiming crosses. Richard had it dead right on the second goal - he should have claimed that ball.

Not a chance. If you see the goal on the tv it flashed past him and no keeper would've stopped it from happening. The defence were totally at blame. I do tend to chuckle to myself that despite the fact Barrett was a complete mess for both of their goals on Saturday, he never gets any blame on here. If he wasn't the 'Southend boy' I'm sure he'd get slated time and time again, but it seems to make him immune. For the first he was more intent on holding his man down, yet if he'd have jumped he'd have got something on the cross, whilst for the second he was beaten far too easily to the ball.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Not a chance. If you see the goal on the tv it flashed past him and no keeper would've stopped it from happening.

I didn't see it on TV, I saw it live. I'm old fashioned that way. And from where I was sitting Mildy and Barrett were both **** poor on that second goal.

 

[Andy_S]

I didn't see it on TV, I saw it live. I'm old fashioned that way. And from where I was sitting Mildy and Barrett were both **** poor on that second goal.

Well that's kind of my point. Looks can be very deceiving from wherever you sit in the ground due to the angle you see it from. In my seat in the second row of the greens it looked as if the goal went in from much closer than it actually did. When you see the replay on tv you can appreciate that Mildenhall had no chance of claiming it.

I'm always very surprised as to how different some things look back on tv than they do at the game itself actually! :dim:

 

[Fish]

That's what I said.
Was righ in front of me and Walker was making his run into the box
and the defender just didn't move and then walker went down so he went down and they got freekick! :stunned:

If we say that their second goal was a direct consequence of the (correctly pointed out) bad decision by the ref, then what we're actually saying is that opposition gaining possession next to their own penalty area leads inevitably to us conceding a goal.

Now I know the aim of this thread is to question the strength of the defence, especially the role that Mildy plays in it as goalkeeper, but I think it's more than a little harsh to infer that nothing they do can prevent opposition possession 100 yards away turning into us conceding a goal.

Yes, the ref made a bad decision on Walker, it was shocking (not the only bad decision he made, many of which actually went our way). But normally when we concede possession in that area of the pitch it's relatively harmless (yes, even us!).

So that means that out-of-the-ordinary mistakes were made by the defence. From South upper it sure looked as if Huudersfield were allowed the run of our penalty area for a little game of head tennis until they got bored with that and thought heck, let's just nod it in the onion bag instead.