Why doesn't Mildenhall ever get near to stopping all these goals...?

[Rayleigh Blue]

Sorry but Mildenhall is not at fault for the recent goals, our midfield is pants and not stopping or cutting out balls. Grant wouldn’t get a game in a pub side and Macca’s just been off the boil. So who can we sub them with? No one…I also can’t remember when we had so many loan players…

 

[smudgster]

[Blames everybody else for all the goals he is leaking but i am afraid he is no better than League 2, if that![/quote]

When exactly did he blame everyone else ?

i would still rather have him than Ronnie Corbetts love child.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

And you get the Christmas most blinkered and clueless award!

Yorkshire Blue will be broken hearted to lose his crown.

Indeed. I was under the impression a nemesis was for life, not just for Christmas.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Grant wouldn’t get a game in a pub side SIZE]

well hes not getting game for SUFC -

saw him and Moussa do a great job at Millwall - looks to me he can handle it out there where as Milsom looks like its all a bit harsh and fast for him ...

 

[mattytheshrimper]

also i dont recall you ranting about Federici when we were shipping goals who had the same shocking defence in front of him. And i wasnt alone when thinking Feds was at fault at home to Oldham and away at Tranmere.

i don't know if you were at the tranmere game but if you were surely you would think twice before saying that. if it wasn't for feds we would have lost that game 6 nil. how we got a draw i don't know.

can't believe you actually said that, clueless.

 

[Firestorm]

If The team is playing well, the opposition get few chances , one of them is thwarted by a blinding save from the keeper and we go on to win by the odd goal then the keeper could be said to have made a match winning save.

If the opposition are all over us, we don't score but they get a hatfull of chances , scoring twice even if the keeper makes 4 blinding stops he has not made a matchwinng save.

Doesn't make him a worse keeper than the one in the first example though

 

[Kenny]

Since Mildy has been back from injury I don't think he's done anything wrong, at the Telford replay he made 2 excellent saves within 5 minutes that would have meant not going to Stamford Bridge in a couple of weeks if they had gone in!

As people are saying time and time again its the 4 wallies playing in front of him (6 if you want rake the centre midfield into this problem) that are leading to so many sloppy goals going in.

 

[Blue-Eyes]

Darryll has gone so everyone get over it!!
With our defence the way it is at the moment any keeper would struggle to keep a clean sheet especially one who is vertically challenged.
If you remenber we were conceeding 3 or 4 goals when Federichi was here and he is a much better keeper than Flav's.
If Tilson would swallow his pride and realise Barratt and Clarke is not a good centre half pairing and Francis is a right midfielder/winger and not a right back things might change.
But if everyone get on the keepers back when its the defense at fault then his confidence will go

The only thing Mildenhall has done wrong is replace Darryll who last year had one of if not the worst year at roots hall which is why Tilly decided to bring in a tall keeper.

 

[maninasuitcase]

There's nothing wrong with bringing in a tall keeper provided he's any good.

To say " Darryll who last year had one of if not the worst year at roots hall" whatever that means, is plain daft. No only did we qualify for the play-off, which looks beyond us now, but we had one of the meanest defences in the league.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

There's nothing wrong with bringing in a tall keeper provided he's any good.

To say " Darryll who last year had one of if not the worst year at roots hall" whatever that means, is plain daft. No only did we qualify for the play-off, which looks beyond us now, but we had one of the meanest defences in the league.

We scored more goals than both promoted Forest and Doncaster. Only the run-away Champions Swansea and Leeds (who'd have finished second but for their points deduction) scored more than us.

In contrast our defence was joint tenth. I'd say the issue was more at the back than up front, and I think without the excellent Nicky Bailey we'd have conceded a hell of a lot more.

 

[Sammy The Shrimp]

Wiggy why dont you just go back to stalking daryl. Since Mildenhall has come back i dont recall him doing anything wrong. Everygoal we have conceded Federici would of been highly unlikely to save and Daryl would never of saved em. So i dont think you can be calling others a clueless idiot because i can safely say that most people will agree with me that your the biggest clueless idiot on here.

Merry Christmas

 

[grassroots]

Steve(he had no chance with that one) Mildenhall just doesnt get us out of the mire(apart from 1 game)- Flavs did, Federici did. From what I've seen, he makes just makes standard saves and lets in everything else.

 

[BoyWonder2]

Steve(he had no chance with that one) Mildenhall just doesnt get us out of the mire(apart from 1 game)- Flavs did, Federici did. From what I've seen, he makes just makes standard saves and lets in everything else.

What about his two brilliant saves vs Telford at home in the FA Cup. What about his heroic performance at home Vs Hereford in the League with a suspected broken ankle for the end of it (I know it wasn't a broken ankle in the end, but they thought it at the time).

I mentioned this before and I will mention it again. The reason why you don't tend to see Mildenhall make wonders saves akin to the likes of Flavs during his time hear is because he deals with the first pharse of play better. For example, Mildenhall will come and claim or punch away a corner into the box, whereas Flavs will stay on his line and make a wonder save. Mildenhall doesn't have to make the wonder save because his dealt with the first pharse of play. Same to a certain extent with Feds, he made a few cracking saves here because of staying back on his line.

Another example would be Mildenhall's positional sense. As a goalkeeper myself I pay extra attention to the goalkeepers both for and against us. Flav's positional sense wasn't as good as Mildenhall. Mildenhall would make a routine save because of his positional sense, whereas because Flavs is a yard or two away from where he should be he has to make the wonder save to prevent the goal.

Finally, the size of the two goalkeepers makes a big difference. Flavs was 5ft 10 roughly and Mildenhall is around 6ft 4. Mildenhall can make saves just by sticking an arm or a leg out because of his size, where as the same shot at Flavs would require a dive to save it.

To be honest, I don't care how a goalkeeper saves a shot, where its a wonder save in the top corner, or a routine catch at chest height. All I care about is that he saves them.

Mildenhall is a very good goalkeeper, trust me when I say that. A lot of people moaning about him appear to be the younger generation (Of which I am to a certain extent) and had only seen Flavs play, or he played the vast majority of the games and he was a fans faviourite because of his bond with the fans and his wonder saves. Nobody likes it when your faviourite character is written out of a tv programme or a book and is replaced by someone different. Football is the same.

Please, please lets get behind the team, Mildenhall included.

 

[Southend_Lady]

I miss Darryl's bum.

 

[Angell Delight]

I take your point that Mildenhall is not a better overall keeper than Shorty but I dont think he is any worse. I think he is better in the air but is not the shot stopper that daryl was.

also i dont recall you ranting about Federici when we were shipping goals who had the same shocking defence in front of him. And i wasnt alone when thinking Feds was at fault at home to Oldham and away at Tranmere.

The goal keeping position is the least of our worries at the moment.

Mildy hasn't been at fault for ANY goals IMHO since he returned to the side (although obviously I'd much rather we'd been able to keep the excellent Feds).

Mildenhall is definitely much better in the air than Flavs, very much agree with that. With regards wiggy she is clearly blinded by her love for Darryl. Compare the height of the 2 keepers, the majority of saves Mildenhall makes aren't going to look spectacular as he's 6ft 6ins tall and therefore has much more of a reach than Darryl. Of course Flav's saves were on the whole more spectacular, he was a short-a**e with good reactions.

Have to say I think if we'd had this defence AND Darryl this season we'd have been shipping aerial goals left right and centre, much more so than we are now anyway.

 

[Kenny]

I miss Darryl's bum.

His bum wasn't sponsored by Vie bar like the Bluebelles though.

 

[M@CC@ 16]

Have to say I think if we'd had this defence AND Darryl this season we'd have been shipping aerial goals left right and centre, much more so than we are now anyway.

The dumbest thing i've ever heard, lets not forget we have 3/4 of the same defence we had last season at this stage last season, and have conceded way more goals. This is because the keeper is about an 8th as good and other than in the telford game hasn't made a great save, a match winning, 2 points saving stop. Secondly he needs to take some form of organising the defence rather than waaaaa'ing all the time.
And finally, this may not be anything to do with the defence more about the fact they had the best box2box midfielder in front of them, stripped away. Amount of second balls bailey won took some pressure off them.

I will support and encourage mildy while he playin for us, but sit much more comfortabely if he was playing for Farnborough town reserves, where he belongs

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

The problem, as stated by most people is with the defence as a unit not with Mildenhall as a keeper.

Mildenhall
league apps: 10
goals conceded: 17
average: 1.7 per game

Federici
league apps: 10
goals conceded 15
average: 1.5 per game

2 goals difference is, frankly, not a great deal of difference.

Both have played behind a poor defence. That's what needs sorting out.

 

[Mick]

The problem, as stated by most people is with the defence as a unit not with Mildenhall as a keeper.

Mildenhall
league apps: 10
goals conceded: 17
average: 1.7 per game

Federici
league apps: 10
goals conceded 15
average: 1.5 per game

2 goals difference is, frankly, not a great deal of difference.

Both have played behind a poor defence. That's what needs sorting out.

With Federici having played in 6 home and 4 away and Mildenhall in 4 home and 6 away, you could say that closes the gap even further.

However that just shows the danger of statistics as Federici is much, much better which is why he is a rising star in the Championship and Mildenhall is a low division journeyman.

 

[Kris]

With Federici having played in 6 home and 4 away and Mildenhall in 4 home and 6 away, you could say that closes the gap even further.

However that just shows the danger of statistics as Federici is much, much better which is why he is a rising star in the Championship and Mildenhall is a low division journeyman.

I agree that Federici is the better 'keeper but the stats are valid, nevertheless, because they reveal that Feds, despite being superb for us, still let in a lot of goals. And that in turn points glaringly at the fact we simply haven't been defending anywhere near well enough to protect whoever is in goal.

I could understand the anti-Mildenhall crew to a point if the goals he conceded were reachable but they simply weren't. The logic that Daryl would have saved some of the recent goals scored against us is laughable. No 'keeper in the world would have got near Matty Fryatt's goals, the Huddersfield goal or any of the three at Hartlepool.

Ultimately, it's another sad case of needless scapegoating.