whelk Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 Imagine there will be a few similar clown comparison articles leading up to Tuesday's game hope he plays a blinder but lets at least one in http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/artful-artur-boruc-dodges-clown-comparison-8876300.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 Nice volley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
positivepete Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 Link to the volley mentioned in the article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 0-0, 90th minute, penalty to England, Rickie Lambert steps up.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 Good piece. I didn't realise he was one of the GKs nominated for the 2008 World XI. That's a pretty high accolade by anybody's standards. That we have such a quality keeper playing for us, and seemingly in the fittest and happiest condition of his career, makes me extremely optimistic for our future. I have to wonder just how much higher we could have finished had we signed him last summer, got him fit and played him from the start, instead of persisting with Gazzaniga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 0-0, 90th minute, penalty to England, Rickie Lambert steps up.......... I wish I'd said that....(sigh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 I can't be arsed to drag up the thread, but there were many who wrote him off after his first two games. That said he looks in significantly better shape than when he joined us. For me, he was core to our survival last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 When the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign was beginning, Boruc did not have a club after being released by Fiorentina last summer. When he was eventually taken on as a free agent just over a year ago by Southampton, it was only on a short-term contract to be third-choice goalkeeper. I find that very hard to believe. He was clearly signed (by the club if not Adkins) to be first choice, but gaining fitness after no pre-season and then the bottle incident delayed him starting regularly until January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 12 October, 2013 Share Posted 12 October, 2013 I find that very hard to believe. Yep, he was purchased because we had shipped many under Kelvin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeSixty Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 Hope he plays a blinder and keeps a clean sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2456591/Artur-Boruc-inspired-Jan-Tomaszewski-heroics-Poland-plot-break-Englands-hearts-again.html Easy story for lazy Journos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 Good piece. I didn't realise he was one of the GKs nominated for the 2008 World XI. That's a pretty high accolade by anybody's standards. That we have such a quality keeper playing for us, and seemingly in the fittest and happiest condition of his career, makes me extremely optimistic for our future. I have to wonder just how much higher we could have finished had we signed him last summer, got him fit and played him from the start, instead of persisting with Gazzaniga. I would say absolutely at most we'd have got 6 more points. Gazzaniga played in wins against QPR (away) and Newcastle, (plus Cup wins Stevenage and Sheff Wed), draws against Fulham (he was partially to blame for one goal, so let's say 2 points there), Swansea (say 2 more there arguably), and Norwich (say 2 more there too). The defeats were away to Everton (he was at fault for one goal but we'd have lost with any keeper), away to West Brom (we were awful, nothing to do with him), and Liverpool (still dunno how we only lost 1-0). So 6 more points, and that's assuming we won not drew the 3 home matches. We actually won 45% of matches he played in, and 19% of those he didn't. Even without the League Cup games we won 33% of them compared to 19% without him. Those 6 points, with Norwich, West Brom and Swansea all losing a point each as well, would have seen us come 9th (still below West Brom, but above Stoke, Fulham, West Ham, Swansea and Norwich). We'd have still been 13 points adrift of 7th, and frankly even the remotest effort in winning at home to Stoke in the last game would have seen us 11th. Even blaming him for everything, we'd still only be realistically 6 points better - and that's assuming Boruc actually would have been a better option at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 0-0, 90th minute, penalty to England, Rickie Lambert steps up.......... 0-0, 90th penalty to Poland. Artur Boruc steps up........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 October, 2013 Share Posted 13 October, 2013 0-0, 90th penalty to Poland. Artur Boruc steps up........ Doesn't matter if he scores or not if England don't, provided San Marino don't get a result against Ukraine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 0-0, 90th minute, penalty to England, Rickie Lambert steps up.......... y'know ..I thought the same myself..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 What a difference a year makes.....after that disasterous start LAST season, lots of people were asking why we'd signed an overweight, out-of-training goalie with " an attitude ". It's fairly certain that NA didn't seem to want him, (not at first anyway)...and persisted with his KD / Gazzaniga combination. But one year on, suddenly Artur is villian turned hero, and one wonders what the future holds?. Regardless of the result of tomorrows (Tuesday) game, I think we're in for an " interesting" season, especially if Artur continues his fine form. One intersting question we may never get the real answer to is ..exactly WHO had the smart idea to sign him in the first place?.... and how did they convince Cortese to agree ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 Lets hope AB credits the Chapel fans who abused him as a key influence in his form. I think at the next home game we should all applaud the Chapel as the water bottle incident obviously got him fired up. Hopefully the Chapel corner can goad Ramirez when he next warms up along there. Top fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/13/artur-boruc-poland-england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 Hope he has a brilliant game against England. Lambert comes on with a few minutes to go a smashes home the winner. We can dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 14 October, 2013 Author Share Posted 14 October, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/13/artur-boruc-poland-england Was he a bit rubbish for Fiorentina? Can't understand why he was available on a free. Wouldn't swap him for anyone. Legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irene Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 Was he a bit rubbish for Fiorentina? Can't understand why he was available on a free. Wouldn't swap him for anyone. Legend He wanted to play in the EPL and had enough of the serie a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefizzy14 Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 I hope Artur has a blinder tomorrow until Rickie steps up and smashes one past him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westofshannonsaint Posted 14 October, 2013 Share Posted 14 October, 2013 0-0, 90th minute, penalty to England, Rickie Lambert steps up.......... Rickie will never take the penalty though, Gerrard or Lampard will............ Rickie will score the rebound. ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint si Posted 15 October, 2013 Share Posted 15 October, 2013 Listening to radio 5 this morning - lots of coverage of the match. But not one mention of Mr Boruc being between the sticks for the Poles. You'd think that given the prominence of the keeper in the 1973 match everyone has been going on about that they might have at least mentioned him... Surely there's an interesting discussion to be had when England have to win and the opposition keeper has kept 5 clean sheets in 7 premiership games already this season!? Perhaps it's just my red-tinted specs, but I found it utterly irritating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacey Posted 15 October, 2013 Share Posted 15 October, 2013 http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/desmond-kane/poland-renaissance-man-artur-boruc-remains-truly-blessed-204310676.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindsorSaint Posted 15 October, 2013 Share Posted 15 October, 2013 From the BBC: Rich Wrigley: Rickie Lambert to score a 90th min penalty against Artur Boruc...A Saint can dream eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenridge Posted 29 October, 2013 Share Posted 29 October, 2013 Depending which of today's paper you read (there was a marginal difference in stats between 'I' and the Mail) then Boruc has the highest shots on targets vs saves ratio in the premiership so far this season. He's been quite an inspirational signing and instrumental in where we are currently stand it would appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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