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20 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

His long range passing is very accurate as well to be fair. I would say his all round passing ability is quite out of the ordinary for a keeper. Everything else not quite so much..

Very fair point, and his accuracy for passes over 40 yards is the highest in the league - still only 45% so every other pass doesn't hit it's target but proof that his long range passing is more accurate. 

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1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Soft arsed goal conceded Tues and now today. His blunder gave them the foundation and a great start towards a win. Again, not good enough today. 

All of our players make mistakes or have bad games. Sadly when this applies to a goalkeeper it is more costly. On Tuesday the whole team was "Off".....it was a bad team performance. Our problem today was nothing to do with Bazunu. It was due to the fact that we played everything too wide and our balls into the box always went to Milwall players.....we had no cutting edge up front. It improved once AA came on but there wasn't enough urgency when we were 2-1 down. Maybe he should have done better with the first goal, but there are others that I can point the finger at for todays, and Tuesday's defeats.

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4 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

All of our players make mistakes or have bad games. Sadly when this applies to a goalkeeper it is more costly. On Tuesday the whole team was "Off".....it was a bad team performance. Our problem today was nothing to do with Bazunu. It was due to the fact that we played everything too wide and our balls into the box always went to Milwall players.....we had no cutting edge up front. It improved once AA came on but there wasn't enough urgency when we were 2-1 down. Maybe he should have done better with the first goal, but there are others that I can point the finger at for todays, and Tuesday's defeats.

He could have done a lot better with both goals. Tuesday, he pushed it back out into the penalty area, having made the save it needed to be pushed wider, didn't even think it was a particularly hard hit shot. Today, if he was coming for the ball, he should have made sure he got there. Not sure if he was trying to punch it or catch it. He obviously got put off by their player, who was more decisive and wanted it more. 

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If you look at the huddersfield, hull and milwall games he was materially responsible for the first goal in each. ok we are not playing well as a team so it’s not all down to him at all and far from it, but you’re just making things a lot harder when your keeper isn’t doing his job and as somebody said above he is a very ordinary keeper. next year if we don’t go up we may be an ordinary team in this division  so he will be a good fit for us but last year and this year we need/needed something better 

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Just now, Block41 Saint said:

We spent north of £10m on a goalkeeper after a bang average year in League One. Laughable. 

He was Pompey's player of the season and for the most part he has been absolutely fine this season. Anyone playing in the Championship is going to make a fair share of mistakes, goalkeepers included. I've seen plenty of goals against other teams this season which Baz would have been absolutely slaughtered for, against keepers who fans have been absolutely raving about.

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19 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

He was Pompey's player of the season and for the most part he has been absolutely fine this season. Anyone playing in the Championship is going to make a fair share of mistakes, goalkeepers included. I've seen plenty of goals against other teams this season which Baz would have been absolutely slaughtered for, against keepers who fans have been absolutely raving about.

He was Pompeys player of the season after they finished midtable. The money we spent means he should be the best keeper in this league, he isn't. 

His deluded fan club will convince themselves he's had a good year here in the Championship after the shambles of him in goal last season but I confidently predict he'll be starting for us come August because no PL club will touch a goalkeeper who doesn't save shots. 

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Just now, Block41 Saint said:

He was Pompeys player of the season after they finished midtable. The money we spent means he should be the best keeper in this league, he isn't. 

His deluded fan club will convince themselves he's had a good year here in the Championship after the shambles of him in goal last season but I confidently predict he'll be starting for us come August because no PL club will touch a goalkeeper who doesn't save shots. 

Why does it have to be one thing or the other? If you hate GB you are right, and if you don't hate him and think that there is a decent, if not World beating keeper in there,  you are part of his deluded fan club.....a "Happy Clapper?"  Nothing in between? Of course not.....

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3 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Why does it have to be one thing or the other? If you hate GB you are right, and if you don't hate him and think that there is a decent, if not World beating keeper in there,  you are part of his deluded fan club.....a "Happy Clapper?"  Nothing in between? Of course not.....

It seems with him we have made a sacrifice on actual shot stopping ability. We've got a keeper who acts like a sweeper first and foremost. Not one that actually saves shots that he should do a lot better with. 

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8 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

It seems with him we have made a sacrifice on actual shot stopping ability. We've got a keeper who acts like a sweeper first and foremost. Not one that actually saves shots that he should do a lot better with. 

He didn’t have a shot to save that I can remember (apart from the penalty of course).

That first goal was an absolute howler.

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8 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

He didn’t have a shot to save that I can remember (apart from the penalty of course).

That first goal was an absolute howler.

I wasn't just talking about today. Just seems to me that we want to play it out from the back, so we've made a choice to go down that route with a keeper who is average at shot stopping. 

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1 hour ago, Block41 Saint said:

We spent north of £10m on a goalkeeper after a bang average year in League One. Laughable. 

But he was coming from City, so had to be good. Just as Angus Gunn had been before him. 
 

 

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31 minutes ago, miltonroad said:

Not sure too many other keepers in this league get beaten to the ball on that first one. Just bang average at best. 

Putting the rivalry aside my Pompey supporting friends thought he was a bizarre signing for us.

He's doing his best but he's constantly playing at a level that is above him. For every decent save he makes there's 2 of 3 howlers/shots that he really should be doing better with.

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37 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I’ve just seen the ‘highlights’.

He comes and tries to catch the ball instead of punching it clear. At the time I thought he was going to get to the ball easily and couldn’t see why he was beaten to it.

That's how I saw it. If he punches it, there isn't a problem. 

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On 04/03/2024 at 00:02, SaintsBarry74 said:

Statistically rock bottom in the league yet again. -8.3 expected goals let in. If we had an average GK we would probably be trailing Leicester right now on the table.

In before “stats don’t mean a thing”. 
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Very disappointing to see. 

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2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Yes, no chance with either but he had a couple of wobbly moments.

His distribution was poor today, which is normally his strength. 

Both goals were basically in off the post, no keeper in the world is saving either shot. 

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We must be the unluckiest team in the world.  The amount of goals we've conceded this season that 'no keeper is ever going to save is huge', especially from Championship level players.

Maybe there is something we do that turns the opposition into world class players for a short while.

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It’s very easy to see all our goals scored this season, but I would be fascinated to see those conceded and how many Bazunu is culpable for; and that includes defensive fuck ups that have put him under pressure.

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