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31 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

He's let in 85 goals so far this season. 

Aye, and has been their best player by a mile and probably kept it down to 85

I dead to think the number of goals shipped had Bazunu been their keeper

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12 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Aye, and has been their best player by a mile and probably kept it down to 85

I dead to think the number of goals shipped had Bazunu been their keeper

Talk about hitting a man when he’s down…

I agree probably too many goals gone in that lookedsave-able but Baz is not just a shot stopper though. He is/was Russell’s totem for PB based football. It starts with the keeper. Without Baz there would not be the ( largely successful) style weve seen all season. 
With all the criticism being handed out about him I thought only fair to also identify the positives. 

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1 hour ago, gio1saints said:

Have you watched his games this season? He has played well every time selected. 

Discounting that free kick he let in against Watford, which was pathetic quite frankly.

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3 hours ago, gio1saints said:

Talk about hitting a man when he’s down…

I agree probably too many goals gone in that lookedsave-able but Baz is not just a shot stopper though. He is/was Russell’s totem for PB based football. It starts with the keeper. Without Baz there would not be the ( largely successful) style weve seen all season. 
With all the criticism being handed out about him I thought only fair to also identify the positives. 

Lol why are we making out like bazunu is the only goal keeper capable of passing to his defenders as well ..  all this ball at feet stuff  is the biggest load of bs  I’ve heard since the stuff about elyounoussi being selected all the time for off the ball work (which he wasn’t even that great at anyway 

Might as well sign a striker who’s good with his chest 🤣

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Johansson at Rotherham is decent but seemingly current flavour of the month amongst Saints fans who were probably unaware of his existence before this season and are now stating we should sign him based on having seen him play twice in his career.

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5 hours ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Lumley was the worst shot stopper in the Championship last season, not Baz-levels of poor stats but in the same category. I feel like our recruitment is just taking the piss.

Wouldn’t disagree with that, but Lumley would still be an improvement.

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9 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Iol I couldn’t care less if his distribution is as good as Glenn  hoddle. What good does it do us ? What’s more important the fact that nearly any shot on our goal goes in past bazunu or his  silly distribution ?

hes been absolutely shocking for 2 years 

it’s like people try to find anything to argue his cause his job is to keep the bell out of the net and he totally sucks at it 

https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1781390801810940396

Like it or not, he's a key part of our game. Pretty apt example truth be told - since playing it to baz led to a goal against today's opponents. We play the ball around the back to draw teams on and break - and Macca and Lumley are no where near as good at that as Baz was.

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31 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

https://x.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1781390801810940396

Like it or not, he's a key part of our game. Pretty apt example truth be told - since playing it to baz led to a goal against today's opponents. We play the ball around the back to draw teams on and break - and Macca and Lumley are no where near as good at that as Baz was.

Without that 6 yard pass we'd be in the relegation zone for sure. 

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10 hours ago, trousers said:

One assumes the quality of Rotherham's defence was a factor in a significant number of those goals. The more important stat is how many goal preventing saves he made. Do we know how he's compares with Bazunu on that measure? (As a percentage of shots on goal, as no doubt he'll have had many more shots to deal with than Bazunu overall)

As I have always said, such statistics are meaningless for the reasons that you state.

The total number of goals conceded gives a rough indication of goalkeeper quality yet we have people on here saying that if we'd had anyone but Baz we'd be top of the league. As you say, it's the quality of the defence as a whole that is most important and ours is just not good enough. I'd rather they concentrated on keeping their shape and closing down quickly than playing pretty triangles across their goalmouth. 

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10 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

It'll be you moaning when he has his first good season and ditches us for a slightly bigger club.

He was playing professional football for his country and was the best keeper in League One when he was 18-19. It isn't his fault he was thrown in at the deep end when he was clearly not ready. But there's very clearly huge talent there.

And the worst keeper in the championship at 21

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10 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

For gods sake can we stop with the who is the most shittiest keeper out of baz and McCarthy......the one thing we all agree on is neither is good enough for the Premiership and we desperately need a new keeper!

 

Well said!

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29 minutes ago, Turkish said:

And the worst keeper in the championship at 21

Yes if you ignore the saves he made as "Saves he should be expected to make" and include goals that literally no keeper in the world have stopped. 

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24 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Yes if you ignore the saves he made as "Saves he should be expected to make" and include goals that literally no keeper in the world have stopped. 

Is that you, Russ? 🥸

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24 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Yes if you ignore the saves he made as "Saves he should be expected to make" and include goals that literally no keeper in the world have stopped. 

Ah yes, the old "every striker in the Championship turned into world beaters when they had to get past crisp packet hands" argument.

Absolute horseshit.

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2 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

 

I was hoping someone would use this one as a go to. Of course it's COMPLETELY the keeper's fault and not at all down to the appalling defending in front of him. Obviously he should do better but you're seriously saying that's 100% Bazunu's fault and no one elses?

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Just now, Bad Wolf said:

 

All "basic saves any keeper should be making" no doubt.

And before anyone points out how some of the rebounds were put in, I remember Niemi doing that a lot but used to get credited with making the save anyway.

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7 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

 

All "basic saves any keeper should be making" no doubt.

Yep - a good 70% of them are, the other 10% are punches (included in a highlight reel, always a warning sign), and the other 20% he palms straight out to the oppo

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10 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

I was hoping someone would use this one as a go to. Of course it's COMPLETELY the keeper's fault and not at all down to the appalling defending in front of him. Obviously he should do better but you're seriously saying that's 100% Bazunu's fault and no one elses?

What are you even on about? It's a 25 yard potshot from a knockdown, just fucking save it!!

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2 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

What are you even on about? It's a 25 yard potshot from a knockdown, just fucking save it!!

You're honestly going to say that the defenders shouldn't have stopped that shot coming in?

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4 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

Yep - a good 70% of them are, the other 10% are punches (included in a highlight reel, always a warning sign), and the other 20% he palms straight out to the oppo

Have you ever seen a striker highlight reel? They always include tap ins and penalties!

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5 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

Yep - a good 70% of them are, the other 10% are punches (included in a highlight reel, always a warning sign), and the other 20% he palms straight out to the oppo

So what you're saying is that there isn't a single good save in there?

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1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Jesus christ, goal scored in the 97th, Bazunu dives in the 98th. 

Both goals were struck well, low, inside the box and were partially unsighted by other players legs. They were down to terrible marking more than anything.

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2 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Both goals were struck well, low, inside the box and were partially unsighted by other players legs. They were down to terrible marking more than anything.

First goal bounced twice before it got past him, second bounced once. Hardly well struck. 

He doesn't have a goalkeepers instinct, end of. 

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9 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

First goal bounced twice before it got past him, second bounced once. Hardly well struck. 

He doesn't have a goalkeepers instinct, end of. 

Again, pulling back to his age, how many do at that age? Obviously with the exception of those who go onto be world class keepers. I don't think anyone thinks Bazunu is good enough right now...I just think that by the time he's retired, he'll be remembered as a good keeper. Not great but good. That's all.

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3 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Again, pulling back to his age, how many do at that age? Obviously with the exception of those who go onto be world class keepers. I don't think anyone thinks Bazunu is good enough right now...I just think that by the time he's retired, he'll be remembered as a good keeper. Not great but good. That's all.

So he should be playing in League One, that's his level. He might be 'good' one day, but why should we suffer him until then?

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2 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

So he should be playing in League One, that's his level. He might be 'good' one day, but why should we suffer him until then?

No. I agree, a couple of years in League One would do him the world of good. As stated, he quite clearly is crap right now.

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Bazunu: Worst shot stopper on PL record in 22/23. Before his injury he was on track to achieve the same 'feat' in the Championship. Clearly not a natural keeper, he played outfield until late in his development, no genuine howlers just consistently poor shot-stopping (i.e. goalkeeping 101).

Lumley: Worst shot stopper in the championship 22/23 out of 55 keepers! Generally quite shite, it’s baffling why we signed him.

McCarthy: Not been the same since we got arse raped 0-9 against Man United. Average shot stopper, awful on his feet.

We actually play really decent footy, why the fuck can't we find a competent goalkeeper?

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2 hours ago, Bad Wolf said:

No. I agree, a couple of years in League One would do him the world of good. As stated, he quite clearly is crap right now.

Makes a mockery of the fact he was signed for £12m to be our number 1 in the Premier League. We needed an improvement on McCarthy and somehow ended up with a downgrade. Poor signing.

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5 hours ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

For gods sake can we stop with the who is the most shittiest keeper out of baz and McCarthy......the one thing we all agree on is neither is good enough for the Premiership and we desperately need a new keeper!

 

For gods sake, can we stop with the Premiership. We aren’t in the Scottish league. We are Premier League.

 

Well, for this year at least! 

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16 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

It looked like  the Chelsea keeper borrowed his gloves yesterday. 

It's ok for them, they have another 7 to pick from whereas we have McCarthy or Lumley 🙂

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