Who do you think was the best Southend goalie?

[Ironshrimper]

Sammy had Powell, Prior, Edwards/Scully and Austin in front of him and still only 13th on the stats list

And remember Bodley! Geeez he was slow, use to hold on to strikers all the time..turned like a boat..

 

[manor15]

not fair really, as all above have played at least 30 games,

True, but goes to show how poor we've been this season.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

All this thread is going to do is show the age of voters. I only saw Royce for 2 years so I've voted for Flavs as he was my era growing up watching Southend but an honorable mention to Adam Federici, i don't know how we pulled that signing off but I doubt we'll see a classier keeper wearing our shirt unless we ever one day made it to the Premier League.

 

[Ironshrimper]

All this thread is going to do is show the age of voters. I only saw Royce for 2 years so I've voted for Flavs as he was my era growing up watching Southend but an honorable mention to Adam Federici, i don't know how we pulled that signing off but I doubt we'll see a classier keeper wearing our shirt unless we ever one day made it to the Premier League.

Them sidewinder goal kicks were great...

 

[The Big Shrimp]

Neil Freeman

 

[David Icke]

If we had two votes each on a poll like this it would give a truer representation. For me it's Stannard and Flavs.

 

[united we stand]

All this thread is going to do is show the age of voters. I only saw Royce for 2 years so I've voted for Flavs as he was my era growing up watching Southend but an honorable mention to Adam Federici, i don't know how we pulled that signing off but I doubt we'll see a classier keeper wearing our shirt unless we ever one day made it to the Premier League.

we need something much mores sophisitcated where you have to 'tick' the players you have actually seen and then vote for your favourite. The marking would then be the percentage of fans that had voted you number one out of those that had actually seen you . Of course there would need to be some weighting added (which is subjective) depending on how many keepers were in your 'seen list' .

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Trevor Roberts - that is all

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

we need something much mores sophisitcated where you ahve to 'tick' the players you have actually seen and then vote for your favourite. The marking would then be the percentage of fans that had voted you number one out of those that had actually seen you . Of course there would need to be some weighting added (which is subjective) depending on how many keepers were in your 'seen list' .

There's also the danger of people romanticising their childhood. The sort of Fred Trueman types who claim it wasn't as good as it was in their day.

I think it's helpful to also look at the players' careers in full - what level did they play at, what did they achieve outside of their time at Southend, how much were they transferred for and to who etc. It's a useful cross-reference.

 

[united we stand]

There's also the danger of people romanticising their childhood. The sort of Fred Trueman types who claim it wasn't as good as it was in their day.

I think it's helpful to also look at the players' careers in full - what level did they play at, what did they achieve outside of their time at Southend, how much were they transferred for and to who etc. It's a useful cross-reference.

yeah , I voted for Roycie as well :winking:


However if Bentley wen on to play for England one day , I would still vote for Roycie as we should be looking at how the player perorned when playing for us

 

[C C Csiders]

The unlisted Neil Freeman for me.

 

[RHB]

we need something much mores sophisitcated where you have to 'tick' the players you have actually seen and then vote for your favourite. The marking would then be the percentage of fans that had voted you number one out of those that had actually seen you . Of course there would need to be some weighting added (which is subjective) depending on how many keepers were in your 'seen list' .

There's also the danger of people romanticising their childhood. The sort of Fred Trueman types who claim it wasn't as good as it was in their day.

I think it's helpful to also look at the players' careers in full - what level did they play at, what did they achieve outside of their time at Southend, how much were they transferred for and to who etc. It's a useful cross-reference.

Assuming both posts are serious, I think you need to bear in mind that this is a ShrimperZone poll. Statistical analysis doesn't regularly feature in SZ polls for a reason.........not too many now how to do it!

 

[blake]

All this thread is going to do is show the age of voters. I only saw Royce for 2 years so I've voted for Flavs as he was my era growing up watching Southend but an honorable mention to Adam Federici, i don't know how we pulled that signing off but I doubt we'll see a classier keeper wearing our shirt unless we ever one day made it to the Premier League.

Frederici and Burridge are for me the best 2 loanees in any position that we've had playing for us since my father first took me to Grainger Road in 1947. I have no idea how we got either of them here. The best of our own goalies? I can't separate Neil Freeman from Simon Royce.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

Neil Freeman for me, but he's not there.

 

[RHB]

Neil Freeman for me, but he's not there.

He's been mentioned more than once, I've added him.

 

[Bernie44]

Sammy was the best all-round keeper. Edges out Roycey as he couldn't kick the ball much further than the edge of his area.

 

[Napster]

Sammy was the best all-round keeper. Edges out Roycey as he couldn't kick the ball much further than the edge of his area.

Thanks Bernie. :thumbsup:

 

[slapheadsteve]

Simon Royce was our best keeper but if you look too the future i can see Daniel being the best but for another club

 

[Razam]

If all loanees are included, this would be my top 5:

1. Royce
2. Federici
3. Sansome
4. Flahaven
5. Bentley

Fingers crossed I hope we can add Ted Smith to the mix in a few years.

 

[Blue_Shrimper1959]

Federici closely followed by Bentley for me....unfortunately, due to my age...my only real memory of seeing Roycey at Roots Hall was in our 5-0 win against QPR