Good point KS! I have a colleague who does some coaching with Terry Mason at the club and he reckons Smith is a good keeper and that punching is perfectly acceptable most of the time he does it. As long as our manager and others with the required experience or coaching badges think Smith is doing a good job then that's ok by me. I can accept the odd aberration, as you say, there are plenty playing at a higher level who make them.I never realised the zone had do many Goalkeeping coach's hidden away. Maybe you could all pop down to boots and laces help out PS with the first team and maybe bring some of the youngsters through for Ricky Duncan? We will be awash with world class keepers in no time!!!
Good point KS! I have a colleague who does some coaching with Terry Mason at the club and he reckons Smith is a good keeper and that punching is perfectly acceptable most of the time he does it. As long as our manager and others with the required experience or coaching badges think Smith is doing a good job then that's ok by me..
I'm not a Smith knocker in any way, but his punching is awful. Invariably it goes downwards which I'm sure Terry Mason does not coach him. I think he will be a good goalkeeper for us at this level but at the moment needs to continue working on his positioning and punching
Funny thing people keep going on about him being vocal. It makes me laugh when you see people writing on here that they cant hear smith shouting etc. I sit in the east stand and cant hear many players shouting. Yet yesterday sitting right behind the goal i could hear certainly Cresswell and definately Smith shouting a lot. I think its just another reason for people to pick on smith about. Yet again yesterday he kicked well. punched well, one excellant save in the first half from a freekick that he saw late, and came well for a couple of crosses. As said before by others i would take smith over the chesterfield, bradford and daggers keepers all day long, cant think apart from the vale keeper who has looked better.
Sorry chap just taking the **** out of the Daggers keeper,should of added this:whistling:
UTB.
I'm sure I remember Royce's kicking was dreadful for a long while.Exactly. At league 1 and 2 level you are never going to get the perfect keeper. Samson and Royce were the best keepers I've seen in a Southend shirt, yet both had their faults.
He's well rubbish, he always concedes loads of goals. Oh.