sydneyneil

I hope he plays every game between now and the end of the season. A run of games could really help him. He has a lot of attributes.

I must be watching different games to half of the people on here. The guys made more mistakes this season than I can remember an Everton keeper making in one season. Best keeper since nev??? You having a laugh? If we asked unbiased fans from the rest of the Prem what they thought about Pickford he wouldn’t even be in the top ten in the league. His behaviour and attitude stinks and if schneiderlin acted like that on Sunday he’d be hounded out the club.
karius made a howler in Liverpool’s most important game of the season last year and was never seen again....Pickford did the same for us but seems to have got off Scot free.....almost destroyed our season that derby game. 

Where has this saved us more points than he’s cost us come from. I’m sick of saying this but keepers are there to make saves.. I can’t remember saves he’s made thinking he had no right to make the save. Most good saves are down to poor finishing at premier league level. All keepers in the premier league are good shot stoppers and regularly make “good saves” weekly. The better keepers are the ones who make less mistakes. The best compliment you can give a keeper is solid. He’s made more mistakes than any other keeper and is a keeper I would describe as erratic. Erratic is the worst adjective you can use to describe a keeper.

He’s 25 now and I’m sure he’s been coached by professionals for years. He’s immature and has the wrong attitude. Add to that frequent poor decision making and he’s really not a top keeper. If he was 10th in a table of goalkeepering errors (in the premier league) which led to goals this season it would not be good enough. The guy is top in a table which includes every player. Why people still rate him is beyond me. Remember David James? Calamity James was always prone to errors despite having all the attributes. Pickford is similar but with less attributes. At least James was big.

I hope he plays every game between now and the end of the season. A run of games could really help him. He has a lot of attributes.

He’s 25 now and I’m sure he’s been coached by professionals for years. He’s immature and has the wrong attitude. Add to that frequent poor decision making and he’s really not a top keeper. If he was 10th in a table of goalkeepering errors (in the premier league) which led to goals this season it would not be good enough. The guy is top in a table which includes every player. Why people still rate him is beyond me. Remember David James? Calamity James was always prone to errors despite having all the attributes. Pickford is similar but with less attributes. At least James was big.

He should have saved the first goal in my opinion. The pen he caused so is irrelevant. Goalkeepers are there to make saves Mark, there were no insane saves that he shouldn't have saved. Its' like there's now a bizarre theory about measuring mistakes versus saves and if he ends up in the positive then he's doing a good job. Goalkeepers should not be making several mistakes in a game like Pickford on Saturday. It's a regular occurrence and he costs us far too many points. If we had a  decent keeper this season, we are ten points better off. Easy.
 

Gomes is by far one of our vest players and he needs to stay. He had a bad patch but his A-game is a different level to most of our first 11..
We need to find a way to get the best out of him consistently and build a team round him. We have been crying our for a ball player in midfield. Now we have one lets keep him.

I hope he plays every game between now and the end of the season. A run of games could really help him. He has a lot of attributes.

Gomes is by far one of our vest players and he needs to stay. He had a bad patch but his A-game is a different level to most of our first 11..
We need to find a way to get the best out of him consistently and build a team round him. We have been crying our for a ball player in midfield. Now we have one lets keep him.

He should have saved the first goal in my opinion. The pen he caused so is irrelevant. Goalkeepers are there to make saves Mark, there were no insane saves that he shouldn't have saved. Its' like there's now a bizarre theory about measuring mistakes versus saves and if he ends up in the positive then he's doing a good job. Goalkeepers should not be making several mistakes in a game like Pickford on Saturday. It's a regular occurrence and he costs us far too many points. If we had a  decent keeper this season, we are ten points better off. Easy.
 

He costs us the game on Saturday. I don't blame Silva, he cant be responsible for such errors by a goalkeeper. He acts so immature. He's 25 years of age now he is not young. I understand keepers play until they are 40 but that doesn't mean they are still young at 25.
He has made so many errors this season. More than Howard was making towards the end of his tenure. He is so erratic and so is his personality. He needs so much to change to become a good goalkeeper in my opinion. All keepers these days are decent shot stoppers, it's the other attributes involved in goalkeeping which separate the good and the bad ones. We need a calm head at the back who exudes confidence in the back four. I think he makes them nervous. Even his kicking is dreadful.
Many fans used the derby defeat to blame our quick demise, like the derby was some sort of unlucky result. Pickford cost us that game and some momentum with one of the worst shows of goalkeeping of the season. I dare say, he has cost us some momentum again on Saturday. 
 

I hope he plays every game between now and the end of the season. A run of games could really help him. He has a lot of attributes.

Bournemouth smashing Chelsea today, Leicester drawing against Liverpool, Newcastle beating city.....just thinking how we accept defeat by these clubs “as long as we put a good performance”
ive heard so many fans talk about promising performances against Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and man utd. We picked up one point from the games combined.

Bournemouth smashing Chelsea today, Leicester drawing against Liverpool, Newcastle beating city.....just thinking how we accept defeat by these clubs “as long as we put a good performance”
ive heard so many fans talk about promising performances against Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and man utd. We picked up one point from the games combined.

I appreciate the “he needs time to adapt to the English game” argument. But we generally can see the ones who are good players, and just need a bit of time to become even better. Mina doesn’t appear to be one of these. He’s too unsteady and rash and the way evertonians are with defenders who are clumsy, he’ll get annialated after a few mistakes....I remember our fans slating materazzi 😂

I appreciate the “he needs time to adapt to the English game” argument. But we generally can see the ones who are good players, and just need a bit of time to become even better. Mina doesn’t appear to be one of these. He’s too unsteady and rash and the way evertonians are with defenders who are clumsy, he’ll get annialated after a few mistakes....I remember our fans slating materazzi 😂

He doesn’t have anything to his game unfortunately. He’s not good enough for this level. So many English players fail to kick on....it would be interesting to know how dedicated some are off the field, or whether they are always out, etc, or whether they lose the motivation once nailing a big contract. You can’t have millions of Harry Kanes but we’ve seen so many just stand still

Even Silva admitted in his press conference when asked about pickford that it’s something they would look at and try to improve. Whilst nodding when asked if it was his fault...

At fault again for the goal today....should have come for the cross

At fault again for the goal today....should have come for the cross

Gueye's a good defensive midfielder. He didn't have a good game in the Derby but overall he's been good this season. He just doesn't have the quality on the ball required to get to the next level. It's more obvious with Gomes alongside him too. There's nothing more frustrating than giving the ball away under no pressure and he can epitomise that sometimes. The difference in quality players (or someone like Gomes) is that they keep the ball when they are under pressure.
Unfortunately Gueye will never possess this quality but he is definitely the best we have right now and he will suffice for a push to the top 6. Beyond that though, we need an upgrade.

Gueye's a good defensive midfielder. He didn't have a good game in the Derby but overall he's been good this season. He just doesn't have the quality on the ball required to get to the next level. It's more obvious with Gomes alongside him too. There's nothing more frustrating than giving the ball away under no pressure and he can epitomise that sometimes. The difference in quality players (or someone like Gomes) is that they keep the ball when they are under pressure.
Unfortunately Gueye will never possess this quality but he is definitely the best we have right now and he will suffice for a push to the top 6. Beyond that though, we need an upgrade.

Gueye's a good defensive midfielder. He didn't have a good game in the Derby but overall he's been good this season. He just doesn't have the quality on the ball required to get to the next level. It's more obvious with Gomes alongside him too. There's nothing more frustrating than giving the ball away under no pressure and he can epitomise that sometimes. The difference in quality players (or someone like Gomes) is that they keep the ball when they are under pressure.
Unfortunately Gueye will never possess this quality but he is definitely the best we have right now and he will suffice for a push to the top 6. Beyond that though, we need an upgrade.

I dont want to brandish him with a whipping boy tag and I can see the qualities he has.  He may well come good and he may ust need some time out the team now and a few sub appearances to get some confidence back. However, my point is that we all went a bit OTT on how good he was after the Leicester game and in 10 appearances he has not contributed much (the above two examples is not much in a ten game span of a team playing well).  He's been no better than Walcott, who has become the whipping boy. The time out thing doesnt wash much with me either. Just look at Gomes - hardly played for a year then a bad hamstring injury and he just takes it all in his stride. He's a top quality player who can excel in all conditions (maybe Barca aside!). I just feel that with Bernard, he's going to be a 1 good game in 5 for us. I hope Im wrong, I just think when you are that small, you need to be exceptional. I dont think he is...but time will tell.