Szchesney, is he as good as we all thought?

[Letters]

that stat is more valid than asking "if" our defence is letting attackers get one on ones too often - that needs quantifying before you can suggest it as a comparison.

I'm just saying the stat needs some analysis rather than it just showing how good/bad Ches in.
I've seen him all season and generally rate him. Saturday apart he's not been throwing goals in every other week and he's kept us in plenty of games when we could have been dead and buried. IMO that's more valid than some stat.

[Niall_Quinn]

On course to becoming one of the best, he's done remarkably well since coming in. Has a lot of confidence, something we seem to be very short of in this squad. He's also a GHEL even if he is Polish. Sounds to me like he's been very successful at helping us forget Almunia otherwise these questions wouldn't be asked at all.

[Grebbo]

He's good but is overrated for sure.

Cost us the Norwich and Wigan games.

The stat backs up what I've been thinking about him recently: he doesn't make many saves.

[Kano]

[Niall_Quinn]

That's why stats just don't work, makes Almunia look like a comparatively competent keeper which simply was never the case.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I know Szchesney has been pretty reliable and doesn't make too many mistakes. The goal against Norwich was a bad one but its not something he does often. However I've seen a pretty interesting stat that shows he has the 4th worse save per shot ratio in the league at only 64%. Hart etc are in the high 80s. With a ratio similar to Harts we would have conceded something like 10 less goals.

Yes. All keepers have bad games sometimes.

[Cripps_orig]

Nope

Heard some people say hes the best in the league.

He isnt.

Hes decent with the prospect of becoming very good, potentially world class but he has a few too many dumbass moment for my liking. He needs competition to keep him on his toes

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Nope

Heard some people say hes the best in the league.

He isnt.

Hes decent with the prospect of becoming very good, potentially world class but he has a few too many dumbass moment for my liking. He needs competition to keep him on his toes

Thats more to do with the dumbass defending infront of him, Chesney is on par with Hart as the best keeper in the league simple as.

Only Hart id say is better no one else.

I do agree he needs competition though, but we won't get a gppd GK who is happy being no 2.

[Cripps_orig]

Oh dear. These red tinted goggles must be pretty good.

[fakeyank]

summarize pls