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Nick Pope

Post by dougcollins » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:17 pm

Made some great stops today.

Though from my view in the JHL, the second went straight through him?
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by taio » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:18 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:17 pm
 Made some great stops today.

Though from my view in the JHL, the second went straight through him?
I'm in the JMU and thought it took a slight deflection off Long I think
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:18 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:17 pm
 Made some great stops today.

Though from my view in the JHL, the second went straight through him?
He's allowed to chuck one in now and then ...great keeper,sadly his time with us is coming to an end.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by RVclaret » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:19 pm

Definite deflection, he was behind it before the touch took it wide, nothing he could do.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:20 pm

taio wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:18 pm
 I'm in the JMU and thought it took a slight deflection off Long I think
It did .....Long again coming into our convo...you can't keep a good man down can ya? :lol:
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by taio » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:21 pm

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:20 pm
 It did .....Long again coming into our convo...you can't keep a good man down can ya? :lol:
Pope and Long probably our best players today.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by Stayingup » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:23 pm

Pope superb. Long did not let us down. Second goal took a deflection off Long.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:23 pm

taio wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:21 pm
 Pope and Long probably our best players today.
Thinking about that one...yea ....no one else came close.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by dougcollins » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:23 pm

Ah right. Pretty sure the first took a deflection also?

Always seems to happen with City.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by Carport » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:25 pm

But why oh why did he persist with kicking the ball instead of rolling it out to a defender? If he could kick well I could maybe understand it and yes some may say kicking rather than playing out from the back is all about staying on the right side of the percentages but when we are 2-0 surely we needed to try something different? Pope often doesn’t see his defenders making themselves available for a ball to be rolled to them. He is often far too slow of thought.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by bfcjg » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:43 pm

Definitely deflected.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by warksclaret » Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:46 pm

Much as I about Long, the stats show a good win and draw ration in the 50 odd games he has played in, which pleasantly surprised me
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by expoultryboy » Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:15 pm

Carport : maybe he'd been told to go long seeing as city are so good at pressing .
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by RalphCoatesComb » Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:22 pm

Kevin Long has been a wonderful servant for the Club, always there when called upon and, even after all these years, has kept himself fit enough to step up against the likes of Citeh.

As for Nick Pope. Best keeper for England at present.
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Re: Nick Pope

Post by boatshed bill » Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:29 pm

When we get forced to defend so deep keeping goal gets so much more difficult.
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