Player Watch: Joe Hart

[C0YS]

I am never sure why a GK cannot play every day of the week. It is not exactly physically taxing.

I think they can, but I think its more physically taxing than people give it credit for. Not even including the jumping and diving around involved.

As Buffon mentioned, the 6 yard box, is the size of a fairly large kitchen, while the 18yard box is the size of a large flat. A goalkeeper should be moving, and sometimes scurrying across that space. A premier league goalkeeper travels around 4-5 kms per 90 minutes. Which is a fair workout, though I agree not physically that taxing. Keep in mind that a lot of this isn't just walking, but mostly a series of small agile movements, shifting your body across this apartment sized space.

I used to play in goal, and after basically no exercise for 5 years, I played in goal for the first time for a few matches (if you could call a kick about against the wolfsberger youth team a match). It killed me. Which was a bit of a warning sign. But, my point is it's still a physical thing, if you do it properly. Though, It's not particularly against what you were saying.

The reason why I think we wont see a goalkeeper play twice in a row is more likely to do with training regimes than physical capacity though. I would be surprised if we didn't rotate.

 

[Univarn]

Watch him sign for Arsenal/Chelsea and we will all be annoyed

Wouldn't bother me one bit .

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Anyone bigging up this appointment has lost track of Hart's decline. Sadly it's been one of the most dramatic in English football. He was a great keeper once, but he's suffered a terminal loss of confidence and is of no use to us. We should be bringing through a young English keeper. Sorry if this sounds disrespectful to someone who's had an amazing career but he really should have retired by now.

 

[razzmaster]

West Ham fans think their whole team is shit. Their board is shit. Their "rented" stadium is shit and their own fans are shit.

Therefore, their opinion is shit

In fairness all of those opinions seem spot on

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Anyone bigging up this appointment has lost track of Hart's decline. Sadly it's been one of the most dramatic in English football. He was a great keeper once, but he's suffered a terminal loss of confidence and is of no use to us. We should be bringing through a young English keeper. Sorry if this sounds disrespectful to someone who's had an amazing career but he really should have retired by now.

I won't leave a rating i'll just say I disagree. You've no idea where his confidence is at.

 

[WiganSpur]

Listen, Hart's far from the great keeper he once was but putting him in the same bracket as Lonergan, Carson, Grant and Green does him a disservice.

Why has this got so many disagrees? You'd actually rather have Rob Green and Andy Lonergan at Tottenham? Lonergan who I don't believe has played a single Premier League minute in his career.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Why has this got so many disagrees?

Without looking, i'd say the clue is probably in the identities of the perps

 

[rawhide]

Joe Hart - Number 2 *snigger*

I actually like this signing, but my God, what a load of whiny fucks some fans are...

SC: We need to improve our home grown contingent.
SC: We need to be wise in how we spend limited funds.

Also SC: No, not Joe Hart on a free.

 

[Jody]

Anyone bigging up this appointment has lost track of Hart's decline. Sadly it's been one of the most dramatic in English football. He was a great keeper once, but he's suffered a terminal loss of confidence and is of no use to us. We should be bringing through a young English keeper. Sorry if this sounds disrespectful to someone who's had an amazing career but he really should have retired by now.

Jose will be great for him if confidence is his biggest issue.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

17 pages on a 3rd maybe 2nd choice keeper we might be getting on a free.

Shows the impact he could have on the squad.
Very astute signing.

 

[yankspurs]

Amazing how no ITK heard of this

Everyone was in the dark until the bookies shortening the odds to 1/3 yesterday make the media snoop around this morning.

 

[Dillspur]

If he is a 3rd choice keeper fine. While he didn't play last season, I do remember some of his games the year before and he wasn't good, if my memory is correct it correlated with a uncharacteristically poor run of form for Burnley where they looked shaky defensively.

 

[Spunkmonkey]

Lloris has improved under the coaching of the new goalkeeper coach. Maybe Joe Hart will as well.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

The problem is he cant save anything low on his left side.

 

[Rob]

Everyone was in the dark until the bookies shortening the odds to 1/3 yesterday make the media snoop around this morning.

Levy sticking a few million on it on Skybet was the first clue...

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

I won't leave a rating i'll just say I disagree. You've no idea where his confidence is at.

Well I don't think it's an unreasonable opinion. He was great at City before Pep dropped him. He's been very poor ever since, at Torino, Wet Spam and Burnley. Never recovered his form. I would much rather see a young academy keeper come through.

 

[Japhet]

Well I don't think it's an unreasonable opinion. He was great at City before Pep dropped him. He's been very poor ever since, at Torino, Wet Spam and Burnley. Never recovered his form. I would much rather see a young academy keeper come through.

Yes, until said 'young academy keeper' makes a fuck up and everybody says 'We could have had Joe Hart for free'.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Young academy keeper may well need a year or two playing regular football before he’s at a level we can trust, at any level.

 

[wrd]

I reckon there's more smarmy posts complaining about fellow SC members not being onboard with this transfer than there are posts with SC Members not being onboard with this transfers.

 

[Timberwolf]

English, good character, experienced winner, better, younger and cheaper than Vorm...why are people complaining again? Vorm was a great backup when he first came in but he's looked worse and worse with each passing year and his last performance for us was terrible. Hard to see Hart being any worse.

If there were rumours that we were looking to sell Gazzanigga I'd understand it a bit more (even though I think Gazza isn't that great) but there aren't any so what's the fuss about?