Danny Ward

[Parafox]

21 minutes ago, Parker Pen said:

Our fate was sealed when he was named in the starting lineup! I knew then we would lose.

 

Poor positioning, no anticipation, can’t sort his feet and appears to dive too late every time!

 

 

 

There was a header towards goal in the 2nd half that went wide of his left hand post and was gone before he dived. 

[Parafox]

3 minutes ago, Jack1993 said:

Weird straw man but I’ll answer you,

 

No I don’t think he should play 

 

However I think that any fan that went out of their way to humiliate him today is thick & wrong 

He doesn't need fans to humiliate him. He does that all by himself.

Not sure why my comment makes me a strawman.

[Jack1993]

Just now, Parafox said:

He doesn't need fans to humiliate him. He does that all by himself.

Not sure why my comment makes me a strawman.

It was a straw man argument, you are not actually a straw man, don’t worry about it. 
 

I agree with you, he doesn’t need thick blokes in the crowd trying to humiliate him, glad you didn’t join in 👍🏻
 

 

[fazzyfox]

27 minutes ago, ACF said:

Look I’m not an expert specialist goalkeeping coach or anything but it seems to me that this particular unusual choice of stance is showing the opposition a little too much of the goal 

[Parker Pen]

17 minutes ago, Bilo said:

We wouldn't have lost if Hermansen wasn't injured.

 

He saves the first and third goals, and the defence is better organised for the second.

 

We get a dull and uninspiring 0-0 rather than a season ending 3-0 spanking.

I agree if you wind the clock back to the relegation season Kasper if he stayed gets us the extra points to keep us up as like Mads it’s the timing of the saves they make in the match that keeps you in a game and also inspires the back line and lifts the crowd!

[eblair]

He’s one of the most costly footballers in the history of the game.

 

£10m - transfer fee

£15m - salary

£70m - 2023 relegation

 

Genuinely the pits. Never booed a city player in my life but he’s the exception, absolute ghastly player who has played an instrumental part in the downfall of the most successful period in this club’s history. Have not doubt if we had a reasonable GK two years ago we would have been fine.

 

Ignoring his complete shitness as a footballer; him happily sitting there stealing a wage for however long he’s been there is farcical. 
 

Loathe the sight of him.

Edited 22 December 2024 by eblair

[murphy]

Regarding the booing, I wonder if this protest might have the counterproductive affect of making it more difficult for Ruud to drop him? 

 

The manager has publicly criticised the fans for singling out ward.  To drop him now might look like he has been forced into it by the mob. 

[FoxTimmy2]

28 minutes ago, fazzyfox said:

Look I’m not an expert specialist goalkeeping coach or anything but it seems to me that this particular unusual choice of stance is showing the opposition a little too much of the goal 

You do raise a valid point, but the alternative is this stance:

[kenny]

1 minute ago, murphy said:

Regarding the booing, I wonder if this protest might have the counterproductive affect of making it more difficult for Ruud to drop him? 

 

The manager has publicly criticised the fans for singling out ward.  To drop him now might look like he has been forced into it by the mob. 

We are the kings of mystery injuries.

 

Ward needs a light strain in training that keeps him out for 5 months.

[Gubbins]

31 minutes ago, Jack1993 said:

It was a straw man argument, you are not actually a straw man, don’t worry about it. 
 

I agree with you, he doesn’t need thick blokes in the crowd trying to humiliate him, glad you didn’t join in 👍🏻
 

 

It's not about humiliating the useless f@cker. It's simply about communicating to both him and the coaching staff that we do not want him playing for us anymore.

[Gubbins]

3 minutes ago, murphy said:

Regarding the booing, I wonder if this protest might have the counterproductive affect of making it more difficult for Ruud to drop him? 

 

The manager has publicly criticised the fans for singling out ward.  To drop him now might look like he has been forced into it by the mob. 

It shouldn't make it more difficult to drop him. RvNs job is to win football matches and that will not happen if he picks Ward. If he doesn't realise that  then frankly we have appointed a self sabotaging moron as a manager and need to bin him off as well.

[murphy]

1 minute ago, Gubbins said:

It's not about humiliating the useless f@cker. It's simply about communicating to both him and the coaching staff that we do not want him playing for us anymore.

I kind of agree with this. 

 

I have always hated seeing our own players being booed.  Makes me cringe, but I am willing to make an exception for Danny Ward, not to cause him any distress but simply because he has demonstrated on several occasions how damaging his inclusion is to the team.   After the relegation season, the thought that ward could ever represent us again in the Premier league should have been unthinkable, yet here he is.  I think the fans are entitled to protest. 

[eblair]

Just on the booing - didnt start until 2-0 and he had already cost us the game

 

(realise he then chucked in the 3rd for good measure)

Edited 22 December 2024 by eblair

[lcfc81]

The difficulty is the performances in the relegation season are in the fore of everyobes mind (which I am not sure Van Nistleroy fully appreciates.)

Its not a keeper having a couple of poor ganes and Danny Ward was given a lot of patients in that relegation season. Peoples tollerance for him has gone. People are booing- rightly or wrongly because they don't want to wait another half season with Danny Ward potentially playing any part. It does beg the question of how Iverson trains as Ruud must have surely been told that Danny was dropped to 3rd/4th choice over the last few years. 

[Wymsey]

Over 40 international caps..

[Wymsey]

Kasper would be fuming at himself with such mistakes..

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, 5waller5 said:

We’d have drawn.

 

I understand team sports.

This. Mads saves all three of those. As he has been doing all season. From what little I saw of Iversen when he finally played in 22-23, he saves at least 2 of them. Ward has come in and let 6 goals in in 135 minutes of football, 4 of which were at least partially - if not entirely - down to him having the spatial awareness of a last-minute Christmas shopper and the wrist strength of a cheesestring.

 

The team performance was rancid, but any competent goalkeeper at least makes it difficult in those situations. Ward actively makes it easier, and that feeds through to the entire team, and the crowd mood. There is zero confidence in his ability from anyone either in front of him or around him, which has a negative effect on the entire outcome. I dislike xG as a stat but f*** me, 0.41 resulting in 3 goals really is damning. In normal circumstances Wolves would have taken more than two full games to find the back of the net a single time with the quality of chances they had.

 

RVN can defend him publicly all he likes - if he chooses to play him again, he will have the crowd turning on him even faster than Cooper did. That is no exaggeration, because I don't think I've ever known a more unanimous opinion amongst the matchgoing fanbase than the agreement that he should be nowhere near the pitch for us ever again. It's very rare for the crowd to openly turn on a player. The last time I can remember was Ben Marshall under Pearson, when he pretty much told us to FOAD while strolling lazily over to take a corner. Pearson dropped him and he barely saw the grass for us ever again. 

Edited 23 December 2024 by OntarioFox
The Christmas shopper analogy isn't great to be fair. They tend to get in the way of things rather than willingly let them through every time.

[Legend_in_blue]

Since the days of Kevin Poole, I've never seen a more useless keeper than him play for us.  We've had a fair share of dodgy keepers in that time but this guy is beyond all of them for uselessness.

[MonarchFox]

I once played with a shit keeper.  Solved the problem by accidently breaking his ribs in training. Just incase any of the players look here

[ajthefox]

4 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

This. Mads saves all three of those. As he has been doing all season. Ward has come in and let 6 goals in in 135 minutes of football, 4 of which were at least partially - if not entirely - down to him having the spatial awareness of a last-minute Christmas shopper and the wrist strength of a cheesestring.

 

The team performance was rancid, but any competent goalkeeper at least makes it difficult in those situations. Ward actively makes it easier, and that feeds through to the entire team, and the crowd mood. There is zero confidence in his ability from anyone either in front of him or around him, which has a negative effect on the entire outcome. I dislike xG as a stat but f*** me, 0.41 resulting in 3 goals really is damning. In normal circumstances Wolves would have taken more than two full games to find the back of the net a single time with the quality of chances they had.

I think this is pretty unfair. I do a lot of my Christmas shopping quite late and my spatial awareness is pretty good. 

 

On a more serious note I completely agree. Watching back the goals on MOTD, none of them should be going in. The 2nd is absolutely awful.

Edited 23 December 2024 by ajthefox

[Quorndon_Fox]

7 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Over 40 international caps..

And 39 defeats + a 9-9 draw

[dylanlegend]

How did Kasper train with this guy day in day out and keep high standards? 
 

Losing Kasper was the beginning of the end for us

[Quorndon_Fox]

1 minute ago, dylanlegend said:

How did Kasper train with this guy day in day out and keep high standards? 
 

Losing Kasper was the beginning of the end for us

Piece of piss, turn up, watch Ward for 20 minutes, go home looking like a super star.

[Wymsey]

7 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

I think this is pretty unfair. I do a lot of my Christmas shopping quite late and my spatial awareness is pretty good. 

 

On a more serious note I completely agree. Watching back the goals on MOTD, none of them should be going in. The 2nd is absolutely awful.

My bad anyway (as didn't know it was on at 22:30 on the BBC), but had thought that MOTD wasn't on as normally watch it via the BBC website - but there was no MOTD video link on its main football page (and it still isn't).

Edited 23 December 2024 by Wymsey

[Mike1983]

Give me a pair of oven gloves and even I would at least have saved one of those goals today.