Danny Ward

[jayfox26]

2 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Disappointing to see from a few in the media that the biggest issue with Ward yesterday is that he was booed and not that he was actually being played again after the relegation season

It's always the same. Cooper being sacked, Ward being booed. The media see us as "little leicester" and we should know our place and accept a shit manager and accept a shit keeper and accept being utterly fcking dreadful as the media says so. We are all delusional in the eyes of the media and should not have any ambitions at all other than maybe being promoted from the championship and then immediately being relegated with no pride or fight, because that is our place in football according to the media. 

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Ward is a goalkeeper who doesn’t make saves (when it matters) 

 

we’ve seen him make the odd amazing one when we’re several goals down before 

 

but when the game is alive I can’t recall him making a save you think ‘wow wants a save’  (as mads does) 

 

I suppose Ward is only a symptom rather than the cause of our woes. Mads has been great but the amount of chances conceded and defensive errors by the rest of the team needs radical attention 

[The Doctor]

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

What's Rab Douglas up to these days is he still alive? 

last I heard he was coaching for my parents local team, and still doing a better job than mike stowell

[majaco]

I suspect he's okay in training.   He was below average and now his confidence has gone.   

 

On a good day, he's a two goal handicap

[Lambert09]

3 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Disappointing to see from a few in the media that the biggest issue with Ward yesterday is that he was booed and not that he was actually being played again after the relegation season

Really frustrating isn’t it. They aren’t getting that this is the last straw. He’s been supported but there is no world that he should be brought back in. This is the clubs fault for not ripping up his contract and the managers for being daft enough to include him.  The fans are not to blame at all and why are we expected to play happy families. 
 

The message needs to be received and he’s told to get out the club. 

[orangecity23]

There was no real booing until he managed to dive out the way to make it 2-0. He'd already lost the match for us before people started getting on his back. This narrative that the pressure of booing made him mess up is totally backwards, since he'd already lost the plot by that point. I think he just seems to have no ability to deliver under any kind of pressure. He'll perform in the odd cup game, like that league cup tie earlier this season when nothing matters, but put him in a game where there's anything to play for and he folds quicker than an Oragami speedrunner.

Edited 23 December 2024 by orangecity23

[JimJams]

5 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

What I don't get is the clubs stance on it all.

 

Player tells you he won't leave because his wages won't be matched anywhere else. Tell him he will rot and ruin (what's left of) his career then. 

 

Give him something to think about. Okay accept your 40k or whatever but let him know it's going to cost him any kind of move after because he'll be playing with u21s for years.

 

As it stands he's a no.2 for a Premier League club that gets called upon as and when and collects a lovely wage for it. Another example of how clueless everyone at the club is.

He's a reserve keeper.  Last season he was number 3.  He might still be.  What kind of threat is "If you don't fxxk off we're going to keep paying you but we won't play you... er, anymore than we did before we realised you were shit".  It's the most empty threat going.

[worth_the_wait]

56 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Ward is a goalkeeper who doesn’t make saves (when it matters) 

we’ve seen him make the odd amazing one when we’re several goals down before 

but when the game is alive I can’t recall him making a save you think ‘wow wants a save’  (as mads does) 

 

The only time I saw him make a save that mattered (at the time), was away to Southampton the season we got relegated.   He saved a penalty in the 32nd minute.

But even then it didn't really matter, as 3 minutes later, he let a goal in ... and they won the game 1-0.

[Gubbins]

1 hour ago, oxford blue said:

Totally agree Well articulated in this Guardian piece:

Danny Ward had not started in the league for Leicester since March 2023 but was called upon to replace Mads Hermansen against Wolves. He never looked comfortable, making an early error with the ball at his feet and, once the first goal went under an arm, his day was not going to get any better. The goalkeeper has enjoyed an impressive career but a lack of regular football has affected him, leaving his reactions slow and confidence short. It cannot have helped the Wales international that his own supporters booed him and then sarcastically applauded when he did manage a simple save or to intercept an aimless ball over the top. Supporters have a right to express their views on the team’s performance but it must have hurt Ward to suffer such targeted criticism from those supposedly hoping he would save the next shot. He performed poorly, but there needs to be some recognition that footballers are human beings. 

It's a terrible totally uninformed piece. The ONLY impressive thing about his career is that he has made such a huge amount of money from such microscopic talent. And I'd argue the booing maybe did help him as the single shot he faced after he was personally targeted was the only bloody one he saved. Also fails to note that 'played poorly' is literally the only way Ward is capable of playing. Still gotta be nice to the incompetent, multimillionaire, weekend wrecker right?

[CrazyKopCorner]

30 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

The only time I saw him make a save that mattered (at the time), was away to Southampton the season we got relegated.   He saved a penalty in the 32nd minute.

But even then it didn't really matter, as 3 minutes later, he let a goal in ... and they won the game 1-0.

He's pretty good at penalties as he knows the player will shoot. 

 

When he has to anticipate, make a judgement his ability and technique to save a shot is incredibly poor 

 

How he's got to be a Premier League and International Goalkeeper totally baffles me 

[Lambert09]

If your wife hired a builder and he completely ****ed up your house, then the next year the same builder was hired again by her. I’d be livid at both my wife and the builder for coming and ****ing up my house again.  I’m not going to be nice to him because it’s not going to help, I’m going to ask him to leave and not come back. 

Edited 23 December 2024 by Lambert09

[BillyFOX12]

Have you seen the Welsh fans on Twitter after he plays for them? We're not the only ones fuming after his 'performances'.

[bovril]

1 hour ago, oxford blue said:

Totally agree Well articulated in this Guardian piece:

Danny Ward had not started in the league for Leicester since March 2023 but was called upon to replace Mads Hermansen against Wolves. He never looked comfortable, making an early error with the ball at his feet and, once the first goal went under an arm, his day was not going to get any better. The goalkeeper has enjoyed an impressive career but a lack of regular football has affected him, leaving his reactions slow and confidence short. It cannot have helped the Wales international that his own supporters booed him and then sarcastically applauded when he did manage a simple save or to intercept an aimless ball over the top. Supporters have a right to express their views on the team’s performance but it must have hurt Ward to suffer such targeted criticism from those supposedly hoping he would save the next shot. He performed poorly, but there needs to be some recognition that footballers are human beings. 

It's ironic cheering ffs. Some people need to get a grip. I hear worse every game, often aimed at Vardy's family.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, onekeithweller said:

CANDLE IN THE WIND

 

Goodbye Danny Ward

Though I wish I’d never known you at all

You managed to stay motionless 

While the opposition scored

 

And it seems to me you that you ‘kept’ goal

Like a candle in the wind 

Never knowing what to do

As the goals rained in

And I wish I’d never known you

But Rudkin made sure I did

Your candle burned out long ago

You’re a bellend, let’s get rid

 

80,000 merry souls in the KP against Man City belting this out

[leicesterlad1989]

6 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

I’m guessing you didn’t watch or know much about Pegguy? Yes he was brilliant at saving penalties but other than that he really wasn’t very good between the sticks 

I did and I do. For his penalty saves alone I wouldn't put him on that list. 

[bovril]

10 minutes ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

I did and I do. For his penalty saves alone I wouldn't put him on that list. 

Arphexad was fine for a number 2. And apart from the penalties he would sometimes pull off some brilliant saves.

[murphy]

3 minutes ago, bovril said:

Arphexad was fine for a number 2. And apart from the penalties he would sometimes pull off some brilliant saves.

I liked Pegguy.  

 

He starred in a penalty shoot out against Fulham when we went on to win the league cup.  He also played a blinder at Anfield which led to Liverpool signing him.  He doesn't belong on any dud list.

[adejo92]

Ward joined us in July 2018 aged 25 years, still a fairly young age for a GK.

 

Knowing full well he'd never get a game ahead of Kasper, he siphoned the club of almost 4 years worth of wages before getting a Premier League debut, only then as a result of the clubs bizarre decision to get rid of Kasper.

 

The first season of him becoming No.1, he was the biggest contributing factor to us getting relegated.

 

This isn't a player who's had a bad run of games, this isn't a player who's lacking confidence, this is a player who has absolutely no interest in furthering his career, or game time for that matter, but would rather just siphon this football club of a salary.

 

There's been plenty of opportunity for him to leave, for him to join another team where hes more likely to get game time ahead of Mads (Or Kasper back then) but no, he's refused any moves in preference of a guaranteed pay packet and life of luxury here.

 

It's a disgrace that he's even still at the club, let alone stepping foot on the pitch.

 

He's a fraud, but then who's fool if the club's willing to pay and play him? He's still driving a Lamborghini Urus, living in a mansion...

 

Edited 23 December 2024 by adejo92

[Wymsey]

Didn't he refuse to move this year?..

[VLC86]

3 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Didn't he refuse to move this year?..

Can’t break a habit of a lifetime mate.

[Parafox]

4 minutes ago, adejo92 said:

Ward joined us in July 2018 aged 25 years, still a fairly young age for a GK.

 

Knowing full well he'd never get a game ahead of Kasper, he siphoned the club of almost 4 years worth of wages before getting a Premier League debut, only then as a result of the clubs bizarre decision to get rid of Kasper.

 

Why did we buy him?

 

Having bought him, why did we then keep him?

 

That too is a bizarre decision.

[henry56]

What I find incredible is his total lack of positional sense . Watch how many times he is beaten one on one in the 2022/3 season basically leaving the whole goal to aim at .

Now watch the 1st and 3rd goals yesterday . He seems to set himself outside the frame of the goal. He doesn’t know where the goal is . 

He is so easy to beat . Blokes in the park games would knock it past him every time . 

[Vestan Pance]

I find it inconceivable that the clubs famous investigation into relegation didn't once mention the name of Danny Ward, and didn't come to the conclusion that he isn't remotely good enough for Leicester City.

 

or did the investigation never take place?

 

I didn't boo yesterday, but completely understand those that did. The club is 100% to blame for putting him out there, no matter what Radio Leicester or RVN says.

 

Once again this stinks of employees covering up their own failings.

Edited 23 December 2024 by Vestan Pance

[adejo92]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Why did we buy him?

 

Having bought him, why did we then keep him?

 

That too is a bizarre decision.

Really couldn't answer that.

 

He was a Claude Puel signing when we had Kasper Schmeichel & Jakubovic. I can't think he was ever planned to take Kasper's spot so i can only presume he was bought as a No.2 albeit quick costly for a player who's essentially never really going to play.

 

Perhaps it was the whole "He's from Liverpool FC, he must be alright" i don't know. Clearly someone saw something in him and he came around the same time as James Maddison, Jonny Evans & Riccy P so it wasn't exactly a window where we just brought any old rubbish.

 

I really don't know, but yeah, i can get if someones a bad purchase, they happen, but how he's still here is beyond me. Does sometimes make you wonder if the owner is close to some of the players and looks after them a bit because i really can't see any benefit to him being here other than it being one of Tops mates.

[Parafox]

Let's say there's 30,000 Foxes fans that either attend or watch our games elsewhere.

 

Out of that 30,000 do you think there are ANY that actually think Ward is a good keeper?