Arabdownsouth wrote:

punched the ball behind himself, I'd say he was the worst myself

Not disagreeing with your point of course

Yeah i can understand that and also agree, i’d say myself there isn’t much of a difference in quality between them though.

Kucherenko most definitely made worse mistakes towards the end of his United career which were somewhat unforgivable but i think it was a confidence issue with Kucherenko mainly and at times showed he was good in certain aspects of goalkeeping and given time on loan could’ve maybe cut those mistakes out of his game, maybe.

This doesn’t mean that i thoroughly believe Kucherenko would have ever been good enough for us or that I think selling him was the wrong decision. I just don’t see any future with Richards at Dundee United, he is so stressful to watch and i actually had more faith in Kucherenko than I do Richards. Kucherenko was awful though. 

The 2 first deals that need to be made in the summer are getting real quality at both ends of the pitch, Striker and Goalkeeper. I can’t watch the likes of Watters and Kuch/Richards/AMB next season. Defence is also very, very important. No more Ross Graham, KK, Strain.
 

redford_must_score wrote:

Watching Well v Hearts reminds me that another indicator of a lack of proper coaching is our terrible decision making on the ball.
It's been evident all season but today was the worst I've seen it.
It's not something that's just down to the quality and skill of the player, it's something that can be coached even to average players.

Makes you wonder what's going on at St Andrews .

Spot on, i’ve wondered this myself.

Instead of taking a mediocre player and improving them like other teams do, we actually seem to get a player that shows some quality/good strengths and make them worse.

e.g. Sapsford at the start of the season looked like a real find, took guys on for fun, had a decent shot, Always gave 100% and linked with play nicely. He hasn’t shown anything like this in months.

Things can probably be speculated for Sapsford like he is being overplayed and he has a lack of service but what about Dolcek, Camara and others. Its like they are getting all technical ability coached out of them to the point where they can’t even link up play, or make a simple pass.
 

United23 wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

punched the ball behind himself, I'd say he was the worst myself

Not disagreeing with your point of course

Yeah i can understand that and also agree, i’d say myself there isn’t much of a difference in quality between them though.

Kucherenko most definitely made worse mistakes towards the end of his United career which were somewhat unforgivable but i think it was a confidence issue with Kucherenko mainly and at times showed he was good in certain aspects of goalkeeping and given time on loan could’ve maybe cut those mistakes out of his game, maybe.

This doesn’t mean that i thoroughly believe Kucherenko would have ever been good enough for us or that I think selling him was the wrong decision. I just don’t see any future with Richards at Dundee United, he is so stressful to watch and i actually had more faith in Kucherenko than I do Richards. Kucherenko was awful though. 

The 2 first deals that need to be made in the summer are getting real quality at both ends of the pitch, Striker and Goalkeeper. I can’t watch the likes of Watters and Kuch/Richards/AMB next season. Defence is also very, very important. No more Ross Graham, KK, Strain.
 

Haven't we already signed a centre forward for next season, Lachlan Rose.

Honestly find is so strange we are not giving Adams a chance in these games.  Richard’s has shown in several occasions he’s not good enough, so why not give him a few starts to see if he is?

You never know, it might save us trying to find another number 1 for next season.

Disgrace we never got that pen and Watters has to bury that chance.  Things like that change games but we were really poor again yesterday.

I see Jim’s got his usual seat today !

David_Blunkett wrote:

On that Hearts v Well game, i'm amazed Motherwell don't concede a lot of goals, their keeper palms out a lot into open play, maybe it was just this game though.

Don't think he's a great keeper tbh, seems to be that his distribution from the back is what Askou is looking for.  He's very good at that.

Slotbadger wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

David_Blunkett wrote:

On that Hearts v Well game, i'm amazed Motherwell don't concede a lot of goals, their keeper palms out a lot into open play, maybe it was just this game though.

Don't think he's a great keeper tbh, seems to be that his distribution from the back is what Askou is looking for.  He's very good at that.

 
Has the record for the most clean sheets in Motherwell’s history (17) and was voted as best keeper in the league this season. So he must be pretty decent.

Wasn't aware of those stats.  He's never over-impressed when I have watched him, but I guess he's better than I have given him credit for.

RogerTheAlien wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

Slotbadger wrote:

 
Has the record for the most clean sheets in Motherwell’s history (17) and was voted as best keeper in the league this season. So he must be pretty decent.

Wasn't aware of those stats.  He's never over-impressed when I have watched him, but I guess he's better than I have given him credit for.

 
He’s looked a decent shot stopper but he’s much better with the ball at his feet. He practically played as a sweeper against us we were that far back.

Last trip to Fir Park I had no idea why we didn't try the odd long range effort.  It would have forced him back on to the edge of his box at least.  That 'vision' seems obvious to me, but the players seem so fixed on Goodwin's game plan that nobody thinks about the game in front of them.