The Aynsley Pears appreciation thread.

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3 hours ago, StHelensRover said:

Interesting graphic but as you note I don't think it ultimately shows too much, taken one very specific metric and lot of context missing around it. 

I'm sure Aynsley works his arse off and is a lovely lad, but watching him over several years, he doesn't pass the eye test for me. He still makes the same howlers regularly that he made very early on e.g. Wigan away where he was at directly at fault for all three goals. All players make mistakes in all games. But when goalies do it it's more heavily scrutinised, that has always been part of the game and is why it's such an important position.

Usually when goalies make a mistake it's a one-off in the game and costs one goal. There's been occasions with AP where he has an absolute stinker and costs us multiple goals, think that shows there are issues around confidence and mentality as well as raw ability, maybe it could be coached out of him if we had someone around who knew what they were doing with a young-ish goalie.

That statistic plays to his strength as well because he's a decent shot stopper.

His decision making and positioning is poor to hilarious and that's what makes him not cut out to be a number one.

His confidence will be shot easily because the manager, players and he himself all know that he's not good enough so when he does make the inevitable mistakes the pressure is on a lot more.