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Goalkeepers
Topic Started: 7 Jun 2018, 05:42 PM (7,558 Views)
44bhoy
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Boruc and Forster were the Heineken goalkeepers - they made saves that most other Celtic keepers didn't make.

Big Rab never made a save he shouldn't have. For a big guy he made himself so small.
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kellybhoy
8 Jun 2018, 02:21 AM
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7 Jun 2018, 10:32 PM
Douglas was horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. Dont recall him ever making a decent save in any big game.
You must have missed a helluva lot of games. Rab Douglas had many great games for us especially during the Seville run. I can remember at least half a dozen spectacular saves, especially from free kicks. I believe he also holds or held the record for most clean sheets.
Dont think i missed a single game from 96-05. I have never seen a worse keeper than rab at 1v1. Managed to make himself as small as possible. Cost us the uefa cup and cost us the league with his pathetic displays against the huns. The clean sheets were more to do with the team than him.
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fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 10:10 AM
the best ever goalkeeping performance from any Celtic keeper was Forster the night we beat Barcelona 2-1. It's very sad to see how far he has fallen.
Boruc at home to spartak shades it for me. Marshall away to barca also impressive.
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8 Jun 2018, 11:53 AM
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8 Jun 2018, 02:21 AM
TheMaestro
7 Jun 2018, 10:32 PM
Douglas was horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. Dont recall him ever making a decent save in any big game.
You must have missed a helluva lot of games. Rab Douglas had many great games for us especially during the Seville run. I can remember at least half a dozen spectacular saves, especially from free kicks. I believe he also holds or held the record for most clean sheets.
Dont think i missed a single game from 96-05. I have never seen a worse keeper than rab at 1v1. Managed to make himself as small as possible. Cost us the uefa cup and cost us the league with his pathetic displays against the huns. The clean sheets were more to do with the team than him.
I think his best game for us is when we lost 1-0 in Valencia. He kept us in that tie.
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I see it took about three posts with the myth about Boruc's being poor in his last season. He was fine his last season including that save from wotherspoon of hibs at easter road. It was the previous 12/18 months he was poor. And his performance in the san siro last 16 was the best performance as well. Forster was really good for us as well, Boruc shades it though.
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Boruc at his peak was the best. He made some incredible saves and was brilliant at closing down oncoming strikers in full starfish mode.

Forster became a great, consistent goalie without being great with his feet.

Gordon, I think, gets a raw deal because he followed those two. Better than anything we had for years before and does most of the basic goalie stuff well. He had a tendency early on to palm balls back to opposition players but seems to have got better in this regard. Would say he lets too many in at his near post and he can be outright dreadful with his feet. If he had these attributes as well he probably would have left like the other two.
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Like an earlier poster, I liked Ronnie Simpson. Different age of course and hardly "recent", but it would interesting to see how he would compare to modern keepers. He was probably too small for the modern game.
Edited by alexw123, 8 Jun 2018, 12:45 PM.
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fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 11:16 AM
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8 Jun 2018, 10:26 AM
fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 10:10 AM
the best ever goalkeeping performance from any Celtic keeper was Forster the night we beat Barcelona 2-1. It's very sad to see how far he has fallen.
One standout memory of mine from that game is them constantly launching the ball over the bar. Every chance they got, up it went :lol: :lol:

I also don't think Forster made a series of saves in that game that are beyond Gordon or any other decent keeper. Maybe the magnitude of the win is elevating the perceived quality of the saves he made, but is there any one individual save that he made that other keepers wouldn't get to?
he had a presence that night that gave the entire team confidence. It was after this game he was dubbed " the great yellow wall" in the Spanish press, and rumours surfaced that Barca were keen to sign him.

The night itself may have elevated the perception, and I recall Boruc having the game of his life v Man Utd in Naka's game which may have been the equal of Forster's performance.

It's significant however that both these games are in Celtic folklore as huge wins, but seldom do we think of the fact they were the result of astonishing goalkeeping performances as much as outrageous goals.
If it hasn't already, it should :)

Whatever I think of his performance that night I'm not about to rush into some argument that talks down his performance or any aspect of that game, I'd rather just focus on all of the good memories from then.

*beeps as he reverses away* :lol:
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TheMaestro
8 Jun 2018, 11:56 AM
fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 10:10 AM
the best ever goalkeeping performance from any Celtic keeper was Forster the night we beat Barcelona 2-1. It's very sad to see how far he has fallen.
Boruc at home to spartak shades it for me. Marshall away to barca also impressive.
Didn't Boruc make a series of brilliant saves in the San Siro? I seem to remember a save from a freekick.
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8 Jun 2018, 01:53 PM
TheMaestro
8 Jun 2018, 11:56 AM
fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 10:10 AM
the best ever goalkeeping performance from any Celtic keeper was Forster the night we beat Barcelona 2-1. It's very sad to see how far he has fallen.
Boruc at home to spartak shades it for me. Marshall away to barca also impressive.
Didn't Boruc make a series of brilliant saves in the San Siro? I seem to remember a save from a freekick.
Forster's performance in the Nou Camp was even more impressive, even though we got beat.

Gordon's first season with us he pulled off some incredible saves, especially in the EL group stage. The irony was that it was him that sold the jersey, so to speak, against Inter. :twitch:
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8 Jun 2018, 01:53 PM
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8 Jun 2018, 11:56 AM
fatboab
8 Jun 2018, 10:10 AM
the best ever goalkeeping performance from any Celtic keeper was Forster the night we beat Barcelona 2-1. It's very sad to see how far he has fallen.
Boruc at home to spartak shades it for me. Marshall away to barca also impressive.
Didn't Boruc make a series of brilliant saves in the San Siro? I seem to remember a save from a freekick.
That's the game I think of when I think of Boruc having a stormer in Europe. He was outstanding that night, free kick save was from Seedorf.

Forster had a few nights like that, as fatboab mentioned particularly at home to Barca. A double save and one of his saves from Messi being standouts from that.

Gordon excelled in the group stages Europa in Deila's first season but since then has been disappointing in Europe. Cost us against Inter in the knockouts and since then - while admittedly the defence has been questionable at best most of the time he rarely digs them out of the kind of holes that Boruc and Forster did regularly.
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stevie21
8 Jun 2018, 12:49 PM
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8 Jun 2018, 11:16 AM
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he had a presence that night that gave the entire team confidence. It was after this game he was dubbed " the great yellow wall" in the Spanish press, and rumours surfaced that Barca were keen to sign him.

The night itself may have elevated the perception, and I recall Boruc having the game of his life v Man Utd in Naka's game which may have been the equal of Forster's performance.

It's significant however that both these games are in Celtic folklore as huge wins, but seldom do we think of the fact they were the result of astonishing goalkeeping performances as much as outrageous goals.
If it hasn't already, it should :)

Whatever I think of his performance that night I'm not about to rush into some argument that talks down his performance or any aspect of that game, I'd rather just focus on all of the good memories from then.

*beeps as he reverses away* :lol:
If my memory is right I think Forster made a few really good one on one saves that night but defensively we blocked just about everything else that was on target.

Boruc for me was the best keeper that we've had in 45 years that I can remember, he was incredible at times (lets not mention Hibs away) and was one of the best in Europe.

For me it Boruc, Forster just behind and Gordon behind him as stand outs from my memory
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8 Jun 2018, 11:14 AM
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7 Jun 2018, 10:36 PM

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He was the McManus of keepers.

He was solid and reliable in a game where we were on the back foot and he was busy.
Agree with that and it might be why we’ve traditionally struggled with keepers; it’s easier to stand out when making lots of saves but a Celtic keeper might only be required to make one or two during the whole game and needs to be able to maintain concentration whilst doing feck all in the main.

Others have made this point, or at least alluded to it, in the thread too
Bain has so far shown he can do this as well.
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alexw123
8 Jun 2018, 12:44 PM
Like an earlier poster, I liked Ronnie Simpson. Different age of course and hardly "recent", but it would interesting to see how he would compare to modern keepers. He was probably too small for the modern game.
Loved Ronnie Simpson. Cannot recall him having a bad game. He probably did, but he was incredibly consistent. He was a brave keeper in an era when keepers regularly got battered, and he caught the ball, unlike the present day mob who punch everything.
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7 Jun 2018, 10:55 PM
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7 Jun 2018, 10:27 PM
Forster just edges boruc for me. Boruc attitude at times let him down, but he was class as well.

In my time of watching Celtic, Forster, boruc, Gordon, bonner, Douglas.

DDV, Gould, Gordon Marshall, Hedman all dross and caused varying levels of consternation for me.
I always liked Gould.

He obviously never reached the standard of Boruc, Forster, or even Gordon, but he rarely let us down.
I disagree.



I can only find this footage from the home leg against FC Zurich. If memory serves me right, Boyd got sent off for punching the ball off the line as Gould messed up a clearance straight to their striker and was caught in no-man's land once again.

The leg over in Switzerland was even worse. We lost 4-2 and Gould even got subbed (albeit injured). Pretty sure he was at fault for at least 2 of their goals that night too. He certainly let us down on a few occasions.
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8 Jun 2018, 11:25 AM
One thing that stands out that really good Celtic keepers get a fun nickname, like the Great Wall or the Holy Goalie.
Very true, and Gordon a part of The Riccarton Three :lol:

Little Griffalo and Moussassin being popular monikers for some others.

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Joel Robles at Everton. . . was he (is he) any good?

Just been released by Everton, was first choice at one point.
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Would agree that FF's performance in the Nou Camp was better than in the win at CP despite the loss.

As for Douglas, as bad as he was he made one of the best penalty saves I've ever seen away to Motherwell.
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8 Jun 2018, 08:44 PM
Would agree that FF's performance in the Nou Camp was better than in the win at CP despite the loss.

As for Douglas, as bad as he was he made one of the best penalty saves I've ever seen away to Motherwell.
Agreed the big man could be a bombscare but he was also capable of top class performances.

I was in Valencia the night he produced an unbelievable performance at the Mestalla.
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a bit off topic but a cracking article on Lev Yashin here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin
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