Craig Gordon

He has 2 years left on his contract. The only place he will be going this summer is on away trips with us and his holiday. Guaranteed.

 

Great keeper and we're incredibly lucky to have him, but I don't know why other players are getting criticised when he's not. There's no point in doing what he did, we'd be better off if he just let them score. He looked gutted about it too.

 

Absolutely, I love Gordon but I don't see why Commons/Izzy/Denayer are getting pelters in other threads and nothing in here?

Anyway I don't think we should be turning on the players at all, we played with less men than them for 75 minute and the ref cheated us. You can't expect to win a game after that.

 

I think the reason he hasn't jumped down and collected the ball in his hands is his anticipation on Matthews passing it back. Gordon is already thinking of the kick..

The pass back just didn't have enough on it and drew the panic..

That's how I saw it anyway..

 

Saying that, it's another big game he's cocked up in.

 

The finger should be getting pointed at Commons more than Gordon in my opinion. It was a shocking corner, and it come from that.

 

Craig Gordon's knees are dodgy so he never really wants to be one on one with a player as the player will most times get there 1st. Because of Gordon's dody knees I think he can be clumsy with one on ones, per yesterday's pen. Small price to pay as overall he is a cracking keeper!!

 

A shocking corner shouldn't end up with a one on one with the keeper but he's not blameless, either is Matthews, Izzy or Gordon.

I'm just saying I've had my doubts over his big game mentality, yesterday didn't do much to help them.

 

He had a good game and a half against Inter and was generally good throughout the EL except for that half.

 

That first half * everything for us though. That was when the pressure was on.

It's not just from them, it's going back to his Hearts days. Mind him throwing the ball into the net against us in a massive game, last minute?

He's a cracking keeper. I've just got my doubts. Need a couple more big games and big performances out of him to see if it's true or not though. I'm not 100% on it but I've got my doubts.

 

What was he supposed to do? He either went in for a fifty-fifty challenge to prevent conceding a goal, at the risk of conceding a penalty and being sent off, or he took his chances on the line and most likely conceded a soft goal. In hindsight, he would have been better just conceding the goal but it's a split-second decision that he has to make. I don't think he could have come off his line any sooner, with Matthews still in with a shot of stopping the attack himself.

Are you discarding all of his performances in Europe for us?

 

Commons corner sells us up the river in my opinion. It takes the majority of our team out the game. There is of course other things that happen, but it comes from the shocking corner kick, where there is no excuses with it being a dead ball. Gordon has to go for it in my opinion, and I would expect any keeper to do likewise.

 

Well not wiping out the player would have been a start. Get off his line a bit quicker.

I'm not at all but none of our games in Europe this season up until Inter was really the massive big game occasion. If you don't believe that go check our crowds against Astra compared to Barca the year before.

He's done very well, no doubt but I still think there's a slight question mark there.

 

There is no way a player should end up man for man for a * up corner, that's shoddy defending. The players ran from the halfway line, he should have been out quicker, the fact he wasn't he should have tried and stayed big and make the save rather than wipe the player out.

Nobody covered themselves in glory. Just because Commons done * doesn't mean others didn't either.

 

He can't really come out any quicker, because Matthews is still in with a good chance of dealing with the danger. I've said there was other things that happened, but for me, Commons corner put us in big trouble, and there is no excuses for the poor delivery, as it was a dead ball situation.

 

I don't really think his big game mentality can be brought into question after some of his performances for Scotland.

 

I don't think that's true mate, Matthews was always behind and being muscled out. He should be helping out his defender there.

Aye, Commons corner was *. Does that mean we dismiss everything that happens afterwards? There's a long way to the other end of the pitch, a penalty and a red card.

 

Agree with this. Even the best goalies make mistakes though - Neuer is guilty of a few as well. Not worried about Gordon's mentality

 

So is Gordon meant to come rushing out as soon as the ball gets put through to Watkins? I think you are being incredibly harsh on him to be honest, because I think he had to go for it, and I think he come out when you would expect him to as well. I'm not sure what else he could have done to help Matthews?

Of course we should just dismiss everything else, that is why I have said twice now that other things happened as well, but there can be no denying that it all comes from a shocking corner kick. That is where it starts, and it takes a lot of our team out the game.