Polish International on trial

[Royal Rother]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

[Bedford Royal]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

Sorry, am I supposed to praise Hahnemann for all his brilliant displays throughout his error free season ?

The truth is, he's past it, and we can't just keep a player because of his past service to the club or because he has been loyal. We are Premiership team, and to be honest, he's not a Premiership goalkeeper.

[brendywendy]

even the goals where he is supposedly to blame are more to do with the general panic in our back four, caused by either their own ineptitude, or becuase our malfunctioning midfield lets people run through it
either way i dont think the blame lies at marcus' door

[Row Z Royal]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

Sorry, am I supposed to praise Hahnemann for all his brilliant displays throughout his error free season ?

The truth is, he's past it, and we can't just keep a player because of his past service to the club or because he has been loyal. We are Premiership team, and to be honest, he's not a Premiership goalkeeper.

I am afraid you are incorrect, sir.

While Marcus has perhaps had better seasons, he's had them at lower levels. Statistically he's made the most Prem Saves this season and in the whole of 2007 and he's not particularly injury and error-prone.

He makes fewer mistakes less often than England's supposed No.1 and while his communication is poor, with our defence he could have a loud hailer and it wouldn't matter a jot.

Sure his distribution has been consistently questionable, but as has been discussed on here already this season, Reading are a team that play with width and it's not easy to hit the touchline with deadly accuracy every time from 60-70 yards.

This will be Hahnemann's last full season for us as I'm sure changes will be in motion by this time next year, but Hahnemann is our No.1 and I'm going to support him and hope he keeps doing his best at a bloody difficult job.

[Bedford Royal]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

Sorry, am I supposed to praise Hahnemann for all his brilliant displays throughout his error free season ?

The truth is, he's past it, and we can't just keep a player because of his past service to the club or because he has been loyal. We are Premiership team, and to be honest, he's not a Premiership goalkeeper.

I am afraid you are incorrect, sir.

While Marcus has perhaps had better seasons, he's had them at lower levels. Statistically he's made the most Prem Saves this season and in the whole of 2007 and he's not particularly injury and error-prone.

He makes fewer mistakes less often than England's supposed No.1 and while his communication is poor, with our defence he could have a loud hailer and it wouldn't matter a jot.

Sure his distribution has been consistently questionable, but as has been discussed on here already this season, Reading are a team that play with width and it's not easy to hit the touchline with deadly accuracy every time from 60-70 yards.

This will be Hahnemann's last full season for us as I'm sure changes will be in motion by this time next year, but Hahnemann is our No.1 and I'm going to support him and hope he keeps doing his best at a bloody difficult job.

Of course I'm going to support him, just like I support every single one of our players, but I have to be honest, and the fact is, he fills me with no confidence what so ever, and I doubt he fills the defenders with any. The reason he's made more saves than any other keeper, is because, with our leaky defence, which would look far saffer if they had a solid keeper playing behind them, he's had more to face. I'd love to see his catch to save ration, I bet it's very poor. Contrary to what you say, he has made a lot of errors in his 2 seasons as a Premiership keeper, and the reason he's had better seasons at a lower level is because that's the level he should be playing at.

He has served us fantastically well over the last few years, but we are a Premiership club, and cannot afford to be sentimental, if we want to remain a Premiership team, and progress, we need players of a higher standard. Hopefully this will be his last season full season with us, but he has just signed a new contract extension, and with Coppell's insistence of staying loyal to players, you never know.

[Row Z Royal]

In the mistakes market, I can only think of four(ish) goals scored directly from a Marcus mistake. If it's more than that then fair enough (but I'm buggared if I'm going to go and look for the stats).

[Ian Royal]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

Sorry, am I supposed to praise Hahnemann for all his brilliant displays throughout his error free season ?

The truth is, he's past it, and we can't just keep a player because of his past service to the club or because he has been loyal. We are Premiership team, and to be honest, he's not a Premiership goalkeeper.

I am afraid you are incorrect, sir.

While Marcus has perhaps had better seasons, he's had them at lower levels. Statistically he's made the most Prem Saves this season and in the whole of 2007 and he's not particularly injury and error-prone.

He makes fewer mistakes less often than England's supposed No.1 and while his communication is poor, with our defence he could have a loud hailer and it wouldn't matter a jot.

Sure his distribution has been consistently questionable, but as has been discussed on here already this season, Reading are a team that play with width and it's not easy to hit the touchline with deadly accuracy every time from 60-70 yards.

This will be Hahnemann's last full season for us as I'm sure changes will be in motion by this time next year, but Hahnemann is our No.1 and I'm going to support him and hope he keeps doing his best at a bloody difficult job.

Of course I'm going to support him, just like I support every single one of our players, but I have to be honest, and the fact is, he fills me with no confidence what so ever, and I doubt he fills the defenders with any. The reason he's made more saves than any other keeper, is because, with our leaky defence, which would look far saffer if they had a solid keeper playing behind them, he's had more to face. I'd love to see his catch to save ration, I bet it's very poor. Contrary to what you say, he has made a lot of errors in his 2 seasons as a Premiership keeper, and the reason he's had better seasons at a lower level is because that's the level he should be playing at.

He has served us fantastically well over the last few years, but we are a Premiership club, and cannot afford to be sentimental, if we want to remain a Premiership team, and progress, we need players of a higher standard. Hopefully this will be his last season full season with us, but he has just signed a new contract extension, and with Coppell's insistence of staying loyal to players, you never know.

you do realise that makes no sense, you say the reason that he saves so many shots is because the defence let so many through, yet it's still his fault and him thats not very good.

I can't see any logic there. He's been consistently ok for us with a few really poor displays and a few really good ones. He's good enough for the prem as shown by our decent defensive record last year. The entire team is trugglijng right now and it is no more fair to right off marcus than it is Ivar, Sonko, Shorey, Harper or any of our other players.

[Uke]

Of course I'm going to support him, just like I support every single one of our players, but I have to be honest, and the fact is, he fills me with no confidence what so ever, and I doubt he fills the defenders with any.

The defence have supreme confidence in Marcus

Otherwise why would they let so many balls through?

[West Stand Flash]

Leaving the club - Got a permanent deal abroad.

[hiro]

Leaving the club - Got a permanent deal abroad.

Will miss him...

[Drew_3]

Leaving the club - Got a permanent deal abroad.

at an italian club supossedly, dont think thats a huge loss to be honest!

[West Stand Man]

He can't be any worse than USA or Fed.

Oh great, another one.

Sorry, am I supposed to praise Hahnemann for all his brilliant displays throughout his error free season ?

The truth is, he's past it, and we can't just keep a player because of his past service to the club or because he has been loyal. We are Premiership team, and to be honest, he's not a Premiership goalkeeper.

Do you actually watch football, or merely copy other people's negative comments?

[Archie's penalty]

Just saw on a Polish website that he is very possibly going to Lazio. He definitely won't be a Reading player. Apparently Lazio are ready to give him the 7,000 pounds a week salary he is demanding. I wonder why we weren't prepared to give him a contract here? Maybe he just didn't fit in at the Madejski or he knew he wasn't going to get a game...

[Royal Spangle]

Looks like Marcus is in Goal for the rest of the season

[Alan Partridge]

Just saw on a Polish website that he is very possibly going to Lazio. He definitely won't be a Reading player. Apparently Lazio are ready to give him the 7,000 pounds a week salary he is demanding. I wonder why we weren't prepared to give him a contract here? Maybe he just didn't fit in at the Madejski or he knew he wasn't going to get a game...

Which if true makes it very annoying that we didn't attempt getting this guy in. If a club of that size wants him then he must have something about him. Shame.

[Alan Partridge]

Looks like Marcus is in Goal for the rest of the season

He would have been regardless.

[Wycombe Royal]

Just saw on a Polish website that he is very possibly going to Lazio. He definitely won't be a Reading player. Apparently Lazio are ready to give him the 7,000 pounds a week salary he is demanding. I wonder why we weren't prepared to give him a contract here? Maybe he just didn't fit in at the Madejski or he knew he wasn't going to get a game...

Which if true makes it very annoying that we didn't attempt getting this guy in. If a club of that size wants him then he must have something about him. Shame.

How do you know we didn't?

But Lazio or Reading? Tough choice.

[Archie's penalty]

Just saw on a Polish website that he is very possibly going to Lazio. He definitely won't be a Reading player. Apparently Lazio are ready to give him the 7,000 pounds a week salary he is demanding. I wonder why we weren't prepared to give him a contract here? Maybe he just didn't fit in at the Madejski or he knew he wasn't going to get a game...

Which if true makes it very annoying that we didn't attempt getting this guy in. If a club of that size wants him then he must have something about him. Shame.

I think Marcus deserves until the end of the season and Coppell would have given him that at least. I think the issue here is that Kowalewski wanted to be first team keeper NOW in time for the Euros. Do you think it was reasonable for Coppell to bow down to such demands - that smacks of being bullied...

[Archie's penalty]

Just saw on a Polish website that he is very possibly going to Lazio. He definitely won't be a Reading player. Apparently Lazio are ready to give him the 7,000 pounds a week salary he is demanding. I wonder why we weren't prepared to give him a contract here? Maybe he just didn't fit in at the Madejski or he knew he wasn't going to get a game...

Which if true makes it very annoying that we didn't attempt getting this guy in. If a club of that size wants him then he must have something about him. Shame.

How do you know we didn't?

But Lazio or Reading? Tough choice.

Good point.

[Barry the bird boggler]

The other thing is that even if we'd offered something unless there was the liklihood of him playing regularly in the first team, leading up to the Euro finals, we'd be unlikely to persuade him to come here. Perhaps that element is something Lazio can offer.