by Ian Royal »
02 Feb 2016 18:30
It's simple folks.
AAH is overly prone to howlers.
He's dropped 2/3 clangers for us this season, and if he plays regularly for the rest of it, will probably drop 2/3 more. Other than that (rather significant flaw) he's actually a very good 'keeper. That flaw is the reason we could sign him rather than him be at some middling Premier League outfit. He's made more than just 2/3 mistakes this season, but every 'keeper makes mistakes, some of them bad, so just listing all the goals he could have done better on as an argument for him being a liability is stupid. Otherwise every 'keeper is a liability.
That goal against QPR was one of the worst bits of 'keeping I've ever seen, and that includes watching Federici howlers at Wembley, vs Stoke etc plus watching Sheppard and Van der Kwaak in goal for us. As was the howler he dropped for us when playing for Wigan. He isn't a liability though, he's an asset who'll oxf*rd up majorly too often.
But make no mistake, he's better than Bond, who is all round soft and suspect, though he may well develop into a fine 'keeper.