Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Stephen Henderson - officially appointed Men's 1st team goalkeeping coach (p4)

1246

Comments

  • See him all the time at the tennis club as he plays a lot of padel. Likeable bloke and looks in better nick than when he played for us.
    Is that at Sundridge Park?
  • Kap10 said:
    See him all the time at the tennis club as he plays a lot of padel. Likeable bloke and looks in better nick than when he played for us.
    What's padel?
    combo of squash and tennis
  • edited August 2023
    .
  • See him all the time at the tennis club as he plays a lot of padel. Likeable bloke and looks in better nick than when he played for us.
    Is that at Sundridge Park?
    Yes. He’s a pretty decent player too. 
  • Kap10 said:
    See him all the time at the tennis club as he plays a lot of padel. Likeable bloke and looks in better nick than when he played for us.
    What's padel?
    combo of squash and tennis
    squennis?
    Are you thinking / getting confused with Harry Potter 😉
  • And what exactly is Appleton’s ‘philosophy’ when it comes to the goalkeepers that is so unique? 🙂

    Nonsense spin / guff. 


  • Sponsored links:


  • There's definitely been something wrong in that department since Andy Marshall left in the summer of 2021. 
  • Still only 35 , wonder if he will sign on as a player in the case of emergency?
  • CH4RLTON said:
    Still only 35 , wonder if he will sign on as a player in the case of emergency?
    Hope not after that cup game at what ever northern out post it was.
  • edited September 2023
    There's definitely been something wrong in that department since Andy Marshall left in the summer of 2021. 
    Agreed. I watched shimmel in the pre match warm up’s. His philosophy seemed to be to smash the ball as hard as he could at the GK’s face from 6 yards, and then smash the ball as hard as he could in to the north upper from any further out. 
  • Kap10 said:
    See him all the time at the tennis club as he plays a lot of padel. Likeable bloke and looks in better nick than when he played for us.
    What's padel?
    combo of squash and tennis
    squennis?
    Are you thinking / getting confused with Harry Potter 😉
    No, that's cribbage 
  • And what exactly is Appleton’s ‘philosophy’ when it comes to the goalkeepers that is so unique? 🙂

    Nonsense spin / guff. 


    "He understands Michael's philosophy and has a similar outlook on the game."

    Says nothing about it being unique and it's Henderson understanding  Appleton's philosophy not the other way round.

    Of course it's a bit of a cliche but they are hardly going to say Mickey and Stevo don't share the same philosophy but we employed him anyway 
    My point stands. 

    Just a nonsense set of words. 

    Separately I remain very cynical about when the appointments were lined up to replace Holden and team and the nature of his sacking. No matter. It’s just football PR. 
  • Sponsored links:


  • I think it is more telling that for all Scott's talk of going through a thorough recruitment process to ensure that coaches fit the club's model the two recruits we have seen have been "old boys network"

    EG O'Donnell was previously MA's assistant and Pearce had bought Henderson presumably because he knew him and is local.

    That's not to say that either are bad appointments, just that they appear from the outside to be more traditional then the talk suggested.

    And we still haven't appointed the Director of Performance mentioned when the club was taken over or replaced George Jones who was running Charlton TV and the other streaming/video services.
    Well the longer we don’t appoint the longer the budget can be stretched in other directions I guess. 

    Remains to be seen where we need to spend more and spend less. 

    My gut feel is we are light on coaching staff. Based on perception only and zero inside knowledge. 
  • I'm really surprised at the negative opinions on Henderson. He was fantastic for us in goal, he just had fitness issues. Do people not remember the season when we had a 100% penalty record, which included both the penalties we gave away being saved by Henderson (the second of which was an incredible save)? He was superb and the opinion on here at the time was that he was the best we'd had in years, if he could only stay fit. Feels like he's a victim of having been around during one of the worst seasons in living memory. You can blame him for conceding as many goals as he did that season if you want, but considering he had Roger Johnson, Rhys Williams and Karel Fraeye to put up with I'm a bit amazed it wasn't more.
    he had the minerals to come out and face the press after conceding 5 odd goals after a game when karel fraeye hid. Great character and great he's back as keeping coach.
    Fraeye knew he was out after that game, I cannot blame him tbf.  The club was in chaos.
  • Swisdom said:
    Goalkeeping went backwards under Shimell - can’t say if he was at fault for it but  I was warned when we got him thst he didn’t have a particularly good reputation in the game.

    on to the new chap now and you’d like to think Hendo is modern enough as a goalie - just got to hope he’s got the formal training too and we get the best out of AMB and Istead.
    Interesting. Makes you wonder how he got the gig in the first place then. 
  • Think @DOUCHER made a few references about Shimell not being well regarded?
  • Swisdom said:
    Goalkeeping went backwards under Shimell - can’t say if he was at fault for it but  I was warned when we got him thst he didn’t have a particularly good reputation in the game.

    on to the new chap now and you’d like to think Hendo is modern enough as a goalie - just got to hope he’s got the formal training too and we get the best out of AMB and Istead.
    Interesting. Makes you wonder how he got the gig in the first place then. 
    Roddy and he was cheap.
  • Swisdom said:
    Goalkeeping went backwards under Shimell - can’t say if he was at fault for it but  I was warned when we got him thst he didn’t have a particularly good reputation in the game.

    on to the new chap now and you’d like to think Hendo is modern enough as a goalie - just got to hope he’s got the formal training too and we get the best out of AMB and Istead.
    Andy Scott removed him, so maybe he'd heard something too...

    Do GK coaches do badges? It seems one form of coaching where personal experience seems to trump classroom learning, as you never get outfield players doing specialist keeper coaching. It's probably similar to wicketkeepers, where you bring in a former wicketkeeper to give specialist coaching to current ones.
  • I think it is more telling that for all Scott's talk of going through a thorough recruitment process to ensure that coaches fit the club's model the two recruits we have seen have been "old boys network"

    EG O'Donnell was previously MA's assistant and Pearce had bought Henderson presumably because he knew him and is local.

    That's not to say that either are bad appointments, just that they appear from the outside to be more traditional then the talk suggested.

    And we still haven't appointed the Director of Performance mentioned when the club was taken over or replaced George Jones who was running Charlton TV and the other streaming/video services.
    I wouldn't read anything at all into O'Donnell it's perfectly natural for a manager to bring in his number two.  It happens all the time and it's far more than just giving his mate a job.  I am glad that that's Appleton's call, not Scott's, because only one of them will get the sack if it goes the shape of a pear.
  • I have no recollection of the 2 games he apparently played for us in 2021
  • Southbank said:
    I have no recollection of the 2 games he apparently played for us in 2021
    One of them was the FA Cup game that was on TV, was it Gateshead?
Sign In or Register to comment.

Roland Out Forever!