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The 2017 Summer Transfer Rumours Thread (Deadline Day from page 264)

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  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Phillips needs and also deserves first team football. He proved with Cheltenham that he's a good keeper and conference football isn't too different to League Two.

    If he isn't going to be number one, send him on loan to a League One side who is going to play him. We bring one in permanently and another on loan who will be happy to be back up.

    Next season we assess again but if he was to go on loan in League One and do very well, of which I think he will as he should be our keeper this season, play him next season as our number one.

    What's the point of having a keeper who is good enough, from our academy, who isn't going to play? It doesn't make sense. Make use of him, don't hinder his development.
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    edited July 2017
    seth plum said:

    The point about Phillips is for such an important player he is virtually on the football equivalent of the minimum wage.

    One of the biggest mistakes the owner has made is paying way over the odds in wages for poor players. Perhaps Phillips is paid the going rate for a 2nd choice keeper in tier 3
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Sage said:

    Phillips needs and also deserves first team football. He proved with Cheltenham that he's a good keeper and conference football isn't too different to League Two.

    If he isn't going to be number one, send him on loan to a League One side who is going to play him. We bring one in permanently and another on loan who will be happy to be back up.

    Next season we assess again but if he was to go on loan in League One and do very well, of which I think he will as he should be our keeper this season, play him next season as our number one.

    What's the point of having a keeper who is good enough, from our academy, who isn't going to play? It doesn't make sense. Make use of him, don't hinder his development.

    It's going to be difficult to get a loan in as number 2 for the same reasons you said loan him to a League 1 side who will play him

    I think he may have to go league 2, I can't see too many teams in our league having him as number 1
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    If we get Martin in, I'd like to see him and Phillips fight it out for the jersey. Genuine competition can only be healthy and I really don't want to lose a very promising young keeper. Dillon played very well for us last season when Rudd was injured and excelled the season before at Cheltenham.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    I just want us to have the best keeper possible. Very few players in our squad should expect to be an automatic first choice and at the moment I don't see why Phillips should be one of them.
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,701
    If Lindergaard or Martin comes in then Phillips will have to work harder no doubt as they are both good experienced keepers but it would show the character of a winner if he could dislodge any of the above 2. Even if 1 of these come in, keepers can be treated harshly so if or when they cock up, he will need to get in there and make KR notice him.

    Good prospect but needs solid competition.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    Someone mentioned Rene Gilmartin earlier in the thread . A clear number two option like him would be the level I think we might see as a Reserve . Lewis Price , Paul Rachupka or Stuart Taylor are the sort of professional standbys I am talking about .
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    Keepers have to expect to be a No 2 & maybe not play hardly at all during a season. It's not a position that gets injured too much but a proper team needs at least 2 decent keepers as well as a 3rd choice (probably an U23's keeper)

    If we get Martin or Lindergard then Phillips should be kept as our No 2 - no point loaning him out & then needing to get someone in quick if Martin got injured.

    I agree that Philips hasn't been treated that well, but he is still young & his time will come.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,262
    Why hasn't he been treated well in people's eyes?
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    There is a difference in a number 2 someone who would compete for the gloves and a clear number 1.

    Norwich probably wouldn't have loaned us Rudd if we had someone like Henderson or Pope stills at the Valley. Indeed the loan worked out well for them as Rudd had a years regular football and the pocketted a £1 Million fee.
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    edited July 2017

    A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    2 decent keepers are ok, with Beeney as your 3rd.
    If the goalie gets injured bring in a loan (you can emergency loan goalies I believe).
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811

    A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    so you think we should sign 2 keepers and have Phillips as 3rd choice?
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,811
    If we have any aspirations of promotion then we need a more experienced keeper than Phillips, adequate No 2 and his time will come, but he's only 22 - very young for a keeper, unless he's exceptional (Pickford) which he isn't
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,274

    If we have any aspirations of promotion then we need a more experienced keeper than Phillips, adequate No 2 and his time will come, but he's only 22 - very young for a keeper, unless he's exceptional (Pickford) which he isn't

    But at the same time it is relative, Pickford is a premiership goalie, we are in league one and in my eyes Phillips is a perfectly capable league one keeper and proved that in the short number of appearances last season.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    cafc_se7 said:

    If we have any aspirations of promotion then we need a more experienced keeper than Phillips, adequate No 2 and his time will come, but he's only 22 - very young for a keeper, unless he's exceptional (Pickford) which he isn't

    But at the same time it is relative, Pickford is a premiership goalie, we are in league one and in my eyes Phillips is a perfectly capable league one keeper and proved that in the short number of appearances last season.
    Short being the key word, he's not proven over a long number of games. He at least needs proper competition rather than an u23 with no experience at any level.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    I think Phillips is certainly good enough to either be number one or two. If we sign Martin then I think Robinson should tell the both of them that the shirt is there for either to win and hold.

    If Phillips has confidence in his ability then that ought to satisfy him. If it doesn't and he wants a definite number one then we move him on. Not sure where he'll get any better guarantee than that.

    If his wages are as low as being speculated then he has every right to want and get more.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    sam3110 said:

    Why hasn't he been treated well in people's eyes?

    For me he was doing nothing wrong when covering for Rudd... the latter came back from injury and stepped straight back into the team, performances didnt improve and despite February being down to the whole team, we were conceding a lot more goals maybe in other teams Dillon would and should have come back into the side

    Even when coming back from injury; Rudd should only have come back into the starting eleven when Phillips started having poor performances himself
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    sam3110 said:

    Why hasn't he been treated well in people's eyes?

    because he was playing well but as soon as Rudd was fit he was dropped. Bollocks to that in my opinion. If he's playing well there is no reason to drop him. Rudd should have bided his time until Dillon was either injured or putting in poor performances. That is why I don't like loanees where they have to play if fit. What message does that send out to someone like Dillon? He played well for Cheltenham and they wanted to buy him, we said no. Then we don't play him. Phillips is good enough for league one and one day will play higher in my opinion. And all on £500 a week. Personally I'd have the right hump.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,262

    sam3110 said:

    Why hasn't he been treated well in people's eyes?

    For me he was doing nothing wrong when covering for Rudd... the latter came back from injury and stepped straight back into the team, performances didnt improve and despite February being down to the whole team, we were conceding a lot more goals maybe in other teams Dillon would and should have come back into the side

    Even when coming back from injury; Rudd should only have come back into the starting eleven when Phillips started having poor performances himself
    Maybe the terms of Rudd's loan meant when fit he has to play a certain percentage of games.

    Maybe Rudd was much better in training

    Maybe the squad felt more secure with Rudd behind them than Phillips

    Lots of different factors can come into play, none of us know
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    edited July 2017

    A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    so you think we should sign 2 keepers and have Phillips as 3rd choice?
    If you read the quote, if a keeper gets injured Phillips can slot straight in as number two, there is also the opportunity for him to play in cup matches as well as learn from experienced keepers, we have let two keepers go since last season so we clearly need to replace them both
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  • A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    2 decent keepers are ok, with Beeney as your 3rd.
    If the goalie gets injured bring in a loan (you can emergency loan goalies I believe).
    Emergency loan is for a limited period only as well as the choices are limited, or you end up bringing in a non contract player.
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811

    A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    so you think we should sign 2 keepers and have Phillips as 3rd choice?
    If you read the quote, if a keeper gets injured Phillips can slot straight in as number two, there is also the opportunity for him to play in cup matches as well as learn from experienced keepers, we have let two keepers go since last season so we clearly need to replace them both
    Yes I did read it. You said we need 3 keepers, and Phillips should learn from the experienced keepers (plural) meaning you want 2 experienced keepers in and Phillips as 3rd choice. I would agree this could be ok if Phillips went out on loan, but no league 1 team is going to have the quality of Phillips as a 3rd choice.

    Yes we did let 2 go, and we certainly need to replace Rudd, hence the interest in Martin/Lindegaard etc. But we don't need to replace Mitov with an experienced keeper, Beeney has now replaced Mitov as the 3rd choice/U23 keeper.
  • A club needs three keepers in a season. It only takes an injury as Rudd got last season and you are down to one keeper with no back up. Phillips is young and there is loads of time, a keeper doesn't peak in game until late 20's and will learn a lot off of the experienced keepers in training.

    so you think we should sign 2 keepers and have Phillips as 3rd choice?
    If you read the quote, if a keeper gets injured Phillips can slot straight in as number two, there is also the opportunity for him to play in cup matches as well as learn from experienced keepers, we have let two keepers go since last season so we clearly need to replace them both
    Yes I did read it. You said we need 3 keepers, and Phillips should learn from the experienced keepers (plural) meaning you want 2 experienced keepers in and Phillips as 3rd choice. I would agree this could be ok if Phillips went out on loan, but no league 1 team is going to have the quality of Phillips as a 3rd choice.

    Yes we did let 2 go, and we certainly need to replace Rudd, hence the interest in Martin/Lindegaard etc. But we don't need to replace Mitov with an experienced keeper, Beeney has now replaced Mitov as the 3rd choice/U23 keeper.
    So you would rely on Beeney to step in rather than sign an experienced keeper. It has been a very clear objective from the start of pre season, two players to compete for each position, with promotion the number one objective.
    Experience is key in this league in which is a long and tough one, if a keeper loses form we need one to come and replace as well as keep him on his toes.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    Lloyd Isgrove signs for Barnsley, think we were linked with him at some point
  • How about looking at getting Nick Pope back on a year's loan?

    He's miles away from getting a game at Burnley, and wasn't even on the subs bench for a large part of it.
  • I thought Phillips looked good when I saw him play and didn't deserve to be dropped. He looked well up to L1 standard.

    He won't get any experience if we don't play him and I'd have stuck with him over Rudd. He looked far more confident than Pope to me and did well out on loan at Cheltenham. Unless we are going to get in an exceptional keeper I'd like to have seen him as No 1.

    KR doesn't seem to rate him so I'm sure Dillon will want to leave to get first team football.
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,232
    Phillips showed himself to be a relatively good shot stopper but I don't recall him dealing with crosses. If we can find a keeper who can do both he should be signed.
  • As others have noted it was poor management to drop Dillon as soon as Rudd was fit. Get in two keepers? We also have Beeney and the Oz as backup. Prefer to spend money on Dasilva, the Arsenal kid or lower league punt like Bogle. If Gobbo had any balls he would have demanded the return of Vetokele.
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,219

    As others have noted it was poor management to drop Dillon as soon as Rudd was fit. Get in two keepers? We also have Beeney and the Oz as backup. Prefer to spend money on Dasilva, the Arsenal kid or lower league punt like Bogle. If Gobbo had any balls he would have demanded the return of Vetokele.

    Even if Vetokele doesn't want to be here playing League One football?
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360

    As others have noted it was poor management to drop Dillon as soon as Rudd was fit. Get in two keepers? We also have Beeney and the Oz as backup. Prefer to spend money on Dasilva, the Arsenal kid or lower league punt like Bogle. If Gobbo had any balls he would have demanded the return of Vetokele.

    Bogle of Wigan?