Macca

Do posters think that injury aside Macca has played his last game for the club?
I find it a bit strange that he seems to have been frozen out for a few months, ok I know his form was only moderate this season and Max has been a steady replacement, but you have to wonder if there has been some sort of fall out behind the scenes.
Anyway if he has played his last game I want to pay tribute to a keeper who has always  worn the shirt with pride and pulled us out of the do-do too many times to remember, ok he has made a few howlers as well, but that's the life of a keeper.
Many lost some respect after he put in a transfer request after being what he felt was unfairly dropped, I for one didn't and still retain respect and gratitude for what he has done for this club, as I am sure do the majority of Town fans.
If we don't we you again in a GTFC shirt Macca, thanks and good luck for the future.

Something has definitely gone on. He's not even helping with the keeper warm up on match days any more. Was he with the squad yesterday or at Chesterfield?

Quoted from Jaws

Something has definitely gone on. He's not even helping with the keeper warm up on match days any more. Was he with the squad yesterday or at Chesterfield?

He may have been at Chesterfield, that's why he wasn't with the squad at King's Lynn I recon

I don’t think it’s all that strange. He got dropped, for the second time in two seasons, because he wasn’t playing particularly well - same as any outfield player would.

His replacement has come in and on balance, done a better job than the one he was doing. As such he remains out of the team.

I did wonder if he might get a run out if our last couple of games were dead rubbers, but the way it’s shaping up even if we’ve secured a play-off place before the end of the season, it’s likely there will still be an event of positional advantage to play for.

He’s been a fantastic servant to this club and a great ambassador at times - it’s a real shame if his Town career peters out like this but footballing decisions, nor those in any line of business, should be made on the basis of sentiment.

He was at Kings Lynn yesterday and on the pitch prematch but Battersby was the main warm up partner for Crocombe.

I took what Hurst said a few weeks ago about Battersby going to away games as an indication that McKeown is now number 3 choice.

I think we’ve probably seen the last of him in a town shirt.

Crocombe was given a chance and hasn't particularly given Hurst a reason to drop him, we don't name a keeper on the bench ever.

Macca is a seasoned pro with a family...no point taking him away from them on massive trips with overnight stays ie Weymouth, when there's little to no chance of him getting on the pitch. May as well give Ollie the experience of travelling.

Totally agree that sentiment shouldn't come.into it, he was dropped, probably rightly by the manager for indifferent form, it just seems such a dramatic fall from grace for someone who was not so long ago captain and is  now barely seen
Lol

Sorry about the lol that appeared at TBE end of my post - no idea where that came from!

Macca will always be one of my all time favourites

But is it possible crocombe is underated because of that good will we all feel for macca. Not that anyone has said crocombe should be dropped, just that he doesnt seem to get much praise but he does always seem to be doing all the right things

Hurst is notoriously ruthless and this is just another example of it, in the right way too.

McKeown's form hasn't been good enough over the last 18 months.  It's that simple.  As much of a car crash as last season was, McKeown was particularly poor.  At no point should we forget his contribution over the last 10 years but we can't be ruled by sentiment.  Crocombe has done better than McKeown and is an upgrade, I don't think he's the answer long term but an improvement he is.