Crocombe Gone

Can’t see him passing a medical at any club tbh with his cramp problem

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I think we will run with what they call a 'Fake No2' because, as this FourFourTwo article discusses, we don't put a keeper on the bench anyway and can exploit the emergency loan market.

[url]https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/the-loophole-clubs-are-using-to-create-fake-no2-goalkeepers-for-their-substitute-benches[/url]

Interesting article, and as much as I'd like to blame the clubs for doing it....I just can't, the business is just too cutthroat to allow for sentiment like having 2 proper keepers with tight budgets to work in.  Town to sign Daniel Gyollais for a cheap number 2 and keep up our international quota anyone?

It's not like you can even sign one of these young-ish cast offs to develop and sell on for profit as you're never going to waste a substitution on giving the second keeper some minutes or rotating a settled keeper.  I guess you could have a policy of the 2nd keeper does all the cup games to give your first choice a rest....but as we know cup money is a lifeline at L2 level so unless you're hell bent on promotion only you need your best XI starting those games.  Who'd be a football manager eh?

I like Max, I thought he was a good all round keeper, were as McKeown I thought was a slightly better shop stopper all have different strengths and weakness and its about improving on your performances and development as a player each season.  I think Max did that, so can't grumble if he has moved onto to a bigger club/league, i'd be slightly annoyed though if he went to another club in the same league.

In terms of recruitment its not going to be a difficult position to fill mainly because we have no keepers on the books at all (exc youth) giving us a slight advantage as targets will know that the no.1 position is available and its theirs for the taking.

Quoted from Meza

I like Max, I thought he was a good all round keeper, were as McKeown I thought was a slightly better shop stopper all have different strengths and weakness and its about improving on your performances and development as a player each season.  I think Max did that, so can't grumble if he has moved onto to a bigger club/league, i'd be slightly annoyed though if he went to another club in the same league.

In terms of recruitment its not going to be a difficult position to fill mainly because we have no keepers on the books at all (exc youth) giving us a slight advantage as targets will know that the no.1 position is available and its theirs for the taking.

Macca was one of the best shot stoppers I’ve seen at Town. However the other facets of his game were not really good enough, crossed and dominating your area are massively important and he was sub par there. He also seemed to drop in form once Russell came as coach, at least we know that Steve C is very well respected in that role.
Max is absolutely respected for his time here but is replaceable and it will be a mark of our progress how well we do this.

I wonder if Max has gone because he knew we were bringing in a strong alternative as number one?

Doubt it, he’s been the established no.1 for 18 months and we offered him a new deal. Doesn’t really scream “you’re getting replaced”.

Good luck to him with his future endeavours. Came in as a #2 choice and gave us the aspects of the game we needed when he did claim the #1 spot. Much better command of his area, claimed a lot of crosses and pulled off some great saves. Every keeper has their strong and not so strong points but overall he's done well, helped us to a cup run, promotion from the NL at the first attempt and our highest league finish in years.

I'm sure we have other plans had he not signed and it'll be good for both sides to have a fresh start at this point. He's probably achieved as much as he was going to achieve for us.  

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

Macca was one of the best shot stoppers I’ve seen at Town. However the other facets of his game were not really good enough, crossed and dominating your area are massively important and he was sub par there. He also seemed to drop in form once Russell came as coach, at least we know that Steve C is very well respected in that role.
Max is absolutely respected for his time here but is replaceable and it will be a mark of our progress how well we do this.

Macca was a good keeper in his prime ,sadly once he was past his peak he was a liability , great shot stopper and if other aspects of his game were better and he was an inch or two taller would have played higher up no doubt ; but that's why we had him .

We need to recruit better than Max if we are to push on , I just hope it's not a case of we are wishing we had him back in a few months time after being unable to recruit a slightly better keeper at least .

Quoted from ska face

Doubt it, he’s been the established no.1 for 18 months and we offered him a new deal. Doesn’t really scream “you’re getting replaced”.

Based on what was said by Hurst, it seems they either disagreed over how much he's worth or how much game time he's going to be getting.

Would love to see us go all out and sign cristy pym from Peterborough a very good goalkeeper and everytime I've seen him play against us he's made some ridiculous saves, think Mansfield also in for him, as a back up we're hearing Eastwood and Cartwright unsure on both at this level but for now we so need a quality keeper on board ASAP