Goalkeepers and Clean Sheets

Quoted from promotion plaice

Also not 21st century but Batch was a hell of a keeper.

Yes my schoolboy / early teens goalkeeper hero
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Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Easily Coyne . One of the reasons we had long spells in the championship. A few vital saves earn enough points to save relegation.

His performance at QPR as previously mentioned when we probably should’ve lost 6-1 instead of winning 1-0 thanks to at least 6 world class saves is one I’ll be proud of saying I was there that day

Legendary goalkeeping performance. The one at Preston was special too.

Danny Coyne was outstanding, I think the only poor season he bad was the relegation season (his final season) but then in fairness that was a very tough season for us all so we can't blame him for that

1. Danny Coyne
2 Aidan Davidson
3 Steve Sherwood
4 Nigel Batch
5 Dave Beasant ( best loan keeper ever)

Can't argue with Coyne
Thought Davidson was top drawer as well

Davison, not Davidson.

He was a fine keeper. One of those, like Mildenhall, who never seemed to be too busy because they were so competent in all areas of the game. Coyne was a remarkable shot-stopper but it was a case that he was welded to the line when crosses/set pieces came into the box. Some of his saves came about when an effort came in where a different keeper would have snuffed out the chance by coming to collect or punch a cross. He wasn't the biggest of keepers so wasn't as comfortable with crosses as the likes of Davison, Mildenhall, Crocombe, etc.

Quoted from thefish

This week, on the 'View From The Findus' podcast, we have started to build our ultimate 21st century 'Grimsby Town eleven'.

To start, we have scrutinised ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of the men with the gloves!

Eventually, we narrowed it down to three fabulous 'number ones': Mildenhall (great keeper in a nearly outstanding season); McKeown (most appearances in the last 23 years and a big part of our promotion in 2016); and Coyne (do I even need to add anything?).

Honourable mentions went to Crocombe, Henderson (Dean) and of course Mr Forecast!

Feel free to add your vote at this link:

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I am less confident on that one.

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I know he's not in the time frame but Sir NIGEL BATCH for me

Davison in his first spell is the best non-loan 'keeper I've seen in a Town shirt.

In sticking with the 21st century thread opener, his second spell (in that period) was woeful though and to some extent blotted his copy book a little.

Dipping back into the 90's, completely agree with Dave Gilbert's Left Peg regards Dave Beasant.  30 years on and I'm still convinced that had, by some miracle, we managed to hold onto him for the season we would have spent the next season as a Premier League side.

That month spell was peak-Buckley.  We had maintained the clever and neat football that got us back-to-back promotions but we had also added/developed genuine quality players with the likes of Groves, Mendonca, Handyside, Croft et al.  Beasant in goal took us to that next level.  

Quoted from Davec

Danny Coyne was outstanding, I think the only poor season he bad was the relegation season (his final season) but then in fairness that was a very tough season for us all so we can't blame him for that

The defence was a mess that season in general, started out with the terrible Paul Raven, who was replaced by the very much past it Steve Chettle, who got injured and then our central defence consisted of two midfielders turned into defenders in Santos and a very much past his prime Groves partnering Ford who was a bright spark. John McDermott was solid and Gallimore was very much beloved but balls deep into probably alcoholism at that point so his performances suffered. It's a season full of chopping and changing, bringing in mercenaries on loans/short term deals and a lack of consistency which is always a recipe for a bad season. We had our best spell incidentally when Kabba came in on loan and looked a world beater but he had no interest in spending the whole season with us and it went downhill from there. A rotating door of players plus the fact Groves reportedly didn't have the respect of the dressing room meaning he couldn't turn it around put the final nail in the coffin on his GTFC career.

The following season had much of the same problems, the fact we lost Coyne for free like many of our saleable assets always made me mad. I don't even recall him being out of contract, I think he was allowed to go for free because we couldn't or refused to pay him what we had been.

John Oster that season too, Kris, as a bright spot.  Crying shame that we only got a single game of him and Kabba together.  

That season was such an odd one.  We were poor when it came to quality but for all the chopping and changing there did seem to be a real battling spirit.

On paper, across the whole of the season, I think there was enough quality to have stayed up. But the quality was spread out over the course of the season and our budget definitely reflected the injuries or stage of their career that those quality players had.   Coyne, McDermott, Barnard, Santos, Oster, Cooke, Kabba, Boulding, Pouton, Coldicott, Campbell even Michael Keane and Richard Hughes were decent players for that level.  Robert Taylor too, who was quality, but just couldn't get and stay fit.  Jevons was farmed out early on in the season to save money/punish him.  There's the vast bulk of a very decent Championship XI there.

Was a real shame to see how that Groves team from the back end of 01/02 wasn't kept together.  I know realistically we would never have kept Andy Todd but for the likes of Boulding, Allen, Butterfield to go and not be replaced was a big blow.