Quote Originally Posted by travellingman View Post
Keepers at the end of their career are in their 30's
A keeper doesn't reach their peak till 28yr of age. Young keepers will not be able to hold down a regular first team spot till early 20's as they are developing and prone to mistakes more.
Young Bowlo had a cracker of a game this week and as he develops will get more opportunities to show his ability.
You are missing my point and likely don't have a young keeper in this competition. Watching what happens with them in senior football every year you would see how many great young goalkeepers are lost, either to the game completely or out of the region then we end up with 5ft tall goalkeepers who are just not tall enough to play first grade football. seriously have a look around the 18's and reserves at the moment we have 15 year olds playing 18's who are bigger than the 18's goalkeepers playing 18's, by the time they are actually age relevant to 18's they would have learnt so much more about themselves and the game. The green gully keeper is straight from our jets academy and 24, Mat Ryan started playing first grade at 17 in the NPL1 in Sydney, I'm sure if I had more than 5 minutes here I could find heaps of other examples. The age thing is rubbish, there's also no way I reckon the first keeper could have made those saves and no offence to him but to make saves like that in the amount he did requires a lot of agility and fitness.

If bowlo can come off the bench completely unprepared and play like that at 18, all we are doing is holding him back by selling some story about his quality not possibly being good enough because of his age.

why worry about keepers making mistakes when you have 10 others on the pitch making 30+ mistakes a game, missing how many shots on goal consistently? I think the focus needs to be on the other end of the pitch more if we are worried about quality.