Martin Dúbravka

Go on Dubs!

Real happiness. Soon.

When he signs for a real club.

I don’t need stats to know that Dubs should be back in but quite surprising these!

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2021/02/18/alarming-numbers-prove-martin-dubravka-must-be-recalled-karl-darlow-dropped/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

When someone posted the highlight video of Darlow’s season recently, I said of all the saves he made, the Fernandes penalty and Salah one-on-one are the only shots I’d have expected a Premier League keeper not to save. Those stats don’t surprise me.

It’s alright. I’m sure Brewcie is a big fan of analytics and he’ll have seen this.....

He’s literally being kept out of the team until Darlow throws one in.

Dubs does Lascelles job by organising the defence

He has to play, it’s idiotic at this point.

Aye, mental that he isn't starting. He way well be our best keeper in the PL era but he's being kept out because Darlow's made a few saves. I know that may sound harsh on Darlow but even Rob Elliot had a season like he's having in 2015/16: few good performances, kept us in games and won us points almost on his own but prone to an absolute brainfart and no where near our best keeper.

He’s literally being kept out of the team until Darlow throws one in.

Yep, this.

The number of times he’s got away with flapping at and missing crosses lately is mental too!

If Southampton had of made it 3-3 rather than have it cleared off the line for the supposed foul which never was  then VAR would have overturned it and we’d have taken a point max!

I feel a bit for Darlow too. If he’d been brought out of the team a month ago he’d have been a hero, thanked for keeping us ticking over and probably earned himself a move to a newly-promoted/newly-relegated to the Championship club as number 1.

Instead the calls each game are for him to be left out and the cracks are starting to show more in his game.

This is Bruce though. The same bloke who stuck with 4-4-2 and Carroll ahead of Almiron against Brighton because, ‘it wasn’t fair’ to change the winning team. The bloke is a joke.

Didnt he sign a new long contract recently

There's another point that at, 32, Dubravka is still a developing keeper as well but a stone's throw from what should be his prime. He had a brilliant start to life in the Premier League and you'd expect him to keep going from strength to strength. But his progress has been halted because a different keeper with a lower ceiling has been performing to a standard which makes him hard to drop. It's all just another example of poor squad management. It's rife at Bruce's Newcastle.

Edit: I will admit to not having done any research and therefore may be relying on clichés when it comes to goalie peaks being much later than outfielders. But considering things on a case by case basis, Dubravka was a relative unknown and a bit of a late bloomer in terms of playing at the top level. Not exactly Jamie Vardy but the highest club level he'd played at prior to here was probably Allsvenskan. He knows the Premier League better than he did two/three years ago so you could reasonably expect him to be coming into his best years now.

There's another point that at, 32, Dubravka is still a developing keeper as well but a stone's throw from what should be his prime. He had a brilliant start to life in the Premier League and you'd expect him to keep going from strength to strength. But his progress has been halted because a different keeper with a lower ceiling has been performing to a standard which makes him hard to drop. It's all just another example of poor squad management. It's rife at Bruce's Newcastle.

Remember when Harper would come in and to a good job... Never got the shirt of Given and was nowhere near to getting it.

It's shambolic management.

There was a spell 99/01 mind where Harper did keep the shirt but he genuinely matched Given at the time. Seem to remember Given would get injured, Harper would play, then he’d get an injury and Given would return and it was like that for a season or two. Sliding doors moment was August 01 when Given was in, dropped a couple of clangers against Chelsea & Troyes and there was strong talk Harper would be in for the derby but he stuck with Given and he never looked back.

There was a spell 99/01 mind where Harper did keep the shirt but he genuinely matched Given at the time. Sliding doors moment was August 01 when Given was in, dropped a couple of clangers against Chelsea & Troyes and there was strong talk Harper would be in for the derby but he stuck with Given and he never looked back.

Absolutely. The Given/Harper situation is a really good example tbh.

The approach taken here is basically schoolboy level stuff. I can't leave so-and-so out cos his Dad'll go potty.

It’s beyond a joke -HAS to be in next week!

Not sure. Darlows penalty dive had me well entertained for the rest of the match.

Darlow has made the decision for him, the fat fuck certainly wasn't capable of making it.

At a normal football club... Ah, fuck it.

Bring him back

I reckon he’ll come back in now. Make a slight mistake and then Bruce will revert back to Darlow. Who has been at fault for 3 of the last 5 conceded and decided to just fall on the floor trying to save a penalty

That penalty 'dive' was fucking tragic.

Spot on from Kennedy, he must be reinstated this weekend.

He's got leadership too. We need that more than ever (sort of).