I'd like to see muric back. Helluva shot stoppa

I feel for Palmer and I also feel for Walton who has a shot at finally keeping the shirt that was originally his....but has to do it with that shambles of a CB pairing in front of him, or a completely new pairing of Kipre and Baggott?! We have made really hard work of this season and just need a handful of players to justify keeping the shirt now...so come on down Super Christian Walton in Goal !

Well this is all about opinions I guess but i see it completely differently to portman terrorist. Walton inspires zero confidence in me and probably not a lot more in his defensive unit. He doesnt come for corners, let's floatly balls across his 6 yard box and can't pass out with patience from the back.
He was overtaken by Hladky and had both Palmer and Muric bought to avoid playing him as number one. He has also averaged 3 goals a game conceded for the last 18 months.
Im sorry but if we had a recall clause for Muric he would already be back, and if we, the fans, hadnt hounded him out last season we would be seeing what a top keeper Muric could be.
This injury could not have possibly come at a worse time, sorry

Doesn’t matter who we have in goal.

McKenna leaves us so wide open, teams just counter attack us and stride right through us.

We either need to play like Crystal Palace 5-2-2-1 with attacking wing backs or drop the attacking midfielder and play a defensive midfielder instead.

The tactics McKenna is playing is the biggest problem.

Walton was pretty good at passing the ball out from the back with patience in L1 & in my opinion is more confident & competent than any of Hladky, Muric or Palmer at doing that. He only lost his place to Vaz because of injury & was only kept out because Town were performing so much better than anticipated.

But yes agree with Bazza about corners and floaty balls across the box. I'm still livid about conceding late equaliser at home to both Fleetwood & Cheltenham in our L1 promotion season.

It absolutely matters who we have in goal, a good goalkeeper is vital for a team, as chances will always fall to your opponents. If you cast your mind back many years to when we had a reserves team, the second choice keeper was playing regular football. Now they spend much of the season on their backsides as a sub. We need to get behind Walton not be critical of him. He has been thrown in the deep end and now he needs our support.

Shouldn’t be an issue, with the millions and millions of attacking talent, with the right tactics, we should be able to score more than the opposition.

Reckon about 6 weeks out and we're going to miss him.

Muric is the guy we need.
Better keep than all of the. Sure he made mistakes, but also made massive saves too.
All keepers make mistakes.
He is the best keeper we currently have.

Algarvefan, Yes, you make a great point and I have marked you up for it, but all I would say on balance is the same should have been true of Muric a year ago. Statistically Muric performed way better with a save percentage pof 73.14. Waltons was 51.5 meaning he let in half of shots rather than one quarter.
Palmer's was 63.3
So whilst people will accuse me of being outspoken, which I admit, the corners, the crosses (weakneses that are acknowledged by others here), and the goals per game, plus the save percentages all confirm what we are facing into.
Don't get me wrong, I hope he has a blinder tomorrow and until Palmer is back. My point around this being awful timing I believe is backed up by the stats.
And I still believe my stats show how harsh we were on Muric....

Not surprised by this - I think Alex Palmer knew straight away it was serious, but I have every confidence in Christian Walton.

funny how people only remember players from the bad times they have had, Walton may have had his faults but he did a good job for us and i think he will do his best to claim the shirt now his chance has come . Wish Palmer a good and speedy recovery.Lets hope we get the much needed 3 points this week . COYB

I can't believe people suggesting Muric is the answer?! Regardless of whether he is a good goalkeeper or not objectively, he made it perfectly clear he didn't give a two hoots about our club and most of the fans in return made it clear we didn't want him in the goal anymore (and notice the players never had him in the huddle or anything either) - the sheer lack of effort for that last minute winner at Brentford sealed his fate months before he finally was dropped. The idea of suggesting we recall him to try to rebuild a totally broken relationship seems crazy - given the main thing we are lacking with the present squad is not talent or potential, but getting back some team spirit, grit and determination is utterly ludicrous. He would just demoralise us even further?! Quite apart from the fact Palmer would immediately replace him when he's fit anyway.

Sassuolo want to buy him anyway - let's get this deal done for Jan , recoup some of the mistaken spending, and move on.

VanDusen, can't get him back anyway, no recall clause. The point I was trying to make was that Algarvefan said "we need to get behind hm" Where was that support for muric? The relationship was only broken because the fans hated him, it's not something I think we should be proud of

Could be worse. Sheff Weds have recently signed a goalie on a 7 day emergency loan as they have no goalies available :)

Walton is a fine keeper and a very able replacement. I hope he shows everyone what he has got, and maybe he can take the place and become the 1st choice.

I don't agree with Bazza that Muric is the answer to any goalkeeping issues we have but 100% support Bazza on the more important point of toxic criticism of town players for every mistake made. We desperately need unity and support for whoever McKenna picks - whether or not we agree with the selection.

It's all very well bringing up goal keeping stats from last season, but I'm not sure that tells the whole story - I believe the defence in general was more confident and playing better at the start of the season, and Muric had the benefit of that. His errors led to the defensive units confidence dropping and Palmer and Walton had to deal with that. Just my view.