MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:53 pm
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DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:53 pm
Kirson with a 42.9% save percentage today.
Where have we seen that before?
The Hopkins D has not played badly in front of him.
DocBarrister
And one of those was a heave from midfield at the end of the half. Plus two that nicked him on the way to hitting the pipe. Struggling to remember a clean save.
That last one to close the game was clutch lol
Openly rooting against your own goalie is about as lame as it gets...grow up and get a life
Big difference between rooting against and offering commentary and making light of it at that. The good news for you is I suspect we won’t have to have this back and forth for much longer.
I don't expect Kirson to survive much past the Georgetown game. He'll get bombed and be out by halftime. If Gtown doesn't get him Loyola will. He was a stellar 2-7 last year and at this point it's obvious to everyone but our new coaching staff that he can't get the job done. Marcille took the team to the Big Title game. How hard is this to figure out? If they don't want to play Marcille, give GIB and chance and see what he can do.
Kirson is a proven failure.
Whenever the coach says for the benefit of the "program" you know there's some BS factor entering into the decision. Like, for instance, if we don't play this guy we won't be able to get any other kids to transfer. Who knows what factors go into their decisions, but this one is hard to fathom. I can recall another recent Hopkins coach who loyally stuck by his goalie right up until the day they unceremoniously pulled the plug on him.
can your b.s. the guy earned the starting spot today. go kick your dog.
Did he earn it or did the HC make a call on what was best for the program. What does that even mean? By all accounts Gib outplayed Kirson last weekend. So who earned what? Coach K has his guy. Coach Annino has his. Marcille gets left out in the cold and Milliman makes the call. But I suppose Kirsons dad will come and tell me I’ve got it all wrong.
I’m willing to wait and hear MDlaxfan’s expert opinion on Kirson’s play today.
I know the stats and I have my opinion as a fan. I have watched Kirson’s performance on television. But I’m willing to hear from an expert who has played the game at the highest level and who has watched goalie play for pretty near half a century. Doesn’t mean his opinion will be gospel, but it would be really helpful to hear.
DocBarrister
Not a strong day apparently (50%, and a soft 50%, against Jacksonville is not killing it), but I was on the golf course during the first half, so all I really "saw" were the stats and the running commentary on here. Can't comment on whether he was beaten by shots that should have been stopped or clearing etc. It was a cold day...no fun for tenders generally speaking.
Second half showed me little to go on.
If there's a place I could watch the first half, I'll do so and offer my opinion for what little it's worth. (link?)
Stepping back from any one game though, my initial assumption is that the coaches see what they see in practice and make the call based on who they think helps the team win in any particular game. I'd need a bunch of evidence to suggest they aren't doing so in this case.
That said, I'm a bit perplexed by whether there's an additional meaning to what you say Milliman put out there about helping the program...if that means playing someone because he has more seasons to contribute, that'd definitely bother me. (Play your best guy for this week, this half, period). But it may just mean that he's choosing the guy who he thinks gives them the best chance to win right now. And the comment above about running the defense might well be an important factor for game one.
So, I'll reserve judgment until I see more. And, of course, we don't know for sure what others can provide right now. I was thinking Versfeld might be the strongest, based on the commentary a fan had re # of goals and saves etc last week, but he's being clear that he may not have had it correctly. But it sure sounded like that was the case.
But I definitely agree that it's a big open question.
And coaches do sometimes err in these judgments.
BTW, was Webb dressed...or injured perhaps?