Schwarzer was man of the match today

[Slaphead in Qatar]

without him we would have lost by a hatful.

[zzamora]

Nope. Good saves yes, but put the team under pressure through his distribution.

Shocking distribution, yet again, from him.

Only 6 accurate long balls out of 21 attempted.

[The King]

His kicking deserves a facepalm.jpg.

[Count Berbatov]

Sure he made some good saves. But could have distributed the ball better

[TWFL]

Riether IMO was motm. Ruiz had a good game as well.

[NogoodBoyo]

No he most definitely wasn't....in my book, that is.
Nogood "rathering Reither, isit" Boyo

[Riverside]

Great saves but why the long ball distribution ?

We never win the headers up front . All 4 want the ball to the feet .

His decision or Jol's ?

[Count Berbatov]

Great saves but why the long ball distribution ?

We never win the headers up front . All 4 want the ball to the feet .

His decision or Jol's ?

Good point. Should have gone over this in training

[MJG]

Great saves but why the long ball distribution ?

We never win the headers up front . All 4 want the ball to the feet .

His decision or Jol's ?

are you serious? Why the long balls?
Did you watch how Everton played and stopped us from doing our normal play from the back. They had 3/4 players on our back four all the time. It was good tactics from Moyes. So not Jol's or Mark's decision, just the only way we could get rid of the ball.
Now saying all that it just highlighted how poor MS is at kicking the ball. One stage in the first half we had 2 players on the left (berbatov and Kaca) and mark drop kicks wide right.
He made some good saves today and showed why he's still in goal in front of Stockdale, but his vision and way of getting rid if the ball is poor.

[Riverside]

Great saves but why the long ball distribution ?

We never win the headers up front . All 4 want the ball to the feet .

His decision or Jol's ?

are you serious? Why the long balls?
Did you watch how Everton played and stopped us from doing our normal play from the back. They had 3/4 players on our back four all the time. It was good tactics from Moyes. So not Jol's or Mark's decision, just the only way we could get rid of the ball.
Now saying all that it just highlighted how poor MS is at kicking the ball. One stage in the first half we had 2 players on the left (berbatov and Kaca) and mark drop kicks wide right.
He made some good saves today and showed why he's still in goal in front of Stockdale, but his vision and way of getting rid if the ball is poor.

Get rid of the ball is exactly what MS was doing.
My point is that we should have tried to retain it rather than get rid if it .
True was difficult to do so but should have tried more.

[MJG]

Great saves but why the long ball distribution ?

We never win the headers up front . All 4 want the ball to the feet .

His decision or Jol's ?

are you serious? Why the long balls?
Did you watch how Everton played and stopped us from doing our normal play from the back. They had 3/4 players on our back four all the time. It was good tactics from Moyes. So not Jol's or Mark's decision, just the only way we could get rid of the ball.
Now saying all that it just highlighted how poor MS is at kicking the ball. One stage in the first half we had 2 players on the left (berbatov and Kaca) and mark drop kicks wide right.
He made some good saves today and showed why he's still in goal in front of Stockdale, but his vision and way of getting rid if the ball is poor.

Get rid of the ball is exactly what MS was doing.
My point is that we should have tried to retain it rather than get rid if it .
True was difficult to do so but should have tried more.

rid is possibly the wrong word to use, distribute is better but as we know apart from rolling it out to H&H he can't do much else usually.

[H3Matt]

Schwarzer made one good save, that's it. As everyone else has already said, his distribution is poor and I see it getting worse.
I really want Jol to give Stockdale a run in goal but I can see us losing Stockdale to someone like Ipswitch on a permanent move.

[JackyFulham90]

Schwarzer still has a lot to offer he is a great shot stopper but I do feel maybe It's time to give Stockdale a run in the team

[Max Headroom]

His distribution was shocking..... Hoofing the ball to Ruiz for him to lose the ball each time (not the fault of Ruiz).....

Partly explains the 65%/35% possession stats

[MOR :]

Riether IMO was motm. Ruiz had a good game as well.

Agree with this...

[cmg]

I had initially considered Schwarzer to be MoM, he had at least three excellent saves which kept us in the game and generally commanded his area pretty well, apart from one horrendous 'miss' which, fortunatley, everyone else did too.

Having viewed the Sky replay a couple of times I now realize that Reither was, in fact, our best and most effective player.

However this 'Schwarzer's distibution' business has become the new black...and I don't really understand it. It has long been part of the Fulham pattern of play (in common with most other teams), when they can't think of anything better to do, to pass the ball around the back four. This, if no forward outlet becomes available, inevitably leads to a pass to the keeper. As far as I can see he then doesn't have much option other than to lump it upfield. This then, surely, becomes no better than a 50/50 option of finding a Fulham player - which itself, because such a ball is easier to defend than to use constuctively, becomes a less than 50/50 chance of retaining possession. Is it being said that Schwarzer's record in this respect is noticeably worse than other keepers? Or am I missing something (which is quite possible)?

[sunburywhite]

I quite agree about the pass it around bit and then if you cant find anyone give it back to the keeper who lumps it upfield. We seem to be doing a lot of that this season.

You might as well lump it upfield from the half way line. At least it should land in the opposition penalty area and we might get the knock downs

Come to think of it, that is what Everton did yesterday

[Lighthouse]

I would tend to question Hughes for being muscled out of the second goal for Everton and the fact Swart was so slow and beaten on his near post. Plus Swart missed the ball when coming out on a few occasions. Good but not great anymore and not man of the match.

[zzamora]

His distribution was shocking..... Hoofing the ball to Ruiz for him to lose the ball each time (not the fault of Ruiz).....

Partly explains the 65%/35% possession stats

Oh how times change.