Lo Tutala to Crawley

[podrover73]

Emergency loan
https://www.crawleytownfc.com/news/2025/march/21/thimoth-e-lo-tutala-joins-on-emergency-loan/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJKRy9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWv8h30odaLnJ63XJyui9ffZsV_U8LClKB-HrVEilgnsVHoOiuwr6bl2AA_aem_E9oWwd15qjSAE3Fa1LPoeQ

[Thorney]

Its absolute bonkers that he hasnt been given any game time this season by Hull or not even sent out on loan until this for 7 days


He must be frustrated after how his season ended with us and thought he would ofgit himself more minutes on the pitch

[Nudga]

If we go up, we should be offering at least £200k for him.
He'll be worth £10 mil in 6 years.

[selby]

  So the Hull coaches don't know what they are watching every day then Nudga, or they probably end training sessions with a penalty shoot out every day.
 At the beginning of the season Hull had eight keepers signed as pro's and he was considered third, fourth, or fifth in line, that is a lot of money benched at your valuation, decent keeper but there are a lot about, the position with the most good players around and clubs know it, lot's of young keepers in the lower leagues good players released into non league who years ago would have had a career in the EFL.

[Nudga]

Eh, maybe the keepers at hull are already better than he is and they are desperate to stay in the championship.

I saw enough of him to form the opinion that I did, OK?
One of the best keepers I've seen play for us for years.
TSL absolutely nowhere near him......IN MY OPINION!!

[Petche]

Surely we're in for him if we go up? About time we had a decent permanent keeper.

[selby]

  I wouldn't argue with that assessment although TSL is a far better keeper now than when he came to us and has closed that gap considerably while Tutala has been twiddling his thumbs and for all we know not up to the same standard as when he played for us.
  It will be interesting to see how he goes again.

[TheFunk]

TSL stats are horrendous. One of the worst performing keepers in league two.

[Nudga]

Would like to see stats on the low shots either side of him.

[ncRover]

TSL stats are horrendous. One of the worst performing keepers in league two.

Shot stopping stats are poor but he is above the league average per 90 in terms of; acting as a sweeper (one of the best), high claims and distribution accuracy.

[moses]

Poor keeper but the second best English keeper aged 21 or under.

[drfchound]

I don’t know of any keepers who peaked at 21 years old.
I was unsure about him earlier in the season but in my opinion TSL is noticeably improving as the season goes along.

[ForsolongaRover]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

[GazLaz]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Sam Johnstone is the best we’ve had for me.

[Pancho Regan]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Sam Johnstone is the best we’ve had for me.

Incredible but true.
I agree with GazLaz.

 

[GazLaz]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Sam Johnstone is the best we’ve had for me.

Incredible but true.
I agree with GazLaz.

 

May as well shut the forum down now…

[Nudga]

Get a room you two ffs

[selby]

    The situation is up to the talent identification section to sort out, they make the big shouts, in the case of the two keepers last season and this, I would make the comment that the back four that co-insided with TLT being at the club played at the top of their form  for the last third of the season, with Anderson and Wood , and this season Olowu excepted were far better defenders than the form showed by the others in defence this season.

[Pancho Regan]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Sam Johnstone is the best we’ve had for me.

Incredible but true.
I agree with GazLaz.

 

May as well shut the forum down now…

Don’t get too excited

[Pancho Regan]

Get a room you two ffs

And you can f**k off you jealous t**t

[ForsolongaRover]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Sam Johnstone is the best we’ve had for me.

I wouldn’t argue over Sam, but have you checked his stats!

I wonder if someone would like to devise a statistical system to rate our contributions to this forum. Perhaps that would be welcomed by some and deter a lot of us from putting fingers to keyboard. I wonder how footballers feel about their stats as against how their manager and their team’s fans rate them. When I was working the only staff rated largely by their stats were data processors who had targets based on their number of key depressions. I don’t think that even the performance of our professional statisticians were judged solely by statistics.

[Usher wide.]

Get a room you two ffs

And you can f**k off you jealous t**t

Don’t you dare pick on my Nudga!

[Move DRFC]

Johnstone Dieng and TLT. The three best. Said it even last summer we should break the bank for him. No keeper who isn’t number one isn’t available for the right price. We could make millions on him.

[Filo]

Sully the best keeper we’ve had for me

[Padge_DRFC]

Sully the best keeper we’ve had for me

Not towards the end but to expected.

Johnstone for me by a mile. Said there and then he'd get in the England squad when he played for us one day.

[Ian Nimmo]

I prefer to base my views on how a player performs for us rather than any stats.
Everyone will have a favourite keeper but difficult when you start to compare ie sully v Johnstone when they were with us at very different times in their careers etc.
One thing is for sure we have had the pleasure of watching some excellent keepers in a rovers shirt.
Appreciate everyone will have different views, but think a comment on TSL ability does not appear to be in line with the keeper we view each week. Yes he’s made a couple of mistakes, but he’s made numerous great saves.
There is no chance we will be able to buy TSL, however TLT must be within our means, particularly if we do get promotion this year, and think most fans would consider this to be a signature signing if it did happen.

[DonnyOsmond]

Stats may be the Bible for some people in judging footballers including GKs. Having watched football for over 70 years, I think this is one area where stats are not as reliable as human judgement and IMHO TSL is as good a goalkeeper we’ve had since Neil Sullivan. That he is number 2 U21 in England underlines his value. The fact that I think someone suggested that stats suggested Jones was better, proves that such a base for judging a GK is utterly unreliable.

It is difficult to understand why TLT stays at Hull when he is not even the regular substitute. One interpretation might be that he is not as hungry for games as he is for the money Hull pay him compared with what he might earn playing regularly at a lower level.

I suspect that if we do go up TSL would be very welcome if he doesn’t get a better offer. And, as he learnt at Bromley, he would have to compete for his place at any new club.

Why is our goals against record only 11th best?

Not sure anyone has said Jones is better all round than TSL, maybe certain aspects of him game are better than TSLs.

[selby]

As I said earlier Donny, Olowu apart our defence has not been the best this season especially down the left hand side, easy on the eye, but good defenders questionable.

[Jersey Rover]

TSL is a top keeper. Will I’m sure if he keeps developing be a Premiership keeper for someone

[dknward2]

Starts today