Who is your favourite Boro back-up ‘keeper?

[Glover_elbow]

Kevin Poole - who recalls the game v Leicester at Ayresome when he came in for Pearsy? We won 4-1, but could have easily lost 7-4. He single handedly stopped Kevin Campbell scoring a hat trick with some absolute worldies

It wAs pears in goal i am sure

 

[RavsFan]

Crossley all day long

 

[Rofesleg]

It wAs pears in goal i am sure

Yeah, it was Pears.

 

[SmallTown]

Mark Crossley

This is the right answer!

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

Marlon Beresford worth a mention. His penalty record was absolutely mental.

 

[Red n White Dreamer]

Brian Horne. The Alan Wright of goalkeepers

 

[Glover_elbow]

Colin Cooper

 

[NortonExile]

Marlon Beresford played in 2 spells for us and never let us down.

 

[B_G]

Mark Crossley

Seems the obvious one for me

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

I have to raise Andy Collett’s debut at Hillsborough at the end of the 1992/93 season. We won 3-2 that day, I think Sir James Pollock scored one but not sure who scored the others, and Collett had a really, really good game for us. He was wearing that mad fluorescent ICI ‘keeper top and it was the days when the ‘keeper wore the same shorts and socks as the players. I think he was the fourth goalkeeper to play for us that season, I wonder if that’s a record. One for the boffins to work out there.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Pat Cuff because I scored a penalty against him at my junior school summer fete circa 1974. No self respecting professional keeper would deliberately let a little kid put one past him, so I must have done him with my pace, power and placement.

I was just going to post the same keeper. He even kept Jim Platt out of the team for a while.

 

[Frozen Horse]

I'll go Ian Ironside simply for the circumstances of his debut. Also, his son scored a goal for Cambridge that knocked Newcastle out of the cup a few years ago: what's not to like about that?

I remember Kevin Poole coming on as sub for Bolton at the Riverside and spilling a shot for Boateng to equaliser. He was certainly a popular back up that day.

 

[BeanBeany]

I was just going to post the same keeper. He even kept Jim Platt out of the team for a while.

Can I have Jim Platt for the times he got dropped for Pat Cuff and Jim Stewart?

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Can I have Jim Platt for the times he got dropped for Pat Cuff and Jim Stewart?

Three good keepers.

 

[Otto42]

Carlo Nash

 

[futureboy]

I want to give a shout out to Dejan Stojanovic, because only 1,750 Boro fans ever saw him play live, and I was one of them. Charlton away in March 2020, just before everything shut down.

He went on to play 8 more games for the first team, but none of them had fans present.

 

[Canyoudigit]

Pat Cuff because I scored a penalty against him at my junior school summer fete circa 1974. No self respecting professional keeper would deliberately let a little kid put one past him, so I must have done him with my pace, power and placement.

I know his brother offthe

 

[Moreno]

I have to raise Andy Collett’s debut at Hillsborough at the end of the 1992/93 season. We won 3-2 that day, I think Sir James Pollock scored one but not sure who scored the others, and Collett had a really, really good game for us. He was wearing that mad fluorescent ICI ‘keeper top and it was the days when the ‘keeper wore the same shorts and socks as the players. I think he was the fourth goalkeeper to play for us that season, I wonder if that’s a record. One for the boffins to work out there.

13/14 saw us use 5 keepers.

Dimi
Given
Leutweiler
Meijas
Steele

I always liked Ross Turnbull. Thought he would do more at Boro.

 

[Andybarca]

Marlon Beresford worth a mention. His penalty record was absolutely mental.

This was going to be my mention. I think having him backing up MS, lead to schwarzer’s improved penalty saving and without that there’s no cup runs/win, UEFA nights

 

[atypical_boro]

Carl Ikeme