Fraser Forster

Van der Sar holds the British record, not the European.

 

Setting a world record would be pretty incredible. I really hope he can do it.

The Owl would probably still leave him out the England squad.

 

Nah, this is a great question. We were debating this at the weekend. Anyone shed any light?

Hail Hail

 

Reading the ET earlier and they were asking whether Foster was a "legend"or "lucky". Ronnie Cully claimed both while Michael Grant said he was lucky. Grant claimed while it was a good achievement breaking a record that stood for so long. He was lucky for 2 reasons; the first being "No Ranjurs to compete against and therefore no great competition" and secondly the best defence Celtic have had in the last decade.

I despair at these so called "journos" who fail to recognise achievement due to prejudice or lack of knowledge.

 

Hardly surprising...* them!

 

He'll never be as good as Rab Douglas.

 

and rab douglas will never be as tall as him

 

Congratulations to the big lad! That's some feat considering he's been wearing a grey jersey for a fair portion of the time smiley-laughing002.

But let's not get carried away. He's still nowhere near the finished article and is hugely over-rated! He had a couple of brainfarts in his record-breaking match that may well have cost us against better opponents. He's a good keeper, but he plays in a league where his team-mates are vastly superior to the opposition they face week-in-week-out. It's a statistical certainty that he will therefore be exposed, or tested less.

I still maintain that he should be sold whilst his stock is high (i.e. this summer!) as I reckon we could get just as good with the money his sale would bring in... and would likely have change to buy a couple more players (or pay wages).

 

OK.
2 more matches and he beats European record and then he can set his sights on the world record

 

Van der Sar only got the record because ..........
HE DID NOT HAVE EFE PLAYING IN FRONT OF HIM :icon_mrgreen:

 

I don't care what league your playing in to go as long as Forster and Celtic have without giving up a goal is incredible and the big man deserves to be lauded as in a number of those games he has had to come up with some big time saves. He is without doubt a top class keeper and I think anybody who attempts to down play his achievements so far this season has either not seen him play or is just a very blinkered and pathetic individual.

 

In his first two season with us he matched the League record of 21 clean sheets which he shares with Rab Douglas, people forget that too.

He has matched or set a couple of records and is only one of 3 Celtic keepers with a +50% cleansheet record.

 

Correct.

 

Season before us he set the league one record at Norwich to.

 

Whats the league clean sheet record and how many is Fraser on so far this season?

 

I looked up Hun keepers stats too, to compare how many clean sheets they keep, they usually played more defensive than us too.

They kept clean sheets in (% of their matches)

Woods 53%
Klos 47%
Goram 42%
McGregor 42%

Woods is probably their best, never looked back through all their keepers and id guess that no diddy teams keepers have better records so Forster currently sits 4th of the highest % of clean sheets behind Shaw, Woods and Douglas id imagine out all keepers who played over 100 games.

If he keeps clean sheets in 10 of the last 12 games this season then was to leave he'd leave with the best clean sheet record in Scottish football. As it would take him to 53.57% clean sheets which would over-take the 53.13% of Charlie Shaw. Chris Woods is 52.6 something.

 

21(for a keeper - held by Douglas and Forster, Forster has done it twice) I think for a Club its 25(held by Forster and Zaluksa who done 4 games and Forster 21).

He's currently on 16. So needs 6 in 12 games.

6 Clean Sheets would set a new Player record for most in a League season(current 21)
10 Clean Sheets would set a new team record for most in a season (current 25)
He jointly already holds these records too lol

He also needs 10 to set a new record for a keeper in a season currently held by Charlie Shaw 31, 9 would equal that, 8 would put him joint 2nd with Chris Woods and Ronnie Simpson.

 

Beast of a man

 

These are the Scottish Football Keeper Records

Most Clean Sheets by a Club in the League - 25, Celtic in 2011-12 Forster(21), Zaluska(4)
Most Clean Sheets by a Keeper in the League - 21, Forster(2010-11, 2011-12), Douglas(2001-02)
Most Clean Sheets in a row in the League - 13, Forster(2013-14)
Most Clean Sheets in a row in all Competitions - 13, Shaw(1913-14), Woods(1986-87)
Most Clean Sheets in a Season in all Competitions by a Keeper - 31, Shaw(Season 1913-14)
Most Clean Sheets in a Season in all Competitions by a Club - 31 (Celtic 1913-14, 1966-67, 2001-02) (Rangers 1986-87)

Fewest League goals conceded in a League Season:

18 Game Season: 13 Celtic 1897-98
22 Game Season: 12 Dundee 1902-03
26 Game Season: 26 Third Lanark 1903-04
30 Game Season: 19 Celtic 1905-06
34 Game Season: 16 Rangers 1918-19
36 Game Season: 19 Rangers 1989-90
38 Game Season: 14 Celtic 1913-14
42 Game Season: 20 Celtic 1921-22
44 Game Season: 31 Rangers 1991-92