Matt Macey

[SMAXXA]

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I'll tell you how good he is after 6/7 games into the season. Far too early to label him better than Marciano or even if you think he's terrible. Good performance today though.

He’s already played 6 or 7 games for us

[Centre Hawf]

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He’s already played 6 or 7 games for us

I'm aware. But he hasn't been our number 1 in the league so far. He's had a couple of cup games and a couple of appearances filling in for Rocky. My point is more that once the sample size is bigger we can start making comparisons to Rocky.

[Danderhall Hibs]

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I'm aware. But he hasn't been our number 1 in the league so far. He's had a couple of cup games and a couple of appearances filling in for Rocky. My point is more that once the sample size is bigger we can start making comparisons to Rocky.

Just a thought- we don’t need to compare him to Rocky at all? That’s what was happening last year when folk got annoyed he got picked and they started making stuff up about positioning to justify getting Rocky back in the team.

[Hibernian Verse]

Blaming the Motherwell goals on Macey is some stretch.

[Andy74]

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Just a thought- we don’t need to compare him to Rocky at all? That’s what was happening last year when folk got annoyed he got picked and they started making stuff up about positioning to justify getting Rocky back in the team.

Including Ross who acknowledged Rocky was his first choice. Nothing was made up about that.

It’s lovely Macey is getting backed. I sense quite a bit of it is over played as a result of not liking Marciano for some reason.

Rocky was a good keeper. Hopefully Macey will be too but we are early for any declarations on that.

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Including Ross who acknowledged Rocky was his first choice. Nothing was made up about that.

It’s lovely Macey is getting backed. I sense quite a bit of it is over played as a result of not liking Marciano for some reason.

Rocky was a good keeper. Hopefully Macey will be too but we are early for any declarations on that.

It is lovely isn’t it? Quite a novel approach.

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Including Ross who acknowledged Rocky was his first choice. Nothing was made up about that.

It’s lovely Macey is getting backed. I sense quite a bit of it is over played as a result of not liking Marciano for some reason.

Rocky was a good keeper. Hopefully Macey will be too but we are early for any declarations on that.

Speaking only for myself I'm over the moon we have Macey. Commented loads on this subject and kind of gave up. I never ever said I disliked Rocky but I never had full confidence in him either. Lets hope Macey can do enough to get us all proud to have him as number 1.

[SMAXXA]

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Including Ross who acknowledged Rocky was his first choice. Nothing was made up about that.

It’s lovely Macey is getting backed. I sense quite a bit of it is over played as a result of not liking Marciano for some reason.

Rocky was a good keeper. Hopefully Macey will be too but we are early for any declarations on that.

I think your miles wrong and it’s actually quite the opposite. I haven’t seen many not like Marciano in general so to say they are over playing his performance as they don’t like Marciano is rubbish. I have though seen people take the opposite and be very critical or reluctant to praise Macey because they were so invested in Marciano.

I know it’s natural to compare players it happens all the time but let’s not forget Macey is still a young guy with plenty development ahead of him. We need to support that and understand he won’t always get it right and should be criticised like any other player at times. I’ve said it before with our history of keepers I have seen more than enough to believe he will be a very good keeper for us.

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He looks quite big anyone know how tall he is

[007]

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He looks quite big anyone know how tall he is

5'19".

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He looks quite big anyone know how tall he is

6ft 7ins... an inch taller than Dabrowski

[Pretty Boy]

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I think your miles wrong and it’s actually quite the opposite. I haven’t seen many not like Marciano in general so to say they are over playing his performance as they don’t like Marciano is rubbish. I have though seen people take the opposite and be very critical or reluctant to praise Macey because they were so invested in Marciano.

I know it’s natural to compare players it happens all the time but let’s not forget Macey is still a young guy with plenty development ahead of him. We need to support that and understand he won’t always get it right and should be criticised like any other player at times. I’ve said it before with our history of keepers I have seen more than enough to believe he will be a very good keeper for us.

Is Macey really that young? He's only a year younger than Marciano was when we signed him and he's played 70 1st team games at a decent level.

I'm all for supporting him and helping him develop further but he's not some untried rookie.

[WhileTheChief..]

Macey, Rocky, Bogdan - all perfectly good keepers for us. Dabrowski is a decent enough back up too.

Think of some of the dross we had before and look around the league now. We'll be fine in this area.

[Shrekko]

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I think your miles wrong and it’s actually quite the opposite. I haven’t seen many not like Marciano in general so to say they are over playing his performance as they don’t like Marciano is rubbish. I have though seen people take the opposite and be very critical or reluctant to praise Macey because they were so invested in Marciano.

I know it’s natural to compare players it happens all the time but let’s not forget Macey is still a young guy with plenty development ahead of him. We need to support that and understand he won’t always get it right and should be criticised like any other player at times. I’ve said it before with our history of keepers I have seen more than enough to believe he will be a very good keeper for us.

Great and measured post. Don’t know why everyone seems to think you need to pick a side and stick to it.

Nobody is over praising Macey because they didn’t like Marciano. Marciano was pretty much universally liked to varying degrees. He wasn’t totally my cup of tea for several reasons but I felt he was a match winner on plenty of occasions as well as capable of making saves other goalies couldn’t. Macey though Is getting support because some people who now say ‘it’s too early to judge if he’s good’ were finding ways to imply he wasn’t up to it at a very early stage!

It’s always tough replacing fan favourites but Macey is looking extremely promising and everyone should be delighted- a bit weird if we’re not. He will make mistakes at some point … as every other goalie we’ve had including Goram and Leighton did.

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Including Ross who acknowledged Rocky was his first choice. Nothing was made up about that.

It’s lovely Macey is getting backed. I sense quite a bit of it is over played as a result of not liking Marciano for some reason.

Rocky was a good keeper. Hopefully Macey will be too but we are early for any declarations on that.

If it is being over played, I'd say it is because some are over playing how good Rocky was and are being too judgemental of Macey. Okay to say things like they think his positioning was slightly out at a goal but several were saying he isn't good enough and isn't a no. 1 keeper which imo was ott. Too many make snap decisions on players and say they aren't good enough after 1 or 2 games, the "Called it Club" / "Told You So Brigade" that like to be 1st to decide a player is crap and they make sure they let us know later on down the line. They could easily say someone looked a bit shaky but it's early days or something along those lines and at least give players a chance before passing judgement. But of course that doesn't give you the opportunity to appear clever.

The same happened with Bogdan who was also a bit rusty at 1st due to lack of games. Once he got a run of games he turned out to be good and for me he slightly edged it over Rocky because he commanded his box better and his kick outs didn't go out for a throw in half the time (which Rocky seemed to be doing a lot at the time). Rocky was a little better at shot stopping. I liked Rocky so wasn't unhappy that he started ahead of Bogdan.