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Brill aiming to cement place
Date published: 28/01/2010
LATICS NEWS:
ATHLETIC goalkeeper Dean Brill is confident his problems are firmly behind him following a troubled first half of the season.
The former Luton Town shotstopper took over as Athletic’s number one after former custodian Greg Fleming joined Scottish Division One outfit Dunfermline Athletic on a season-long loan.
But the 24-year-old was unable to find his best form during the early weeks of the League One campaign and manager Dave Penney reacted by bringing in Crystal Palace goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan on loan.
Flahavan kept the ’keeper’s jersey during a two-month loan spell, but returned to Palace last month after sustaining a fractured cheekbone while colliding with the goal frame.
Since reclaiming his place in Athletic’s team, Brill has been one of the few players to enhance his reputation.
He has played in Athletic’s last three matches at Hartlepool and at home to Tranmere and Millwall, and was particularly impressive at Boundary Park on Saturday, making a couple of vital saves and showing efficiency with his handling of crosses.
Now Brill hopes to continue in the same vein and ensure he keeps his place in the team for the rest of the season.
He said: “I made a couple of mistakes and goalkeepers are always brought to the fore when that happens.
“But I worked hard, kept my head down and just tried to be myself.
“I have always believed in my own ability and I I thought I did OK earlier in the season.
“Now I am back in the side and I want to stay there.”
Brill acknowledges that Athletic are embroiled in a relegation dogfight, but is convinced they have the ability and character to climb from the danger zone to a position of mid-table safety, starting at home to Brentford on Saturday.
He said: “We are not in a good position at the moment.
“But we will all stick together because we know what it takes to win games. We have confidence in ourselves.
“We created chances against a side (Millwall) around the play-offs.
“Every game is important, especially at home, and now we are looking to build on that performance.”
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The jury is most definitely still out I'm afraid Dean... Brill in name only.
To be honest brills not had much to do the last three matches due to a good defence protecting him, pity the midfield and forwards are not performing as good as the defence,the jurys still out on brill!!
Don’t they make you laugh if they say the obvious Brill said: “We are not in a good position at the moment
Marvellous! They have noticed!
“But we will all stick together because we know what it takes to win games. We have confidence in ourselves. No one else will give us a game!
“We created chances against a side (Millwall) around the play-offs.
Can't score though
Here is some out of the box thinking........put one of our strikers in our goal and put Brill in the opponents goal
Dean Brill has been okay in the last games. But he has not made a string of great saves. Brill is one of the worst goalies at Oldham for a while. He will blunder again, just wait and see.
Brill aiming to cement place! Thats great news, is he going to build the new stadium? or maybe he is going to replace the hardcore that goes missing every week? Lets hope his cementing is better than his wall building.
I always thought he was cemented in place anyways!.
Brill is a comedian as he said he felt he did ok in the early part of the season. Mmmm he is still a dodgey keeper and will keep making mistakes. We will go down with him in nets and no one to score goals. Penneys signing from Luton who are in the conference and Brill wasn't first choice keeper. Typical penney signing. Wonder if Flahavan has made a quick recovery.
WE WANT FLEMMING BACK, SAY WE WANT FLEMMING BACK, WE WANT FLEMMING BACK, SAY WE WANT FLEMMING BACK.
confidence is a must and the whole team are lacking atv the moment,I think that even if brill's confidence has improved along with his recent performances they would be even better if there was competition for the shirt,it's all gone very quiet on the fleming front, thought there was the option to bring him back in the january window or have I missed something?
" He's played in Athletics last 3 matches " how many points did we gain from those ( let me think ) 1 point, not that good then
By chaddyender @ 28/01/2010 13:17:40
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