Keiren Westwood

Truth is, there is no outstanding choice for keeper. Westwood is, by my understanding, the highest placed, and most regularly selected keeper we have. The quality of games Kelleher is making, with the manager he has, makes a case for him. Randolph's history will make a case for him too. However, Westwood should at least be recalled to the squad.

“When Mick was in charge I was playing at Wednesday but I had a few niggles and stuff,” Westwood explains to The42. “He just said: ‘you’re 35 years old, you’ve got three kids, I don’t really want to be dragging you here, there and everywhere because obviously Randy [Darren Randolph] is going to play.’

If we start Randolph, who has been injured the last while and bench-warming the rest of the time, that's a regressive step.
Should be Westwood if we want experience, and Kelleher if we want to push for the future.

He's only still getting his game as we have no viable alternative. I don't see that changing any time soon. He'll probably still be first choice come September, and probably won't have accumulated many more minutes outside of the Irish shirt.

The days when we had a scenario that Dean Kiely couldn't get a game cause Shay Given was so good. Crazy standard of goalkeeping we had in the first half of the 2000's.

But if Randolph is unavailable in March I'd give Kelleher or Travers the jersey. Our chances of making the finals are next to zero anyway, I think we have little to lose by blooding a decent younger player in a situation like that. And Kelleher and Travers both have decent potential to be fair, you wouldn't just be capping them for the sake of it.

Can Westwood not complete a pass out to his defense????we’r making out kelleher to be an ederson/allison...and with time he may be.at the moment he’s Liverpool’s no.2 and is highly inexperienced at any level.if Westwood is playing games in the championship and kelleher and Randolph are bench warming in the premiership then Westwood should start for us.

I have no doubt he can pass the ball out Westwood. Not that simplistic though as we have seen with Randolph. However we are playing real possession based football out from the back and we have a young keeper who has played and impressed mostly for said distribution which many observers would tell you is already up there close to elite level and has done so for one of the top teams in Europe. He is designed for that style of play. 

It’s the equivalent of Welsh fans calling for Ashley Williams or Chris Gunter for Rodon or Neco Williams or Scots calling for Charlie Adam to play ahead of Billy Gilmour best way I can put it. 😂 

As it currently stands and it changes week to week for sure Kelleher is the guy I’d play no contest taking everything into account.