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Is being a keeper the hardest position on the field?

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Jim Spence | 14:10 UK time, Sunday, 22 January 2012

Neil Lennon, talking of his keeper Fraser Forster, said: "Good goalkeepers are hard to find and we feel as if he has great potential to go on and become a great goalkeeper."

It led me to ponder the question, is being a keeper the hardest position on the field?

I would argue 'yes'.

The vast bulk of managers, players, fans and even journalists, have some experience, at whatever level, of playing football.

But very few have experience between the posts.

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Talent drain turns focus on Scotland's youth

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Jim Spence | 17:13 UK time, Thursday, 12 January 2012

demonstrates what Scotland's top clubs are up against in trying to retain their better players.

Foster's rebuke that any Championship side could win the SPL may be wide of the mark but there is little doubt that the clubs in that league operate in a different financial world from all but the Old Firm here.

The Dons have a far more illustrious history than the Robins, with a European Cup Winners' Cup and Super Cup in their trophy cabinet.

But Derek McInnes's new side had an average crowd last season of 14,604 compared to 9,071 for the Dons.

Bristol meantime, has more than twice the population of Aberdeen.

Hearts, our third best supported club, last season pulled in 14,184, a figure topped by a whopping 21 clubs in England's Football League, never mind the Premier League.

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