Regan Frame: Nomads United Goalkeeper on the English Cup, his career

The Nomads United goalkeeper has kept his team’s chances alive. 

Up and coming goalkeeper Regan Frame’s tremendous performance in the goal has kept his team in the English Cup after their clash against CHCH United. 

Just 19 years old and the 2024 Men’s Goalkeeper of the Year, Frame has a bright future in the game, and joined Lesley Murdoch for a chat about what it takes to be a goalkeeper in the heat of battle. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a very good game.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Have you ever been in anything like this in your
short career?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Not quite. I think the furthest we've ever made it
was a quarter final before, so I mean, to make
the semi final is a pretty good thing on itself,
but then to when that was even better?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
So what mindset have you got when you are trying
to defend a penalty kick?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I try to just kind of keep my thoughts clear,
I guess, like I don't try to go into it
thinking too much. It's almost the same as like a
person trying to take a penalty. You kind of pick
a spot beforehand. I get a little bit more tell
on where someone might go just by their body language
and that kind of thing. But I guess you've got
to just hype yourself up and trust that you've got

(00:44):
the ability to go out there and make the save
and be the one that I guess helps the team out,
gives your team the advantage when you can, and that
kind of thing. Usually during a game, I kind of
like to look at players throughout, especially when it's a
game a semi final, when you know that penalties are
a potential thing that could happen. So like I look

(01:04):
at the way that they pass the ball or the
way that they play a long pass, and then kind
of from there try to determine from that. But sometimes, yeah,
if you've got no idea or that kind of thing,
I just decide as they walk after the ball, I'm like,
just stick with your decision. You're going to your right,
you're going to your left, that kind of thing, and
hopefull the best. I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do you have a little black book where you write
things down about opposition players or that you've seen them
in action and write down where they might go.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Not like a black book, but typically I can kind
of remember in my head, and yeah, I guess a
lot of players go similar spots and that kind of thing.
It's quite hard to judge. No, Usually it's just kind
of instinct and you look at the player, you look
at the way they step up, and just judge from there,
I guess. I mean, the penalties were a lot. It
took a long time, Like not usually do you ever

(01:54):
go through the whole squad, let alone have a player
take another penalty. We were just lucky that it went
through to the second round. We put our ones away
and I saved that second round of penalties from them,
so well kind of walking up the player that was
taking at Van Rissel. He had taken one before in
the first round of penalties, and typically as a goalkeeper,

(02:18):
one thing I always think about with penalties is that
you want to get any advantage that you can over
your opposition. And he had gone to that side to
my right, so his left on his first penalty, and no,
I'm kind of was in my head if his normal
spot is to my right and to his left, then

(02:38):
I'd rather go to my right and have the potential
that goes here again and then have the risk of
him potentially missing the target going to a site that
he's not used to, so kind of just anything that
can shift the statistics in my favor. And it just
happened that he went to the same side again and
I was able to go the right way and get
my hand to it, so it was my left hand
on my top hand, so I dove low, but he

(03:01):
put the ball quite high in the net, so I
had to kind of stretch upwards and claw it out
rather than going with your bottom hand, which most goalkeepers
save Kenalty's with typically. Just the position the ball meant
that I had to go with my other hands.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
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