My concern isn’t Wes to be honest, it’s Davies as back up. He was shakey & slow in the championship never mind in the Prem.
We all know Wes tends to miss a few games during then season.
It’s a fair observation and I’d also add my own concerns about Wes having the capability to be a top flight keeper.
However, call me sentimental but he’s earned the right to try and not have the rug pulled from under him before it all kicks off.
I don’t think we’ve seen the best of Davies, apart from his penalty saving. It’s not easy to come in and play the odd game with no run of fixtures.
However, he does have 121 Championship appearances behind him with 37 clean sheets to accompany them.
In games where people might have wanted him to do better, he’s done no worse than others and apart from the Norwich opener, I don’t remember an absolute howler from him, perhaps Burnley comes
Close but only after the number one made an error of judgment/ execution which torpedoed the whole team.
He’s played 10 games:
Coventry- lost 1-0 away to a pen. Not his fault.
Norwich - drew home 2-2. At fault for opener. Second was a difficult angle that an exceptional keeper might have got to but it was Anel’s fault for allowing Pukki to get the better of him. But also redeemed himself by saving a penalty.
West Brom - won 2-0 away. Kept a clean sheet.
Burnley - lost 2-0 away. Bogle sleeping on a cross allowed first, not at fault. Came for a cross and didn’t get there, somewhat at fault but defence undermanned not concentrating after a howler from Wes handed them the game with a ridiculous sending off.
Cardiff - won 4-1 home. Not at fault as I recall.
Bristol C - won 1-0 home. Clean sheet.
Birmingham - won 2-1 away. Bad defending allowed a header from a set-piece not far out.
Millwall - won 2-0 away. Clean sheet.
Wrexham - drew 3-3 away. All team were relatively sloppy defensively after making a good start. Could perhaps have been more commanding without being guilty of absolute changers.
Wrexham - won 3-1 home. Match winning penalty save. Only conceded from a penalty originally.
To me he had a mixed bag but wasn’t horrendous and in those he could have done better there were plenty of others who were also off it and who escape the same degree of criticism.
For where we are at, he’s ok. We’re not at a point to have an absolute top drawer keeper sat on his hands just in case.
I just feel there is a slightly unfair narrative building that he’s terribly sub-standard. He’s ok, relatively average but not abysmal as you might take from some comments.
we all know Davies is nowhere near Premier League level & Wes has a red card in him so we desperately need one imo. We’ll see I guess!
