As much as the partisanship on this issue is not tiring (at all) I really struggle to subscribe to an opinion that he is in any way a good keeper at this stage - which is not to say he won’t be in 5 or even 10 years.
Those saying he had a good game tonight have, in my opinion, allowed their standards to drop so low that tonight appeared a good game. Actually, I don’t think it was, and if Henderson had put in that performance we’d have said he looked a bit shaky tonight.
I don’t dispute that confidence is playing a factor here, but he does nothing with any conviction. His kicking is woeful (as soon as someone runs at him he shits it and kicks it into touch), he palms everything out into a danger area and is yet to really make any saves that you wouldn’t expect even an average keeper to make.
who knows, the kid might be a good keeper in a number of years but he just is not ready yet. Which is worrying as we paid £18 for the guy. Used to say ‘well he’s a bit dodgy, but he’s certainly not the reason we’re in this position’ which remains true to this day, but in the great mould of Sir Brailsford it’s about marginal gains. Would another keeper have kept us up? No. Would we have more points and a more confident defence with another keeper? I certainly think so.