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That is a concern. If all he cares about is making pretty patterns then we are not going to get very far.

That's all irrelevant. It wouldn't have mattered who you stuck in goal on Saturday the result would have been very similar. Fix the structure before you start worrying about the cracks.

Nothing to do with it. The defence should operate as a cohesive unit no matter who is in goal.

It’s not either one thing or the other. Far too simplistic.

Re-fighting old battles like a retired defeated general.

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Good idea. I hear that they’re very popular in Russia. You might get a good price there

They're missing a spark.

I have always believed that it will cost us more goals than it creates.

Eh? So he gets blamed now for not letting the shots go straight in.

I think he must have been taught to go down with his hands. He is very agile but not strong enough.

Up off the ground from a firm header. A classic striker’s effort.

Could be. But this was not the game to find out.

And exactly how should he have done that?

The defence’s job is exact that. To get in the way of attackers, to make it difficult for them to get a shot away and in particular to challenge for headers. I saw none of that today. Their third that you’re so annoyed about would have beaten most keepers. I get far more annoyed about the non-existent defence than anything else. Put any other goalkeeper in their and the result would have been little different.

The fifth goal was not his fault. Let’s not let our obsession overrule reality. For what it’s worth the others were unlikely to have been save by another keeper either but that doesn’t fit the narrative.

I thought it was crazy when I saw his name in the starting lineup. They looked like a bunch of unfit strangers out there today.

Dickhead. Your obsession has caused you to miss the most glaring aspect of today’s game which is that there was no defence in front of him. It wouldn’t have mattered who we had in goal with those strangers out there. The bestest keeper in the world ever might have kept the score down to three and we would only have lost 3-0. The defence is the problem. That’s an order of magnitude greater than any goalkeeper we might use. Or was it my fault that those goals went in? Just because I don’t belong to the ‘Bazunu is a clown’ religion doesn’t mean that I think he’s the best thing since sliced bread.. And there were no ‘glaring faults’ today apart from the absence of any coherent defence in front of him.

It’s not for me to defend it. That’s for the other ten outfield players on the pitch.

Would you trust any bid from Everton?

That would have been a lot when he only has one year left on his contract. And as we have seen, he hasn’t been snapped up so we can only deduce that his sale price was lower.

It’s only five CBS if Stephens is not out for too long.

11pm isn’t it?

Maybe they’re doing us a favour after they did so well out of Lavia.

Any music would be naff. It doesn’t belong this side of the Atlantic.