ECYellow
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Yep, and despite multiple mistakes by multiple players throughout that game, including the same multiple players who contributed massively to the overall outcome of that game.
We win together, we lose together. We make mistakes individually, and as a defensive unit, and it costs us, we produce moments of magic, individually, and as an attacking unit, and it wins us games, cup finals, and promotions.
Players will have dips in form, and will lose their place in the side, and players will come into the side, hit form, and keep their place, until they too, make mistakes, lose form, and lose their place in the side, and the pattern repeats itself. No team remains unchanged all season, it's the nature of team sports.
If Eastwood was dropping clangers every single game, and costing us goals that lose us the game, every week, then he'd be out of the team by now, but every keeper in the world makes mistakes that cost the team goals throughout the season, that will also cost the team games as well, but you can't just drop them because they cost you a goal here and there, or you'd never have any continuity between the sticks, it's a position that requires perspective.
You could also argue, if the defenders did their job, the goalkeeper would never have been called into action, and had the chance to make a mistake in the first place!
We'll also ignore all of Eastwood's penalty saving heroics in the playoffs, that helped us get to the final, and league cup penalty shootout heroics, that helped us get to the quarter finals shall we!?!?
Give the guy a break, we're in this position because the whole squad, and management are under performing in their roles, both individually, and as a team.
Hang on a second...his ‘penalty heroics in the play-offs’ were only after he’d been beaten at his near post at Pompey and just preceded his and Moore’s complete catastrophe at Wembley!
Since then, he’s been at fault for a goal at Lincoln, he’s conceded a penalty at Accy after punching a player in the head and he was at fault for the first goal yesterday. We’ve only played 4 league games for Christ sake! How many mistakes are acceptable in your opinion?