Post by rideintothesun on Aug 17, 2023 8:16:06 GMT
Well everyone loses firm, he did, the keeper should be allowed to be dropped like anybody else. His reaction was very poor.
I wouldnt say he lost form - he made a couple of mistakes which cost us points but his performances also earned us plenty too. Balcombe in his first match made even more of a howler which put us on the back foot from the off. I doubt that Belshaw would have conceded that one. Balcombe clearly wasnt as good as Belshaw else we would have signed him and he would have played every game till the end of the season
Agree that no-one has an inviolable right to start and competition in every position is a good thing. It makes sense if you sign players who are better or have the potential to be better than what is already at the club. Based on career history of the 2 new keepers I think it is impossible to say we have done this with any certainty do yet again we are taking a gamble on a spine of the team position. It may work out just fine and we all move on from the Belly days but it could just as easily come back to haunt us.
None of us know how Belly reacted to being dropped but it would be insane if he wasn’t right pissed off with being replaced by someone with zero league appearances. B***** clearly doesnt think Belly is good enough so in his shoes I’d want a move too. Freeing up his wages will be good for thr club too
Aside from a few high-profile errors, the issue last season was with the defence more generally.
We made a similar mistake with Steve Phillips, who was moved on much too soon after Trollope decided that loaning young keepers from bigger was a better option. This was one of his biggest errors.