This is intended as a constructive criticism, in no way intended to deny the rosiness of our overall situation at present, but they do say there's always lessons to learn and things to improve, and for me this is a key one at the moment.

Asking Sam Slocombe to play out from the back has now cost us goals in two away games, and there have been other risky moments. The guy's doing his best to use his feet and he's improved a bit, but everyone can see it's not really natural to him, and the risk - apart from giving away goals - is that it starts to undermine his overall confidence as a goalkeeper.

Sam's a perfectly reasonable goalkeeper for this level, but just let him be that and do what he does well. I've got no problem with him throwing/bowling the ball out to the centre-halves or wing-backs as all 'keepers can, or kicking it long, but we've had enough evidence now to know that his passing is inconsistent, and it isn't essential to us playing out from the back anyway.

Just let the lad do what it says on the tin and be a goalkeeper.