Cornet Crocked on his full PL debut.

[sinkov]

We're not running a boys club or a pub team, the PL is one of the hardest leagues in world football, it's unforgiving and if you can't hack it at this level, you need to be shipped out and replaced by someone who can. I saw most of the games Tom Heaton played for us and in all that time I can only recall two goals he conceded that I thought he might have saved, and one of them, a long range shot at Huddersfield he might have been unsighted. Pope has just conceded two soft ones in one game, of course he has some credit in the bank, he'll get the chance to redeem himself, but he can't afford many more games like that if he wants to remain a PL goalkeeper, those were two shockers.

[Vintage Claret]

We're not running a boys club or a pub team, the PL is one of the hardest leagues in world football, it's unforgiving and if you can't hack it at this level, you need to be shipped out and replaced by someone who can. I saw most of the games Tom Heaton played for us and in all that time I can only recall two goals he conceded that I thought he might have saved, and one of them, a long range shot at Huddersfield he might have been unsighted. Pope has just conceded two soft ones in one game, of course he has some credit in the bank, he'll get the chance to redeem himself, but he can't afford many more games like that if he wants to remain a PL goalkeeper, those were two shockers.

Surely if a goalkeeper is involved in a one on one situation, as he was for their second goal, we should first question what happened to our defence.