Quote Originally Posted by ThaiPie View Post
Also, what's happened with Stone? Wasn't he brought in to take the distribution from the keeper up a couple of notches?
Simple answer is yes, but after a couple of promising games his distribution radar went completely off the chart and all that left us with is a goalkeeper whose actual goalkeeping skills are arguably less impressive than Sam Slocombe's.

On the evidence so far, Aidan Stone has to go down as one of our recruitment team's very rare 'misses'. Unlike Junior Morias and Will Randall, Stone doesn't really have the legitimate excuse/misfortune of an early injury to explain his slow start, so the bottom line is that he just hasn't been the significant improvement on Slocombe that we presumably hoped he would be.

I'd be interested to know how close Tiernan Brooks now is to being a legitimate first-team contender, because the guys ahead of him aren't doing a great deal to keep him (or the ball) out.