He was voted their player of the year in the last season he was there, and looking at what their fans were saying about him afterwards, they rated him very highly. I followed his progress through most of that last season in the premiership, and the amount of times he would spare the defences blushes each match was untrue! The reason Derby would conceed every game is because of the sheer amount of chances the other team would get, there was bound to be a shot or too beyond his abilities to save them. The only blatent error I can remember in that season was when Robinson lobbed him, but that was just sheer bad luck! Also, in those loan spells, his distribution was top drawer, so azza, basing your opinions on his kicking ability after a few games AFTER his bad knee injury (which I presume is what you are doing since I don’t remember his distribution being poor in the slightest before), isn’t the full story.

Unfortunately though, knee injuries can recur quite a lot, I just hope that this won’t hinder his career as he does have a lot of promise in my opinion. Hopefully he will get the games this season too, as we will need to see if he can establish himself as our #1 next season, or whether we need to buy another to replace VDS.

Ease up on him a little.

I still think he could be a brilliant keeper for us after VDS retires.

I think we have excellent backup keepers in PIG and Foster. the PIG has yet to dissapoint whenever he is called up. in fact he’s had plenty of clean sheets! And Foster has shown his ability during his spell on loan.

As for Foster being too young, Iker Cassilas was in his early twenties when he started keeping for Real! And i sincerely think Foster may emulate Iker