I mean, it's not logic, it's just fact. And no one is suggesting we play for a draw.
At pretty much any point in the season I'd have snapped your hand off to be in this scenario.
We're about middling for conceding chances and bottom 4 for conceding goals from those chances...
Loads of stats here - Championship Goalkeeper Stats | FBref.com
This really doesn't reflect well on Collins. Expected goals conceded with him in goal is 14.4, we've actually conceded 22.
The...
Having been at Southampton last season when he did a weird slap at the ball rather than just catch it which cost us a goal and Pompey this season, I'm certainly not going to die on a hill defending him, just feel some poster's vitriol has gone too far.
I think his hands are ok, it's more his feet that seem to be the problem. He gets beaten with shots low and hard and rather than try to block with his feet, he tries to get a hand down to it.
The goal Dovin conceded on the opening day to Stoke was similar to Plymouth's first two.
This might be controversial, but I don't think Collins did a lot wrong against Plymouth.
I mean you can tell his confidence is so fragile by the way he reacted to the goals, but he was massively exposed for the 2nd and 3rd goals. And the first was a precision finish in the only place he could...