What an invaluable difference having a quality goalkeeper has made for us this season.
Both Thomas and Kitching were ruled out today by flu, which would have been disastrous for us from the start with Collins or Wilson in goal. But with Carl Rushworth we have a keeper who commands his area very well, talks to his defenders and snuffs out attacks by coming for crosses. That, plus his positional sense and his exceptional ability to save shots has saved us today from what would have been an inevitable defeat, even before we went down to 10 men, given we were also without Saka and BTA. Wolfie and Lati played very well in front of him, I'm taking nothing away from their contributions, but this young man has been a massive factor in our development into automatic promotion contenders and potential league champions this season. We've still got Dovin to come back from his ACL injury, I'm not forgetting him, but we need to do everything we possibly can to sign Rushworth permanently.
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