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Agreed. Also, not everyone criticising Ankergren here is asking him to be fired now or saying they wouldn't give him a positive reception if he was to be goalkeeper on Tuesday. People reserve the right to debate and criticise on a web forum (as well as praise when deserved), but to be wholly...

You should have said every game where Albion are under the cosh. Even David Gonzalez would have kept a clean sheet against Newcastle.

If you commit a goalkeeping calamity but are rescued by a player on the line or a weak response from an opposition player, it's still a goalkeeping calamity. That said, Ankergren is easily one of the best two keepers Gus has signed. He is becoming increasingly prone to error, though.

Because, despite what is sometimes said, not all goalkeeping mistakes are punished by goals.

The context is important. While not usually as spectacular as yesterday's, Ankergren's calamities against teams where Albion are under the cosh are about one a game whereas Kuszczak's rare clanger is buffered by consistently high quality performances.

I didn't say a keeper who makes no mistakes, but one who does so less frequently.

With the combined wages of Brezovan and Ankergren, surely we could get a keeper that doesn't make howlers so frequently?

He didn't exactly get his body behind it otherwise if his arms missed it it wouldn't have gone through his body. He needed one knee on the ground by the foot of the other leg. In a side-on position.

Powney plays outfield these days!

Very different league as far as howlers go.

It's such a basic thing to get your body behind the ball, something even people playing a kick about in the park know about.