Perfectly happy to do so, I'm frequently overly critical of our goalkeepers because of Kuipers! I'm of a generation for whom Kuipers was our first proper goalkeeper, we'd struggled along through Nicky Rust, Mark Ormerod and Mark Walton and then along comes Kuipers with his dire debut and odd...
I might be being a bit harsh, I honestly think Kuszczak would have been in a better position to try and deal with it, I thought he was off balance or just plain not expecting an early shot. Either way, Michel Kuipers doesn't get beaten so easily in that position and that's the barometer all...
He kept us in the 3-3 at Norwich with his saves at 2-1 down. Sadly, their third goal went straight through him.
As others have said, he isn't Graeme Smith. But he's pretty average. I would call him the new Wayne Henderson. Able to kick a ball but not keep it out of his onion bag.