[Devongone]

There are so many parallels between your position and Chesterfield's slither into ever deeper obscurity a few years ago I hardly dare compare Lee Nicholls shoulder injury with Tommy Lee, who at the time was the best keeper in Division One. He had an operation, was out for ages and never truly recovered. He later played on injected up to the eyeballs. Shoulder is a terrible injury for a keeper. Apart from the Guardiola aspects it impacts on every other part of goalkeeping ..... and pain damages your concentration too. You make shit decisions and a lot of goalkeeping is about decision-making.

We didn't come near to replacing Lee even temporarily, and we suffered every week. You need to aim to get a good keeper who could be permanent. Otherwise you'll never have a stable defence and you might as well surrender to relegation now. Whenever you get ahead you'll all simply be waiting for the mistake to kick in and the equaliser to appear. If you were getting the equivalent of Waghorn as a keeper that wouldn't be bad. He seems to be doing a good job of keeping the ball out of the net ..........