Clean Sheet Lumley

We should probably change the name of this thread to 'no clean sheet Lumley'.

He came in and did so well (as the initial thread pointed out) but recently I've been very disappointed in him.

He really should never have conceded the 2nd Boro goal yesterday, it was pretty much next to him.


I also felt he should have dived on the ball/smothered it for the first goal rather than standing up.

Just overall recently his distribution seems worse and he could have done a lot better with numerous goals.

Against Watford he was very slow to react and the ball went in very close to him.

Against Birmingham he should have done better on 3 out of the 4 goals. Look how slow he is to react on the 4th goal when it comes back off the post.

Given our run of defeats and amount of goals conceded should Ingram be recalled?

I guess the bigger question is why he has deteriorated? Could it be a lack of confidence in his defenders causing him to lose concentration at critical times? (That does not really explain his dire balls out at times of course...)

Undoubtedly so minxymartin, also the fact that the arrival of Cameron et al saw Lumley playing in a team with confidence and HE looked confident because of that.

Now the team have little confidence and so Lumleys own confidence appears low too.

The second Boro goal was a howler for a keeper at this level, hopefully he can bounce back tonight with a big performance.

He had a few dodgy moments in the first half (the kick against the Leeds player that looped in the air then he headed it into midfield was not good!) but in the second half he clearly grew in confidence. The triple save was top drawer and there was one low cross that looked likely to lead to a goal but he held on bravely as the ball came across.

A very important clean sheet for him and the team as a whole.