How many goals had Dubs contributed to with his distribution? Pope’s throwing contributed to 2 at the weekend.
Pope’s passing is woeful but it hasn’t cost us a goal. Howe has got to get the defence and Pope drilled into not exposing his lack of control.
We mustn’t forget that Dubs is hardly Pirlo, that he’s just turned 36 and isn’t as good a keeper as Pope.
Pope turns 33 in April and he’s definitely lost something. Hopefully a run of games will help him. He’s been criticised for both Forest’s & Lpool’s 1st goals. He’ll be disappointed for both but Murphy was at fault for the Forest goal with (imo) Pope being caught closer to his line than he’d have been if there’d been a normal attack and not us gifting possession around our penalty area. Lpool’s 1st went through 2 sets of legs with 6”7” Burn standing on the 6 yard line. I think that’s a far harder save to make than it looked.
Give Pope the opportunity to play himself into better form.