Read what I wrote again. It was about confidence. They have no confidence in him, he has no confidence in them. They're as bad as each other.
We know the defending is awful. If Langfield knows it and that's his reason for coming for that ball on Wednesday, then what was his reason for not coming for anything on Saturday? As I said, erratic decision making doesn't help him or his defenders, in terms of confidence or in terms having the faintest idea of what the fuck is going on.
I know the defending is piss poor and it doesn't help, but Langfield is one of our most experienced players and yet he is still making not just basic mistakes but horrendous choices over positioning and when he wants to come for crosses. He just shouldn't be making these mistakes at this stage in his career in particular. I know he's not Leighton or Theo, no-one in their right mind would expect that level of player in the current climate, but come on, it just isn't acceptable.
See this argument that he's just as shit as the other keepers in the league really fucking grinds my gears. So what? Because everyone else is shit it's ok for us to be shit too? That's no way to look at it. Again, I'm not expecting us to get the level of the previously named keepers, but I expect our scouts to be going all over Europe trying to get a goalkeeper who can consistently cover the basics of goalkeeping and who won't have a major arse collapse when someone chucks a half eaten hamburger at him in a cup semi final. it's not much to ask, and the money thing doesn't come into it either. If we can get a player of Hartley's calibre, we sure as fuck can get a keeper of a better standard than Langfield.