The fella that was flat footed against Wigan and had terrible positioning for both goals? Ok.
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I've seen Etheridge being flat footed with shots he could have saved. It's clear that he is unable to play short passes to defenders and that Smithies distribution is streets better. Smithies was more commanding in his own box on Tuesday than he has been previously. Another month in goal will teach everyone a lot. Bonding with the team, better chance to evaluate under match conditions, which he hasn't had for 2 seasons etc.
Smithies is a pretty good goalkeeper who also made a couple of good saves and saved a penalty in the same game.
That goal was just unfortunate because Morrison was doing exactly the right thing and would have thought that he'd pushed him too wide for a shot , ( which he pretty much had) . The goalkeeper was unsighted because of the defenders in front on him and the attacking player happened to hit it just right to beat him in the bottom corner - six inches either way and there'd have been no goal.
These things happen sometimes and you can't really defend against them, but there were no mistakes to pull anyone up on.