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IF Kuipers' form dips? Isn't that precisely why Smith is playing at the moment, because Kuipers couldn't stop dropping clangers? If you're going to obsess about stats, Kuipers has made, how many - four blunders leading to goals this year? Smith's made one (the fourth goal at home to Stockport)...

Anyone could have predicted this kind of idiocy. Happened with Roberts, with Henderson, now with Smith. If you're not Kuipers, you're a clown, in too many eyes. Heaven forbid you actually back a new player ... Why was Kuipers dropped again? He didn't actually make mistakes did he?

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Because that's worked out well, hasn't it? Or radically, you could give him a run of games and actually get behind a new keeper. Kuipers was dropped for a series of blunders, which all statistics aside, Smith hasn't been guilty of yet. Give the guy a chance.