On line abuse is in the headlines this week so I’m not going to weigh in.
That said .... don’t think Mitchell is that awful it’s just that normally sides have another half decent keeper on the bench to keep their number one sharp.
We’ve had nothing for months so no matter how many awful games he has he was always on next weeks team sheet. I think the poor lads confidence needed a bit of protection.
All that said, I don’t want to see him back for next season. A year loaned out into the Conference might see his confidence back?
Even with all the moans that Mitch attracts it doesn’t need a brain surgeon to conclude that he’s not the reason we’ve been demoted after one season - look at the goals for column and then look at how many goals have been from “strikers”? With one half decent striker in the side we would have finished several places above the drop and all Mitch’s errors would have been forgotten!
Undeniably our strikers have been poor but the keeper is the only truly specialist position. No one else can pick the ball up or use their hands. Everyone can score a goal, you dont need the strikers to score to win a game and you dont need to score loads of goals to win games. Our defence over the second part of the season was pretty good with the exception of the fella between the sticks. Without touching the rest of the squad, if we could have selected any from the best half of all the keepers to have pulled on the shirt in the Sixfields era we would be playing in league one next season.