This thread is utter fucking toxic.
Here's a fact: Joe is an absolute top goal-keeper. One of the best in the league, that is an objective fact. You just need to get his stats up and actually watch him during our games. Sure he makes a few mistakes but eveyone does.
Even objectively; he's joint highest for Golden gloves (4) and has singlehandedly kept us in the champions league numerous times. How people can still sit there and deny his ability astounds me.
Here's another fact: he just might not be the right fit for our current managers plans. This doesn't detract from his ability, it's just something that can happen. And if that's so we have to stand by the manager but as fans show respect to servants of the club no matter who they are.
For so many people to come into this thread "saying about time" and slagging him off mercilessly shows a lack of class befitting the RAGs. Joe has performed for us to the best of his ability for years and years, as far as I'm concerned he is a city legend and we would do well to remember him as he actually was and how the media are portraying him now: a short tempered easily beaten keeper. Which he by no stretch of the imagination actually is.
I'd love to know where this sudden public concensus on him being a bad apple have come from. He's a very passionate man, but he's also a competitive man, and every story about him is just showing this side of him. I'd be very surprised to learn he's a twat but if there's proof then I'd happily eat my words
Get a fucking grip people.