Hart was better than Given from the start, ask any newcastle fan and they will all tell you what your own eyes should confirm,
Yes Given is a brilliant shot stopper.........but fails to hold on to the ball, and high balls in are a big weakness and always have been, never commands his area and trys to get rid of the ball quickly but without seeing whats on up the pitch.
Hart was better even with the inexperiance, holds on to balls or pushes them away, good with high balls and talks to defenders.......his weakness if you can call it that, were inexperiance, but the only way to get that was to play, and the same humping the ball out to much already been ironed out with some decent coaching at brum.
Numpty went for experiance over talent because he was incapable of seeing it and so relied on what others thought, mostly the media, and then handled Joe the same cack handed way he did with others by fobbing him off.
Joe Hart will go on to play for England, he will be a fantastic keeper, I just hope its with us.