This is not a 'bad patch' Hart is going through. This is him, period. He can be magnificent in one game and commit howlers in the next. He had a good 18 months when he made his reputation, but he has been dropping bollocks now which have been costing us games for the last season and a bit. That is not a 'bad patch', that is confirmation of his inconsistency.
If this was one bad game it would be inconsequential, if it was five bad games it would be a 'bad patch', but this isn't that, it has gone on and on and on. I have no confidence that he isn't going to fuck up in a game and more to the point, the rest of the players, after such a protracted period of fuck ups, will have no confidence in him either. It's time to get shut and get a keeper who is up to the required standard. As I've said on an earlier , currently, Chelsea, Spurs, Utd, Liverpool and even Stoke have a better keeper than us.