Sir Alex Smithies

[Nick]

What a keeper!!

[Awin]

McCarthy - who?
Cesar - who?
Green - who?

[jmelanie]

Weren't some on here saying he should be dropped a couple of weeks back?

[1973 ranger]

Fantastic keeper who but for a 2 week wobble has been brilliant since he came into the team.

[bakes8]

Form is temporary class is permanent. Smithies had a poor by his standard few weeks but he's a wonderful keeper and we're so lucky to have him.

Well done Alex. And thanks ;)

[1973 ranger]

Exactly the sort we want in our team and at our club.

[OneJamieMackie]

Best goalie in the league

[West Acton]

Proper keeper

[Greg1882]

Good lad. Kept them filthy jacko loving weirdos at bay. Great TEAM performance COYRS

[LoftusRoadLad]

MOTM

[Hubble]

[Hertford Hoop]

Good lad with years and years of service to give

[3London]

love the way the team lead by chery went and mobbed him at full time.

[nasser95]

To be fair, I was (along with others) suggesting that he'd gone out of form and some time out of the first team given how well Ingram had looked would have boosted his competitive edge, but today he was something else. A special special keeper we have on our hands and a special sub keeper too.

[jmelanie]

You must have a short memory. Read Nasser's post of 17/09/2016 (two weeks ago)
Thread: Luongo carries his weight, certain other players keep pushing down on his shoulders

Smithies this season is the second lowest rated goalkeeper of the 22 who have played more than 5 matches. Below him is only the Bristol Keeper. He's honestly not been excellent and the last few games have really let him down, with his last 3 ratings being a 6.24, 5.89 and 5.65. Pretty awful. However, take into account the fact that he was rated the number one goalkeeper in the whole championship last season, ahead of Heaton and Konstantopoulos. Hopefully he'll improve soon.

See also Norths post Smithies on 18.09.2016

There are even a number of posts where people replaced him in their team.

I made the point in one of my posts that the problem could be that he didn't play at the end of the season or in a number of the preseason games. This appears to be true because now he is back to the form he played in last year.