Its only half the goalkeeper story.
Mignolet is a young keeper and with young players you expect the form to vary and mistakes, he made mistakes for both goals on Saturday, but tahts what you have to put up with with playing young players and obviously keeper mistakes tend to have more serious reprocussions for the team.
Gordon has been injured a while and been on the bench, holding a watching brief on his knee.
Yesterday morning the papers were running a story in which Bruce was being quoted as saying.
We have asked Gordon to delay his operation due to the situation we are in, and he will be coming back in (into the team) on Saturday.
Now in the afternoon SAFC reeased the news he had had his op and was out for 6 months.
My take on it is that it is farical and extremely poor man management.
Firstly he hasn't done Mignolet's confidence any good by telling everybody he will be out on Saturday. Now he has no choice but with put him back in when Mignolet knows Bruce didn't want him in.
The situation throws up more questions than answers and again put a question mark around Bruce.
If there wsa any question around Gordon having the operation and the appointment was the following day, why didn't Bruce just say nothing and then the whole situation would of been avoided.
It has been obvious for whatever reason that Bruce doesn't get along with Gordon (similar to KJ) he has been very quick to criticise him yet let others players that deserved it off scot free. Gordon in the summer is also in his last year of his contract and the vibes coming from Bruce seemed to suggest he would be moved on (again similar to KJ).
I have no real evidence or facts to back it up but here how I think its gone down, Bruce has pissed off Gordon and asked him to delay the op, Gordon has said something along the lines see what the specialist says and when seen the specialist erred towards the op. Given he has been on the bench the last few weeks would suggest he wasn't that serious / immediate and if the relationship was good between Bruce and Gordon I would of thought the player would of done everything possible. I don't attach any blame on Gordon for doing whats right for him.
