I find the whole Burge thing quite strange. There are some who actively want to boo him or sarcastically applaud every time he catches something, which is nonsensical and embaressing to be honest. But on the other side there are still people who try and defend that he's a decent keeper. It's very obvious that League One and Two keepers have mistakes in them, if they didn't they would be playing in a higher division. What is also very clear, that is Burge's overall game doesn't make up for the amount of mistakes he makes. He is a very average League One keeper at best, probably a decent enough League two keeper. If we want to progress, we need a new keeper. I'm not sure where the myth that he's actually a 'very good shot-stopper' comes from. He has had some great moments for us, and at very important times (see Checkatrade Trophy final & Notts County), however, the mistakes outweigh the positives.
I also keep seeing 'he's only cost us (insert amount of goals - which are all drastically underestimated by the way)', but that is kind of irrelevant when some of his worst performances haven't cost us a goal more through luck or bailing him out. As an example a couple of seasons back we went to Burton, the game was on Sky I think, and he put in one of the most inept goalkeeping performances I've ever seen, missing countless crosses, but poor finishing and good defending bailed him out and in theory 'he didnt cost us a goal'. The point being, mistakes leading directly to goals shouldn't be what you measure it on, it should be based on his overall performance. Let's get a sense of reality. He's not a very good goalkeeper, but he doesn't need the barage of abuse he gets.
