Let’s be honest. He’s been pretty crap since he joined us, would take some severe levels of delusion to suggest otherwise.
Everyone has been crap though which suggests it’s more to do with morale etc rather than ability.
That's the mad thing about delusion.
Apparently I was deluded to think Joel was decent after coming into a struggling side, performing well, keeping clean sheets and seeing almost instant improvement in the teams defensive record... FOR 3 CONSECUTIVE SEASONS... because his prior reputation was that he "has a mistake in him".
And now I'm deluded again in not being sure about a goalkeeper who is the one constant change to a defence that previously appeared to be fairly sound, someone who has proved to be quite reckless in decision making and has conceded boat loads of goals... FOR 2 CONSECUTIVE SEASONS... because he has a prior reputation of having "loads of potential".
Its almost like the evidence counts for nothing, and we should just ignore what we see and just go with the general consensus of the pundits and people on twitter.