It was after a couple of howlers at Middlesbrough last season that Matt Duke was forced to hand back the Hull City goalkeeper's shirt to Boaz Myhill.
His performance against Aston Villa suggests that time has surely come once again.
This blog, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, believes that Myhill should have been restored between the posts as soon as he was fit to do so. But Duke has been maintained within some good team form, as if even altering the goalkeeper can somehow prove detrimental to the dynamic of a winning team.
This cannot be the case, as Myhill is the indisputably the main Hull City custodian. Defenders look and feel happier with him behind them than they do with Duke.
After racing out of goal needlessly at Aston Villa, leaving an open goal behind for the home side to place the ball, and then conceding a late penalty, Duke surely heard the last rites for his latest mini-stint in the sunshine, just as he did when a bad parry and then a terribly mishit clearance gave Middlesbrough two of their three goals in beating the Tigers towards the end of last season.
When Blackburn Rovers visit the KC this weekend, it simply has to be Myhill they face. It's not even hard on Duke to say this, it's just fair.
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