The defenders should not have stopped what they were doing regardless to what the keeper does. They should be tracking their man at all times an getting goal side and when the ball gets to them to win getting the commitment level high enough to get in front and get the first touch. If the keeper comes out and barrels them then so be it. If the keeper stays on his line so be it.

To say the bloke has the Yips under the high ball is a harsh. Reality is he is only coming for balls he knows he can and will get. Its when he starts coming for balls he "may" get we have issues.

May have to adjust the expectations as the reality is things ain't changing soon. Birraz will not be coming for balls he ain't certain he is getting. That is how it is.

As you said technical errors that have cost us points deserve scrutiny.

Well this didn't cost us anything. The goal he gave to Durante despite the technical error has had a great deal of scrutiny despite the thing costing us nothing as we were losing the game anyway

To say the ball is the keepers in that area is a harsh call.

The reason that ball is effective is the defence are back pedalling and having to deal with it on the back foot. The Keeper doesn't wish to come to claim as it is a little far out of their comfort zone and then the attacking team are on the front foot moving at goal.

To think Birraz is any less of a keeper cause he ain't comfortable dealing with these type of balls is harsh when nearly every keeper on the planet has issues with this situation