Ajax v Hibernian

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You’re contradicting yourself.

Will he start the better keeper or will he just go with Smith because he was our no.1 last season?

We only see friendly matches but Gray sees them every working day in training as well.

Tbf - I don't think that post was contradictory. They were saying Gray will start who he feels is the better keeper. There was just a caveat that if Gray feels at this point there is nothing between them and they are performing as good as each other he'll start with Smith as he finished last season because he won't feel he would have to change it yet.

I doubt that is the case though, think he'll have an idea now who he feels is the better keeper. We don't see them in training but Smith looked sluggish in the Ajax game. One post saying those shots were unsaveable, I would tend to agree apart from the 3rd and 4th but those were still great strikes - not like he's conceded any soft goals where you'd be asking what the keeper is doing. A better keeper may have pulled off saves with those but they'd have been top drawer saves.

Also think Salinger has benefited from the optics where Smith has conceded 5 against their better team with a foot on the gas and he has come in when they were far less potent and brought a younger team on and he's conceded one. Salinger still made some smart saves though and looked good (go against the grain that the effort he saved that he touched on to the bar was a good save - right at him and he got away with it)