After watching that horror show on Tuesday and having to pay for the privilege of it. Can i ask you to play your best team,there is no sentiment in football,and if we are serious about promotion a winning mentality breeds confidence,after the super display i witnessed at Sheffield, to the dire display Tuesday it just creates bad vibes. We need to hit the ground running Saturday, and next Tuesday against orient,nothing less than six points will be accepted. The team Saturday has picked itself, and unless a individual falls away that looks like our best eleven available at present,lets keep a settled and confident side if we are serious about promotion. It is a weak league this season,and a great opportunity to get out of it, after one season back in league 1. So SC it is down to you,but please keep a settled and confident side on the pitch week in week out. eight changes are to much in one game.
The league cup is the perfect opportunity for Cotterill to give the players who didn't play the first league game 90 minutes. That way he can see who is ready and who isn't. Doesn't matter if we lose as nobody really cares. Plus the team he picked before the game was pretty much what everyone wanted to see, we wanted to see Wynter, Bryan, Reid all get game time and they did. Nobody really stood out and tried to force their way into the managers plans for Saturday. Think we'll see the same team that beat Sheffield Untied. It's blatantly obvious Cotterill will play a stronger team on Saturday as there is something to play for.
Entirely agree. Out of this cup gives us a week of rest later this month after a busy start. Promotion must be our key priority.
We have 4 games in 10 days the cup game on Tuesday night was nowhere near as important has the three league games. He has a squad so he used it. I can't believe he is getting flak for it. Ok lose the next two then people can start having a pop but not for losing a game in the micky mouse cup surely?
Weak? wouldnt actually say that, as I pointed out a few weeks ago the division this season appears to have a lot more teams that are more closely matched, no likely 6 -8 teams domininating from game 4 or so but we will see, certainly not weak
If we get 4 points from the 2 home games then Cotterill's decsion to rest 8 players will be vindicated
Exactly If we are serious about going up we will need max points from most or all of our home games (which makes it important that we can create a forbidding atmos for all our visitors and inconvenient that half our ground is missing)
Granted 8 is far too many, but it was an important occasion to rest certain players. What would it profit us of Sammy or Freeman or one of the others were to get an injury. OK, so we are through to meet Hartlepool in the next round but we have lost our principle striker ? So I think Cotts did the right thing playing the players that he did. Lets just hope our first 11 can pull it all back together on Saturday
Spot on. The decision will look a great one if at 21.55 next Tuesday we've got 9 league points on the board from 3 games. Up The City !
I'm all for rotation, but not for playing bit-part players in the cup. Rotation should happen throughout the whole season, so the likes of Wynter and co are playing relevant matches and showing what they can do in a league setting. From a footballing perspective it's great that SC can rest players, but it's obviously not great for the fans that spend money to watch the B team.
Its a fact of nature, humans can only run so far, only do so much. Then their legs grow heavy and they become useless - its called gravity, and it affects the very best ever footballers, and also to those at the other end of the scale. We want our best footballers to be at their peak of performance when the matches that count begin, so not shagging them silly in The Pisspot Cup is common sense. My advice Ender is - watch some re-runs
