doddisalegend Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Wonder which would've got a worse reaction? Putting out a second string side at Anfield, or playing a weaker team today? People wanting their cake and to eat it too. It's not like we're losing to some lower division side. Hardly the cups should be our priority I'm sure our senior players could have managed this game and then been rested against Swansea.
badgerx16 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Proper Saints fans can see this and have been saying this for ages, . So those that disagree with you, to a greater or lesser extent, are not 'proper' fans ?
adrian lord Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Well, BBC have "Pointless Celebrities" on in a few minutes...
James Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Wonder which would've got a worse reaction? Putting out a second string side at Anfield, or playing a weaker team today? People wanting their cake and to eat it too. It's not like we're losing to some lower division side. Not correct. Other teams manage to not rotate as much as us and play two games a week. No one is disputing or complaining the fact that we've rotated but when you're changing the number of players we are and bringing in players like Isgrove that have barely played then its a bit of a joke. Wouldn't have killed us to put one or two more experienced heads out there would it? We need reinforcements badly if we are having to go this deep into the reserves/youths.
aintforever Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 I'd rather rest players against Swansea, nothing is going to happen in the league this season.
benjii Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Stephens having a mare. At least Gardos seems OK.
nta786 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Our main right backs are cedric and pied. Not playing Our gk is forster and mccarthy. Not playing Our cb's are stephens and gardos- our 4th and 5th choice cb (if you include VVD, Fonte and Yoshida) And our left back is mcqueen today- not bertrand and not matt targett Someone sent me this proving how it is a genuine 3rd XI.
Manuel Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Well the expected has happened. FA cup thrown away. I enjoy seeing reserves and academy players on the pitch but surely not all at once.
wild-saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 just to add a little more ammo to the thought we could be throwing the fa cup to clear the weekend before the cup final. Les Reeds daughter is getting married on FA cup final day so he wouldnt have been able to go to the game if we got there. 100% ITK.
Window Cleaner Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 (edited) It would be a message to the Board that our squad is not good enough I expect they already knew that anyway. D'ya think Long gets a bonus for being the unlucky dip winner captain? Edited 28 January, 2017 by Window Cleaner
CB Fry Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Wonder which would've got a worse reaction? Putting out a second string side at Anfield, or playing a weaker team today? People wanting their cake and to eat it too. It's not like we're losing to some lower division side. Are you really asking that question?
Ohio Saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Remember when it was only Man U that disrespected the FA cup? I do.
St Marco Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 You're joking right? The numptys on here would have slagged him off had he done that Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I think my issue with it is if we put out a stronger team and lost then fair play, we gave it a go. We haven't given it a go. We set up basically not giving a ****. It's OK for us lot sat in our warm houses but what about those who paid money for tickets and everything that goes with that? A lot of them are already questioning the board and manager. Why give them more ammo for criticism? I am all for the youngsters being given a chance but you don't see spurs, citeh and utd etc doing that. They win things because they try every game. We do not have the squad to make the amount of changes we do. The team had no balance and the youngsters will learn little.
CanadaSaint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Too many of you lot are buying into this "rotation" bullsh*t. These are very fit young men who are paid more to play than most of us will see in a lifetime. Give everyone a rest now and then - fine, but this frequent, large scale change is an insult to people who pay good money to watch. The line up he picked today was ludicrous.
Special K Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Would prefer stronger team for wednesday night instead of today, but Arsenal reserves have some excellent players and this isn't the game to test too many of our reserves if we don't want to get thumped. Hopefully they can settle a bit in the second half and make the scoreline more respectable.
saint1977 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 So those that disagree with you, to a greater or lesser extent, are not 'proper' fans ? Those that want us to be competitive as we can be - whilst not being reckless - and not just blandly pushing out PR. Obvious that we are 2 or 3 first XI players short but if Puel has picked this league 1 line up to force Les's hand then the ends might justify the means. If he can't get any sense out of the club after Wed's triumph about new faces this is probably the only other way he can make his point.
Chris27687 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 What a line-up - why the **** is Isgrove starting if he's being sold to Bristol City. What's the point. From 5 minutes in you could see they would batter us. Got a bit better towards the end but we are 3-0 down and this is over. Florin has been alright is the one vague positive. I guess our season is geared for the league cup now but if we put out a decent side we could have had a good shot against this Arsenal side. Adelaide for them looks class.
Ohio Saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Too many of you lot are buying into this "rotation" bullsh*t. These are very fit young men who are paid more to play than most of us will see in a lifetime. Give everyone a rest now and then - fine, but this frequent, large scale change is an insult to people who pay good money to watch. The line up he picked today was ludicrous. This.
OttawaSaint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Hopefully this tonking doesn't ruin the confidence of Stephens and McQueen. Going to need them in the run in and confidence is so important.
tisspahars Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 On the plus side Stephens could have had a night like this on Wednesday.....
bazza Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Fielding youngsters in cup games to give them experience along with a bit of squad rotation I agree with. Today's number of changes and line up is a disgrace.
Saint Billy Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 some of you really make me laugh.....I had no doubts that virtually the whole first team would be rested after Wednesdays brilliant result and effort by the players. We do not have the squad depth and hopefully in the next 72 hours we will see some incomings. We were always going to lose today after Wednesday night and i personally dont want to risk anymore first teamers being injured when we are already going to Wembley Utter tripe, rest a couple yes but not the whole fekin side. A trouncing today will do us no good what so ever. No doubt you will claw a happy clappy positive from it.
dellboysaint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Rubbish and lose Redmond and others to possible injury for a hopeless cause.Subs now please . I really don't don't want to see the Gooners put 6 past us. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
James Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Too many of you lot are buying into this "rotation" bullsh*t. These are very fit young men who are paid more to play than most of us will see in a lifetime. Give everyone a rest now and then - fine, but this frequent, large scale change is an insult to people who pay good money to watch. The line up he picked today was ludicrous. Well said. No problem with resting a few key players but this mass rotation is not a good thing. Even if the rotated players our 'fresh' it doesn't make them good enough to compete.
doddisalegend Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 You're joking right? The numptys on here would have slagged him off had he done that Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk The numpties will always ***** but what does 3pts against Swansea get us in the context of the season? If we were fight relegation or pushing top 6 it would be different but were heading for mid table obscurity so I'd rather have a bloody good go at the FA cup and lose to Swansea.
5string Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 I think changes were necessary, but maybe we should have started with some of those on the bench (Yoshi, Tadic & Redmond instead of Stephens, Isgrove & Hojbjerg, for example?), then later in the game brought on some of today's starters. Bit of experience at the start of the game can work wonders for influencing youngsters & showing them the ropes.
Sour Mash Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Lot of people brought their kids along , hope it hasn't put them off for life! Ridiculous line up.
Oldeuboi Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Not correct. Other teams manage to not rotate as much as us and play two games a week. No one is disputing or complaining the fact that we've rotated but when you're changing the number of players we are and bringing in players like Isgrove that have barely played then its a bit of a joke. Wouldn't have killed us to put one or two more experienced heads out there would it? We need reinforcements badly if we are having to go this deep into the reserves/youths. We've had 3 games in 6 days. We played our full first team for two of those games. We're thin with injuries right now so we have to go deep or risk more in a game we're unlikely to win anyway. It's just unbelievable that people are trying to tarnish the fact we're going to Wembley based on this game where (so far) we've been punished by an unbelievably clinical Arsenal.
Bananaman Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Our main right backs are cedric and pied. Not playing Our gk is forster and mccarthy. Not playing Our cb's are stephens and gardos- our 4th and 5th choice cb (if you include VVD, Fonte and Yoshida) And our left back is mcqueen today- not bertrand and not matt targett Someone sent me this proving how it is a genuine 3rd XI. This is awkward...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Been away ,did you miss me:D It seems we have some new whiners, where is the a team?
wessex saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Too many of you lot are buying into this "rotation" bullsh*t. These are very fit young men who are paid more to play than most of us will see in a lifetime. Give everyone a rest now and then - fine, but this frequent, large scale change is an insult to people who pay good money to watch. The line up he picked today was ludicrous. This. Puels obsession with rotation is an absolute joke. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
James Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 We've had 3 games in 6 days. We played our full first team for two of those games. We're thin with injuries right now so we have to go deep or risk more in a game we're unlikely to win anyway. It's just unbelievable that people are trying to tarnish the fact we're going to Wembley based on this game where (so far) we've been punished by an unbelievably clinical Arsenal. No one is trying to tarnish anything mate. We are just disagreeing with mass rotation of completely untested reserve players.
Pamplemousse Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 At least we can concentrate on finishing three places higher and the financial glory that brings (according to PR Pamplemousse) In the world of financial fair play, it's vital we finish as high as possible
saintwbu Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Some people seem to think it's as simple as play them today and rest them on Wednesday instead. Other people with brain cells realise that the chances of a player pushing his body to breaking point is much more likely to happen after playing two games in three days, especially when one was as demanding as Wednesday night was.
Dalek2003 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Puel had little option to put out the line up tonight. The league games are coming in thick and fast and we have injuries to key players. He couldn't risk anymore. Bold move by Puel and should be appreciated for what it is.
5string Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Haha Kevin Friend! A foul for that? Really? He truly hates us.
Ohio Saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Been away ,did you miss me:D no. while you were gone, we put a ball of puss in your place and it's posts were a distinct improvement.
OldNick Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Im going to look at the Pompey takeover thread to cheer me up, I might also look at the L2 table
Pamplemousse Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 This. Puels obsession with rotation is an absolute joke. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk With fewer games, there won't be as much rotation. I don't even know why this argument is being brought up any more. People like me who defended Puel have been vindicated.
Dalek2003 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 We've had 3 games in 6 days. We played our full first team for two of those games. We're thin with injuries right now so we have to go deep or risk more in a game we're unlikely to win anyway. It's just unbelievable that people are trying to tarnish the fact we're going to Wembley based on this game where (so far) we've been punished by an unbelievably clinical Arsenal. Bang on. A voice of reasoned sanity.
adrian lord Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 This tie sums up modern football. Money trumps glory.
Donatello Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Some people seem to think it's as simple as play them today and rest them on Wednesday instead. Other people with brain cells realise that the chances of a player pushing his body to breaking point is much more likely to happen after playing two games in three days, especially when one was as demanding as Wednesday night was. Explain Forster's absence.
dellboysaint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 what does Isgrove bring to the side - can't see anything. Sims is great going forward - a real gem.
Pamplemousse Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Been away ,did you miss me:D It seems we have some new whiners, where is the a team? Good to have you back I think Heisenberg has been converted and is now a Puel fan boy
doddisalegend Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Some people seem to think it's as simple as play them today and rest them on Wednesday instead. Other people with brain cells realise that the chances of a player pushing his body to breaking point is much more likely to happen after playing two games in three days, especially when one was as demanding as Wednesday night was. Its amazing how lower league players cope considering how many games they play. I have no problem with rotation but I refuse to believe none of our senior players could manage a second game today.
Ohio Saint Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 This tie sums up modern football. Money trumps glory. I think it's more to do with the amount of foreign managers who just don't understand the meaning of the FA Cup
St.Patrik Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 I think the last day of the transfer window can be exiting for us since this game shows we need some more quality in the squad since not all kids are ready yet.
badgerx16 Posted 28 January, 2017 Posted 28 January, 2017 Explain Forster's absence. What has Lewis done wrong that Forster would have done differently ?
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