HendoCrowbar6753 I'm sorry, but the FA Cup has turned into a bit of a "Joke" competition. Back in the 70s & 80s the first two rounds of the cup were always the most exciting games to play, and hoping to make it to the third round and draw one of the big teams was stuff of dreams.
Now just about all the Championship/Premier teams play reserve teams until the later rounds ruining and devaluing the competition.
Back to today, yes i know the squad is small and players are tired, but our next game is in a weeks time giving plenty of time to recover and these are professional athletes we're talking about.
Today should have seen us start with the first team and then depending on the game bring on the younger players. Lets face it, if two or three more of our first teamers were playing today we would be in the hat for the fourth and fifth rounds as it stands.
Two days ago the manager was talking up the competition, mentioning the history of the cup and how well its regarded around the world and saying how he was looking forward to the competition!! only to go and pick a team that gave us little hope of winning!!
It wasn't to long ago we were playing Arsenal in the Semi Final, what a day that was.
Not good enough....
What happens if Joao, Laurent, Richards or a couple of other first teamers get injured for the rest of the season and that’s basically season over for another 1 or 2 rounds in the FA Cup? Not worth it with the position that we’re in in the league.
Pauno also picks a team that gave us little chance of winning, yet they created more than enough chances to win the game?
Yep it’s not as if we were outclassed. We just didn’t have a striker to finish. We have Meite injured, Puscas who may be injured again and Joao who has just come back from injury.
We all expected Puscas to play today.He may have made the difference because we created more than enough to win but if he isn’t right to play then Pauno’s hands were tied.