19-01-2024, 19:55
To be fair, Dancing, I think there`s a slight difference between a county competition and a national competition.
It`s one of those where my head disagrees with my heart. My head says it makes sense not to risk injuries to key players in a competition that is not a priority and that offers little financial reward; my heart says that, being a national cup competition, we should pay it due respect and we haven`t really done that for the last few year. It`s the idea of putting out an entire team of youth players that irritates me - although this time DW in his interview beforehand at least gave fair warning of what they intended to do, unlike Coalville last season. I think if we played a few senior players who aren`t playing a full 90 minutes regularly and blooded some of the youngsters at the same time - as we did against Southport - I might find it more palatable. As it is, it rather leaves a slightly unpleasant taste in the mouth for me.
It`s one of those where my head disagrees with my heart. My head says it makes sense not to risk injuries to key players in a competition that is not a priority and that offers little financial reward; my heart says that, being a national cup competition, we should pay it due respect and we haven`t really done that for the last few year. It`s the idea of putting out an entire team of youth players that irritates me - although this time DW in his interview beforehand at least gave fair warning of what they intended to do, unlike Coalville last season. I think if we played a few senior players who aren`t playing a full 90 minutes regularly and blooded some of the youngsters at the same time - as we did against Southport - I might find it more palatable. As it is, it rather leaves a slightly unpleasant taste in the mouth for me.