John N wrote:
dons50 wrote:
Why curious? We had lost five in a row and we were playing away from home.
In reality, we had so many players out, we had few other options.
But we had Rasulo and two young strikers on the bench. We could have tried them in the last period of play. We were playing the bottom club in the division. If we weren't prepared to give it a go against them then who would we be prepared to have a go at?
I'm not saying these alternatives are world beaters, mind you. But it would have been showing willing, at least. A point is better than none I suppose but we need wins.
Bertie cautiously sticks his head out of his shell, like a diffident tortoise in a thunderstorm, to say that he can see some validity in both arguments. A draw does end our run of defeats, and we have got a lot of attacking injuries, but if Rasulo and Thomas-Asante weren't even going to be used then, with our lack of options, then we might as well have loaned then out. If we kept them for numbers, then we should have brought in another striker instead of Golbourne. Injuries to Sow and Aneke were predictable.
And we did end the game with 7 defensive players on the pitch. Not a back 7 of course, but two defensive minded CM's to go with 3 CB's and full-backs playing as wing-backs. I'm not criticising Dan, as it can be argued either way as to whether it was the right or wrong thing to do, but it happened.
Anyway, Bertie's going to withdraw back into his shell and try to resume his self-exiled hibernation.
Don’t do that Bertie.
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