I'm thinking if we'd played the same settled team that plays attractive football in the League, week in, week out, we'd have certainly not gifted Stoke the easy day at the office that they had today.
I can see he's playing Batti today when the boy has spent the entire season at Withdean jogging up and down past H Block. Tells me all I need to know. Why can't you see that?
The manager wants the League more for his personal progression in management beyond the Albion. Fair enough. But its doing the Albion fans a disservice.
If we'd put out a full strength side we'd have made Stoke look like the dinosaurs they are.
The day a third division side starts to regard the last 16 of the FA Cup as a distraction is the day they should probably have a strong word with themselves.