I strongly disagree to be blunt.
Any injury to Kuszczak in that match and it was season over. Until we wave the white flag on our league campaign - and it is far too early to do that - then we really had to mitigate against the risk. Sure, we could gamble on getting a loan goalie in but what...
The policy is fine. The problem is the standard of the number 2 and 3 keepers.
By all means protect your number 1 keeper from injury in the Cup if you only have poor reserves to cover injury.
A better number 2 keeper and either (1) the number 1 doesn't need to be protected, or (2) you have no...
Burke - for being head of player recruitment, and not having an adequate 2nd choice goalkeeper on the books ( Walton maybe in the future ).
The standard of our number 2 goalkeeping is poor for our ambition, which meant the number 1 keeper had to be protected from injury in this match.
Not...