I'd rather give the reserve keeper a few league games against lower teams in the division (if that's really necessary) than select him for a crucial cup game.
As for time for Tommy to switch off ... he was there at Hull so hardly "getting away". And not sure why he needs time ... Upson has been...
If you want to win a game you put out your strongest team. Doesn't matter if it's a league game or cup game. If these so-called fringe players are good enough, why aren't they first choice for league games? If they're not first choice they shouldn't be playing in the cup games ... but I would...
No, the players often do. The players certainly take a lot of the blame for tonight's abject first half performance, but Oscar lost us the tie by not committing our strongest team to try and beat Hull at the first attempt.
If he had picked our strongest team for the first game against Hull we may well have won and saved our "tired" players having to play tonight.
If Ince is badly injured OG gets the blame for that too. No replay, no injury to Ince.
Ward was selected for the replay, so why wasn't he selected for...