hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
There you go...but he did come on though. That's mean he could have started. That's make me feel even bad because I know that injury was so minor that it won't affect James in any event.
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There you go...but he did come on though. That's mean he could have started. That's make me feel even bad because I know that injury was so minor that it won't affect James in any event.
Zaschrona
Player Valuation: £10m
Hmm, still no excuse. We should have a DM on a bench at this moment, this happens when you are playing the season with two players for two positions...
Our most influential player. People suspected it all season. Now we know it
We did look a lot better when he was subbed on though....might have been coincidence but we really started to press them
Del
Ric Wee fan club member 2014
Trying to protect the player which is the right thing to do
Del
Ric Wee fan club member 2014
McCarthy might have said he felt a pull or whatever and did not fell 100%
Martinez has to decide to play him and possible make it worse or drop him hope the side do ok without him and give him a rest
He was probably fit enough to play...start...but Roberto was likely trying to buy a little rest for his knock with the United game looming. When the score went wrong, he brought him on.
macst
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Sorry, don't buy it. One of these famed "soft-tissue" injuries was it, Bob?
If so, you shouldn't have risked making it worse by throwing him on late on.
No, you gambled tonight. You underestimated Palace by resting our best player over the season.
Palace made you pay. Just admit it.
If McCarthy had been injured he'd have played Leon alongside Barry, not pack the midfield with
virtuoso players with no shape to the team.
He ballsed it up, now he's hiding behind an "injury". And the sheeple will buy it.
Pull the other one.
If so, you shouldn't have risked making it worse by throwing him on late on.
No, you gambled tonight. You underestimated Palace by resting our best player over the season.
Palace made you pay. Just admit it.
If McCarthy had been injured he'd have played Leon alongside Barry, not pack the midfield with
virtuoso players with no shape to the team.
He ballsed it up, now he's hiding behind an "injury". And the sheeple will buy it.
Pull the other one.
Tubey I'm glad you posted this belief of yours again because I was recently talking to a friend about this. I couldn't remember where I'd read this idea of questioning why a player is fit enough for the bench but not to play the full 90.
This has been part of football forever I'm sure, and makes perfect crystal clear sense.
I can't understand at all how you don't get it. There's lots of degrees between 100% fit and Darron Gibson. It's not black or white.
Stop questioning the very foundations of this great game
Go away
SpurtingLesbian
Ken Dodd Nagasaki
He'll have been put on the bench because he's got a small injury that Roberto didn't want to risk aggravating. If all had have gone to plan we'd have played a bit better and James would have had the night off to recoup for the big matches ahead. The way the game went, it soon became the case that we needed him on the pitch because without a win last night we're seeing fourth place starting to disappear, therefore it would be less critical to have him fit for the 'big' games ahead because there'd be nothing at stake other than pride.
The big gamble was putting him on to grab hold of the game rather than not starting him.
Tubey I'm glad you posted this belief of yours again because I was recently talking to a friend about this. I couldn't remember where I'd read this idea of questioning why a player is fit enough for the bench but not to play the full 90.
This has been part of football forever I'm sure, and makes perfect crystal clear sense.
I can't understand at all how you don't get it. There's lots of degrees between 100% fit and Darron Gibson. It's not black or white.
Stop questioning the very foundations of this great game
What I don't get is having a player on the bench instead of starting the game with him in your strongest side and then withdrawing him after imposing your strongest side on the opposition from the off.
I get that players carry knocks and that's absolutely fine, but the part that makes no sense to me is why it's acceptable to carry a knock and come on for half an hour late on, yet not acceptable to simply play the first hour of football and impose a game plan instead of messing with the team shape.
If Martinez didn't want to risk him, that's fine - but in that instance, drop him from the squad and do it properly. As it stands, he did risk him anyway, he played the game, so he got it wrong by not doing so from the start. He miscalculated; as I said, it happens, it's a managerial error, but so be it. He'll learn from it I'm sure.
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