For crying out loud

My issue was giving so many key players the night off. Even if you don't start them, you can give them 20 mins from the bench or do a mega substitution at the end to bring on experienced players just to take a penalty. Had we done that I believe we would have won.

 

I suspect Collins learned more from Tuesday night's game than he did from Saturday's.
Don't get me wrong Saturday was great.
But he needs to see all his squad in competitive action.
The league is far more important than the Milk cup.

 

Same here. I also - and I'm glad about this - haven't seen any criticism of Jack Shepherd missing the penalty, but it's mentioned in the OP.

I have noticed there are a couple of reactionary posters who will jump on any opposing (often negative) view - and I understand how draining negativity from other posters can be - but I think it's a waste of time. If people want to be negative, they will - why fight them? But starting a thread like this when there has been little to no criticism of Tuesday night is a bit perplexing.

 

I started the thread having read a hell of a lot of criticism of the team selection and not caring about the cup, not caring about fans, disrespecting paying supporters, the manager should have said he’d be changing the team (when he had) etc etc.

On reflection I hadn’t read the majority of it on here, I’d also been reading comments on Facebook and Twitter/X - maybe it wasn’t aimed at entirely the right audience. I was just a bit frustrated that fans were being hypercritical for no real good reason.

I will say this though, I haven’t seen anyone have a go at Shepherd for missing the penalty; I wasn’t trying to imply that, only that it didn’t really matter that we lost a penalty shootout as there were more positives to take from the game, which the manager has since said himself.

On to Bristol anyway.

 

Yeah I assumed you'd seen some stuff somewhere - must have been responding to something!

On to Bristol indeed