some very old but wise words from Chris Morgan.....................

he was at a supporters club meeting and was asked along the lines of why was so and so picked when he had a nightmare game-CM said-quite rightly-nobody goes onto the pitch intending to have a bad game-and that the team can usually cope if one or two are not at 100%-but if 3 or more are on a bad day-like yesterday-then that is where things go wrong-made sense to me anyway

 

Doesn't seem like wise words to me.

Why is McNulty played when hes crap?
Because the rest of us can cope and carry him.

Seems like a stupid thing to say.

 

I think it would have had more meaning if he said it with a lisp.

 

It's a football trusim handed down by Danny Wilson, I think. Rarely is a player 100% fit or performing 100% to the height of their ability, but a well functioning side can pull a weaker player up to their level or cover a below par performance. It's always been the way, not just in football but in any team.

Likewise, too many poor performances will affect another player's game, Luke Steele yesterday being a classic. Luke will always stop shots, but his visible hesitancy yesterday was a direct result of the shambles in front of him. The only thing I would criticise him for is not being an effective captain yesterday. There were 5 or 6 poor performances and Fozzie was frustrated at having to do Wiseman's and now McNulty's defending for them, giving him too much to do and pulling him out of position. A sending off was brewing but I think that might have been evaded by subbing McNulty not him.