Wrexham v Southampton

Marvanelli said:
Sorry, but if I was a footballer, I’d be raging if I was in the main team and was dropped in an FA Cup semi final because of a potential promotion fixture.

An FA Cup Semi-Final for some of these players is a once in a lifetime opportunity and they may not get that chance again.

If our manager was throwing an FA Cup Semi to prioritise a home league game 3 days later, then I’d be boiling.
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I said more likely to rest players not definitely.
It was an answer to the question.
They may play their best team in all the games.
A manager has big decisions to make and I’m sure that he will do as he sees fit.
Let’s see what he decides on the day.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I remember those games. When Hackney and Morris couldn't cope with the opposition tactics and we had nobody to strengthen the midfield, we blamed a forward because he wasn't physical enough?
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It wasn't that he wasn't physical enough. I used to be annoyed that he refused to track runners, to even just get goalside and be an extra blocker.

A bit like vinny jr for Real. Finn seemed to think that defending was for others.
 
Marvanelli said:
I watched the game last night and although Wrexham were awful. Their defending was rank bad, seriously bad, however, they missed a glorious chance to make it 2-2....if that goes in, then the whole game changes.

Southampton are clearly on a fantastic run and are full of confidence, but they're not this super machine that is unbeatable. They have their frailties...the same frailties we exposed with ease in that home fixture we had against them. Yes we rode our luck, in that first half, but that second half, as soon as the first goal went in, we ripped them to shreds.

There's no reason why we couldn't do it again.

I don't believe Saint's will get 2nd...they may finish 4th and jump Millwall, but I can't see them going 6/6 wins to clinch 2nd on 84pts.

The schedule should be too tough for them.
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I’ll tell you what as well; S.Charles is key for Southampton in the midfield; he had a hamstring issue when we played them last and he is due another (!) so let’s hope for that and they fall apart but still very beatable with him in the side…
 
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Jonathan said:
I never understood the criticism even at the time, but I think it's shown up a lot of the sneering towards him "only scoring against lower, poor teams" when he was here and after he left that a lot of people liked to say on here, looking at the list of teams we've failed to beat over the last 10 games.
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Britt used to bag loads against $hit teams too.
We should have re-signed him in Jan, he'd have cost peanuts comparatively and we'd have been practically home and hosed by now. Always had a smile on his face too, imagine him beaming from ear to ear when we went up. Or indeed even if we didn't.👍
 
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Colgates_shaving_foam said:
It wasn't that he wasn't physical enough. I used to be annoyed that he refused to track runners, to even just get goalside and be an extra blocker.

A bit like vinny jr for Real. Finn seemed to think that defending was for others.
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he was almost certainly playing to tactics though and at the end of the day defending is not his skill set
 
I'm currently reading a book called Moneyball by Michael Lewis (also a film starring Brad Pitt) which is based upon the premise that baseball players that "look good", by being great fielders or have obvious attributes like pace are hugely overvalued. Instead, a low budget team, the Oakland Athletics, deliberately signed players who didn't necessarily have those attributes but statistically performed. In the regular season it worked wonders where they won the most games across all the leagues, but they came unstuck in the playoffs.

When I'm reading it, it does make me think about players like Azaz who get criticism from the fans but statistically are up there with the best. Where the argument falls down is the £15m we got for him, which is good money in anyone's book especially as we signed him for £2m.
 
Ipad1977 said:
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Britt used to bag loads against $hit teams too.
We should have re-signed him in Jan, he'd have cost peanuts comparatively and we'd have been practically home and hosed by now. Always had a smile on his face too, imagine him beaming from ear to ear when we went up. Or indeed even if we didn't.👍
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We should have re-signed Britt???? Has it really got that bad?
 
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