Unfortunatley we probably would. The club surely won't get away with charging CL prices for a lesser product. Wouldn't surprise me if the games were discounted and Wenget rotated, a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
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Unfortunatley we probably would. The club surely won't get away with charging CL prices for a lesser product. Wouldn't surprise me if the games were discounted and Wenget rotated, a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Ah yeah I have no doubts that we would. And then lose the next league game anyway.
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Well the long breaks clearly helped the unbeaten side few years back. The whole point is to give few key players proper rest to recover, the rest will play the in all competition. The first half of Europa league is piss poor, it is not worth starting your key players against some pub team from Moldova. :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
It doesn't work like that though, in theory it does but in practice we just end up losing our focus. Our winning run in 03/04 (nine in a row) came at a time when we were involved in all competitions; towards the very end of the season we were stuttering but the league had already been sewn up by then. We only won four out of the last nine games.
Spuds played their pub teamers for most of the competition and ended up bombing out in the group stage. How did the subsequent lack of game time benefit them from February onwards? It didn't.
Forget holding him to the last year of his contract. He can get us for breach anyway. He signed to play football, not to join Billy Smart's Circus.
Don't think we need to play our key players ealry on that does not mean We should take the Europa league lightly if we play in it thats silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
As for RVP Well id not blame him if he left if we did nt get CL id not blame if if he left even if we did.
Wininng begets winning.
Yes it does and we should go all out to win it but i don't see the need to play the top players against shite from eastern Europe etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Mind you the kids would show more heart the these lot anyways.
They can't be totally 'shite'. Or to put it another way, if you can't beat Norwich and Wigan at home when you have to, you can't play a weakened side against Slavia Bratislova and expect to win easy.
I never said anything about winning easy. But in the earlier rounds their are some poor teams in it are their not.
Not saying we should play the kids but i don't think we need to play a full team as long as we got the balance right.
If were still in it after xmas then it would be silly not to play a full team in it.