Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
As I said before, this is a game about integration and seeing who can fit into the first team. We're not a team that plays with wingers that stay wide and drastically altering our game for the B team just to get through to the next round.

If this were a CL game and we're stuck for answers against a stubborn team, I'd agree. But these cup games have always been used to see who on the fringes can make the step into the first team.
The point is it wouldn't just be for the B Team it would be using the B Team as an experimental specimen for a Plan B

You can lump as many kids you want into a side to test their readiness but it seems pointless unless you can set up in a way that can play to the strengths of the unit and find a way of integrating them into the first team

It's not like I've never said we should employ pace to get in behind the defence in first team games, I've constantly said it and to be fair sometimes we do but it never seems to happen often enough, we might try it once or twice and then end up trying to thread a pass through the eye of a needle in a congested centre.