31 Oct 2018 04:36:59
It is sad to have to mention it but far too many of the players on the fringes of the first team did not show that they are capable of being in the first team, are they happy just picking up their wages.

AK said we should have beat a League 1 side that has played four games in ten days yet looked fresher than Forest, but with ten changes to the team did he in truth see the cup as a annoying distraction from the Championship.


1.) 31 Oct 2018
31 Oct 2018 09:22:04
He just did what he has done in previous rounds and rested his league team in the cup. And in all honesty that shouldn't have been a problem.

I think if he'd played his first team and Grabban or Robinson or Lolley had been injured, he would have been slated for not using the squad.

I don't think


2.) 31 Oct 2018
31 Oct 2018 10:13:28
Tricky
Changing some players is fine but keeping only one player from the previous game is a huge risk.

AK changed either ten or eleven players against Bury and nearly came unstuck, only managing to win on penalties, so AK did not learn a lesson from that.

I can not remember how many changes AK made against Newcastle, or Stoke but Newcastle being a Premier league team could have taken us lightly, Stoke having just come down from the Premier league could also have been guilty of the same.

The Forest players could well have had a point to prove given where Newcastle are, and Stoke were so they therefore being more up for those games, just as they were for the Middlesbrough, West Brom, and Swansea games in the Championship.

There seems to be a bit of a trend occurring does there not?


3.) 31 Oct 2018
31 Oct 2018 10:26:39
Your spot on with that Tricky 1972


4.) 31 Oct 2018
31 Oct 2018 10:40:05
Priority is League not the cup, Tricky has nailed it, it was no different than the rotations for the other cup games. The players picked were more than good enough to beat Burton.

Well done Appiah on your goal and full credit to Burton for going for it for 90 mins.


5.) 31 Oct 2018
31 Oct 2018 11:16:45
Statetheobvious with all due respect mate the players selected weren’t ‘more than good enough ‘to beat burton because in case u didn’t notice we got played off the park and lost