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Your post is nonsensical. I have responded entirely to your posts and haven't mentioned you so why you think I'm playing the poster and not the post I have no idea. There's been no twisting involved, I've simply said that there's a clear, obvious and logical reasons why both Stephens and Bednarek were not selected for this game and that there were very few other alternatives for defence. If we subsequently win on Saturday then frankly 99% of the fan base and probably Martin himself will care very little about this fairly meaningless game. You don't know if Stephens or Bednarek were feeling some effects after Saturday for example. It's absolutely not some catastrophic managerial error like you claim, it's a judgement call that he did not want to risk his two starting centre backs for Saturday for what I can imagine are a number of reasons. It's getting silly now as you clearly won't answer who you would have played instead as you know that there aren't viable alternatives for those two players so you disagree with the managers call that those two should not be involved and should be saved for Saturday. I'd prefer to keep the managing to the manager personally but that's just me. Let's leave it there.

Maybe but it's hardly an absolutely shocking decision and lapse of managerial judgement to go with Perraud like Canada Saint is claiming given our lack of options for centre back and the obvious desire of Martin not to utilise our defensive options that we need for Saturday.

I'll be honest I really don't know anything about him. Is he a cb? Given that Perraud is a senior player, I can't imagine that Martin believed he would be a worse option than someone like Simeu given I can't remember him playing for us before. It's not a shocking error of judgement on Martins part for making that call is my point.

Numerous alternatives but you can't or won't name any. The job of the manager is to get us promoted. If he felt that it was more beneficial to avoid playing a recently injured bednarek or a key player like Stephens in the cup the I trust the manager. If that is the case then there weren't any clear alternatives (even though someone has suggested a youth team player above) despite your claim that there were numerous options that you refuse to elaborate on.

How is that a stronger team than the one we played? It's really scraping the barrel to go as low as the youth team.

Yes he's absolutely terrible but he doesn't seem like the type who thinks he's better than he is. Seems to me like he's aware of his limitations and acts the way he does anyway. Like someone else said he's an idiot.

Rather it happens now than when the window has shut so we can't do anything about it. Maybe it will encourage the club to take a loss on some of these players and just ship them out on loan by any means necessary.

It's not going round in circles. You can't criticise the manager for his awful defence and then refuse to say which players you would have played at the back. Given our lack of defensive options and given that he wanted to play Charles in his proper position, there really weren't a lot of players at all who could have played at centre back or right back for that matter given that he didn't want to play the vast majority of the first team. There were no obvious players that were left out in the defence that didn't play on Saturday. If there had been and he had ignored them then I would say fair enough. Martins job is to win promotion and if I his judgement it would be more beneficial to that by resting Bednarek who has recently returned from injury and a key player like Stephens out of a cup game then I back him with that decision. If you can't put together a coherent defence without either of those two the it just highlights the difficulty that Martin has.

If JWP and Lavia go we will clearly need two players. I'd like to keep Adams if possible and sack off Onuachu and Mara in order to get in a replacement.

Lyanco never strikes me as someone who doesn't try, he's just rubbish. For me I'd go with Perraud and Djenepo. I can't honestly think that McCarthy considers himself a Premier league player given he's been stealing a living.

Same team as last week for me. Give them 45 minutes at least then bring on Adams.

He's shite. I wouldn't waste any more time on him. Ship out him, Adams and Onuachu and get a couple of new attackers.

So you'd have played Bree there? Who would have taken his place at rb?

He didn't say it specifically at Mara but he does mention it as being a good learning opportunity for him so I don't think he was referring to him with his other comments.

Who should he have played at Cb? Given that Bednarek was returning from injury and he obviously didn't want to risk Stephens.

Agree with that. They also didn't help themselves though but you can see why it would be difficult for them. It's the youth players I feel sorry for who will now get no opportunities.

Yes but who else should have played at Cb? Bearing in mind that ABK is injured and we have a game on Saturday and Bednarek was probably still recovering from his injury.

It was good. If we go by the names he didn't mention we can assume he believes the twatty players are: McCarthy Bree Lyanco Perraud Djenepo And maybe Onuachu No surprise really but if the club still has a cancer in it, then they are the cause.

The good news keeps on coming...

I'd send those 4 out on loan at worst. We just need them out of the club.

Bednarek has just come back from injury and will be needed on Saturday and ABK is injured. We don't have anyone else.

Can you just fuck off continually carping on about the manager. These players have been turd no matter who has been in charge.

The larger point to learn is that this system Martin wants us to play requires us to play players who have very specific roles that they are suited for. Without that, it doesn't work and is embarrassing.

OK now I'm getting pissed off. That is beyond pathetic.

We have a number of supposed first team players. It's not Martins fault that some of our reserves are horrendous.