Dark Munster

Yeah there would have to be some like for like rule. Maybe have two subs available, one a specialist batsman and one a specialist bowler. Players 1-7 maybe can be replaced by the batsman, the rest by a bowler.

It’s going to be really nail biting when it gets down to needing 4 from 3.

Yes, but it'll take forever if the manager is out of his depth.

His shot stopping percentage is appallingly bad.

Good shout 😀. He actually might not even make the squad! Just ask Djenepo and Mara for their audacity of creating and scoring a goal against City.

And his reward was for clueless Selles to haul him off at half time. What message does that send? As for the "he was on a yellow so better safe than sorry" bollocks, do we take off every player that has picked up a yellow? Especially the one who was miles better than everyone else. Fine if he was lunging into tackles left, right and centre, with the ref giving him a final warning. But it wasn't even close to being like that.

AArmstrong. His hold up play (and everything else) was non-existent. We were set up to park the bus with Lyanco coming on anyway, so at least Alcaraz with Walcott would've been a threat on breakaways.

I don't understand why cricket doesn't allow subs for injured players who aren't able to come back. It wouldn't have made a difference today, but it does make the sport rather amateurish.

Yes we needed to strengthen the defence, but Alcaraz isn't a dirty player, lunging in all the time and on his final warning from the ref. It wouldn't have been a huge risk to keep him on.

I wouldn't. AA offered f*ck all in the first half, and f*ck all until he was belatedly subbed in the second. Taking off our best player at half time instead of that waste of space was a moronic move by Selles.

Yes, it was madness to take off Alcaraz at HT. I can see the logic in taking off an attacking player and bringing on Lyanco, but it had to be invisible AArmstrong, not our best player (by a mile), FFS.

So Djenepo and Mara, who created our last goal, are rewarded with being left out of the squad completely. And AArmstrong starts?? Selles knows he won't get the job and so is taking the piss.

No need to be. We’re all but down anyway.

Never heard of him, but I’m glad that wanker is leaving.

Someone offered a million if he can keep us up?

Please don't give him ideas!

Maybe the driver did, and took it to court. "There's no evidence I parked on the pavement, your honour."

Hants not being able to bring in top order batsmen who can score runs reminds me of Saints inability to bring in strikers who can score goals.

Yes, but that's still about a £50m loss. Not to mention the massive PL money down the drain, and that we'll have a much weaker squad. What a clusterf**k by Martin "I don't worry about our league position" Semmens, Rasmus "I can see reference points you lot can't" W. Ankersen, and SR.

True, but Lavia was injured when Romeu left. The mistake was not either keeping Romeu as a back up, or bringing in a DM back up. Of course that is just one of the multitude of mistakes, all mentioned in this thread, in this clusterf**ck of a season.

Both I think.

I doubt very much he'd see playing for the first team that way.

If Rasmus W. Ankersen has any say in our next manager we're screwed.

Agree with everything from the OP, except about Luggy. He was NOT out of his depth, 1.23 points per game average, and was only around for the first 2 matches of that disastrous season (W 1, L 1) before the players forced him out. To compare him to Nathan F**king Jones is laughable.