I think if Leo was touch and go for last night not playing him was a good thing cos that lot would have kicked the living daylights out of him and he would have had zero protection from a bloody awful ref who totally lacked consistency (except for beig shite, he did maintain that tbf)
Peretz has, aside from his saves, bought a level of confidence to that defence we havent seen in ages.
Maybe so but the question I would ask is if/when Stewart is injured and you need backup for Larin who would you rather have come on - Archer or Ballard?
What choice did he have today? Larin was knackered so it was Archer or a young lad.
I thought he did ok when he came on, he ran at them, got the ball up the pitch.
He’s not great, we all know that, put TE’s options are limited.
So was that the last game for bookings resulting in a 2 game ban?
Couldn’t fault anyone today, even Archer did well when he came on. Top,top performance 😇
Add to which its the Easter weekend.
If it was a league match I probably wouldnt bother but its a FA Cup Qtr Final and they dot come along every year !
When you have Larin on the pitch tell him to get on the edge of that 6 yard box and put the ball on his head at every opportunity. Don’t be clever or cute, just find his head ffs.
Ted MacDougall made a career out of hanging around in that area 🤣