redtrader74 wrote:Ciggy wrote:I’ll be honest, I don’t agree with the rotation policy. I have been extremely frustrated with the away draw at Portsmouth and even more so the home draw with Birmingham and in my opinion I would play the best 11 week in week out until fatigue or injury stopped me.
This is what some of us are annoyed at though and what we have been saying yet we are called fickle.
Nah the fickle stuff is because as you have pointed out there was rotation up the Derby game, and yet after that game, and those previous, the forum was full of
'we're gonna win the league'
'we're top of the league'
'..i showed the bitters/scum the league table at work, and let them have it!'
But i don't remember seeing posts complaining about the rotation that had occurred, there was no concern, where were the anti-rotationalists when Gerrard was brought back into a side that had won so well previously without him? infact there has been a thread which advocated rotation for the Brum game, which Rafa didn't do.
BUT two draws, and apparently the league challenge is doomed, calls for sack Rafa, and the easy stick to beat Rafa with....Rotation, is brought out. An argument that shows a real lack of consideration, there couldn't be another reason, because that would take more than 15 seconds of thinking. Thats where i guess the fickle jibes come from.
Now that does not make me and others, 'rose tinted', IMHO Rafa made some mistakes in the selection of players for Portsmouth, but nonetheless a point from there is OK, they will take many decent scalps. The team for Birmingham was good enough to win, and to those that believe it wasn't, then you cannot expect to win any games if Torres is ever injured. My concern was in Rafas comments regarding Birminghams tactics, we seemed to be more concerned with them, and it should be the other way round.
The strange thing is that the players have come in for very little stick, so i guess not only did Rafa pick the wrong team and tactics, but he also managed to create very little, not dribble very well and pass poorly.