Originally Posted by wallis
I cant understand the last couple of posts criticising the gameplan.
Kerr played 4-5-1 as an experiment to see how we could cope. If you play 4-5-1 then logically only one player can go up front so he cant play Morrison AND Elliot ? Thats what friendlies are for..changing teams and tactics. He moved JOS to centre mid rather than bring on another midfielder to see how JOS would cope in that system.
"finnan should have played 90 minutes" - yes, Im sure Rafa Benitez spoke to Kerr and said 'listen I know he has already played 7 competitive matches in four weeks -dont worry about it , give him another 90." - do me a favour !
We had a number of players out there last night who may not play again before France because of their club situations (Clinton, Miller, S Reid, Harte, ) so they have to take preference over players like Elliot who will play.
Im sure Kerr would have brought Elliot on if he could but I would think his main aim was to allow Morrison as much time as possible in the hope he would get a goal. If CM doesnt get a transfer in the next week that could be his last competitive game before France. We already know what Elliot is capable off and he needs no help with his confidence but I think if he had brought CM off for Elliot, Clinton would have been really disappointed.
We tried a system , it didnt work too well but we learn from the mistakes (expecially at the back). But there were a lot of positives in the performances of Given/Kilbane/Morrison/Elliots 15 mins/JOS/Duff/OBrien
