Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
Certainly not the same as EPL games.
Better than League One games? I think so, for reasons already given. (That is, the top top teams regularly play weakened sides in the Cup competitions and yet still do quite well in them. Their second string sides are very good)
But then there's the balance of course of 7 cup games v 50 third tier games for a young player over a period of 18 months or so.
Westwood was the other option when Randolph came in btw (in fact, he was given the number 1 jersey for the Euro 2016 finals, when he was somewhat surprisingly picked ahead of Forde)