Quotevery goodOriginally Posted by Metrostars
McCarthy drops 10 players for Man Utd and everyone is up in arms about it and then he drops 9 players for the Burnley game and nobody is complaining about that.....
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Its really not that complicated!!!
Liverpool away on the 26th, Man City home on the 28th, I wonder if McCarthy will put the reserves out for one or perhaps both of these games and save the first team for the banana-skin cup tie at Prenton Park on the 3rd.... he could just take the reserves up to Anfield on Boxing Day and leave them in a travelodge for a few days until the Tranmere game...
I doubt he cares about the cup, more likely to play the reserves in that game, survival is the name of the game for Bear Grylls McCarthy
He might only need the reserves on the 26th the way Liverpool are playing latelyLiverpool away on the 26th, Man City home on the 28th, I wonder if McCarthy will put the reserves out for one or perhaps both of these games and save the first team for the banana-skin cup tie at Prenton Park on the 3rd.... he could just take the reserves up to Anfield on Boxing Day and leave them in a travelodge for a few days until the Tranmere game...
Wolves should risk the under 12s team!!!
Leeds, a Division One side, wins at Old T. Hmmmmm.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
ah but Leeds are a top flight club in the naughty boys corner on a time out -and anyway Sir Alex gets a carte blanche on these matters. Looking over the rim of my (white) rose tinted specs for a sec it was worrying to witness how little of a grip of the game Darron Gibson got the other day. Mickey Doyle playing a full two divisions below would've impressed Trap more I daresay had he been there.
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You can't be serious about the part in bold. How many of the Leeds players have you heard of - besides Beckford and maybe Michael Doyle cause he's Irish?
It really does show how idiotic McCarthy was when he forfeited the game against United. The United team that started against Leeds was stonger than the one that played Wolves with the injured players back.
His point is that Leeds are a bigger club than their current division would suggest. Leeds going to Old Trafford and winning is nowhere as big a shock as any of the other League One sides doing so.
Spot on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...rs/8521603.stm
I think this is a terrible decision. At least, McCarthy wants to move on but it is definitely the wrong message to send out, imo: big teams can squad rotate but small teams can't.
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Agreed. Its a fairly small punishment but its the fact that the likes of united and liverpool and others have done this in the past and got away with it. If the Premier League board are to follow up on this and punish all clubs who commit a similar offence then fair enough but only time will tell. At the moment it just seems like picking on the smaller clubs.
Last edited by GalwayRed; 18/02/2010 at 6:36 PM.
As a Man Utd fan... this precedent won't extend to the top teams. But we should probably avoid blowing it out of proportion - 25 grand is a nothing fine to a side like Wolves, and even so it's suspended. It's as lenient as they could have been, considering it was a nothing charge to begin with.
I think the decision to fine Wolves was a disgrace (suspended or not). 1 rule for the big four and sod the rest.
Not sure any of the "big four" has ever made 10 changes for a Premier league game. I still think it was the wrong decision by McCarthy (is he going to do the same against Chelsea?) from a football point of view but the fine is a nonsense. Either deduct points or do nothing - £25k is a joke and not a deterrent.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Man Utd against Hull last season! Last game of the season and Hull needed to equal Newcastle's result to stay up. Gibson scored a screamer to win the game and luckily for Hull Duffer scored an own goal (cannot remember who it was against) which meant Hull stayed up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...chester-united
"The board considered submissions from Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and had sympathy for the explanation submitted by the club in relation to similar cases from previous seasons. However the board ruled that this case could be differentiated from the other matches cited and that disciplinary action was warranted."
as opposed to
http://sports.rediff.com/report/2009...am-vs-hull.htm
Manchester United have every right to field a weakened team against Hull City on Sunday even though it could have an impact on the relegation battle, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has said.
"You have to be realistic: they've got a squad, and therefore you can't argue that they deploy the benefit of that squad in a game on Sunday."
Even though it's a suspended fine the hypocrisy is staggering
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