Sandy Pate Best Stag wrote:Broomo
We did well today against a very poor Barrow side who have just fallen to their 4th successive defeat. We were down to the bare bones and had a goalkeeping coach as a named substitute. Off the top of my head at least two of our defenders picked up bookings (for preventing breakaway runs) and Clarke was extremely fortunate not to get sent off.
We have once more picked up injuries to a central defender and even you must admit we are quickly running out of options.
You appear to be either totally missing the point or being deliberately obstinate that the squad cannot keep missing this amount of players particularly when all of the bookings start to lead to suspensions. We are only 12 games into the season and can’t put a full bench out and not for the first time. As the weather deteriorates, I’m sure our injury list will get longer.
We are nowhere near the end of the season and the effect of our shortcomings has barely had an opportunity to materialise yet. I still firmly believe that they will.
Come on here and crow when you are proven correct but at the moment, judging by the state of our very depleted squad, I don’t think you will be waking many up early in the mornings.
I'm not sure why you bother, but the vast majority of Stags fans will I'm sure agree with all that. It is entirely possible that next week if Macca isn't fit we'll have to change formation and play a right back at left back (as we did today) or play a right sided forward at left wing back. Add to that we have already failed to fill the bench once and today had 2 keepers on the bench, it is even clearer than it was at the end of the window that the squad is too small, probably by 3 players. Of course our non-stags fan won't hear of it as it is a criticism of the manager.