Must admit I am concerned, is Shelvey a bit young to be starting every game, and are some of the senior players carrying injuries and need a rest?
Perhaps Southampton are a stronger side than their results would suggest?
I can see the value in starting the same 11 - its great we've been able to do so, but perhaps now is time to give the odd player a rest?
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They can't be that tired - they've only played 7 games (8 if you include the Hereford game). During the 90s we probably had a couple of ever presents every season.
Don't rest them before they need a rest.
Injuries, suspensions, JPT and loss of form will give some of the squad a rest at some point so lets wait till then
If we are storming then the easier games will see players rested but if we arent I think they will have to soldier on.
This team seems to be feeding off confidence at the mo, rest a few players and start dropping points unexpectedly and who knows what could happen. Still think we need to get a qtr of the season out of the way before starting to think about rests.
these guys are professionals who do nothing each week except train for a few hours three or four mornings a week then should be resting in the afternoons
once two games a week kicks in next month then yes Parky will need to start using some of his squad members but surely for the next 2 games it should be the same starting XI if they are all fit?
The great thing with winning is it is felt by the whole squad, not just the starting 11. So when changes are made, the mentality of success is already there in the players coming in.
The players coming in would not want to let down the others by being the reason for failure ( if that were to be the outcome of said changes made), and would work harder than usual to not want to let down those 11 that have put together such a sequence of wins. Success breads success Gents, and I feel when the changes are made, the wheels wont fall off. I hope!!! :)
Sodje should be great at League 1 level so have no probs with him replacing someone for a while and we also have Leon McKenzie coming back to fitness so he could slot in on the left with Bailey in the Shelvey role or vice versa.
Maybe in the JP someone will stake a claim... Dickson?
Interesting comment re Dailly from Scott Minto, who was doing co commentary for Sky on the Brentford game. Mints said that Dailly (as an ex West Ham teamate) was one of the fittest players in British football and that he had a real passion for the game - Mints reckoned he was a cert to go on playing until he was 38 or 39 at least. Centre back is also a less demanding position fitness wise (not like an overlapping full back or box to box midfielder) so he might play more games than we might first expect.
I do think we need to keep one eye on protecting Jonjo a bit - perhaps a few more second half cameos from Izzy and/or Tuna are in order but with the current game a week schedule the rest of the senior pros should be okay. We do need to be a bit creful with selections for cup games though - although the Hereford defeat sorted one part of that dilema for us.
The only thing that may be worth doing is making a sub slightly earlier (ie Mcleod on), to give short rests to the likes of Burton & JJ who are doing so much of the running for the team.
Don't rest them before they need a rest.
Injuries, suspensions, JPT and loss of form will give some of the squad a rest at some point so lets wait till then[/quote]
Disagree, rest players before they burn out, plus rotating the squad around will make sure that some of those on the bench who are playing reserve football are up to match speed when they are needed and not struggling to fit in if they are called up at short notice.
6 or 7 games a month like Man Utd, Chelsea Etc maybe, but if I was Shelvey and they 'rested'/deprived me of my 90 minutes at the cutting edge I'd be livid.
6 or 7 games a month like Man Utd, Chelsea Etc maybe, but if I was Shelvey and they 'rested'/deprived me of my 90 minutes at the cutting edge I'd be livid.[/quote]
Shelvey won't be much use to us if he's sat in the stands from March/April onwards because he has a few stupid niggles from being overplayed. He'll play a lot of football this season for us - plus England age-group matches and there's a lot of training and travelling involved in those games. The smart thing would be to rest him to make sure that we don't fade away after Easter.
I always feel that with 10 mins left a couple of subs should be introduced so as to take advantage of their fresh legs and this just may be enough to gain an extra yard over a tiring defender -
This might well be the case in a couple of weeks - with McKenzie and holden still not match fit Parky's options are limited and he may well have felt a 70% Bailey was at least equal if not greater than a Basey or a Wagstaff out of position.
He doesn't rest at all - i think he takes a month off every year at the end of the season, but he has access to top class nutritionists, psychologists & physiotherapists. He also sleeps for several hours a day after training.
I would argue that any player that needs to rest after 1 or 2 games a week, has an underlying fitness issue & should not be playing in the first place. The only argument i could see for resting a player is one coming back from injury or a much older player with dodgy joints.
Team for JP v Barnet: Randolph, Solly, Sodje, Llera, Youga, Wagstaff, Semedo, Racon, Basey, McLeod, Tuna/McKenzie
I'm afraid 6 of the starting XI in the JPT have to have appeared (or started, can't remember) in at least 50% of our matches. So unless Waggy gets involved a couple more times or we change the team a bit, we'll get thrown out with that lineup
I think if it was someone like Tranmere or Exeter then he may well have been rested.
As Henry pointed out, injures and suspensions wll take their toll soon enough. So let's enjoy the luxury of a settled side while we can, eh?
To be fair thats a completely different sport, and very different in way of fitness. He doesn't do little short sprints at full pace throughout his race and doesn't have people slide tackling him, he's not streching up to make an header or at full stretch to get his toe to the ball . I struggle to see what they have in common. I do think that unless injured most players should only just be reaching their peak fitness since the start of the season. So to rest them now would not make to much sense.