As pointed out below by Dave W we now have an issue with Pontus - without him
in the team our defence goes from rock solid - him and Bartley are a great
partnership- to one with at least one mistake in it. Cooper is so mistake prone
and causes the other defenders problems and affects their and the fans
confidence.
I really cannot see us winning the play offs without Pontus in the team. That
means he must play Monday and must get booked (and so miss the other 3 games) -
then we can play Ayling at centre back with Taylor and Berardi at full back -
that should be solid enough to prevent losing at Burton and Wigan and beat
Norwich , and that should get us in the play offs and a fit and rested Pontus
can come back in.
Knowing our luck the FL will decide that Pontus booking on Monday is 'illegal'
and give him a 6 match man. Does anyone know what happened to the 2 spanish
club (?) players who deliberately got booked so they could play in the Champs
League final ?
I do think in some ways the rules should be changed so the ban does not count
for the play offs but goes into the next season ? Although the play offs should
be an embarrassment played behind closed doors in the dark , two teams not good
enough for the top two, the FL have made it into a real cup final type game, at
Wembley with fireworks and a band etc (I was well annoyed pre Doncaster with
the razzmatazz around the game and then to get a trophy - what is that all
about ?) So this makes it a really big memorable game in the minds of the
players and one, like a cup final, they want to play in
Dave
.
Only downside is the Pontus booking. Now one booking from a 3 game ban. How to
handle that one becomes ever trickier.
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