just to pour some cold piss on this carroll scored 2 goals in the reserves and shearer played shola instead of him next game
edgar got a game through injury only as far as i can see and carroll came on against stoke 'cause shola was on the brink of being arrested he was so bad
what i want to see is shearer recognise that duff, smith, butt & shola are simply f***ing terrible and THEY are the ones who should only be played as a last resort - a great manager will find a solution, i hope he can 'cause i've said all along if our future remains in the hands of said "established" players we'll go down and i stand by that
does anyone truly believe shearer will take owen off and give ranger a run out 'cause he's performing in the reserves? i'm so sick of reactive management at NUFC - it's time for some proactivity man ffs
instead of giving the first teamers a "red hot poker" by threatening their place take the f***ing place from them first and make them fight for it, alls half of them care about is money anyways so maybe they'd make an effort if appearance fees came under question
play the bairns man
If this was two months ago I'd agree with you 100% but you have to factor in the situation we are in. Not many people would chuck a bunch of kids into a relegation battle where one bad result could be a disaster. Shearer might be playing youngsters because he's got no choice but I get the impression both he and Dowie are very keen on pushing the development of the kids much quicker than previously.
you can't win anything with kids can you?