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Only thing I can think is because he's part of the 'leadership group' and he may kick up a fuss if Osula starts getting his minutes Seems the coaching setup are a bit blinded by loyalty with Wilson

I guess he could have calmed them down a bit but I'm not sure he'd have made much difference. It's not like we played any different to how we would have if Howe was there and he can't magically produce a better subs bench than we had yesterday. Just think we can say we were beaten by the better team

What do you think Howe would have done differently out of interest?

Would happily just take any sort of win against Ipswich

A Delap red tomorrow would be canny

Thought Bruno was lucky not to be booked before he eventually did get a yellow

When in the last 3 games should we have rotated? Who would you have played instead of who? I thought we looked tired in the second half but I'm struggling to think of how we could have done much more in the last few games. They're all must win games, we can't just drop our poor subs like Longstaff into games like this one or Palace or Man Utd We took our best players off in the previous 3 games when the games been won

When should we have rotated then? We've been taking off our best players when we've won the game in all previous matches. And it nearly came to hurt us against Forest You're delusional if you think you can just drop Longstaff into the team at the moment and it not to disrupt the patterns of play which have won us 6 games in a row

You keep saying we should have rotated and rested players but you don't seem to appreciate that the players on the bench are either shite or completely out of form We can't put players like Digne, Onana, Rashford and Ramsay on the bench. It's easy to say "oh we should have rotated" after a loss but there was no mention of that before the game and you're completely overrating the players we do have on our bench

What?

I thought Isak looked tired, would anyone have played Wilson, Osula or Gordon instead of him?

When was the last time Longstaff played well? You've stated that Longstaff could have started today - you can't tell me if one of Bruno, Tonali or Joelinton were on the bench for Longstaff before the game that you and everyone else would have been happy. Throwing in 3 or 4 completely out of form players against Villa away seems completely ridiculous to me I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. We should have rotated but the only options you're giving me are players who have been poor for a number of games

They didn't play their usual comedy high line sadly so looks like Emery has learnt from our previous games against them

I'm not being smug - you've been on here long enough to know if we put a teamsheet out with Willock, Miley, Longstaff, Krafth, Osula on it then it would have been criticised. There were no suggestions to play Longstaff before the game- you know we've played the same team for 6 or 7 games in a row now, how can you have no idea about us potentially being knackered as if it was common sense that we should have rotated? Anyone suggesting we should have played Longstaff today is completely out of their mind

They sold their second choice striker for £70mil

I'm the one being weird that you think if we drafted in Krafth, Longstaff and/or Miley for this game that this place wouldn't be up in arms? Again I don't know why this wasn't mentioned before the match - most seemed happy with keeping the same team that's blown away Leicester, Man Utd and Palace easily

Surely common sense like you said we've played unchanged team for so long they're bound to be tired? Just thought you'd have mentioned it before the match rather than in hindsight

He's joking

Why are we playing players who can 'cover' for players in our biggest game of the run in? You honestly think the result would have been different had we played Longstaff today? How come you didn't say this before the match?

We only had about 11 fit players through the CL campaign as when we tried to rotate in the league we had ridiculous injuries like Barnes vs Sheff Utd or unforeseen gambling bans to our marquee signing

How come you didn't say it before kick off?

Better to lose with our best XI on paper than lose with not our best XI? Yes

You absolutely would have a problem if Bruno was benched for one of our biggest games in the run in You can play the hindisght card but this place would have been up in arms if we'd started Longstaff, Miley, Krafth for this game and lost

Who would you have dropped and who for? We've been beaten by the better team today. It happens move on. Playing Krafth, Longstaff, Miley won't have changed that

Have people completely lost their minds?