tickler28

No meltdown with me should we lose to Brentford so long as it's a reserve/youth team gives us a get out

Play a mix of reserves (Albrighton, Gray, Justin, Ward) and youth players for this one I'm afraid......1 match to many I'm afraid.

I'm gonna put it out there that we are not as bad as 4 losses out of 6 nor as good as 8 wins in a row and probably are a top 6 side this season and no more.

That's unfair I thought he actually played well

We're just not as good as people thought we were...our league position flatters us.....think well soon be out of top 4.

Getting battered here buddy.....it's only my opinion people don't have to agree with me.

Every match you hope for the best......today's performance and tactics were not far from hoping for the best....seemed Soton had a game plan.....what was ours?

Because they saw winning the Club cup as more important (money dictated that decision) because I don't think the World Club Cup is anything more than an exhibition tournament

Play a mainly second string side v Brentford and hope for the best.

Not as bad as when people call it the Mickey Mouse Cup tbf

Now maybe.....come the end of the season it could come back to haunt us is all I'm saying

Liverpool played a youth team v a full Everton side and still won!!! Often a mainly reserve team in the Carabao Cup means players are fresh and have something to prove.

Didn't say we shouldn't chase trophies just that we should do that with a reasonable amount of reserve players included....that way the first team players are fresh for the matches that do matter

Still think it's impacted us in the league and contributed to us dropping vital points

Are you mad???!?! Champions League place is worth £40 million plus Champions League compared to £200k plus poxey Europa League?!?!

Why?

Everyones entitled to their opinion...I'd sack off the Caravan Cup now if it gave us 3 points in the league

Previous thread was closed....perhaps because it pains people to admit I'm right. We simply do not have enough depth in our squad to play a strong team in the Caravan Cup and expect to win at the weekend. Right now we need to concentrate on getting points to stay in the top 4. If it gets to the end of the season and we've exerted effort to do as well as we can in the cup and it's cost us the difference between 4th and 5th we are going to look very very silly. Top 4 trump's the cups by a million miles. I'm not saying we play a complete reserve side in the cup but we should have been giving our star players a break....Vardy should have been tested mid week for Nacho....Mendy should have played (since he's done well lately) Albrighton should have started since he didn't play at all today...likewise Justin to give Ricardo a break. Go ahead and shoot me down but despite being lombasted before I still stick to what I said. Things are fine now but come the end of the season if they're not by the narrowest of margins.....cup exploits will 100% have had some influence on this.

No Chilwell is crap tbf

Horrendous performance.....dare I say that our efforts in the Carabao Cup may be catching up with us.....prize money for winning Carabao Cup £200,000 and a place in the Europa League.....Top 4 is worth £40 million plus Champs league....I'd sacrifice a Carabao cup win for 3 points any day of the week

Tielemans for Barnes and Justin for Chilwell need to be the subs.

I'm just slagging off Chilwell and I make no f##ing apologies for it...sorry if that offends

Chilwell is really winding me up here....inept

Where's Fuchs?!?! Chilwell needs taking off here

Fuchs injured or dropped completely?