- Oct 2, 2004
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Again I understand that instinct but the league is more important and at this stage any more injuries to key players would be catastrophic to our season as a whole.It’s 9 days before the United game, and we have a 2 week gap after the United game. Would be ridiculous to throw away another trophy chance in the circumstances
I get that people won't agree because of the desperation for a trophy but I think we need to look slightly longer term.
Apart from giving some key players a rest after a horribly busy December, it would also give us the chance to blood some younger players and give them some competitive match minutes.
I suspect Burnley will rest a few players as well so I think we should still have too much for them.
Plus we'd have the first teamers on the bench anyway if we needed them.