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comparing winning it back then to the potential effect of winning it now is stupid. The past 2 times we’ve won it our squad and club has been a mess and there was no long term plan, however now we have a team and squad that has been together for 3-4 years and are continually improving and growing together so I think for them just having that taste of winning and lifting a trophy could propel them to win more.
On your second point, it’s about 4 games we’d have to have won to get to the final and 3 of those could’ve been with our 2nd string which gives them more minutes and keeps them happy, then we just play our best XI in a one off final game so I completely disagree it would depleate our squad at all.
Going far in cups is down to luck of the draw, it's not as easy as simply playing a 2nd string to the final, we tried that against West Ham didn't we?