For me the time for rotation has ended unless it needs to be for injury/fatigue. Play your best 11
Ross
Banks Cooper Baines Jones
Osbourne Wilson
Mooney CCC Newby
Linney
Kosylo, Angus, Hancox, Roscoe, Donowa
Massive game, won't be easy but win needed.
I wonder if anyone on this forum has ever said 'I'm in favour of us rotating the squad for this game'? For a meaningful game, that is. Every manager in professional football pretty much believes in squad rotation but us fans don't seem to share that view.
If we weren't severely weakening the team by rotation, most on here would favour it. The brutal truth is that that's not the case.
Our next step should be to have a larger squad to be able to do this but at the moment we really should be playing our first choice till games are won and then subbing key players like we did last night.
Every game from now is vital and we can't afford to tinker.
That's it, it's not rocket science is it - get the game won like we did the other night, then withdraw key players.
One contradiction of the management team's approach is claiming rotation from the start is necessary due to fatigue, and yet they often make changes so bloody late in the game meaning everyone goes (almost) to the full 90.
I think we can probably get away with rotating the wingers a bit more than the spine, and at the moment Dan Mooney is chipping in with his own contribution - albeit he's still as wasteful as he was in his first spell!