Hope we see some 2nd tier players to get a run tonight as appreciation for their work in training. Sad to see Davilla go, great player, so good to watch, will be a nightmare to play againts him. Talay will find a replacement for Uli, there are more good players out there.
A must win!
I have noticed that Ufuk doesn’t do much rotation with players, there never seems to be many changes, if any, to lineups, and he also seems to leave substitutions late. I can’t really remember him using all 5 substitutes, at most 3 and always quite late. In the last 10 games Ridenton (0), Hudson-Wihongi (0), Muratovic (0), McGing (0), Lokoli-Ngoy (24) and Rufer (169) have played collectively 0.03% of available minutes. The only real time I remember Ufuk doing proper rotation and surprising with lineups was after the restart last season, and we saw that Callan Elliot, who likely would have not been given a run, was a revelation and ended being someone we didn’t want to see leave.
Game on 15th March against WSW (that exciting 4-3 loss) Talay made a host of changes from the game prior. Including Waine's first start this season, Hemed's first appearance, Rufer as a RB (Fenton suspended?).
From memory was part freshen up/rotation (Nix were travelling alot), and part mixing things up/trying something different.