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I meant I thought they played their squad players to keep their match fitness up aswell as players coming back from injury, this was their side against us earlier in the season:
STOKE: Simonsen, Griffin, Cort, Higginbotham, Pugh, Soares, Arismendi, Faye, Tonge, Sidebe, Kitson. Substitutes: Parton, Cohen (for Cort), Wedderburn (for Faye), Lund, Moult (for Sidebe).
I thought this was a regular occurence