Irrelevant
no one is suggesting that he should have played a strong team. The problem is that with the team he put out, we should have won. THATs what’s annoying.
its like getting battered by a kid 2 years below you in school, then claiming it’s all good because you could have brought a baseball bat to the fight if you had wanted to.
Is it a worthless competition that no one cares about? Yes it is.
Are we better off for being out the competition? Yes we are
Should the team we put out have lost to Burton Albion, ever? Hell bloody no.
Have a little shame and stop defending this result.
This cup was an opportunity to give our fringe players some valuable game time, and we no longer have this.
The players we put out in the league matches are better than the results suggest. The players we fielded in the cup game should have done better. There’s a common denominator here.
And you say ‘no divine right’ to turn them over?
I’d hedge a bet that ONE of our starting eleven probably cost more than that entire Burton team.