Not Starting
Just to wrap up, consider this. We’ve finished either 17th or 18th in League One, and yet tomorrow the following players will 100% NOT be starting the game from our squad. Obviously, Sam Long, Sean Roughan and Theo Archibald are out on loan, but our injury list is horrific, as it has been all season. However, Cohen Bramall, Liam Bridcutt, TJ Eyoma, Josh Griffiths, Ben House, Chris Maguire, Conor McGrandles, Lewis Montsma and Joe Walsh would all have likely started or been around the first team had they been fit for all 46 matches, and all will be missing tomorrow. I wonder how many, if any, of those might also have been in the last chance saloon, had they been available?
I really have enjoyed reading your comments week after week Gary, even the exasperating “played well but lost” theme of so many of them. All I ask is that Michael tries to get a good balance of age and experience and youthful ability for next season. Hard, I appreciate, with only what he can find stuffed down the back of the couch. I’ll settle for a safe mid-table end to next season with a few really good home performances on the way. Oh, and please lads, can we have a good win on Saturday against Crewe? Send us home (or to the pub) feeling good, not full of foreboding. Don’t let us down.