Feck_the_Huns
13-08-2017, 05:47 PM
What's become evident even this early in the season is that McInnes seems to have cracked the idea of resting certain players at certain times of the season; case in point yesterday, when he rested arguably our best player so far (Christie) and last weekend and midweek with GMS and Stewart, to no obvious detriment in overall performance.
4 games in 9 days was always going to be tough and its obviously down to having a far deeper squad that had allowed McInnes to do this. No "squad players" signed this summer; just 7 lads who can all claim to be first team picks if required.
You'd imagine he'd be going with more or less the same back 4 and defensive midfield 2 every week but it's the forward 4 that we now have massive scope to mix and match and rest whoever needs it.
Cast your mind back to the last few seasons and its been more or less the same 11 thrashed into the ground week in week out, and any time the manager did fcuk about with squad rotation, it backfired massively due to Stockley, Parker, Burns etc etc simply not being up to scratch.
Exciting times ahead, and we still have Arnie and Rooney to add to the mix.
4 games in 9 days was always going to be tough and its obviously down to having a far deeper squad that had allowed McInnes to do this. No "squad players" signed this summer; just 7 lads who can all claim to be first team picks if required.
You'd imagine he'd be going with more or less the same back 4 and defensive midfield 2 every week but it's the forward 4 that we now have massive scope to mix and match and rest whoever needs it.
Cast your mind back to the last few seasons and its been more or less the same 11 thrashed into the ground week in week out, and any time the manager did fcuk about with squad rotation, it backfired massively due to Stockley, Parker, Burns etc etc simply not being up to scratch.
Exciting times ahead, and we still have Arnie and Rooney to add to the mix.