Originally Posted by
laddo
Completely agree he won't care are about the armchair experts on NCM and what they think. Why should he?
My point being is you, me, anyone on here can spin any decision made by any Notts manager after the event anyway they like. Positive or negative.
If we had thrown in a youngster and lost, someone could say "well you wanted to see if the Youth players are ready and good enough for first team action" and "well Rawlinson looks fatigued so at least he gets a much needed rest" and we can both have a very good guess at the likely replies to those comments.
We had drawn and lost the previous two games, maybe he just wanted to give himself the best chance of making sure we won the game and therefore didn't go with youth.
Football management is easy after the event, and when you assume an alternative choice not selected would automatically work. That's a huge assumption often made on here.