All right Patrick , you didn’t actually say he is crap. But the drift of your posts have constantly inferred he hasn’t got the wisdom to handle our complete squad ,young and old..What ! a man that has handled God knows how many players around Europe, He weighed the situation up for Franca, in a way that many a seasoned pro would do. A sensible reasoned response , of course he found it easier ten minutes of fresh legs. What he means is you are going to need 90 minutes, it’s a man’s game , Franca, did well Roy acknowledged it , Franca, will not be put off by that he will have had worse in America.. And if he was he should never be here.
This is Francas first actual stand out ten minutes, and I have seen most if not all of his minutes. He will come he has a lot of ability to develop, letting him think this ten minutes could mean the next ten will be a doddle would be a big mistake , he needs to know you are only as good as your last performance,and Roy does that.
Hodgson uses the squad he has at any one time. His only preference no matter how thin his choice is can these players get somewhere close to what I want from them. If a kid came along with ninety minutes of the sort of sheer hard work and concentration needed in this league they would play , it’s not Saturday mornings with the under fourteens.
Look Patrick ,everyone has their opinion, you’re welcome as such, that’s what these pages are for . I have made mine clear all over these pages. I wil refrain now, you keep questioning the man. I will not question you

And, yes, I accept none were started under Roy.

He is a safe pair of hands in troubled seas. He can't play youngsters unless forced as Moneyballs favours an experienced and settled team when the resources are as (relatively) low as ours.

It intrigues me what the club will do when (alright if) the Academy starts pumping through a couple of players a season. I mean - unless we get as stat savvy as Brighton and Brentford and recruit smarter - will the manager be given the brief to stay up AND bring young players on as most fans on this site seem to want. There is a tension between the two. When we have a team full of Edouards and Wards who are very good but journeymen in this division, do we really have the space to blood youth as, say a Man City could?

once again. I believe that tired legs may have cost us.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

Bang on, not just tired legs, but tired minds having to be on the back foot the whole time - it is a game of probablities as well and defending in your own third for so long has a predictable loosing outcome. Roy is not a manager for the modern game. Let's be clear, when he "rescued" us last season, it was with a run of really easy fixtures, but the season is not like that unfortunately and now his tactics do not work, especially when it comes to coaching the talented youth on our bench!

Agree completely, and the numbers are pretty damning - surely if we have any sort of sports science/data team, that sort of thing jumps off the page at them.

Eze shouldn't have been left out there for 90 minutes yesterday following his injury, and his tired tackle for the match-winning penalty shows exactly why.

Roy clearly has no faith at all in the squad players, but I view that more of a Roy problem than with the players themselves - as recently as City away Ozoh, Ahamada and Franca have all shown themselves as capable of impacting games at this level, and yet we just watch the same players run themselves into the ground game after game. He's started Hughes in the Eze role previously, so even if he doesn't trust one of the younger lads, just stick Hughes in there and see the game out.

Just baffling.

Yep, so many options to replace Eze yesterday - an argument can be made for any of Hughes, Schlupp, Ozoh or Franca, depending on what you’re trying to achieve, but to go with none is just poor game management.

A more progressive manager absolutely finds solutions in our squad - Roy seems more interested in pointing out how bad our squad is.