davie nine":1jibjhqi said:
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jerryatricjanner":1jibjhqi said:
There is something to be said for that Postey but I'm not sure turning the clock back to play a 37 year old who has barely played in 2021 and was a number 2 in a division below is the answer. We might get away with it in the very short term but that's about it and it might be the immediate answer who knows?
McCormick did play 15 times for Swindon last season.
By all accounts McCormick was brought back to nurture Cooper's development and I think this is the exact time to do just that and take him out of the firing line.
Cooper shouldn't be treated like a delicate flower but as a first team player who can be rested at certain times through the season just as other player are.
Let's not forget that one of the leading scorers in League One was rested for the first half yesterday.
I think that dropping him would be ‘treating him like a delicate flower’. Apart from an obvious error that resulted in their second goal, I don’t believe he was directly responsible for the other 4 goals. The first took a deflection off Aimson, the third, which may have been offside, left him badly exposed, for the fourth, he was let down by a static defence that did not challenge the header from a free kick and the fifth was hit powerfully on the half volley after our defender’s ‘clearance’ put the ball into the danger area.
What would McCormick or Palmer, come to that, have done better to prevent those 4 goals?
RL should show his confidence in Mike Cooper by keeping him in the team on Tuesday.