Quote: ThePrinter "The moral high ground of not picking players or players putting their hand up to play if they need a jab sounds all well and good AND easy when it's not your job and you aren't judge don't based on results so anybody saying they've wouldn't do it I take with a pinch of salt. Very easy to forget that 3rd game in was the WCC and if he wanted to play him in that big game they might've felt he'd be better having some SL action before.'"
Big difference between playing hurt players, and playing players who are at risk of permanently damaging their bodies. Sutcliffe clearly was medically fit to play so the question is more on the lines of should the coach protect a younger player more and not throw him in before he is ready.
However there have been far too many examples of Mac playing players when there is a risk, McGuire this season being the most recent example. He should protect his players more.
