Quote: jonh "My issue is with the fatigue management.
Ellis is a great player, but he is clearly struggling.
We send Eseh on loan and play Hill in the reserves.
Mago and Byrne played limited minutes…yet we one again batter out middles and give them 2 hardly any minutes.
If that chase by Keighran is him in full flight it’s a concern, if he’s carrying a knock why the hell does he start when we have Eckersley on the bench.
Some whoppers can have a pop at the ref.
This situation though is fully of our own making in my option with very poor use of the squad we have available.'"
We monitor our players scientifically so we know how fatigued they are. Sooner or later our schedule was bound to catch up with us, it did today. In my view, and I know it is easy to be clever after the event, we should have rested the likes of Thompson, Havard, Farrell and Ellis. We need those four firing on all cylinders when it matters. Dupree, Eseh, Chan and Hill should have been in our 17 along with Byrne and Mago who have both played limited minutes.