Quote: Jake the Peg "I know he's a tw@ but are you suggesting he's had some mystical effect on the other players meaning they've forgotten they've been training together 4 or 5 times a week for the last 8 or 9 months?'"
No. I'm suggesting that when you've had to use as many players in a season as we have it's going to be difficult to maintain consistency in training. And when you have large changes in a short space of time it's further disrupting. And when the replacement players are, by and large, not as good as the ones they replace the quality of the side drops.
Don't get me wrong - we have way too many average or poor players in the squad. But there are other significant influences on how we're playing right now.