Cocu playing games

[Dcfcsr92]

Is it me does anybody else think cocu playing games with Mel to make him buy a few attacking players ie only having a half fit Rooney as a attacking player on the bench Saturday and putting wisdom up top vs barrow? Is it me or is he just playing games as surely we would have a u23 on the bench 

[ilkleyram]

2 minutes ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Is it me does anybody else think cocu playing games with Mel to make him buy a few attacking players ie only having a half fit Rooney as a attacking player on the bench Saturday and putting wisdom up top vs barrow? Is it me or is he just playing games as surely we would have a u23 on the bench 

It’s you

[Dcfcsr92]

Just now, ilkleyram said:

It’s you

Why wouldn't you put attacking player from the u23 is we were that short when you put a defensive u23 in brown on the bench? 

[RadioactiveWaste]

I tink Wisdom v Barrow might have been a bit pointed.

[europia]

I get the impression that Philip Cocu is his own man and quite capable of knocking on the chairmans door and putting his case forward. 

[GenBr]

We already have half the u23 squad in the first team. I assume, and I know it's an outlandish theory, that the rest of the U23's have probably been assessed and found to be not quite ready for first team action yet.

[Archied]

22 minutes ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Is it me does anybody else think cocu playing games with Mel to make him buy a few attacking players ie only having a half fit Rooney as a attacking player on the bench Saturday and putting wisdom up top vs barrow? Is it me or is he just playing games as surely we would have a u23 on the bench 

Would a bench full of u 23 s who have never played in the first team not have made the same point?

[Tyler Durden]

If Cocu's ploy is to force Mel to buy a few attacking players as you put it then it's patently failing. 

[Wolfie20]

Just now, Tyler Durden said:

If Cocu's ploy is to force Mel to buy a few attacking players as you put it then it's patently failing. 

That's a reasonable assumption if the window was closed but there's still 3 and potentially over 4 weeks left

[LazloW]

We really need to bring back the ? and/or ?‍♂️ reactions.

[Tyler Durden]

4 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

That's a reasonable assumption if the window was closed but there's still 3 and potentially over 4 weeks left

Take your point. Still don't think he's playing games though. Or the drones would have been out already at Moor Farm.

[Millenniumram]

I had similar thoughts when he threw the U12s on second half against West Brom last season. Think it was more justified then though, after not getting the January signings he wanted. The sounds coming out the club make it seem like he’s being backed this window, so I don’t know what point he’d be making - other than hurry up I suppose!

[Day]

Managers have always been backed, this is not a club where the manager needs to prove any points to show our weaknesses.

We’ve been under a soft embargo, that has delayed us from moving in the market and I’m sure Cocu has been made well aware of the situation.

I really don’t see any games being played.

[sage]

2 hours ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Is it me does anybody else think cocu playing games with Mel to make him buy a few attacking players ie only having a half fit Rooney as a attacking player on the bench Saturday and putting wisdom up top vs barrow? Is it me or is he just playing games as surely we would have a u23 on the bench 

Perhaps we could all protest at this game playing by rioting in poo costumes outside the ground. 

[IslandExile]

2 hours ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

putting wisdom up top vs barrow

Wisdom came on in the 85th minute.

It's not the first time that a big defender has been thrown up front in the last few minutes of a game to try and nick a goal.

[Jourdan]

Cocu on the touchline tomorrow night:

[Ghost of Clough]

9 hours ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Is it me does anybody else think cocu playing games with Mel to make him buy a few attacking players ie only having a half fit Rooney as a attacking player on the bench Saturday and putting wisdom up top vs barrow? Is it me or is he just playing games as surely we would have a u23 on the bench 

The alternatives? We already had Bird, Knight, Sibley and Whittaker starting in the midfield areas with JBrown on the bench. We already knew Wisdom wouldn't last the game so that's one of the 3 subs accounted for (Byrne). Rooney was an obvious sub as well. We'd be very close to putting an U23 player on the bench just to make the bench "look more attacking"., despite no intent to field that player.

The youth sides are also stretched, with 15 year olds in the U18 squad and 16/17 year olds in the U23s. Why take a player away from playing a game if he (and the youth sides) are going to be worse off for it?

I keep saying this but we have Bielik, Holmes, Lawrence, Waghorn, Jozwiak and another forward still to add to this current squad. With everyone fully fit, you'd expect those 6 to be playing in every game - either from the start, or coming off the bench. Cocu won't be panicking, as he'll know his best forward players are currently missing. He'll be frustrated that luck seems to be constantly against him, but he absolutely would not be "playing games with Mel".

[Dcfcsr92]

13 hours ago, Archied said:

Would a bench full of u 23 s who have never played in the first team not have made the same point?

Not really when we have a million defensive players