Wenger & Rotation

[El Jefecito]

nah...

Help me man!

[kopdan]

kiss Syd

[Parm]

If Rafa wins us games, he doesnt generally get stick.

well he did when we beat Everton. If it's not rotation then it's what happens to SG and where he is played/if he is subbed/picks his nose.

[El Jefecito]

kiss Syd

Slips into tutu and mutters '**** kop dan he has a saggy ass anyway'

[kopdan]

lol

nice avatar. He's a great player

[Parm]

To me it just seems obvious that a big team who haven't one the league for so long will be an open goal for journalists when there is not much to write about. If it wasn't rotation it would be some other perceived flaw that was magnified, the only way to reduce the criticism to an equal level to what is given to the other big teams is to win the PL.

fair point, once we win the league I'm sure Rafa will be afforded some of the same allowances Fergie and Wenger are afforded.

[Craig_H]

well he did when we beat Everton. If it's not rotation then it's what happens to SG and where he is played/if he is subbed/picks his nose.

He did and most of the pundits said words to the effect of 'Well they won, so he got it right'.

[Diego]

Because he's done it and won the league 2 or 3 times!!

yes in 10 years, and that makes him the greatest manager in the entire galaxy. FACT...

[Red Chilli]

I would like Wenger and Fergie to rotate their squad by 180 degrees

[fred_plasticine]

the thing about fergie is that he might rotate heavily but he
- "knows his best 11"
- "has a prefered strike partnership"
- "has a prefered cd partnership"
- "plays his best players when they're available"
that's why rotation is not an issue...



:whatever:

[homer1]

It's a results business, simple as that - you can make 11 changes for every game and if you win nobody will give 2 fcuks and in fairness when we win it rarely gets a mention.

Fergie said yesterday that his squad is so good now that he doesn't even know what his strongest 11 is but it was glossed over because he has proven himself as a league winner several times over - if Rafa had come out and admitted that there would have been pages and pages written about it

There was a stat floating about which indicated that Rafa made more or less the same amount of changes over the past 3 years as Fergie, Maureen & Arsene, why Rafa has the reputation for it is the others have brought in players of similar quality and got the results whereas we have brought in sub-standard players and not got the results

[spider-neil]

the thing about fergie is that he might rotate heavily but he
- "knows his best 11"
- "has a prefered strike partnership"
- "has a prefered cd partnership"
- "plays his best players when they're available"
that's why rotation is not an issue...



:whatever:

- "knows his best 11"
does his best 11 include carrick or hargraves?
does his best 11 include scholes or anderson?

- "has a prefered strike partnership"
so does rafa its just kuyt isn't any good LOL!

- "has a prefered cd partnership"
so does rafa but agger injuried

- "plays his best players when they're available"
so does rafa more often then not when fit and available, pepe/finann/arbeloa/agger/carra/gerrard/alonso/masherano so that leaves the wide positions and the striking positions, who are our best wide players?
as for the striking positions our best is torres and he has been careful with him the funny thing is when he took a chance on him v arsenal he broke down so wouldn't you say his caution was justified?

that's why rotation is not an issue...
if agger/arbeloa/alonso/torres were fit all season without a shadow of a doubt you would have seen less rotation

[Craig_H]

the thing about fergie is that he might rotate heavily but he
- "knows his best 11"
- "has a prefered strike partnership"
- "has a prefered cd partnership"
- "plays his best players when they're available"
that's why rotation is not an issue...



:whatever:

I think it's more simply that he knows how and when to 'rotate' and still win the title.

[fred_plasticine]

- "knows his best 11"
does his best 11 include carrick or hargraves?
does his best 11 include scholes or anderson?

- "has a prefered strike partnership"
so does rafa its just kuyt isn't any good LOL!

- "has a prefered cd partnership"
so does rafa but agger injuried

- "plays his best players when they're available"
so does rafa more often then not when fit and available, pepe/finann/arbeloa/agger/carra/gerrard/alonso/masherano so that leaves the wide positions and the striking positions, who are our best wide players?
as for the striking positions our best is torres and he has been careful with him the funny thing is when he took a chance on him v arsenal he broke down so wouldn't you say his caution was justified?

that's why rotation is not an issue...
if agger/arbeloa/alonso/torres were fit all season without a shadow of a doubt you would have seen less rotation

for the papers and their so called pundits the points above are the foundation to win the league - fergie sticks to them, rafa doesn't. if you repeat that countless times all that will be remember is the statement itself. true or false is not an issue here

[Craig_H]

I think it's more to do with having actually WON the league...