If it wasn't for the replay against Oldham, our players have literally one game a week from now on, why on earth they would feel fatigued with that is way beyond me, that just should not factor at all now, maybe for the likes of Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea who are in the Europa league, but certainly not us.
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Fatigue is not the factor. They are not playing as a team on the pitch as they were at the start of the season and they need to get that spirit and steely menatal attitude back from the start of the season.
Do you think the fact that their manager openly doesn't want to be here might be part of the reason they've lost that?
bluebottle
Player Valuation: £35m
In fairness, you could cite several reasons for dips in form, each one perfectly viable.
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
What did I miss?
Come on, mate. You know what I'm referring to.
billycopper
Player Valuation: £40m
If Moyes' contract situation was an issue I'd have expected it to affect the whole season and not just the second half. I think he's actually trying to use it as motivation, saying to the players 'show me that we haven't already peaked' as well as a bargaining chip to get transfer funds out of Bill.
Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
Would be nice to the views of an expert on this but when it comes to players feeling tired towards the end of the season i think people seem to misunderstand what that means sometimes. For me it doesn't mean that they can't get out of bed in the morning and even if they do they feel knackered after 5 mins of a match.
Premier League footballers need to play to the peak of their ability for every minute of every game, and to do that you need to be as fit for each minute as possible, and it stands to reason that even the fittest of athletes are going to see an impact on their fitness levels the more they play.
Sure, they could easily play 50-60 games a season better than the vast majority of us, but the more games they do play the more chance that they cannot reach optimal performances for the whole game, they might lose a bot of sharpness that means they're seocnd to a ball, they might lose a second of thinking time that means they make the wrong pass.
So with that in mind yes he should make use of his squad more, they're his players he bought into the squad, he should use them. Of course Moyes has his way of doing things (sticking to the same core group of players as much as possible) and he's done pretty well. But when using a small group of players the tiredness explained above has to become a factor, we do have a habit of having 2 very differing halfs of seasons.
We have had games in the last year where we could have subbed certain regulars off when winning relatively comfortably. As much as we'd love to be 8-0 up at half time it doesn't happen like that but we have had games where we've had 2-3 goal leads, players could of been rested then, players can be rested for odd games against lower opposition without compromising the team.
It can be done but i think its a case of Moyes doesn't want to rather than he can't.
Premier League footballers need to play to the peak of their ability for every minute of every game, and to do that you need to be as fit for each minute as possible, and it stands to reason that even the fittest of athletes are going to see an impact on their fitness levels the more they play.
Sure, they could easily play 50-60 games a season better than the vast majority of us, but the more games they do play the more chance that they cannot reach optimal performances for the whole game, they might lose a bot of sharpness that means they're seocnd to a ball, they might lose a second of thinking time that means they make the wrong pass.
So with that in mind yes he should make use of his squad more, they're his players he bought into the squad, he should use them. Of course Moyes has his way of doing things (sticking to the same core group of players as much as possible) and he's done pretty well. But when using a small group of players the tiredness explained above has to become a factor, we do have a habit of having 2 very differing halfs of seasons.
We have had games in the last year where we could have subbed certain regulars off when winning relatively comfortably. As much as we'd love to be 8-0 up at half time it doesn't happen like that but we have had games where we've had 2-3 goal leads, players could of been rested then, players can be rested for odd games against lower opposition without compromising the team.
It can be done but i think its a case of Moyes doesn't want to rather than he can't.
We need a good result in the league so I am not so sure about dropping our best players right now, other than dropping neville and putting stones in
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