Have we ever had a stronger bench than yesterday?

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Assuming we had everyone fit, then our bench would probably be:
Mannone
O'Shea
Manquillo
Denayer
Larsson
Watmore
Januzaj

with
Cattermole
Rodwell
McNair
Gooch
Khazri
Love
Mika

in the stands

Assuming a first XI of

Pickford
Jones Kone Djilibodji VanAanholt
Kirchoff Pienaar N'Dong
Borini Defoe Anichebe
Cattermole walks straight into the team.
 


too be honest I like Mannone

he has had his ups and down

but seams genuinely committed to the club

hopefully with us for another five year with some games reasonable regularly

and if we lose pickford for big money

step straight back in without much fuss

a great clubman is vito
 
Assuming we had everyone fit, then our bench would probably be:
Mannone
O'Shea
Manquillo
Denayer
Larsson
Watmore
Januzaj

with
Cattermole
Rodwell
McNair
Gooch
Khazri
Love
Mika

in the stands

Assuming a first XI of

Pickford
Jones Kone Djilibodji VanAanholt
Kirchoff Pienaar N'Dong
Borini Defoe Anichebe

Didn't realise that like the Skunks, we too have two players for every position -thought we were light in numbers, but defo aren't.
We are however - like the Skunks, light on quality, and unlike the ch'ship, you can't get away with that for too long in the unforgiving PL .
 
I know. Larsson won over due to his set pieces. As much as I love Lee Barry, it's time we moved on

Time we move on from Cattermole but you put larsson in there :lol:

No way Pienaar was brought in as anything but back up anarl. Cattermole would start and so he should.
 
Assuming we had everyone fit, then our bench would probably be:
Mannone
O'Shea
Manquillo
Denayer
Larsson
Watmore
Januzaj

with
Cattermole
Rodwell
McNair
Gooch
Khazri
Love
Mika

in the stands

Assuming a first XI of

Pickford
Jones Kone Djilibodji VanAanholt
Kirchoff Pienaar N'Dong
Borini Defoe Anichebe
What?
 
Assuming we had everyone fit, then our bench would probably be:
Mannone
O'Shea
Manquillo
Denayer
Larsson
Watmore
Januzaj

with
Cattermole
Rodwell
McNair
Gooch
Khazri
Love
Mika


in the stands

Assuming a first XI of

Pickford
Jones Kone Djilibodji VanAanholt
Kirchoff Pienaar N'Dong
Borini Defoe Anichebe
 
Assuming we had everyone fit, then our bench would probably be:
Mannone
O'Shea
Manquillo
Denayer
Larsson
Watmore
Januzaj

with
Cattermole
Rodwell
McNair
Gooch
Khazri
Love
Mika


in the stands

Assuming a first XI of

Pickford
Jones Kone Djilibodji VanAanholt
Kirchoff Pienaar N'Dong
Borini Defoe Anichebe

Cattermole is the best centre mid at the club

I expect you will post laughing smilies but never mind
 
Liverpool away in 2010 pisses over it.

Gordon
Da Silva
Colback
Riveros
Reid
Zenden
Gyan

I'd agree, but comparing bench strength is really hard out of context - if we are saying what are the best players (at each players peak) then sure, but at the time, why were they on the bench, return from injury, out of form, we just had better? If we're asking when did we turn out the strongest set of available subs for a match then I'd agree that having no striker makes the OP list probably a non-starter. Logic alone would suggest that on this latter basis it would be a Reidy PL bench in some game or other from recent times. A good bench requires a good starting eleven first by definition.
 
I'd agree, but comparing bench strength is really hard out of context - if we are saying what are the best players (at each players peak) then sure, but at the time, why were they on the bench, return from injury, out of form, we just had better? If we're asking when did we turn out the strongest set of available subs for a match then I'd agree that having no striker makes the OP list probably a non-starter. Logic alone would suggest that on this latter basis it would be a Reidy PL bench in some game or other from recent times. A good bench requires a good starting eleven first by definition.
Thank God someone said it!! I thought I was going mad, people wanting us to strengthen our bench when we've got a bottom half team out on the pitch! I'd take reidy's first eleven and 7 kids on the bench over a Mick McCarthy 11 and 7 established internationals keeping warm on the sideline
 
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