Planet Bizarro abides by the Bizarro Code, "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!" The AF puC on htraE us determined run same way.
The justification for teams putting out weakened sides is now apparently that they have such big squads that otherwise fringe players would never get a game and never make a case for themselves.
Take a player like Tendayi Darikwa, formerly of my club Chesterfield, now marooned at Burnley. Most Saturdays now he doesn't even make the bench unless there are injuries, Lowton is definite first choice and when he was out Flanagan was drafted into the position. Come the Cup, there's Tendayi getting the full ninety, three games so far and they haven't conceded, so maybe he isn't a weakness, but Lowton is playing well.
Truth be told, if it weren't for Sky making Burnley one of the world's 100 richest clubs, they couldn't afford a Tendayi. He's not contributing. Lowton could play the Cup games. Tendayi, whose record suggests he needs to play every week, could be strengthening a decent Championship team and the Championship equivalent of Tendayi (and there are lots of them) might be improving Saturday afternoons for some Division One fans. AND Burnley would be forced to offer a youth player the sniff of a first team place that might be the making of him.
But the Bizarro puC naturally is committed to devaluing itself by letting players who can't get in the team play, so they can stay where they are (in no man's land) initiating the glacial movement of trapped players throughout the game, who could enliven the experience of fans in lower divisions ...... but will only get to do so when their current club has chewed them up sufficiently, spat them out and replaced them with other innocents, who imagine noitangats is miraculously going to turn into career development.
As Tendayi hopes Burnley's cup run continues to the final and he miraculously gets the nod over both Lowton and the fringe players he is already in competition with, Chesterfield is loaning a Burnley centre back aged 23, who would be nowhere near a game, or the bench. He's come through their academy and he's nowhere to go. All those years he spent at the club since boyhood have made him what? Little more than a cigarette card in their collection - he won't give up on the first team till they kick him out and a season or two's prevarication at Sky's expense, what's that to one of the world's pot 001?
And Burnley is one of the smaller clubs in the big time ...... and probably one of the relatively good guys. It is only because they are winning cup games with the team Sean Dyche selects that they prompt my question: why do teams need such big squads that they can draft in players even from beyond their extensive fringe and devalue a cup competition, which in the past was exciting for fans of clubs playing at every level?
The justification for teams putting out weakened sides is now apparently that they have such big squads that otherwise fringe players would never get a game and never make a case for themselves.
Take a player like Tendayi Darikwa, formerly of my club Chesterfield, now marooned at Burnley. Most Saturdays now he doesn't even make the bench unless there are injuries, Lowton is definite first choice and when he was out Flanagan was drafted into the position. Come the Cup, there's Tendayi getting the full ninety, three games so far and they haven't conceded, so maybe he isn't a weakness, but Lowton is playing well.
Truth be told, if it weren't for Sky making Burnley one of the world's 100 richest clubs, they couldn't afford a Tendayi. He's not contributing. Lowton could play the Cup games. Tendayi, whose record suggests he needs to play every week, could be strengthening a decent Championship team and the Championship equivalent of Tendayi (and there are lots of them) might be improving Saturday afternoons for some Division One fans. AND Burnley would be forced to offer a youth player the sniff of a first team place that might be the making of him.
But the Bizarro puC naturally is committed to devaluing itself by letting players who can't get in the team play, so they can stay where they are (in no man's land) initiating the glacial movement of trapped players throughout the game, who could enliven the experience of fans in lower divisions ...... but will only get to do so when their current club has chewed them up sufficiently, spat them out and replaced them with other innocents, who imagine noitangats is miraculously going to turn into career development.
As Tendayi hopes Burnley's cup run continues to the final and he miraculously gets the nod over both Lowton and the fringe players he is already in competition with, Chesterfield is loaning a Burnley centre back aged 23, who would be nowhere near a game, or the bench. He's come through their academy and he's nowhere to go. All those years he spent at the club since boyhood have made him what? Little more than a cigarette card in their collection - he won't give up on the first team till they kick him out and a season or two's prevarication at Sky's expense, what's that to one of the world's pot 001?
And Burnley is one of the smaller clubs in the big time ...... and probably one of the relatively good guys. It is only because they are winning cup games with the team Sean Dyche selects that they prompt my question: why do teams need such big squads that they can draft in players even from beyond their extensive fringe and devalue a cup competition, which in the past was exciting for fans of clubs playing at every level?