I absolutely agree with you.
No strength in depth.
But, could we extract more from the said utilising them differently?
At the risk of upsetting our sensitive manager I would have certainly used 1 or 2 players a bit differently yesterday.
If my leading goalscorer was injured my first inclination would be to replace him with my second leading goalscorer rather than with someone without a goal or assist all season. Accept Carlton has appeared mainly from the bench in League games but he has never looked even vaguely like scoring. I counted one instance in nearly 70 minutes where he got a ball passed to him under his control. I was fairly surprised he made it until half time and shocked to see him appear for the second half.
When Howe finally did get on we helped him by removing any other attacking threat – Beestin, Roberts and Sellers-Fleming.
The replacements offered no such threat unless you feel Dawson can add to the 10 seconds of quality he has shown since his return to the club.
Well done to Braintree for making substitutions to change the game rather than just to keep the squad happy.
