Adkins didn’t used to get grief when playing weakened teams when trying to keep us in the in the championship, which he did, mind you he did tell us that was what he was doing and why he was doing it.
Don’t mind a weakened team in the fa trophy game and getting out of it, but once we’ve got through 2 rounds and the quarter finals in sight to then play another weakened team just doesn’t make sense.
Saturday playing a weakened team makes sense certainly if the Gateshead game did to him when we’d finally got rid of mid week games.
It’s only Butler’s bizarre decisions at times that Butler gets grief, from his subs, his belief that we didn’t need a number 1 goalie during pre season, is teams continually conceding in added time and costing us dear, his team selections, his criticism of fans.
It’s only the same as most managers get from forum’s and inside grounds all the way round the country,