........rather Gus plays the DS Squad or the best team available, given that Palace is taking place on the Tuesday, and they don't have a weekend game since out of the cup?
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POLL: IF we beat Wrexham AND Newcastle game moved to Sunday for TV would you....
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Where's the option for a mixture of development squad and senior team?
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Just posted about this on the other thread. Play the entire Development squad again wrexham and newcastle.
31st of Jan is our priority. If we beat wrexham I'd play the development squad against Newcastle. We need to work out where our priorities lie and stick with it. Even with a full team out against Newcastle we have little chance of winning, and the worst thing we could possibly do is half arse both games.
I don't understand why people have a wankathon over these show pony games against big teams. Unless we had a chance of getting to the final I'd sacrifice the cup for 3 points in the league every single time.
31st of Jan is our priority. If we beat wrexham I'd play the development squad against Newcastle. We need to work out where our priorities lie and stick with it. Even with a full team out against Newcastle we have little chance of winning, and the worst thing we could possibly do is half arse both games.
I don't understand why people have a wankathon over these show pony games against big teams. Unless we had a chance of getting to the final I'd sacrifice the cup for 3 points in the league every single time.
BHAFC_Pandapops
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ds at wrexham, but bring on some big guns in the dying minutes..
Completely agreed. Lets face it, Toon will beat us whatever team we put out. Concentrate on the league I say (especially Palace!!)
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Haven't we beaten a Premiership team from the North East already this season?
I also think we should prioritise Palace BTW.
I'm not going to flame you, (although I suspect that others might) Would you prefer to beat Toon rather than Palace?
True, although it was Sunderland under Bruce, and Newcastle have a much better team (IMO and I'm in no way belittling our achievement of beating Sunderland)
Well I'd rather win both - which we can do. I certainly don't agree with this modern theory that some fans have that Cup run automatically means your league form suffers or that a big Cup game automatically means means you play shit in the next league game.
I know, but you can't deny our form took a massive dive after Liverpool beat us at the Amex?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
If we have players in the development squad hoping to break into the senior team in the Championship, then they have to be capable of beating a Conference side. That, to my mind, was Gus' thinking. He has seen who made the step up and who didn't, so I expect to see Hall and JFC again but with more senior players. Any non league team is capable of raising their game on the day which is why the 3rd round cup day is so enjoyable.
Joe Gatting's Dad
New member
Move the Palace game to the Wednesday - same as Cardiff are at the Amex.
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
Do we rest the youth team for the Youth FA Cup, as they have got to play in the real FA Cup 
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Do we rest the youth team for the Youth FA Cup, as they have got to play in the real FA Cup
That only applies to Forster-Caskey. The rest of the development squad are over 18.
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
I don't think i can take another spanking from Palace, the shit i've taken over the loss still hasn't died down. Play the friggin tea lady and Gully's girls for all i care we NEED to beat palace!
Are you saying that was the cause of it though? I think it was more co-incidence, certainly I don't think you can blame eight or nine bad results on the fact that we gave a top premiership side a run for its money. However IF our defeat against Liverpool WAS the sole reason for our slump - it proves how important it is to beat Newcastle! (Or even Wrexham come to that!)
To Gus, like it or not, Palace will be just another league game - we don't get any bonus points for winning that game compared to any other.
So, what it comes down to is just how seriously he takes the league and if he does fancy a cup run.
I don't buy this "no chance against Newcastle" nonsense either - they are a middle-of-the-road Premiership team who will be minus their leading light, due to the African Cup of Nations. A fully firing Albion first team will give them a bloody good game and the Amex 12th man can help them too.
So, what it comes down to is just how seriously he takes the league and if he does fancy a cup run.
I don't buy this "no chance against Newcastle" nonsense either - they are a middle-of-the-road Premiership team who will be minus their leading light, due to the African Cup of Nations. A fully firing Albion first team will give them a bloody good game and the Amex 12th man can help them too.
As easy10 said in another thread, we're not going up and we're not going down, let's have some fun on the way. Play the strongest team we can, I want to see us play Newcastle at the Amex.