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Silent Bob said:Less tired yes, than Adam Hinshelwood who had been run ragged by proabbly the quickest player in the division in his first game back after an 11 month spell on the sidelines. This is Gary Hart we're talking about yes? The player who has run his bollocks off all game every game for the last seven years. I'm pretty sure he had more left in his tank than Hinsh. and wasn't on a booking.
Well, yes, what I have said is what I thought made most sense and what I thought McGhee was actually going to do.....
Why are you "pretty sure" Hinsh had more left in the tank than Harty, whose job for the entire first half was to constantly chase and move the Norwich back 4 rather than Hinsh, who did not play on Saturday like Harty? You are only pretty sure because you make arrogant assumptions about players wholly unsubstantiated by any real facts or knowledge about their respective fitness levels.
And for this so-called certainty that Hinsh was going to get sent off. Most people in the ground DIDN'T EVEN REALISE Hinsh's first booking was a foul, most saw it as a pedantic ref booking him for kicking the ball into the crowd. (This is how the Norwich daily paper recorded the booking too in their report this morning! Utter retrospective justification by a gutless ref, who, let's not forget subsequently booked two players within minutes for kicking the ball away, as if that wasn't motivated by the Hinsh first booking).
Your implied suggestion that Hinsh was looking certain to get sent off because he was, what? constantly fouling Huckerby in the lead-up to the second yellow? is nonsense, no one saw it coming because those fouls only exist in your head Silent Bob. It was more blatant inconsistency by the ref who was at other times allowing a Norwich player to whack Frutos in the face and a terrible tackle from behind on another of our players.
Hinsh was picked to do a tactical job and it would have been ridiculous to have thrown out the tactical system (when, at half-time?) that the team had trained and prepared for just because he picked up an innocuous booking for what looked to everybody like a technical offence of kicking the ball away.
If he'd have actually done as you suggest, another bunch of whingeing McGhee critics would have come on here and complained about his headless chicken/constant tinkering and not seeing a tactical plan through.
It's the same as ever for the McGhee whingers. He does something, he gets accused of being a tinkerman unable to settle on one system or set of players, he doesn't do something, he gets guys like Silent Bob coming on with their perfect 20-20 hindsight saying what should have been done.
You lot have so much bloody cake and eat it, it's a wonder you're not all 20 stone
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