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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

The relevant question isn’t minutes, it’s what’s the alternative?

Charles has committed hari-kiri, Bishop banned for one more game. Hardy, who isn’t exactly living up to his name, has had 8+ minutes of ‘men’s’ football. And, however impressive are the youth squad strikers, neither are yet ready.
At least Mansell is doing his best, but is barely out of the ‘reserves’, and he and Mumbongo and Malcolm look keen and willing to chase.
In other words, there is no obvious alternative.

Btw, talking of willing, one thing that’s been really bugging me from the Wednesday game was watching O’Sullivan in the warm up. He could barely be bothered to lift his feet, slacking at the back of his line chatting away to McConville. If he’s not fit and frightened of getting a strain what’s he doing on the pitch! If he’s just lazy, which it certainly looked like, what’s he doing on the pitch?

O, Sullivan hasn't been anywhere near the player we first saw on loan all those years ago IMHO in reply to Twenty eight who would you play up front has exile says not much of a choice and playing hopefully will improve the lad otherwise just send them back all the point of loanees is to play them and bring them on its irrelevant how many actual minutes on the pitch for Burnley that's nit picking