i'm doing the best i can with a pretty dismal squad outside of Innes and Mac
I try to avoid commenting too much since I don't want to sound like ex England football managers who scream it was better when I was in charge, and I really hope that isn't going to be how I sound, but personally I'd never have said anything like that. I'm probably not the only slightly unhappy to have my player dismissed quite so harshly. Even though I myself have said its a sorry state for the NT when Fallon is a regular starter, I don't really feel like letting it pass without comment this time. He's not Connor Marshall, and nor would I ever pretend he was, he's not even Millar, but I'd like to think my years (real years) of effort with him resulted in better than dismal.
As I recall McDoughnut played fairly well for the NT under me. In fact I remember playing him ahead of MacAusland if I felt he suited the tactics better. I'm certain he's better than dismal too.
While I'm peed off I might as well go on. When I was tempted to buy McDonough recently one of the things I considered was whether I could afford his wages in those weeks where there's no scrimmage. And your liking for only picking 10 players when there's really no reason not to pick 12, especially when one of the fewer than 200 people in England are essentially doing the NT a favour by paying high wages.
Speaking of the fewer than 200 managers in England, I wonder how many of them even are aware of the results every week? They probably know more about the u21 results which do get mentioned on the forums.