"We play overlapping wing backs and Jack O'Connell isn't fit. We can't put a team out."
The EFL, useless as they are, have got to help United. These games have got to be rearranged on our terms. No QPR waiting for the ACN to be over.
You can replay games but not moments.
You can't play QPR at a time when they had 4 first teamers out again.
You can't play Preston when they had 7 first teamers out.
You can't play Hull when their manager would not have been in the dug out.
We'd all like to come out and say we beat the best at their best but this is about an accumulation of points. Nobody cares how you get them and if there are easy points to be picked up along the way then you dip your bread in and you take them.
Boro just cancelled on us. They didn't have an issue around integrity when they were taking 3 points off a depleted Blackpool.
For us, confidence was riding high and we had 3 teams I think we'd have made short work of in the circumstances. Boro likewise I reckon we'd beat.
But the next time we play these we will be on the back of a likely defeat away at Wolves and a very tough game against a resurgent Derby, having missed out on the confidence of beating 3 compromised teams in the run up to Boro. And what of Boro? Already they'll have Connolly borrowed from Brighton in their team. Who else will the transfer window lavish on them before we play them? Who might we have lost?
So don't talk to me about integrity. These teams have been allowed to screw us. Despite them being the ones with the outbreak, we are the ones heavily impacted.
The least the EFL can do is favour the wronged team in the rescheduling.
