Even under peak Poch when we played a full blown B-team (see individual form, fitness and blatant 2nd stringers) we often played like strangers and struggled against lower league oppo in the domestic cups.... Often being forced to numerous thoroughly unwelcome replays, last gasp results and exits to the likes of a shit Palace, losing from 2-0 up vs West Ham or worse (latterly) failing to lay a glove on Colchester (!!!)... Does that mean we were simply badly coached and tactically weak then too(***)?
...These scenario's aren't exclusive to us either! (Strip away the proverbial 'romance of the cups' and you'll find much of the so-called giant killing comes with a personnel caveat.)
[***The above is a rhetorical question really at this point, but I'd rather I wasn't dragged around the houses(*) just to unearth the already well-worn notion that you simply don't like Jose as manager *especially when it entails the thoroughly skewed-by-personal-bias stuff about our midfield.) ]
My point is, that no matter how many times I say it you keep ignoring, is that very much was not a full blown B team.
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