I get that Smiffy but it might have been better to give some of those fellas more exposure. Dudson by his own admission was not ripping up trees. Neither was Kassiano. And both of them were not doing big minutes. Yes they had experience but Kassiano was making a lot of errors with things like incorrect play the balls.
I just think we missed an opportunity last year to give some of those fellas some game time and more experience.
I get that the coaches know those lads capabilities better than I do and maybe they were not ready but knowing what we now know from Dudson s recent interview maybe we should have given it a try. As we approached the last few weeks of the season we knew that we were not going to win the GF and we were not going to be relegated so it was a free hit.
I also suspect that the coaching staff knew that Kassiano would not be in the plans for 2024 (wrist injury or not) and we could have been setting up to be without him.
I just think we are not great at planning for the future sometimes.