Harper fears injuries and lust for revenge will help Pilgrim’s Progress.
Posted on November 30th, 2009 | 62 Comments |
Playing down Toon’s cup ambitions, he worries about injuries may take their toll, and how re-entry to the Premiership must take priority over everything.
He fretted:
“We beat them a few weeks ago, so they’ll be looking to get one over us.
“The FA Cup’s a very special competition, but our priority this year isto get out of this division.
“We’ve got a lot of games between now and then, so depending on the injury situation, who knows how we’ll do at Plymouth?
“We’ve probably got half a dozen games between now and then, and that’s a long time in football. We could get a run of bad injuries.
“We won’t even begin to think about the FA Cup until after the game against Derby.”
So, his thinking on the FA Cup is that he’s not thinking about the FA Cup, I think.
FA Cup 3rd round, Jan 2nd, 2010 – Newcastle United v Plymouth Argyle, Home Park, Plymouth.
I mentioned this in the previous thread, but will have another go, since I am sure no one is reading thread 56.
I for one think that a good cup run may actually have a few benefits to the team. Sure, we probably won’t win the cup…fine. However, I think if we give it a good run, we can run into a prem team or two. This may be a good opportnity, especially if it’s a mid-table prem team with no other options available for Euro-play, to see how we match up. Reading the replies here, it very evident that many feel that we’ll drop back down as soon as we are promoted. Squaring up against a prem team may at least give the coaches some insight to where they NEED improvements, and where the would like to get improvements (should funds and MA permit that option). I realize that promotion is paramount, but there are opportunities to be had. If the gap between Automatic promotion and 3rd is big enough come Jan 2nd, I say we go for it. But then, I hate to see any team NOT try.