Probably yes, but more importantly we do want to expose the team to further age related injuries in a season where we will be fighting for PL survival with such a thin squad of quality players!

Think yesterday was quite easy to write off, personally. Strange how we found ourselves 3-0 down and once they were free, it was always going to be ugly.

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Exe tried hard but totally ineffective and wilf had a a shocker as put in a very poor shift.Ayew made some shocking decisions which if he had managed to sort would have produced a couple of first half goals and a different game.

The game was lost by halftime. Roy should of yanked the likes of Wilf then. nothing wrong with subbing a player at half time if needs must. Look at Moyes on Wednesday, brought on Lanzini, who turned the game for them, earning them a point. Not Roy's way though. Klopp a month or so ago bemoaned the heavy fixtures/short time frames, specifically sighting this game. In fact it was us that looked leggy and doubt he would be complaining now. Let's hope the negative of this thrashing can be turned into positives over the next couple of games. Must be some changes, if not just to rest up a few.

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This sort of a result was always a possibility because:

1 The average age of the squad is such that we cannot play 3 games a week with the intensitiy levels we have to put in, even with 2 or 3 changes. It doesn't matter how fit you are you still get tired. The older you are the longer the recover period. This also happens with players at a very young age who still haven't devloped the muscle stamina. (I know this from playing local league football from age 16 to 36) Eze definately looked tired from the start.

2. The depth of the squad with players of the same ability is just not there so we will always be at the mercy of high quality squads with lots of international level replacements.

3. We needed the Liverpool match to be the first of these three matches and Tottenham the second. Unfortunately the Fixture computer was not kind to us.

4. Kouyate is not a centre back and this was very obvious yesterday. PVA is not a left back . At one point he was marking the penalty spot and the Liverpool winger was on the touchline. Absolutely clueless abou correct positioning and should watch videos of Ward, Clyne and Mitchell to learn about positioning although I believe this comes naturally to most full backs. I know Roy likes to play narrow but that does not mean being near the penalty spot.

5. Luka has been great for us but was never quick and is now definately embarrassingly slow. Left his man in the penalty area after initially marking him and then asked who was marking him when the player scored.

We have got freshen up the squad considerably wth some younger, pacey players if we are to stay in the prem.

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Southampton had a player sent off after 12 minutes and played over 80 minutes of the match with ten men. You can’t compare that to us yesterday with a full team on the pitch.