LFC_Bitcoin, saving your performance for the big boys and pulling through by the skin of your teeth -- well done! Three penalty shootouts to go, I doubt I'd have made it past Round 1 with my poor show. Dire straits in league and in cup. Wow.
Yes, I'd rather have average players eating their salaries at home than messing things up. Some players in the Chelsea team should be dropped to make room for more experienced players, in my opinion. For example, Broja, Cucurella, and three more.
Absolutely. Hungry academy players are just much more exciting to watch than talented people who clearly have their minds elsewhere. I know practicalities mean a club can't just field kids all the time to "punish" disinterested seniors but fans actually are far more accepting of bad results when effort is apparent. Naive maybe, but that's how I've always felt.