Tired? Fatigued? How can they be tired? Are they labouring on building sites during the week? Are they doing shifts in factories? They are pampered and spoiled and don't deserve the honour of putting on that shirt. Its not the getting beat that annoys Me, Its the attitude, walking around, jumping out of 50/50's They don't even bother to jump to win a ball in the air. I hope some of them are reading this thread. Useless S@$$$!
There's definitely a lack of motivation from the fringe players. I don't think you can totally discount fatigue, particularly the mental aspect of playing so many games, but famously this was the part of the season where you need to dig in and scrape through games if you want to be successful. You need your squad players to come in and show some fight, especially if they're not up to fully playing the way our manager wants the team to play.
They're just not doing that though, and that attitude is spreading to the players in the team who are actually quality. I think that's pretty much what Shaw was alluding to after the match yesterday. I get you though, it's so fecking frustrating to see. Losing without putting up any fight just shouldn't happen.
My hope is we can scrape through the next couple of games, get Casemiro and Eriksen back. Tony staying fit would also be a massive bonus. We obviously still need a new ST, but he's a far better player than Wout and allows EtH to start using Wout as a plan B, which was what he was originally signed for. Avoid any more injuries and EtH has a lot more to work with, and hopefully we finish the season strong.
Might be too late by then...but better to be optimistic.