Who would you rest ?

[QPReuge]

Apologies to all those who still love the romance of the FA cup and those brave soles in line for a drenching up at goodison but I hope Charlie is left well out of it today.
Would be interested to gauge opinion as its always a topic that divides

[kenthoop]

Austin, Onuoha, Dunne, Simpson, Barton and Phillips!

[MattyRangers]

Austin, Onuoha, Dunne, Simpson, Barton and Phillips!

This.

I know it divides opinion and (especially the travelling fans) will probably wish to see a decent side and not a walk over for Everton, but the way I see it is we are never going to win the FA Cup this year and, even at full strength, Everton would probably breeze past us today. We have just got back to winning ways after a hectic festive fixture list, I, personally, don't want to risk any knocks at all and have key players missing for a run of games we need to aiming to take maximum points from.

[Hoop-du-Jour]

Baines, jagielka, Lukaku, Barry....

[The Lurker]

Joey tweeted yesterday that his son was going to be mascot for this game. Would've thought that the little 'un would only want to walk out with dad. So, I'd say Barton will start!

[QPReuge]

Hmmm, I wonder if joeys son is a chip off the old block. If so hopefully he could kneecap a few of their players before the game.
That said there's usually only a couple of minutes between the whole mascot thing Etc and kick off and as he'd need to do at least 10 of them I don't think he'd have time

[The Lurker]

Austin, Onuoha, Dunne, Simpson, Barton and Phillips!

One out of six! Dunne rests - the others start!

[W12_Ranger]

The entire starting 11 and play the youth team.

Pointless competition

[kenthoop]

Looks like I was well wrong then! Aha

[QPReuge]

Let the conspiracy theories start rolling in.
Austin starting means we've signed Defoe, jelavic, blah blah blah.
Have to say I'm amazed that Harry is playing such a risky game, particularly with Austin.
The pitch will be heavy and he'll be chasing shadows all the time he's on it which will surely put a strain on his recent injury.

[DeepcutHoop]

Given our luck with injuries in cup games, I'm dreading this. Irritated that Hitchcock doesn't even get a bench spot too.

[Kevin Mcleod]

Well harry cant ever pull out the old chestnut 'the players are tired, its a lot of games in this division' moan this season.

[bakes8]

Would rather we rested a few today but fair play to harry, and anyway I got Qpr on todays fourfold so here's hoping.

[Nick]

What would you rather...

We play Austin who then picks up an injury and is then ruled out for weeks but we win the game
OR
We rest Austin but get beaten

[bakes8]

We rest Austin.