Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/whats-happened-to-the-form-of-rangers-veteran-steven-davis/
One of the biggest disappointments of Rangers’ form of 2020 – in a plethora of them – has been seeing veteran midfielder Steven Davis’ performances drop off a cliff. The former Rangers captain was coming off a six-to-eight-month spell where he looked every inch the Premier League midfielder he’d established himself as with Southampton since…
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when players are off form they need to be dropped from the team and fight they’re way back for it, you cannot keep playing them over n over again when their input is nothing, our manager is wise enough to know this why doesn’t he act on it… and the end ofythe day it costs our team, we can’t afford passengers…
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Have to agree with Joe.
There are two ways of doing this, dropping people whose performance levels dip, or preempting it. If some players are essential for peak performance, then you rest them in lesser games. So if someone like Davis is essential, then he misses half of the games, against bottom half teams like St Mirren, or against teams of cloggers, or on grounds we expect to be very heavy on the legs. That way, he is fresh for the games we need him in.
That is how rotation works, it keeps players fresh. Counter argument is that we are not string enough in depth to do that, but the consequence is players like Davis stop performing, so you lose anyway.
That is the job of the management, I do not claim to be able to do it. They do
What’s happened? Really? At the winter training session coaching stuff made turtles from all of our squad, that’s what.