Our eggs were already all in munich. We didn't have any realistic chance at fourth place. And Robbie realized that and decided not to risk any key player. I, for one, respect that.
If you take a look into the newcastle pre-match thread you'll see that we were all saying that we needed to win that game to make fourth place. But the subs in the starting eleven that Robbie made were excusable because we had an FA cup final in a few days and liverpool had already rested key players and had one more to rest than us.
Can't judge him now, or even next year for that matter. I never thought, even at the start of the season that he would walk into our first team squad. He needs a couple of good loans and plenty of luck.
Well I've only watched him a handfull of times and I thoought he always played well when the bar was raised, that is when he played with the national team. I hope you're wrong mate.