Jamie Shackleton

He's getting cooked and whatnot, you know, but give him some time, man.

He literally just, they just chucked him in there because doc couldn't go Shackleton's injured.

I mean, you don't have a lot of options.

It was great seeing doc play yesterday, you know, but I don't think that he can go a full game right now, you know? So yeah, man, just give us some time.

If you count Hamza, we've got six.

If you count Jamie Shackleton, we've got seven.

It's not a position we need.

Jack says, would rather have an academy lad in there.

I will push back a little bit on that as well.

I think Shackleton's done all right this season when he's come on.

I'm not excited by Jamie Shackleton.

But

It were just, oh, it were so frustrating.

I'm not digging them out, but if you are the rest of the players on the team and you're chasing getting back into a game and you see Ben Brereton Díaz, uh, Romell Donovan go off, and the replacements Oli Arblaster and Jamie Shackleton, what, w- w- w- what...

It doesn't lift you, does it? It's not like you're on the pitch and you're like, "Right, there's a s- there's gonna be something.

There's a spark." And that's nothing against those two lads, 'cause I think Arblaster, I think, i- um, w- the, the best version of Arblaster is quality, absolute quality.

Our only goal now is to survive.

When you're ending the game with Shackleton and Arblaster out wide, you know you're in the poo.

We need serious change both on and off the field.

If we lose on Tuesday, I can see us spiralling.

I don't think we've got the depth.

I know none of us were impressed.

Shackleton, by the way, has not played badly when he's come on.

So he is a bit of a scapegoat at the minute.

Can I throw one curveball in there? And I don't know where he's going to play.

whether it's right back or centre mid, I have a sneaky feeling that Jamie Shackleton starts in this game.

I just do.

It just feels like such a wilder thing to do to throw him into this game away from home.

And they come on with decent championship experience and decent goal record behind them, both in the championship, but also in other European leagues.

When United were making subs, we took Brereton Diaz off and put Jamie Shackleton on.

That's the difference.

When I talk about the squad not being ready, about United being undercooked, that's the difference.