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We take our striker off around that time every game and so do all of our opponents. It’s a consequence of nine on the bench and five substitutions. Rugby teams have been doing it with their front rows for years.
League cup may be a bit different, but we’ll do it at Charlton and they probably will too.
Keeping him on to get a hat trick is nonsense, it’s not a testimonial. Keeping him on because we weren’t creating anything and he was more likely than Idah to score in the last twenty minutes is a completely different viewpoint and one I can get behind.