Sports   (Talk about balls here.)

If he was dropping them surely he would have had them on the bench in a game they needed to win, that was the most inexperienced set of subs I can remember for any game with something riding on it.
And like you say if he was looking for a reaction having them freezing on the bench in a game of that magnitude would surely get a bigger reaction than having them lounging in the warmth somewhere?
Either way like you say they need all hands on deck come Sunday.