Feeling like knowing Reid was injury prone, when Boxall initially took the injury we should have just replaced him with Tim Payne. We would have been a far better defensive unit yesterday had Payne been in the side, frustrating really.
Nah that turned out to be not the case, and we could have replaced him, as Germany named their squad on the 7th and replaced two players on 10th (Boxall was injured on the 4th), but they had hoped he would recover. Seems parties were bit at odds, Minnesota didn’t want him to go, whereas Boxall obviously very much wanted so was probably suggesting he could make it, but in hindsight a move to replace him with Payne or Tuiloma should’ve been the trick.