The benching of older players like that is nothing new. It happens on every team. If they do not sacrifice the team for a game then they lose completely the discipline.

The fact that M Watson is not playing agrees with me. Remember S Watson was one of the last people drafted. That usually means that there might be a chance in the minors so they take him.

Has McFarland lost the team? That is something that time will tell. I have seen this before and the quickest way to resolve is is to make trades that just get rid of players. I watched Killer get upset with players walk into his office and at practice the next day 4 players were told that they were leaving for bottom feeding teams with no hope of going anywhere.

It sent the message to the rest of the players for that year and the year after.

Give him time. Brown is supposed to be a great coach and he is having trouble getting rid of the Byrne style I can only imagine what McFarland has to go through with Dougie there.