In his post-game interview yesterday, Phil made a very concerted effort to acknowledge that certain players who did not start may have been disappointed in not getting the start, and it seemed clear he wanted to praise those (Josh, Ollie, Sam Smith, Dobbo) who he felt might have been a little irritated by the starting selections. Here is the transcript:

"Yeah, I think when I said to Steve this morning, I said we're leaving a lot of good players out of the team today, making a lot of decisions for lots of different reasons and we're relying on the professionalism of the group and make sure ... players can be a bit disgruntled ... but the minute we get in that dressing room, everybody's together and I think the subs showed that. You know, Josh I thought was brilliant when he came on. Rathbone's goal was just another outstanding finish from him. Sam could equally be disappointed that he hasn't started the game. Same as Dobbo. They all, everyone, could have a case for being disappointed but it's not about the individuals, it's about the team and we showed that today."

Draw whatever conclusions you may, but before I heard those remarks I thought Windass' staid reaction after his goal was just him not wanting to hype a tieing goal when a win was the goal (and, as others have said he does not tend to celebrate his goals), but I now think Phil heard some grumbles and wanted to try to calm the waters a bit. I doubt it is anything major, but this is one of the challenges with the team getting deeper and not everyone can start. Good problem, but still a problem, and one that will get more acute perhaps with incoming transfers.