Ive tried really hard not to bite on your posts recently, but you are either tone deaf or purposely trolling and I fear its the former rather than the latter.
Football is no longer played in the 80s when the boys pissed off to the pub or the bookies after training.
They are highly tuned professional athletes pushing their bodies to the limit on a weekly basis.
Physical load is an actual thing, otherwise clubs wouldnt be employing sports scientists to monitor and take care of players to try and prevent injury.
Unfortunately this only goes so far and cant take into account contact injuries which we appear to have had a number of this season.
The manager was on a hiding to nothing with the Stenny game. He could play a full team, risk further injury, risk losing more players for weeks of the league season and get a hiding off Freiburg home and away.
Or he could play some of the young boys, hope we squeek thru and manage the load.
It didnt come off for him, and I maybe wouldnt have played as many of the young boys, but that was his judgement.
If he had followed your judgement instead of the sports scientists, there is a high liklihood we would still be in the league cup, but every chance we would now be without a fair number of our best players for weeks.