Sentence examples for back up players from inspiring English sources

It is not unlike a baseball game with bases loaded, bottom of the ninth (no pun intended) but no dugout of back up players.

This season, back-up players for European competition have been that in name only.

"He didn't play much cricket, he was always one of the back-up players.

We had a manager and a coach and that was it, none of the back-up players have today.

When Jamie Roberts, Wallace and Lee Mears are giving the back-up players something to aim at the Lions look as good as anyone.

Liverpool's first XI are a match for most sides in the top flight, as they showed at Old Trafford, but Hodgson admits the weakness is in the back-up players.

England had hoped the gaps created by the loss of several big names would provide their back-up players, so successful when introduced to the Test side, with the chance to strut their stuff.

Manchester City's perfect start to the season – five Premier League wins, all without conceding a goal – has been overtaken by three defeats in four matches in all competitions and there are questions, rather abruptly, over the quality of the back-up players and the collective mentality.

Their back-up players have not stepped up this time, though, with Dzeko a case in point.

"We have got a lot of injuries to the back-up players so it's hard to rotate the squad.

In the past they have had to rely on back-up players, people like Jo, who weren't of the same standard as the ones they were replacing.