Theatre of Trees
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Why?
Well I thought McCammon was causing enough problems and winning enough in the air to justify leaving him on, and at 2-1 down there's no way I'd have brought him off. But taking off Kaz for Leon made no sense whatsoever.Redhead said:Agree with that, we were crying out for players to run at them, if McCammon couldn't out muscle the centre halfs, which he didn't IMO, change the plan and run at them. Hopefully we'll get it right at Southampton, but i'm not to hopefullycould be another pasting.
Theatre of Trees said:Why?
Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:Coz it was clear Fruty was having a bit of a mare and giving the ball away too cheaply...
Exactly.Turkey said:A bit like Kazim. The ball kept bouncing off him.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:Coz it was clear Fruty was having a bit of a mare and giving the ball away too cheaply...
Without trying we'll never know, i recken he could have been right up for it having not played much of late, it's just a bit bemusing that McGhee didn't use his full allocation of subs, by not trying to change things it was like he was accepting defeat.Theatre of Trees said:But would Robinson have done any better?
Trigger said:Without trying we'll never know, i recken he could have been right up for it having not played much of late, it's just a bit bemusing that McGhee didn't use his full allocation of subs, by not trying to change things it was like he was accepting defeat.
Trigger said:No need to get abusive Turkey, it's nice that you stand by McGhee, i'd rather have seen some fresh blood on though for the tiring players, Robinson could easily have attacked Millwall's tiring defenders with his pace and even bringing on Mayo at LB and pushing El-Abd to CB and moving one of Butters or McShane, who are two of our more prolific goalscorers this season up front would have been better than sitting on a defeat and doing chuff all about it.
And you smell of granny wee.Turkey said:I wasn't abusive. Abusive would be saying you smell like bullshit!
Trigger said:As a manager, if your team losing are you not supposed to make changes, especially when the performance has dropped to an unacceptable level.
Trigger said:And you smell of granny wee.
If you don't try these things you'll never know Turkey, who is to say we wouldn't have won 3-2 with two new players on the park in the last 25 minutes... Instead we lost 3 points, but like you say it may not have worked, would just have been nice to see something being tried.
Repugnant Toad said:Bloody ridiculous - Frutos was having the most impressive 'mare of the season, and McGhee decided sitting on his arse and staring into space was a better idea than doing what he's paid for. Useless.
Trigger said:Like you say, it is all if buts and gambles but you've got to buy a ticket to win the raffle.
That probably would have happened if we'd have had 15 or 20 minutes left to defend a lead. But to go into defensive mode with a full half left would be asking for Millwall to come on to you.BensGrandad said:After 2 minutes of the second half, because that was how long it took to see that Millwall were going to attack our left side I would have taken off Frutos and brought on Mayo to cover El Abd.
Sadly, it was the wrong ticket, but the other one could also have been wrong but then again it could have been the 1st prize, who knows, this is just going to go round in circles i feel.Turkey said:He did buy a ticket - Big Mac and Leon up front, Carole and Fruity on the wings, Carole acting as a third striker actually.
London Irish said:It amazes me how someone with a temperament like yours can come out with such bizarre OTT judgements like this.
Frutos was one of our best players in the first half. Many of his crosses were troubling the Millwall keeper. Granted, he looked less effective going backwards in the second half than he did going forwards in the first half, that is the player we have in this guy. But to say we should have taken this speedy, creative player off when we were looking for a goal is a very odd, unlogical opinion. Frutos is exactly the kind of player you need ON when chasing the game, even though he can be a liability sometimes when you are defending a lead or a draw.