Have a feeling February could be a key month for us with us playing 3 teams firmly in the promotion race.
It's unnecessary on every single occasion. It has the opposite effect to the one intended. In short, it's ****ing stupid idea and he should jack it in.
Peter Taylor used to regularly use the same tactic for us by bringing Holt on later in games. It was negative then too, but I don't remember him getting much stick for it.
a In your opinion. But that doesnt take notice of the facts/stats. The times he's done it and it does work so your opinion is wrong.
The difficulty is that we see what happens when a striker is withdrawn for a midfielder and the match is played out. Sometimes the opposition score in those circumstances, sometimes they don't. What we don't see or could possibly know is what would have happened if the strikers had been left on. Would we have had a better outlet on the break and scored again? Or would the inevitable chucking forward of players by the opposition yield more goals for them? In short - I have nothing to add to this discussion......
I wonder if Bruce sets teams up in negative mode in training? When he goes all negative, for me the bigger problem is the dissolution of any sort of cohesion, rather than lack of goalscoring quality. He makes these changes and the team suddenly goes from comfortable unit working in tandem to 11 individuals with no idea what to do with themselves or the ball. The lack up someone up top capable of making the ball stick is obviously an issue, but the hesitation, erratic passing and General cluelessness is what makes us come undone.
