Steve Bruce didn’t rate Maguire and played his son instead. Bruce also only started playing Robertson because he had to. Sometimes managers stick with players and it looks silly in hindsight, it happens.
Despite his flaws, we were picking up points, so there was no need to change things and disrupt a defence that was performing solidly. Can we all just move on?
And other times players get thrown in and have howlers. Belloumi on debut? When it's a run in at the end of the season you want to minimise those. Pandur hardly looked brilliant in pre season, so agree, people need to move on.