Oh, and a word on substitutions.
Traore for Kranky was kinda forced on us, and we always knew Bobby would come on for Doyle. After the red card, loads of people around me were wondering why he took off Hill and put on Henry. Simple: with O'Neill gone, we needed to shore up the centre of midfield, else we'd get swamped. Joey can't really do that for so long without getting a yellow card or two, so Henry was the obvious man. And Hill (once again) made the right call - take him off, bring Traore back to LB, and go three across the middle with Henry sitting in behind Hoilett and Barton, pull Charlie back to plug the gaps, and leave Bobby up front as the target.
It didn't work out that way cos we ALL sat too deep, allowing them to keep coming on to us far too deep. But the tactic was sound, we just didn't execute. Bobby should have stayed up, and that would have meant at least two defenders would have needed to stay back as cover.
Traore for Kranky was kinda forced on us, and we always knew Bobby would come on for Doyle. After the red card, loads of people around me were wondering why he took off Hill and put on Henry. Simple: with O'Neill gone, we needed to shore up the centre of midfield, else we'd get swamped. Joey can't really do that for so long without getting a yellow card or two, so Henry was the obvious man. And Hill (once again) made the right call - take him off, bring Traore back to LB, and go three across the middle with Henry sitting in behind Hoilett and Barton, pull Charlie back to plug the gaps, and leave Bobby up front as the target.
It didn't work out that way cos we ALL sat too deep, allowing them to keep coming on to us far too deep. But the tactic was sound, we just didn't execute. Bobby should have stayed up, and that would have meant at least two defenders would have needed to stay back as cover.

your dancing man is funny by the way