Using your substitutes wisely

[seasonsinthesun]

It seems to me that a lot of teams treat the matchday as a squad game i.e. all 18 players (the 11 who start and the 7 on the bench) are potential matchwinners.
What seems to happen to me at Morecambe is that there is just hope that the starting eleven can "do the business" and if its not working just throw on a couple of panicky substitutions after 80 to 87 minutes, far too little and too late.
Surely a manager should have a plan B and even a plan C for every game?
I do understand of course that no-one can predict sudden injuries during games which mean an unexpected substitution has to be made, but it does appear that Sammy does not have a measured approach to his substitutions whereas even other League Two managers are often seen to bring someone on after, say, 55-60 minutes with a view to trying to change the game. Do any of you agree with me?

[mrpotatohead]

I hope sammy asks his players at half time on saturday, does anyone need to take a shite

[Christies Child]

It seems to me that a lot of teams treat the matchday as a squad game i.e. all 18 players (the 11 who start and the 7 on the bench) are potential matchwinners.
What seems to happen to me at Morecambe is that there is just hope that the starting eleven can "do the business" and if its not working just throw on a couple of panicky substitutions after 80 to 87 minutes, far too little and too late.
Surely a manager should have a plan B and even a plan C for every game?
I do understand of course that no-one can predict sudden injuries during games which mean an unexpected substitution has to be made, but it does appear that Sammy does not have a measured approach to his substitutions whereas even other League Two managers are often seen to bring someone on after, say, 55-60 minutes with a view to trying to change the game. Do any of you agree with me? :roll:

Shouldn't that read 'Does anybody disagree?'

[mrpotatohead]

A freind of mine saw what happened at the pre match accident involving some of our squad, he filmed it with his phone and has allowed me to upload it to shed light on saturdays below par performance, note the lads have got their kit on, so they were sceduled to play


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksiiivwTLA

[hunter8]

ha ha very bloody funny not

[shrimpnsave]

A freind of mine saw what happened at the pre match accident involving some of our squad, he filmed it with his phone and has allowed me to upload it to shed light on saturdays below par performance, note the lads have got their kit on, so they were sceduled to play


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksiiivwTLA