Only two subs when Haycock was playing, which the opposition may have already used by that stage of the game. Typical subs of the time- Mendonca, Buckley and Big Stu(!). By the way, I'm not saying that it was a great tactic, I'm just saying what we did at the time.
Pity about what happened to "Buzzer" Haycock - he eventually "clicked" in late 1987/88 (possibly playing under more conventional tactics) and had a good run of goalscoring to finish the campaign, but then got injured early in the next season and never looked the same player again. His "battering ram" type approach always meant that there was a fair chance of injury.
Last edited by mikemiller; 22-01-2018 at 02:13 PM.
been reading a interesting thread on substitutions its about 4 years old now though it gives a insight on how important subs can/cant be depending on whos on the bench
the thread was titled, Do substitutes win games? it was taken from the 2014 premier league season questions asked were.
i wanted to know how often subs score?
How likely is a substitutes goal to make a difference to the distribution of points at the end of the game?
And which managers are the best at making them?
So far this season (up to 15th April), there have been 1734 substitutions in the Premier League, out of a maximum possible 1938 (89%)
The majority of substitutions are made in the last 15 minutes of games and, surprisingly, only 14% are made in the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half. This suggests that managers are prepared to wait for 15 minutes to see whether their half-time team talk has had any impact
1734 substitutions made, only 87 of them resulted in a goal, or just over 5%. Obviously some of these substitutions will have been defensive or even goalkeeper substitutes, however I am only interested in goals as a result of subs
The team having the most success at gaining goals from substitutes with 10 goals from 84 substitutions (11.90%).
The team with the poorest goals to substitutions with only 1 goal from 88 substitutions (1.14%).
Whilst only 14% of substitutes are made between 46 & 60 minutes, the majority of substitute goals are scored by subs that are introduced in the 46th minute (9), the next optimum time to make a substitution is 68 minutes, with 6 goals coming from subs introduced at that time.
The key time for substitutes to score is within 5 minutes of them being introduced, over 29% of goals are scored in a substitutes first 5 minutes on the pitch.
Interestingly, 4 out of the top 5 teams in the impact table are in the top 5 for total substitutes used.
Therefore, my advice for the use of substitutions would be as follows:
Use all of your substitutes, every game
Make your first sub in the 46th minute
If they haven’t scored within 5 minutes of coming on, replace them. In the 68th minute.
Managers will always call on substitutes to change games, even though only 5% score and only 2% have an impact on the final distribution of points. Who’d be a manager eh?
Last edited by caytonmiller; 22-01-2018 at 02:18 PM.
John buckley was amazingly talented..but billy mac saw him as an impact player..the best impact player ive seen for the millers..id have started him every game..shows how wrong you can be..we won the title...only the fourth division of course, but, one of our happy moments..something whats not talked about much on here..
Lets have an honours list,
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