Originally Posted by
jardi
I'm sorry Mr Naysmith, - but I've waited until today to post due to sheer frustration on Saturday afternoon, - there are a few questions that I must ask of you:
1) Why wait until the 82nd minute when Inverness have pulled back to 3-3 to bring on a defensive midfielder?
2) Why wait until the last few minutes to bring on Connor Murray, - who scored in the previous week and in your own opinion probably deserves more game time?
3) Inverness made their double substitution just before the hour mark, - why did you not respond, - particularly as Queens went 3-0 up shortly after?
4) Dobbie made an incredible run a few minutes after we were 3-0 up, - but he was completely knackered by that point and he should have been subbed, - with Murray being the obvious candidate, - who could have run the ICT defence ragged.
5) After the unsettling first Inverness goal on 71 minutes why did you not throw on extra defensive cover in Mercer and David Norman Jr to preserve the lead?
6) I for one, and many others on this board have been asking, - nay pleading that the substitutes are used wisely and with enough time to change the game. Your counterpart at Inverness did just that and at the appropriate time, - about an hour into the game.
At 3-0 with 20 minutes to go Queens should have been home and dry and the players certainly can't be blamed for the collapse. I was begging you to bring on substitutes to maintain the hold we had on the game, - and Murray for Dobbs and Norman for Harkins at 3-0 on 65 minutes would have seen you through. ( I had said in a previous post that subs should be made regardless of name, age and rank, - in other words, it doesn't matter if they're good enough to play for Scotland, which Dobbie clearly is, - if he's showing signs of fatigue, - he should be changed)
I accept that changing the personnel can affect the flow, but with a young keeper who looked out of his depth at every cross, then a wee bit of extra defensive cover would have been a blessing for him.
I will definitely not be on your Christmas card list after this, but there are a huge number of questions that supporters like me who have been coming to Palmerston since 1970 are entitled to ask.
7) Why was there no cover on the back post at corners?
8) Our keepers are in desperate need of a course in claiming the ball from set pieces, - is this something that you will facilitate?
Finally, I'm sorry for hounding you with these questions, but I honestly feel that they must be aired. There is no point in keeping my counsel and not being big enough and ugly enough to actually point them out.
On a tight budget you are performing miracles and some supporters will have a go regardless of what you try to do. I was conscious that you were upset at some of the comments emanating from the stands at Somerset Park, and I wondered whether I should compound that by asking the above.
Football is a fickle sport, - and on another day you could have run out 3-0 or even 5-0 winners on Saturday, - but (despite our keeper's lack of ability with crosses) young Jack stopped the score being 3-4, - and if that had happened this board would have been packed with disgruntled posts, - so perhaps count yourself fortunate.
Obviously, I'm not expecting you to respond to this post in writing, but as a supporter of Queen of the South FC since I was knee high to a grasshopper, - I would respectfully request that you take some of the questions on board and ask yourself, - might the score have been different on Saturday if I'd thought about my subs?