Quote Originally Posted by MancMagpie View Post
A longish journey back up to Manc disappointed.

Few observations about that game.

Firstly, IB's subs were poor. He normally uses subs well and times them correctly.

Taking 2 big players off (Wooton and Sam) in the last 5 minutes was absolutely ridiculous. I said to my Dad at the time...we'll lose this now. Then what happens next? We concede off a set piece. Wooton and Sam had been helping defend set pieces quite well throughout the game. No need to bring them off.

Secondly, Roberts should have been subbed not Sam. In fact, Nemane should have started over Robert's as he was obviously only running on about 80%.

Finally, we have to have a plan B. Anyone can see that when we get pressed high we start to panic and can't really string a good set of passes together and it knocks us off our rhythm.

Is there any chance we can keep IB as our home manager and Ardley for away games!!!? (Lol)

Chesterfield dragged us in to their ugly way of playing tonight...and we didn't have the tools to deal with it.

Not enough grit by a massive stretch.

We're not getting out of this league just continuously trying to play the same way, because 6 or 7 teams can work out how to combat it.
Just back, agree with most of that, we were second to the ball too many times and the quality wasn’t there tonight, very disappointing, after they scored their first we had a good 10 min spell but just collapsed after that.