Quote Originally Posted by Pies4u View Post
Delroy - agree with you re: Hawkridge, he is one of "pub players" on our books but replacing Dennis with Duffy is precisely what happened. It was a defeatist approach. The fact that we then re-shuffled and stuck Enzio down the middle was a consequence of that swap. I disagree with those who thought it was the only option, there was no point having Etete on the bench if we weren't going to use him to try to win the game.

Why did we need an "experienced" player to replace Dennis? I would certainly question that tbh. It was most of the experienced players who were the ones who were struggling.
I think if he throws on a youngster and it backfires people would crucify Kewell even more than they are doing now, we had no right to win that game with the way we'd played and should be greatful to the football gods that we managed a point, his substitution at that point could have gone the same way his change against Swindon did and ended up leaving us with nothing.

I think he did it because Enzio upfront was the best option he had available to him with two of his biggest players this season out injured.