Quote Originally Posted by Wartman View Post
It’s easy to blame the officials to mask the plainly obvious we are losing games because of the boards failure to provide a competitive budget when are opponents are using 4or5 subs against us and our manager is trying to win games with mainly the starting 11 and 1 or 2 subs we are going to struggle. Mansfield were the best side today and definitely finished the stronger due to utilising their bench we brought on 1 defender for a forward player. And that is the plain fact whinging about officials is a cop out have a look at the pathetic budget our manager is being expected to remain competitive with.
I wasn't so much whinging about the official. I was more stating a fact. He was woeful. Whinging about our budget is rather pointless as well as it is what it is and the reasons for it are well documented and discussed. To be frank, I would rather be doing it our way than the way of some other clubs of our stature. I do agree, however, that the use of substitutes as been questionable to say the least. I would have had Brook on for sure probably instead of Rio. Rio is a decent player but he needs some more moles under his belt before being used against one of the better sides in the division when we have take the lead against the run of play. We had defended reasonably well up to that point.
The budget, incidentally, is why bringing in a manager from outside would not work because their hands would be tied rather like Dave Artell's were and Alex Morris's are.