Quote Originally Posted by MrsORichSenior_ View Post
good points Stomper but substitutions are only effective if the next mans ability is comparable to the first man..... so if there is any drop off in quality your going to have a problem..... and to be fair it takes time for a team to gel together as savvy players and as individual personalities settling into the club.

to some degree some may say substitutions are far more impacted by squad depth than who is actually making the subs as for the most part coaches will typically select the best players they have available for a given game..... of course there may be one or two changes for specific tactical reasons, injuries and suspensions but ultimately a team like ours will put out its best available players and we all now know who and what they can offer.....
which means with any substitution you are likely making your team worse in effect as to effectiveness coming in cold and often asked to play tactical roles out of position ...... tough call when you have to factor that in throughout a match with players on the pitch getting more tired and as you commented which are making them worse versions of themselves with a replacement bench ordinary at best in a tough pl some may say......

MOT
We do have some quality on the bench - Longstaff, Tanaka and Gnonto come to
mind.

If they don’t get decent game time then they are likely to lack match sharpness, are likely to try to force it when they come on and if younger won’t develop.

If you look at the upper levels of coaching courses this becomes an element of it. Farke is hopeless at that.

Even worse than that I had been at games this season where Stach in particular dropped off by the evidence of my eyes and the mutterings of those around me after about 55 to 60 minutes and yet he is left on the pitch for about 20 or so minutes. In one of those games the momentum had changed so badly by the time subs wee made the game had shifted so much it least due to the 4 subs made by the oppo that the inevitable late goal and loss came.

We can pretend all we want it’s not a weakness but it has been a feature of Farke for years for all his other qualities. If we want to get better in this league then Farke needs to also improve areas that are his weaknesses.

For a short period when under severe pressure he made more subs and earlier and the results improved.

The stats suggest this, most fans I know this and the pundits are all talking about it too. It’s not being critical for the sake of it. It is just stating what seems pretty obvious.