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Old 12-05-08, 20:41   #55
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Re: Your Use Of Substitutes Is Rotten Mixu..

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Funnily enough i post somethings on here and read other posts and change my mind... Sometimes my opinion is hugely different from the beginning of a thread... Must be that my opinion has been altered or maybe just that i don't know where the feck i am..

So my mind is never closed. I never think i'm right and that's it. If i come across in that way then i need to look at how i communicate. Sometimes of course i will have an opinion and that's that. I feel strongly on it. I believe it. Oh and the counter arguement isn't compelling...

I like Mixu. I'm glad he's our manager. I hope he does well. I expect he'll do well.

However, that shouldn't prevent him from being questioned on a forum. That shouldn't stop him being criticised. Sory state of affairs if that's the case IMHO.

Yesterday, we played the ball through midfield for most of the game and that delighted me as frankly in recent times the quality of football has been rotten. Others share my view. Others have voiced it on here.

So the football was better. I thought Celtic were pretty poor yesterday. No great shakes IMHO. They looked nervous. The longer it went without getting that second goal you could detect creeping nervousness. The Mcgeady shot that went over the bar when he ought to have burst the net...

Had we equalised there would have been panic on and off the park by those Celtc minded. League over. We needed a draw minimum. We're a goal down and frankly never looked like scoring in all honesty.

As Mixu said afterwards up front we were "Blunt". However, i don't recall any chances created for Fletcher.. I recall Fletcher who got battered all game as he played the lone striker. He worked his socks off. He created a half chance for himself out of nothing in the first half.

I stated use of substitutes was rotten but i'd go further actually... I feel Mixu has yet to demonstrate an ability to change a game from the sideline. Where's the plan B? We never looked like scoring so why wait to take Canning off at right back for Nish so late in the game that Nish's sending off beat him to it?

Mixu knows more about football in his farts than i'll ever know but yesterday we needed a goal. It didn't look like it was coming and i saw no evidence that Mixu knew how to change the shape from the sideline.

It was our cup final yesterday. In a cup final you gamble when 1-0 down with the clock ticking do you not?

He could have gone with 3 at the back with Murray tucking in and Jones going up front. He could have done lots of things but he didn't.. He went like for like with Donaldson on for Campbell.

A missed opportunity. And that's rotten.
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