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Post by colstoncrawford on Mar 12, 2024 10:57:01 GMT
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Post by everard on Mar 12, 2024 12:03:54 GMT
Agree with your point Colston, about taking the captain off... I've already posted making it myself.
It isn't hindsight tho'... Everyone surely knows (even opposition fans as you say) that Brayf blocks shots and puts his body on the line to keep the ball out of the net... If MP doesn't realise how valuable this attribute is someone needs to have a word in his shell-like.
With Sam Hughes still missing at the back, if MP persists in taking Brayf off after 60/70 mins I fear that we will keep conceding goals in the last 20/30 mins and that's something that we cannot afford to be doing....
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Post by colstoncrawford on Mar 12, 2024 12:45:20 GMT
Agree with your point Colston, about taking the captain off... I've already posted making it myself. It isn't hindsight tho'... Everyone surely knows (even opposition fans as you say) that Brayf blocks shots and puts his body on the line to keep the ball out of the net... If MP doesn't realise how valuable this attribute is someone needs to have a word in his shell-like. With Sam Hughes still missing at the back, if MP persists in taking Brayf off after 60/70 mins I fear that we will keep conceding goals in the last 20/30 mins and that's something that we cannot afford to be doing.... I wouldn't have taken him off, I'd have sacrificed Nsiala if one had to go. It is still hindsight though.... if we had won! (his replacement scored) |
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Post by everard on Mar 12, 2024 17:15:14 GMT
Agree with your point Colston, about taking the captain off... I've already posted making it myself. It isn't hindsight tho'... Everyone surely knows (even opposition fans as you say) that Brayf blocks shots and puts his body on the line to keep the ball out of the net... If MP doesn't realise how valuable this attribute is someone needs to have a word in his shell-like. With Sam Hughes still missing at the back, if MP persists in taking Brayf off after 60/70 mins I fear that we will keep conceding goals in the last 20/30 mins and that's something that we cannot afford to be doing.... I wouldn't have taken him off, I'd have sacrificed Nsiala if one had to go. It is still hindsight though.... if we had won! (his replacement scored) I don't want to labour the point but it looks like I'm going to.... Forget hindsight (it's a wonderful thing baby!) I'll call it lack of foresight on MPs part. (Foresight to recognise the value of leaving JB on for 90+mins) As you say Colston he didn't have to take Brayf off to get OlaAdebomi on. We'll never know if he'd left Brayf on whether or not we'd have conceded those two late goals... I just hope tonight if we're 1 v 0 up or down or 0 v 0 with 60,70,80 mins gone he'll leave Brayf on, cos if we are good/lucky enough to score we'll need Brayf to try to hang on to a point or three thereafter... |
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Post by colstoncrawford on Mar 12, 2024 17:47:12 GMT
I don't want to labour the point either but.
Forgetting hindsight is a different thing to not acknowledging its existence!
We agree he should have stayed on
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Post by mick on Mar 12, 2024 19:26:53 GMT
My thought at the time was maybe he had tonight’s match in mind.
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Post by everard on Mar 12, 2024 20:46:27 GMT
My thought at the time was maybe he had tonight’s match in mind. But makes no sense to me to weaken the team in a home match at only 1 v 0 down in the hope you can get something away at the League leaders in the next match... |
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Post by bancroft on Mar 13, 2024 7:11:12 GMT
At least Brayford wasn’t taken off against Portsmouth. In the last 20 odd minutes he scored and made 3 or 4 blocks that kept us in the game (He did give the ball away on the edge of the box after one of those blocks, but they didn’t score from it so we’ll ignore that  ) |
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Post by colstoncrawford on Mar 14, 2024 12:03:02 GMT
At least Brayford wasn’t taken off against Portsmouth. In the last 20 odd minutes he scored and made 3 or 4 blocks that kept us in the game (He did give the ball away on the edge of the box after one of those blocks, but they didn’t score from it so we’ll ignore that ) I did think within the Tuesday substitutions, there might have been an acceptance that he was wrong taking Brayford off on Saturday. He won't last forever, we have to make the most of what he's got left. |
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