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Famous quote:-
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Ok, scrap the word insanity but you get my point. My main concern is that in this case 'the same thing' is "not having an idea in the first place'
Mansell & Nik on radio Bristol post match summed it up perfectly and it's not rocket science.

Perhaps he's just desperate not to get another dismissal on his CV?

Is it simply a case once Ward tires the whole team collapses? We were poor without him at Posh, unless once he left the field yesterday.

Where's his replacement in the squad when he doesn't play, as neither McCormack, Garrett or Hutchinson are ever going to be Ward.

Apart from Peterborough I genuinely can’t remember the subs in any game improving us and I think that was more luck and circumstance than it was planned or tactical.

Even as far back as the glory days of Northampton and Rotherham he was making all 5 subs, 2/3 generally on or around the hour and using his third change to make all three remaining subs in one hit.

It like he thinks that being tactically astute or clever? I’ve got them so I need to use them mentality?

I can’t think of anything it improved in these games. More often it disrupts the game, it most definitely disrupts the player in the longer game (ie the next 2/3) due to loss of confidence and momentum and it’s without doubt led to a drop in fitness levels where most of our players (even on pre season) have yet to be asked to push their bodies physically beyond that mark and demand that bit extra when it’s needed.

It’s left players low of confidence and low on fitness and have no one any chance to grow.

MT spoke on the summer about not seeing the best of us until game 7/8….it gave the impression he saw us improving and gelling and that we’d improve as we learned about each other.

Well so far we’ve learned nothing and the players haven’t had a chance to gel.

You’d have to assume that when he picked an unchanged side for the first three games of the season that he felt that was his strongest line up.

4 points and two clean sheets wasn’t the worst and I’m not sure it warranted losing faith with. The Cambridge game only featured one change so it was again largely the same team and that was the last 3 points we gained.

From that point on it’s been the Hokey Cokey with one in one out and one on and one off at least every 60 mins of football, sometimes less.

This is where I said it was getting messy. He’s lost sight of the process and the improvement curve he anticipated around game 8 has vanished because half the team are still on game 1/2/3 or 4!!!

Players who have been chooped changed and in some case bombed from the squad at various points only to be recalled to start to then be left out again must be on their knees confidence wise and wondering where the hell they stand or what he wants from them.

It’s more than worrying because where do you go from there? Change again? Go back to what you considered strong on 10th August?

Either way it’s a restart in terms of the longer term process but every one else now has an 8 game head start.

Perhaps he's just desperate not to get another dismissal on his CV? I guess this is what comes of going for an inexperienced manager rather than somebody like Steve Evans, although he's hardly doing much better, results wise, at Rotherham.

I can't really have any complaints about yesterday's starting lineup, the concern was what happened after half time including the subs.

Famous quote:-
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Ok, scrap the word insanity but you get my point. My main concern is that in this case 'the same thing' is "not having an idea in the first place'
Mansell & Nik on radio Bristol post match summed it up perfectly and it's not rocket science.