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Effective substitutions.

Effective substitutions.

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Never been a PNE strength, or have I missed something?
However, how about this possibility. We looked both safer and more creative with Browne at Right Wing Back. This, I hope (plus maybe a Transfer Window coup) releases Potts from the role. When Potts arrived at Deepdale, he was a hard running, powerful attacking midfielder. He remains a big, powerful unit, strong in a straight line. How about using him as an impact sub for the last quarter, with instructions to run at our opponents in the style we saw from Whiteman at Stoke (once) ?
 
Brett Angel made a habit of scoring when coming on as a sub, Nigel Greenwood used to only score when coming off the bench. So in the past we’ve had some good players who were effective coming on as a sub, but in saying that I do agree with you to a certain extent.
 
One noticeable things yesterday, for those looking, was Lowe's reaction when the fans started singing for him to make changes after about 70 mins....

He didnt look impressed and gestured to the 'pitch' indicating he wanted the fans to sign in support of the players actually playing rather than those not playing.!!.

Maybe he had looked at the bench and seen we had 3 defenders; a keeper and a sitting midfield player + a 17 yo kid to select from and thought "my best players are already out there! support them!!".. imagine the reaction if he'd replaced Alvaro with Greg or DJ with Ledson!! Maybe Ched with FCA??

fact is our fitness stats for the last 15 mins were fantastic and the energy we showed keep bursting forward led to a number of Stoke yellows....and a goal.

making good subs depends on having good subs to bring on....and we haven't had many all season.
 
sports rehab said:
One noticeable things yesterday, for those looking, was Lowe's reaction when the fans started singing for him to make changes after about 70 mins....

He didnt look impressed and gestured to the 'pitch' indicating he wanted the fans to sign in support of the players actually playing rather than those not playing.!!.

Maybe he had looked at the bench and seen we had 3 defenders; a keeper and a sitting midfield player + a 17 yo kid to select from and thought "my best players are already out there! support them!!".. imagine the reaction if he'd replaced Alvaro with Greg or DJ with Ledson!! Maybe Ched with FCA??

fact is our fitness stats for the last 15 mins were fantastic and the energy we showed keep bursting forward led to a number of Stoke yellows....and a goal.

making good subs depends on having good subs to bring on....and we haven't had many all season.
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Good post
 
Aye, the chants from the GCSE boys of 'Ryan, make a change' were embarrassing. There was literally no one on the bench that could have gone on and made a positive impact.
 
sports rehab said:
One noticeable things yesterday, for those looking, was Lowe's reaction when the fans started singing for him to make changes after about 70 mins....

He didnt look impressed and gestured to the 'pitch' indicating he wanted the fans to sign in support of the players actually playing rather than those not playing.!!.

Maybe he had looked at the bench and seen we had 3 defenders; a keeper and a sitting midfield player + a 17 yo kid to select from and thought "my best players are already out there! support them!!".. imagine the reaction if he'd replaced Alvaro with Greg or DJ with Ledson!! Maybe Ched with FCA??

fact is our fitness stats for the last 15 mins were fantastic and the energy we showed keep bursting forward led to a number of Stoke yellows....and a goal.

making good subs depends on having good subs to bring on....and we haven't had many all season.
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yep , we have some real brain dead fans. Screaming at Lowe to make subs without looking at who was actually sat on the bench! We are desperately short of experienced attacking options , and all the ones we had were on the pitch.
 
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