Substandard substitutions | TalkCeltic

mc_jobby · Oct 7, 2009

A few people have touched on this in other threads, but I reckon this is one of the main issues with the team right now, and has been at the root of the recent bad results. Mowbray has a bad habit of taking off players who are still contributing to the team play at key, latter points of the game and replacing them with more attacking players in an effort to chase a result, but actually breaking up all the flow and momentum we had. In particular he seems to always take off N'Guemo, even though he's been one of our best performers, even in some of our bad results, and is a player who doesnt seem to tire too much or drop concentration late on. In the Happoel game for instance, he took Landry off about the 65min mark, for no reason IMO, and 10mins later we conceded the equaliser. In the Rapid game he brought on 3 subs, disrupted the play, and no impact was made. And against rangers, worst of all, he flooded the team with attacking players like samaras, mccourt and caddis, and our grip on the game was progressively loosened as a result. For all the shitness of play under Strachan, I always thought he had a good approach to substitutions, and resisted just flinging on attackers when the chips were down. I think he might of had a good knack of snatching results because this. I just think it's naive to flood the team with attackers when you need a goal. If it was that simple teams would still be lining up in 2-4-4 formations.

steph123 · Oct 7, 2009

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mc_jobby said: ↑

A few people have touched on this in other threads, but I reckon this is one of the main issues with the team right now, and has been at the root of the recent bad results. Mowbray has a bad habit of taking off players who are still contributing to the team play at key, latter points of the game and replacing them with more attacking players in an effort to chase a result, but actually breaking up all the flow and momentum we had. In particular he seems to always take off N'Guemo, even though he's been one of our best performers, even in some of our bad results, and is a player who doesnt seem to tire too much or drop concentration late on. In the Happoel game for instance, he took Landry off about the 65min mark, for no reason IMO, and 10mins later we conceded the equaliser. In the Rapid game he brought on 3 subs, disrupted the play, and no impact was made. And against rangers, worst of all, he flooded the team with attacking players like samaras, mccourt and caddis, and our grip on the game was progressively loosened as a result. For all the shitness of play under Strachan, I always thought he had a good approach to substitutions, and resisted just flinging on attackers when the chips were down. I think he might of had a good knack of snatching results because this. I just think it's naive to flood the team with attackers when you need a goal. If it was that simple teams would still be lining up in 2-4-4 formations.
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i agree with most of that mate he is too concerned with sticking too this "playing football the right way" maybe he should think more about building from the back but imo he was right to take off n'guemo he was poor and davis lost him everytime and im still not convinced about him tbh

BigGBo · Oct 7, 2009

I really dont get where people are getting this "Nguemo was having a great game before being subbed". I thought his performance was poor, he is far to alike Brown all heart but no passing or shooting ability. Had a poor game on Sun just like the rest of the spine of the team

CELTBOY · Oct 7, 2009

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