joey_big_nose

Well, as I have said before, life in the Championship is when all is looking lost suddenly out of nowhere you pull out a great performance. And inversely you begin to get a bit of hope and it kicks you in the nuts. We've had a few of each already this season. Anyone who tries to predict anything (hello Merce!) is a hostage to total fortune. I'll watch tonight expecting the worst, but knowing there is a decent chance I will be surprised again. I guess that's the addiction of football. The championship is a particularly virulent concoction of the unpredictable.

Id swap Morishita and Yuki over I think.

I get that having a left footer and right footer may help in an ideal world. But life is about trade-offs , and surely having a make shift full back who is getting skinned alive by their winger is worse than it being a bit more tricky to pick passes into the right side of the pitch from centre half... I can accept that Ismael didn't realise that TGH was going to be taken apart at RB. But what I cant accept is bringing on Tavares who is no competitor at all, and not changing the RB again after 10 mins when it was obvious we had completely lost control of the game. Very interesting to see how Ismael responds now, especially if Alebiouso is out for Swansea. Ive got an awful feeling he might be the sort of manager to double down on his mistakes, hope I am wrong.

Kargbo maybe but he didnt need to bring Tavares on. He had Montgomery or pulling Cantwell deeper into midfield. Or could have just left TGH there, moved Miller to RB and brought on McCloughlin. The environment at the club makes things difficult but Ismael really shot us in the foot today. Ive been pretty happy with how Ismael has set us up most games, we seem really well drilled. But if we go behind and need a way to find a goal he seems to have few ideas - which is consistent with how we have been for years.

Yeah - I think the Tavares on to CM, TGH to RB may be the worst sub (as in negatively impacting a game) ive seen as a Rovers fan. It led to total capitulation across the putch.

Hes got some talent but not anywhere up to the pace of the English game and seems to think he doesnt need to play the defensive side of the gane. Sort of player I could see improving over time and being useful next season once hes adjusted his mentality and fitness but in the trenches this year he's the opposite of what we need.

Really hope Abeliousu is not out for the next game. We really need him. As soon as he went off we couldn't get out at all. Reckon Miller would be able to do it but for some reason its a legal requirement for one of our CBs to be right footed...

We've been utterly abysmal since the subs today, but im not too worried about relegation as our plan A looks okay. Championship is a massive league with 24 teams and you have to go some to be in the worst three. Really worried by how much Ismael managed to mess up his plan B with more obvious changes on the bench.

What worries me the most is how poor Gudjonsen has looked as well. I was hoping he was a good one. Really think a lot of today is on the managers subs. The Tavares CM and TGH at RB changed us from competitive but edged out to totally overrun. Kargbo also totally horrendous when he has come on which is also a shame.

Looks decent as a centre mid but hes not a right back.

We're quite lucky its only been 2-0. What is it about us that makes us so bad after going a goal down over the last five years? Its been for a very very long time now. Four managers and virtually every player in the squad had changed in that time. But still as soon as the goal goes in we just cant get back in 95% of games.

Since hes gone off nothing has stuck up top at all.

Ismael has really made a dogs dinner of this

Really feels like weve made the wrong subs here. TGH at right back is not physically able to do that job, Tavares just adds mistakes and removes cover in the middle third, and ohashi while not threatening was linking up quite well so why bring him off?

I would have thought bringing on McCloughlin and playing Miller at RB would have made a lot more sense? Basically can see TGH not being able to get out at all?