If the game had ended 1-1 you would have all queued up to say we should've closed the game out, an Italian team would've known how to hang on, every other team uses its subs, why list seven subs if none of them are good enough ......... and I'm sure I'd have been in the queue too.
"Ain't broke don't fix it," got us no keeper for all of this season so far. A tee-shirt slogan that sounds like sense till you think about it.
Danny's decision worked out right on Saturday. Good for him. I'm on his side. If I'd have been in charge I'd have been wanting both to jump and not jump everywhichway all at once. My point is FEAR has a role in human decision-making, it helps not to be eaten by a wild animal ..... but if it becomes the whole of your decision-making model then you hide inside all day. A fresh player should be able to slot into a particular role within the team certainly without disrupting it, but also actually improving it.
Wrong decisions also get the right result occasionally. If you make a once-in-a-blue-moon decision and it turns out there is a blue moon the danger is you'll be looking for a blue moon tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Deep down you know it's true. But Matt is absolutely right, making subs is hard. Look at some of the substitutions top managers make - crowds boo, commentators express surprise, pundits shake their heads - but over a long period of time these guys know what they are doing.
I'm not trying to condemn Danny. At the moment top clubs are apparently interested in Huddersfield's manager, Wagner, because he has them pressing for promotion to the Premiership. Danny Wilson achieved exactly what Huddersfield are hoping for with a smaller, less historically-successful club in Barnsley. HE DID THAT! So he knows more about the rewards and pitfalls of making substitutions than me and is probably wondering if he made the right decision against Bolton, or just struck lucky.
Quentin Crisp just let the dust accumulate. He observed that once it reached a certain depth it didn't get any worse.
"Ain't broke don't fix it," got us no keeper for all of this season so far. A tee-shirt slogan that sounds like sense till you think about it.
Danny's decision worked out right on Saturday. Good for him. I'm on his side. If I'd have been in charge I'd have been wanting both to jump and not jump everywhichway all at once. My point is FEAR has a role in human decision-making, it helps not to be eaten by a wild animal ..... but if it becomes the whole of your decision-making model then you hide inside all day. A fresh player should be able to slot into a particular role within the team certainly without disrupting it, but also actually improving it.
Wrong decisions also get the right result occasionally. If you make a once-in-a-blue-moon decision and it turns out there is a blue moon the danger is you'll be looking for a blue moon tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Deep down you know it's true. But Matt is absolutely right, making subs is hard. Look at some of the substitutions top managers make - crowds boo, commentators express surprise, pundits shake their heads - but over a long period of time these guys know what they are doing.
I'm not trying to condemn Danny. At the moment top clubs are apparently interested in Huddersfield's manager, Wagner, because he has them pressing for promotion to the Premiership. Danny Wilson achieved exactly what Huddersfield are hoping for with a smaller, less historically-successful club in Barnsley. HE DID THAT! So he knows more about the rewards and pitfalls of making substitutions than me and is probably wondering if he made the right decision against Bolton, or just struck lucky.
Quentin Crisp just let the dust accumulate. He observed that once it reached a certain depth it didn't get any worse.