17-10-2025, 14:57
I don't believe your players are unusually unfit. Far too many managers make substitutions simply because they have players available (and possibly want to keep them happy!) Yours is plainly one such.
He took off your best player, Castledine, who didn't seem to be sending out any distress signals, after about an hour. He WAS once an academy star at Chelsea and now seems to be heading back in the same direction. If he looks shattered, is getting kicked all over the park or is carrying four yellow cards, then sub him. Otherwise play him every week and keep him on the pitch, he is a seriously good player.
Throughout Cozier-Duberry looked Bolton's most dangerous player and Rooskens WAS doing a brilliant job of minimising the havoc he could cause. Naturally he got hooked near the end. It took Cozier-Duberry fewer than 10 minutes to score!
Taylor isn't the greatest player I've seen, but no-one can fault his energy and enthusiasm. Unfortunately you don't seem to get anyone close to help him and possibly reduce the effort he needs to expend. He was, however, still a threat when he was hooked, but I doubt he could have lasted 90. I like Dion Charles, but THAT is not his game. I doubt he has ever gone so long without a goal in his life and I can see why it is happening. He's scored loads of goals playing wide. Like Rashford he wants to cut in and curl shots into the corner of a net, not exhaust himself like some clockwork mouse chasing lost causes.
You were good in the first half, but you needed to press for a second goal much harder. In the second half you were sponsored by 1-0 Park The Bus UK. Your manager asked for it and Bolton gave it to him. He needs to reassess. I'm sure you all know this and I'm just repeating John Cleese's bleedin' obvious. You should be a play-off team, but without the work of Kasumu and Rooskens you wouldn't have reached the 90th minute.
To an outsider like me it looked as though every substitution you made weakened the team. You should be substituting to improve things ..... obviously. To everyone but your manager.
He took off your best player, Castledine, who didn't seem to be sending out any distress signals, after about an hour. He WAS once an academy star at Chelsea and now seems to be heading back in the same direction. If he looks shattered, is getting kicked all over the park or is carrying four yellow cards, then sub him. Otherwise play him every week and keep him on the pitch, he is a seriously good player.
Throughout Cozier-Duberry looked Bolton's most dangerous player and Rooskens WAS doing a brilliant job of minimising the havoc he could cause. Naturally he got hooked near the end. It took Cozier-Duberry fewer than 10 minutes to score!
Taylor isn't the greatest player I've seen, but no-one can fault his energy and enthusiasm. Unfortunately you don't seem to get anyone close to help him and possibly reduce the effort he needs to expend. He was, however, still a threat when he was hooked, but I doubt he could have lasted 90. I like Dion Charles, but THAT is not his game. I doubt he has ever gone so long without a goal in his life and I can see why it is happening. He's scored loads of goals playing wide. Like Rashford he wants to cut in and curl shots into the corner of a net, not exhaust himself like some clockwork mouse chasing lost causes.
You were good in the first half, but you needed to press for a second goal much harder. In the second half you were sponsored by 1-0 Park The Bus UK. Your manager asked for it and Bolton gave it to him. He needs to reassess. I'm sure you all know this and I'm just repeating John Cleese's bleedin' obvious. You should be a play-off team, but without the work of Kasumu and Rooskens you wouldn't have reached the 90th minute.
To an outsider like me it looked as though every substitution you made weakened the team. You should be substituting to improve things ..... obviously. To everyone but your manager.