Sorry if this has been said already. But the subs last night were clueless yet again Parky really does not know what he is doing. Apko was having a poor game and was also injured (after the stamp) and could hardly run he should have been taken off before the 60 minuet mark. Yes he is big but the only header he won all right was out for a corner in our own box with no pressure.
Why bring waggy on a right winger and put him on the left when we had Reid on the bench? Then to bring solly on for sam was too negative, if anything waggy is a good tackler so could of done a job there.
I know we won and got the 3 points but it was far from convincing again and we waste too many subs. The subs invited far too much pressure onto our defense in the final 10 mins of the game!
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Akpo, although didnt win anything caused nervousness and problems for their defence, Forster was knackered.
Wagstaff offers more defence and protection and general "running" than Reid, which was needed at the end.
No problem with Solly for Sam as their left back was constantly bombing forward, Sam had run his socks off and the fresh legs were needed.
I agree with this. Thought this thread was going to be about how good the subs were
Agreed
Wagstaff did well enough and Solly coming on wasted some time and gave us someone that would defend down the right.
Sodje had done nothing all game, not won a header all night I was advocating even putting Llera up-front as at least he might get his head to the ball !!
As for taking off Racon for Waggy and hen playing him on the left............he's right footed for gawds sake !! If you are not going to put Reid on then at least move Sam over there, who can at least cross with his left !!!!!!!!
As for Solly !!!!!!!! Ye gods, we put on the smallest, lightest player for the last 10 mins when we were under the cosh and needed to be able to win the ball or hold it up when pumped forward.
If we get promoted it will be despite Parky, not because of him !
Players are fantastic, Parky is rubbish if we go up.
Players are fanastic but not fulfilling they're potential if we don't go up. Correct?
Credit where credit is due Golfie.
I would have had Shelvey on for Racon
Reid on for Sam
Waggy on for Akpo.
The defence was fine, by sticking a defender on for a midfielder at 1-0 you are asking for trouble, and we very nearly got punished at the end.
With the pace of Waggy & Reid on the wings and Shelvey freshening things up in the middle we could have easily run riot for the last ten. Sodje & Dailly had won everything prior to the subs so why change it and invite heavy pressure?
me too but we won so we need something to moan about.
Wagstaff gave us an outlet but Reid might have done the same.
Solly was on for a very short time but is not lightweight.
Sodje's height was needed defensively.
Agreed, Scoham - I would have thought this was obvious to everyone.
Also, imagine having just the not very tall Forster up front on his own? Every defensive clearance would just be won by their CB's and come straight back, putting our defence under further pressure. We'd end up defending too deep.
At least with Akpo up front, he got the physical challenge in - he might not have won much in the air, but their CB's didn't get free headers in and were pressured all the time.
Akpo did his job. You can bet Parky is pleased with him.
That no doubt seems logical at first ........ but then analyse Waggy's qualities.
He's very industrious, protects his fullback, direct on the quick break, pacy and runs straight at the defender and skins him ........ and rather than cross, cuts inside - and shoots!
And with a right footed player on the left, it's very natural to cut inside and shoot right footed.
And agree with that. If we go up Parky has to have some credit. He's made mistakes but so do the players. It's unrealistic to expect a manager that rarely makes a tactical error or poor signing, just like it's unrealistic to expect the team to have an 8/10 performance in all 46 league games.
Whatever happens will be down to the players and Parky. He made signings, let players go, picked the team, runs parts of the club his way etc.
Have to point out again I'm not a fan of Akpo, I just thought last night was the right game for him. In the end it worked well enough to get us the 3 points.
I will not be surprised to see some changes for Norwich, both in starting line up and use of substitutes, even though we won last night.
He'd get a bigger bollocking for not doing as he was told.
.....oh hold on.
1. Huddersfield - got a point after subs
2. MK dons - subs really effective in taking the pressure off us
3. Southend - won from effective subs
4. southampton - alto we didnt get the point we deserved the subs helped us get on top
all away games so perhaps most of you don't see
there have also been times when waggy has come on as effective sub
so get off parky's back - his record on subs is good
Colchester are an ugly, physically big and strong side ...... and Parky made the decision to start the only forward on the books who could physically challenge the opposing CBs - and defend them at set pieces.
I don't suppose Akpo will start on Saturday against a less physical Norwich - but last night he was picked to do a particular physical job. Forster on his own or even in tandem with Mooney could never have got in the face of those lump CB's, who would have had free headers - thus clearing the ball straight back into our half, and pressuring us to defend ever deeper.
And who else would have marked these lump CB's when defending set pieces in our own box?
And a comment I saw about Akpo's contribution was spot-on: while he couldn't make a noticeable impact on the game in the form of a goal for instance, his attempts to go toe-to-toe with colchester's commanding back line gave forster and the wide players the space and the opportunities to creep in with the time and space to do what United were dreading we'd do: get the ball on the floor.
Not to say he had a great game per se, but he was clearly given a job to do by Parkinson, he did his job and it worked.
Agree with this assessment.
Last season he was critisized for getting some decent performances and no results. This season he's got results and we still have a decent chance of automatic promotion with Parky in charge. We are what, 15 league positions or so higher than some thought we would be at this stage if he remained manager.
He's not done a fantastic job, but he's done fairly well so far and if we get promoted he'd have done a good job. He will deserve some credit for signings like Dailly, Richardson and Forster, as well as getting good performances from players like Semedo and Burton.
Might say any manager could do that as they're better than this league, but as we saw with managers since Curbs, Les Reed especially, it is possible for a manager to get little out of players capable of far more. This season Parky has only got players performing that badly occasionally.
I don't think we can assume just any manager would have had us in this position with four games to go. If we get promoted a lot of it will be down to Parky's decisions and the way he's ran things. So much behind the scenes we don't see and don't know about that he would have improved on a year and a half ago.