We lost against Birmingham because we played the last 27minutes (15 normal 12 added) with 10 men because we used all our subs up by the 70th min and Birmingham punished us, does he not learn ??.
We played the last 30 minutes today with no subs left. We only needed one player to take a knock and that game goes from a poor result to a disaster leaving us no chance what so ever of getting back in it.
That shows 2 things to me about Maloney
Nativity & Stupidity
It’s in the last 3rd of any game when players fatigue, pull up, cramp. There’s no way as a manager you should use all your 5 subs with a third of the game to go that’s unless your hand is forced. Bring the last one on ‘last throw of the dice” with a few minutes to go or if the games gone forget it.
Then we had Stones and Taylor up front for 45minutes. It was clear within 5 minutes the pair had never even talked about playing upsides of each other nevermind trained as that’s not the Maloney way. Infact, at times they were both going for the same ball so why do it ??.
I’d have straight swapped Stones for Taylor then it’s keeping your shape (if their was one) flood the middle and aim for him not have him chasing ghosts.
Again this just highlights to me Maloney is clutching at straws
