dongonzalos
Well-Known Member
People who do not rate Thorn as a good manager state this for various reasons.
One repeatedly quoted reason is that he either does not make substitutions or he makes them too late.
A counter arguement to this was that his subs bench was never better that what was on the pitch. So even a tired player of his first 11 was better that a fully fit player on the bench.
The only way we were either going to find out which view was correct would be if his bench was stronger.
Last night first time with a stronger bench for AT. He made two substitutions after 57 minutes and one of them scored.
He made the substitutions, he made them early enough to impact on the game.
I hope now regarding this particular criticism of Thorn, it has been put to bed.
Next we need to see how he performs if the club either dont sell all his best players on him. Or if they do (which is a financial reality) they only do it once the cheaper replacement has been pretty much signed up. Also that Thorn is happy with the replacement. Sadly under SISU I cant see us ever getting to put this particular arguement to bed either way
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One repeatedly quoted reason is that he either does not make substitutions or he makes them too late.
A counter arguement to this was that his subs bench was never better that what was on the pitch. So even a tired player of his first 11 was better that a fully fit player on the bench.
The only way we were either going to find out which view was correct would be if his bench was stronger.
Last night first time with a stronger bench for AT. He made two substitutions after 57 minutes and one of them scored.
He made the substitutions, he made them early enough to impact on the game.
I hope now regarding this particular criticism of Thorn, it has been put to bed.
Next we need to see how he performs if the club either dont sell all his best players on him. Or if they do (which is a financial reality) they only do it once the cheaper replacement has been pretty much signed up. Also that Thorn is happy with the replacement. Sadly under SISU I cant see us ever getting to put this particular arguement to bed either way
PLEASE EXCUSE THE TITLE SUBSTITUTIONS