Thinking behind 65 min subs

rememberlesshannon

rememberlesshannon

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Why ?
It does my head in, we need a change and we're all looking at the clock between 60 -65 minutes because injuries apart we don't make changes early.
We never react to what's happened until the magic hour mark ( Fleetwood apart )
What's in his head ?
 
There is no thinking. By the time they take place it's usually 70 mins. Add to that the spectacular amount of time we waste taking a throw in, a goal kick, anything, whether we are winning drawing or losing and we are up against it. There's probably something about it in a coaching manual buried somewhere at St George's Park or similar. It's not exactly GTF turning Vidic inside out, or Wes chipping the Nobbers' keeper is it?
 
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Yet against Forest he made half time subs and it almost paid off, why he refuses to do it against league teams I don't know.
 
Needed change after the first 5 minutes in the second half when everyone could see it was business as usual and we were playing exactly the same as the first half
 
Norburn has played very well in the last couple of games when he seemed fit. He went off at Northants with about 15 mins to go holding his side. It’s his ribs ! Critch picked him to play yesterday, and he couldn’t do it properly. Why ?
 
Because it's part of standard operating model. Like most industries football coaches are mostly copying leading practitioners either current or past. Conventional wisdom says 60 65 minutes is the point where players on the pitch have had enough time after the break to imose themselves on the game, and the sub has enough time o get into the game. Breaking from that takes actual thinking and proper analysis of what's going on in the moment
 
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