Bad decision Rob

[Big lad up front]

I think Rob showed his nievity tonight and why an inexperienced manager is not what we need at this time
At 1.1 Forrester was warming up to come on
Ok we were pushing for the win and you could argue it was the right desision
However when we took the lead he should have reuvaluated the situation and kept it as it was.
He only needed to play out time but took the best player off being Anderson who was holding the ball up front and bringing others into play.
As anyone who has watched Forrester knows he cannot be given a specific job as he cannot be relied on to do just that
Cannot of course argue that their equaliser was a complete joke but our pattern of play changed after the substitution

[ss1953]

Totally agree with that summary, but I was also disappointed with the players decision to try and waste time with a short corner in extra time. We had been giving them lots of pressure and had them under the cosh.

Why not go for an attacking corner with the chance of scoring and putting the result beyond doubt? We don't seem to have the skills to keep the ball in the corner and win another one.

We used up about 15 seconds before we lost the ball which then went up the field to give them the corner from which they equalised.

Gutted.

[eastender]

A tale of substitutions then ...Bad decision Rob to sub Anderson for Forrester.
A tale of substitutions then ..Good decision Cooper to bring on Obika.

Obika came on as a sub on a Tuesday night last season and scored an injury time winner against us.

Obika came on as sub on a Tuesday night This season and scored an injury time goal that secured a point.
 

[dickos1]

What about the substitution of bringing n guessan  on which changed the game
Or doesn't that count

[DRFCSouth]

Was probably trying to run the clock down with the sub, and give Forrester a small leg stretch. I see your point though.

[Big lad up front]

Ok but I would have played him from the start based on his performance against Oldham

[IDM]

We failed to defend a corner with 11 players defending it.

That is nowt to do with Forrester replacing Anderson.

[dickos1]

So would I
But he might not be fit enough for 90 mins and you can't argue with the impact he's had in both games when he's come on, when defenders are tired etc

[DRFCSouth]

Its a tale of the late goal again. Struck at Walsall and again last night. Could have been 3 points better off.

[IDM]

I would possibly hand N'Guessan a start in place of Middleton or even Chaplow - however I think Chaplow got better throughout the game.

[ravenrover]

IMHO the decision to bring Anderson off was correct, the lad was knackered but the wrong decision was to bring Forrester on he should have brought on Keegan to try and help shore up the defence/midfield Wellens and Chaplow were blowing out of their arses. Their through balls were ripping us apart as shown by the goal they scored.
AS for fannying about with the short corner naïve to say the least.

[POD]

A tale of substitutions then ...Bad decision Rob to sub Anderson for Forrester.
A tale of substitutions then ..Good decision Cooper to bring on Obika.

Obika came on as a sub on a Tuesday night last season and scored an injury time winner against us.

Obika came on as sub on a Tuesday night This season and scored an injury time goal that secured a point.
 

Agree about the Anderson substitution.  There was no reason to bring on Forester at 2-1.  Keegan should have come on and played in front of the back four to enable them to drop off by 10 yards and prevent Swindon from cutting us open at will, because we were playing too high a defensive line.

As for the Swindon substitution, that was puzzling as well.  They had changed to 4-5-1 after their first goal and were comfortably holding Rovers.  When Obika came on they switched to 4-4-2 and within 2 minutes Rovers had equalised and then scored the second shortly afterwards.  If Obika hadn't grabbed the equaliser, I think that the Swindon boss would have come in for criticism as well.

I think that the worst decision of the night was the Swindon number seven deciding to lie down on the pitch for a full 60 seconds with a minor mouth injury caused in a 50/50 challenge.  With Obika and Ajose stuck up front, their midfield was by-passed and it ended with Anderson having time and space to finish.  The same player also gave the penalty away and was subbed shortly afterwards.

[eastender]

Fair play to Cooper , because he went for broke and i don't know what formation he ended up playing.
He took midfielders Robert and Traoré off and replaced them with 2 Forwards in Hylton and Obika .
 That mean't they finished the game wit 4 forwards on Hylton , Obika , Ojamaa and Ajose and it paid off.
The last of these substitutions was in the 83rd Min , So why did RJ bring Forrester on in the 87th Min instead of the more defence minded Keegan.
A bad decision in MHO , whether Keegan would have made a difference we'll never know.

[keith79]

I liked how he play 3 up top showed balls i think

[dickos1]

It didn't pay off they were 1-0 up when they brought Robert off

[eastender]

It didn't pay off they were 1-0 up when they brought Robert off

And down to 10 men when we scored.

[dickos1]

What's that got to do with anything

[eastender]

What's that got to do with anything

Just an observation , but like I said they were losing when they went for broke in the last 10 mins and RJ failed to try and neutralise their attacking threat and he paid the price IMO.