According to a poster on **** it was for wasting time arguing with the ref. Pissed Warnock off and he subbed him.
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According to a poster on **** it was for wasting time arguing with the ref. Pissed Warnock off and he subbed him.
Warnock post-match "With Tomlin I took him off at 2-0 and I could see what Henry and Prattley were doing to wind him up and get him sent off, so why not get him off? We'd lost the points, we didn't want to lose a player as well."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42375402
Truth is we're all sat down here two hundred miles or more from the action. For me, Warnock is miles in credit when it comes to what he is doing right or wrong and so, until we know more than we do now, I'm not going to jump to any conclusions about what happened with Tomlin today.
Fair enough, you play it safe! Ask yourself the question, how often does it happen? and on the rare occassion it does happen, it's either because the player has pissed off the manager, or a goalkeeper has been sent off, and an outfield player needs sacrificing. So, i'm going to ask the question. If i'm wrong, then so be it.
The time to raise the sort of matters you are is on Tuesday night if Tomlin doesn't play any part in the Fulham match. As Neil Warnock has admitted himself, he doesn't always tell the media the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so I'm not going to say that the I took him off before he got sent off line was definitely the true version of events. However, if Tomlin features at all against Fulham then I would say that it probably was - I just don't say the point in any speculation or conspiracy theories until then.
I think Warnock deserves the benefit of the doubt on this one though. We weren't going to get anything out of the game and if you have to pick one player out of our squad you'd think would be the most likely to react to provocation, then it would be Tomlin by a mile.
Was he pissed at Tomlin? Probably.
I remember Warnock having a right go at Peltier at the end of the one midweek games towards the end of last season. Peltier had a good game, but Warnock was going ballistic at him on the pitch for some reason, as the players were shaking hands. Ditto Bamba and the Ipswich incident. If Tomlin wins us the game on Tuesday, I'm sure Warnock and Tomlin will be best of friends at the final whistle.