Subs made a huge difference tonight

[Cyclops]

After a poor opening thirty-five minutes, City looked a different team after Hugill, Doyle and Harris came on.

P'raps Morison is still not experienced enough to pick his correct starting eleven.

And I'm not convinced he knows his best two up front.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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After a poor opening thirty-five minutes, City looked a different team after Hugill, Doyle and Harris came on.

P'raps Morison is still not experienced enough to pick his correct starting eleven.

And I'm not convinced he knows his best two up front.

Amazing that your best centre forward makes an improvement over two small strikers asked to do Hugill's job. I am stunned he didn't start Hugill or Uche. It was so predictable what would happen and to make matters worse, he's absolutely killed Watters because he isn't good at holding the ball up and bringing others into play, which isn't his fault. I bet Morison blames Watters rather than himself.

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Subs made a huge difference tonight

After a poor opening thirty-five minutes, City looked a different team after Hugill, Doyle and Harris came on.

P'raps Morison is still not experienced enough to pick his correct starting eleven.

And I'm not convinced he knows his best two up front.

I think we all expected changes after the lethargic performance against Millwall. I would say the wrong eleven but I’m glad he didn’t just chuck in Pack and Bacuna as I thought he might. At the end of the day he’s given key players a rest and got all 3 points so a good days work.

[Optimistic Nick]

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Morrison has to get over himself, sticking the boot into watters in the interview. Even if it's not true, the thing to say here is the got the tactics wrong rather than saying he was taken off because he was shit

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Amazing that your best centre forward makes an improvement over two small strikers asked to do Hugill's job. I am stunned he didn't start Hugill or Uche. It was so predictable what would happen and to make matters worse, he's absolutely killed Watters because he isn't good at holding the ball up and bringing others into play, which isn't his fault. I bet Morison blames Watters rather than himself.

Sure as night follows day, he's said Watters wasn't good enough. It was Morison's fault, not Watters. He's an absolute tosser.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Re: Subs made a huge difference tonight

After a poor opening thirty-five minutes, City looked a different team after Hugill, Doyle and Harris came on.

P'raps Morison is still not experienced enough to pick his correct starting eleven.

And I'm not convinced he knows his best two up front.

Agreed.

But I like that fact that he is prepared to make plenty of in-game changes and isn’t bothered about upsetting players, whether people agree with the changes or not.

(Starting Watters ahead of Hugill made no sense to me but maybe there is/was something going on that we don’t know about. I’d be surprised though)

[City123]

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Morrison has to get over himself, sticking the boot into watters in the interview. Even if it's not true, the thing to say here is the got the tactics wrong rather than saying he was taken off because he was shit

What did he say?

I'm sure he'll get plaudits for being "decisive and honest" but even I could've told you Watters/Davies wouldn't work

[stan butler]

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Sure as night follows day, he's said Watters wasn't good enough. It was Morison's fault, not Watters. He's an absolute tosser.

We won a game tonight stop being a negative arse

[Dave Blue]

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Morison strikes again. Of course the subs made a difference, the bench was almost the first team. He got it wrong to start with, playing a team to waste the first half in effect. Then humiliated Watters, who had 2 chances to be fair to him. Of course Hugill made a difference, he’s a better player. The manager is a right arse.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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What did he say?

I'm sure he'll get plaudits for being "decisive and honest" but even I could've told you Watters/Davies wouldn't work

"He wasn't good enough, he wasn't winning enough first contacts, he wasn't being physical enough, and the ball kept coming back when it went forwards". It is Morison's mistake, not Watters.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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We won a game tonight stop being a negative arse

Watters was so upset he didn't go in at half time. And what does Morison do? Stick the boot in again.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I've just got back and the general consensus from those I was with, and around at the game was Morison got it absolutely right. On Saturday we were leggy and looked a yard off the pace having had only 2 days between games, so it wasn't a surprise that he rested players with 10 games in 30 days ahead. It made sense to bring on Hugill for 40 minutes rather than have to bring him off after 50, and giving Ralls a rest was a bonus. King didn't do much, but didn't prove a disaster, and gave Doyle a breather too.

I thought Morison played the game very well. God knows why this guy gets so much stick on here..

[goats]

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Strange leaving out some of our best players and the ones he’s just brought in on loan….maybe the win will gloss over it, whatever was going on. A vital win, I’d say we are almost safe.

[Cyclops]

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Re: the Watters substitution, the TV commentators said that it was an "emotional" decision; that Morison 'threw his arms up in the air' when Watters failed to close down the keeper - this despite having a really clever turn and shot on goal shortly before he was hooked.

If Morison subbed players after throwing his hands in the air after watching their incompetence, all eleven players should have been subbed in that first half.

Watters took it extremely well and was most professional about it - and credit to Pack for consoling him.

[CopenhagenBlue]

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"He wasn't good enough, he wasn't winning enough first contacts, he wasn't being physical enough, and the ball kept coming back when it went forwards". It is Morison's mistake, not Watters.

It's shockingly bad man management. I had hoped he'd just swallow a bit of pride and admit that he'd got it wrong and needed to make a change to sure things up and avoid going behind, but no. Watters was not at fault for being sent out to play a role completely ill-suited to him.
He drafted him back from a successful loan spell where he was scoring goals, to be treated like that, on tv...