Nothing about the substitutions, just that we seem to drop off/sit back to hold on which is really frustrating/disappointing, especially when we look very good beforehand. Like I said earlier, it seems/feels we have a good/potentially very good team for 45-60mins (best 45mins for the season yesterday for me as an all round team performance), so just frustrating/annoying that we played so poorly yesterday in the 2nd half. Yes, I can understand that illness may have been a cause, but I’ve seen it a number of times this season which seems either a plan or players are not capable for 90mins etc. I know all players are not going to be at it for the whole game, but I’d expect that most (7-8 players) should be okay, not just a handful.
I’ve not seen Pompey this season, but they keep scoring late goals which seems they can go the full game, whereas, in a number of games we’re hanging on, and at homes games at that which is disappointing, and against relatively poor teams in my eyes.
I’m not sure if this is Manning’s tactics e.g. don’t over exert ourselves and hang on to what we have (I think it is this though), rather than continue in the same vein and really kill off the game which I feel we’re capable of. Yesterday seemed to reconfirm this for me. I just think when you set yourselves up like this e.g. sit back and hold on, but then when you then need to re-engage/get back on the front foot it’s then hard to change that mindset, especially when the opposition has been on the ascendancy which we’ve allowed/orchestrated.