Why change a winning team

[Ss12white]

I don't understand, we go out and dominate mid week against Swansea.
All the same players are available, but we drop 3 key players to the bench.
What happen to consistency and momentum?
Very disappointing to watch the way we played today.

[Fulham Tup North]

I don't understand, we go out and dominate mid week against Swansea.
All the same players are available, but we drop 3 key players to the bench.
What happen to consistency and momentum?
Very disappointing to watch the way we played today.

Especially as there is now an international break... so plenty of time to recover...

[cookieg]

I could understand rotating against a bottom 3 side but a top 6 team.

[Dodgin]

Interested to hear Marco's reasons for the changes..

[ron]

Perhaps he doesn't have any, apart from a vague idea of squad rotation.

[Ruislip White]

Really poor selection.  Seri had an immediate impact, but it was too late by then.  Josh Onomah is usually a passenger at best, but his inclusion over Seri  today cost us badly.  Completely non existent midfield.

[Whitestone]

Dropping Seri was a huge error.

[Pluto]

Seri has to start every game if he's fit to do so. Mawson in for Tosin at RCB didn't work. He needs to play instead of Ream or not at all. Bryan shouldn't have been dropped for Robinson who was poor again.

Seen enough of Gazza now. Time for Rodak.

[ChesterTheTabby]

Seri has to start every game if he's fit to do so. Mawson in for Tosin at RCB didn't work. He needs to play instead of Ream or not at all. Bryan shouldn't have been dropped for Robinson who was poor again.

Seen enough of Gazza now. Time for Rodak.

Correct.

[Nick Bateman]

I agree. One does not change a winning team and as Whitestone stated, dropping Seri for the hesitant Josh Onomah was a bad call. Also why Tosin replaced for Alfie Mawson who never seems to read the danger?

Gazzanigga had his worst game and his errant pass to Ream got them back in the match. It was completely unnecessary from Gazza, he seemed obsessed with playing short balls out which brought Coventry onto Fulham and not allow us to compress the game in their half. He even dived the wrong way on a softly hit penalty.

That said, once again Fulham have a rotten referee who awarded that ridiculous penalty for no contact. The Championship used to be a tougher league than the EPL, but since they made changes to their style of reffing the Championship is still rewarding divers and cheats. And Fulham seem to get the brunt of it.

[filham]

We need to get a settled midfield, it has been difficult because of injury but with Cairney injured Seri has to be the first name on the team sheet.

[perry geyton]

Seri has to start every game if he's fit to do so. Mawson in for Tosin at RCB didn't work. He needs to play instead of Ream or not at all. Bryan shouldn't have been dropped for Robinson who was poor again.

Seen enough of Gazza now. Time for Rodak.

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[New Kid on the Block]

The more I see Robinson play poorly and make bad decisions, the more frustrated and puzzled I am as to why he keeps getting the nod over Joe. Joe played well on Wednesday, in every area that Robbo is poor. But again, he started today over Joe. Today was his worst game this season and if he starts ahead of Joe in the next game, I may as well give up all hope.

Rodak must be given a chance now, after the performance of Gazza today.

[Arthur]

Following our loss at Blackpool, Silva was criticised (by different forum members, of course) for not making changes to the team that had cruised past Stoke in the previous fixture. As a manager, when you lose, there's always something that could have been done differently - but this doesn't necessarily mean that the outcome of today's game would have been different.

Today, he brought in Mawson, who, recently, has looked every bit as good as both Tosin and Ream, and returned Robinson to the line up after injury - which is commonplace for any manager to do when a regular starter recovers from a minor knock.

Only Onomah's inclusion in place of Seri seemed a risk to me. But that, to my mind, was because of the choices available to Silva. Give Silva a better player than the inconsistent Onomah and it would have looked like a sensible step. How can any of us know whether Seri was ready to play at the top of his game having played twice in the previous seven days? If Silva had picked Seri and we'd have lost, I am sure there would have been a different set of forum members complaining that our manager should be making better use of our having (supposedly) the strongest squad in the division.

[LittleErn]

Following our loss at Blackpool, Silva was criticised (by different forum members, of course) for not making changes to the team that had cruised past Stoke in the previous fixture. As a manager, when you lose, there's always something that could have been done differently - but this doesn't necessarily mean that the outcome of today's game would have been different.

Today, he brought in Mawson, who, recently, has looked every bit as good as both Tosin and Ream, and returned Robinson to the line up after injury - which is commonplace for any manager to do when a regular starter recovers from a minor knock.

Only Onomah's inclusion in place of Seri seemed a risk to me. But that, to my mind, was because of the choices available to Silva. Give Silva a better player than the inconsistent Onomah and it would have looked like a sensible step. How can any of us know whether Seri was ready to play at the top of his game having played twice in the previous seven days? If Silva had picked Seri and we'd have lost, I am sure there would have been a different set of forum members complaining that our manager should be making better use of our having (supposedly) the strongest squad in the division.

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good rant! You're far too sensible.

[perry geyton]

The more I see Robinson play poorly and make bad decisions, the more frustrated and puzzled I am as to why he keeps getting the nod over Joe. Joe played well on Wednesday, in every area that Robbo is poor. But again, he started today over Joe. Today was his worst game this season and if he starts ahead of Joe in the next game, I may as well give up all hope.

Rodak must be given a chance now, after the performance of Gazza today.

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Robinson he huffs and puffs but he still can't blow the house down

Rodak & Bryan have to start the next game, maybe this loss will wake Silva up to the fact