I love Big Dave, but yesterday he got it horribly wrong. The game was crying out for pace and creativity and he failed to act. The moment Burke came on he was running through their defence. Mozza should have been on too. 24 hours later and I'm still bemused as to why he only made one sub on such a hot day.
His press conference wasn't convincing either. It's fine praising the other team, saying how their game plan worked etc. Yes, we all saw that it worked. Their plain was to pack the defence and midfield to stop us getting through. We simply weren't drilled enough, and we didn't have a plan B. We want to know how you plan to change it for Forest on Tuesday...
This isn't entirely DM's fault, but pre-season seemed to be a "let's just see how things go" rather than steam rolling a plan into operation. I appreciate he can only build a wall with the bricks he has to hand, but surely it was obvious that players were going to be leaving, so why release McAuley and Yacob with no replacements lined up?