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jenny61_99
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That third quarter was when we made our comeback though, wasn't it?.. Nicks didn't want to change something that was working. He said as much in his presser. And I kind of get that. The problem was by the time it wasn't working it was too frigging late. There SHOULD have been a plan to get Curtin on to replace Crouch at the halfway mark of that third quarter. Regardless of the status of the game (and obviously not allowing for any earlier injuries and assuming Crouch was running out of legs). Nicks' has done that before so it wouldn't have been a new concept.The larger problem is he didn't seem to have a plan for Crouch getting gassed. It was just throw him in and hope it works out. He's going in with a known risk of Crouch tanking himself half-way through a game because he hasn't played a game of football in 10 weeks and just basically hoped it'd work out. And we're saying Curtin is a mid now, so it's not like there wasn't a clear swap available for them to make, he just didn't want to drag an experienced player off, but basically had no other choice by the end.
Bruhn got off the chain in that 3rd quarter matched up on Crouch. 11 disposals, 7 contested, 5 clearances and a goal.