Were they then bad subs because the players who came on were poor?
I didn't go so I don't know if the team turned to shit before the subs or not.
Not read through the whole thread so don't know what has been said before, other than the obvious!
However, I don't think that saying they were bad subs really sums it up.
My opinion is that Magera was very disappointingly poor. I'm sure like most people I had great hopes when hearing of his signing but he did absolutely nothing of note on Saturday other than a rash challenge that the Shrews fans though deserving of a red card. I can understand the substutution as presumably PDC sees him and Leon as his first choice strike force so wanted to give them a good run-out together (but had started with DeVita as Magera not yet ready for 90 mins). This happened after only about 5 mins of the 2nd half but Shrews had already started much more lively than in the first half and were putting us under pressure so I wouldn't pin the collapse on this.
The other subs I could see where PDC was coming from and I thought it was refreshing to have a Town manager change things around when they clearly weren't going well in contrast to Wilson & Hart.
Taking Ferry off for McCormack was to steel things up in midfield where we were getting overrun - I thought a good idea; it didn't work but that wasn't due to McCormack being crap.
Finally, Esajas for Clarke - we weren't getting any service to our 2 up front so 2 out and out wingers and another body in the centre made some sense but we just didn't manage to hit these wingers with any decent balls and they were both anonymous in the second half.
Overall, I'd say the substitutions weren't particularly relevant to the shit performance in the second half. The whole team constantly gave away possession and were slow to chase down the Shrews team who seemed to want it more throughout that half.
