SaintsFan wrote:
I know he is saying that. But does he also think that if Simmons had then taken off the big men later, which he might have had to do because they would have been knackered, the team left on the pitch would have stemmed the tide any better than they did during that initial 15 minute spell in the second half? Because they would have had to do so. I'd be interested to know how he would know that the same group of people who couldn't stem the flow in the first 15 minutes of the second half could then go on to do it at a later time in the match, when a comeback would be impossible due to the clock ticking down.
Listen sweetheart, when you go in against any team at halftime with a slender lead the coach will always tell you that the next 15/20 mins is where this game will be won or lost, they will come out at halftime on fire and we need to put that fire out. We need to weather this storm for the 15/20 mins and it will sicken them! This next 20 will be massive!
I've been in many of teams with that type of team talk.
If we'd had started that 2nd half how we started the game I'd put my house on a saints win.
I'm not getting at you flower but that's how I see it and I feel the 20 mins of the 2nd half cost us the game.