Quote Originally Posted by Oldtimer View Post
Vanney can do brilliant strategic choices (typically when he has a full healthy "A" team) like in many of the games of the triple run, especially some of those games against Mexican sides, and then he pulls inexplicably horrible choices (typically when missing some players) that almost anyone with the slightest footy knowledge can see are idiotic.

Why this second side to him? Is it hubris? Stupidity? Match fixing? A below average bench? Bi-polar? I don't get it.
This is how I see it. The only thing I can think is that he was sending a message to players who were complaining about playing time.

It’s bizarre. Hubris or judgment, just bizarre. And the moments he picks to do this are bad. I think our slump started early doors when he played a strange line up