Those wins do at least show there is a great fighting spirit in the squad, with plenty of backs to the wall last ditch defending etc.
Chiefy hasn't lost the dressing room.
And yes as someone else posted Eze subbing off, may have been as much about no player is bigger than the team message, than tactical.
If the team are tight, you have an experienced player like Tuiloma coming in, a playmaker in Kartum, plus Payne, Mileusnic returning from injury - plenty of reasons to believe the Nix can finish the season strongly, and that Chiefy did have an overall plan after all with a fit squad.
As Italiano himself said, they did oh so need that win at Redcliffe (down to 10 men) to galvanise the self belief.
Chiefy hasn't lost the dressing room.
And yes as someone else posted Eze subbing off, may have been as much about no player is bigger than the team message, than tactical.
If the team are tight, you have an experienced player like Tuiloma coming in, a playmaker in Kartum, plus Payne, Mileusnic returning from injury - plenty of reasons to believe the Nix can finish the season strongly, and that Chiefy did have an overall plan after all with a fit squad.
As Italiano himself said, they did oh so need that win at Redcliffe (down to 10 men) to galvanise the self belief.