IF.................

[nigel]

A thought occurred to me the other day when Andi Weimanns miss, v WHU, was brought up.
What If he had scored?
Obvious, I hear you say, we'd have won 3-1. Yes, it might seem fairly certain we'd have won.  But would we have give our recent luck?

The other scenario is this:

Weimann scores.
Instead of going into a shell, he'd have been buzzing.
We may have even scored a second before half time, but we'll keep it at 1-0

Here's where it get's interesting:
Let's say the second half starts as it did.

Substitution time.
Dawkins for Bowery? Yes.
Bent for Weimann? At that particular time, probably not.

History then changes.
Bent would not have cleared of the line, 1-1
West Ham would then have been on a high, we're under pressure, the nerves appear.
I leave you to finish it off 

Hindsight? Probably the most important miss of the season

I'd like to think that it would have been the catalyst to a big score to us.

[Dave P]

I can see your logic.  What might have been if he has missed against Man U at the same end of the ground ?

[Phil from the upper holte]

Title of thread should be what if and then we can go into a parrallel universe where as we never appointed TSM and beating WHU meant we entered the champions league places?

[N'ZMAV]

If he'd have scored against Everton is the major IF for me.....

[Phil from the upper holte]

Or Stoke

[Phil from the upper holte]

However he has been one of the shining lights this season

[Concrete John]

Players don't become exempt from being substituted just because they've scored a goal.  Especially one that would have been scored an hour before the sub was made.

[Ghost of Pongo Waring]

If he'd have scored than everything that happened afterwards in the game would have been different and nobody knows how it would have panned out.

You could ask 'what if' about any incident in any game and spend the rest of your time creating fantasy matches in your head, which is all this is.

[andyh]

what if your aunt was your uncle ?.....

[not3bad]

You could ask 'what if' about any incident in any game and spend the rest of your time creating fantasy matches in your head, which is all this is.

Yep.

[Hookeysmith]

I can see your logic.  What might have been if he has missed against Man U at the same end of the ground ?

More to the point what if had scored the sitter header he missed when at 2-1, they would have had their momentum then stopped

[PaulTheVillan]

If he didn't fumble that one over the line v Fulham last season...

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Good old Telly, taking time out from admiring Birmingham's blossom to murder this song by Bread.

[nigel]

However he has been one of the shining lights this season

Totally agree.

Basically what I'm saying is, that he shouldn't beat himself up over it.

[nigel]

Players don't become exempt from being substituted just because they've scored a goal.  Especially one that would have been scored an hour before the sub was made.

Agree, John.

It's just a hypothetical example. If Weimann had been playing well, Lambert may have delayed the switch.
For me, Bent's clearance was as good as him scoring at the other end.