6:30am Monday 22nd March 2010
By Anthony Marshall
DANNY Wilson was furious with certain sections of the County Ground crowd after being subjected to a barrage of boos during Saturday's 1-1 draw with Norwich.
Gordon Greer's injury-time equaliser cancelled out a Grant Holt header as Swindon held the League One leaders, but it was the 75th minute introduction of Vincent Pericard for 15-goal striker Charlie Austin which also proved one of the game's main talking points.
Boos rang out at Wilson's decision to swap one front man for the other, coming just 48 hours after he had praised Town's fans for their support at Southampton and called for more of the same until the end of the season.
And the manager – who has taken his team from relegation battlers to promotion candidates in the space of a year – was clearly angry by what he had heard.
“It absolutely disappointed me, what else do you want me to say?” he told the Advertiser.
“Were they booing Charlie coming off? Were they booing Vince coming on? Were they booing me? You tell me.
“Of course I'm disappointed. It doesn't matter what my opinion on it is. I'm disappointed that I heard that at that time when we were trying to push to get back in the game. Really disappointed.
“I'm not interested in what they were booing – I just didn't want to hear it. End of story.”
Wilson's substitution was ultimately justified, with Pericard causing plenty of problems for Norwich in the final third before Greer's equaliser.
And the manager believed Town's approach needed a different style, explaining: “We just wanted to change it round and freshen it up.
“Sometimes the centre-backs get the measure of people, and in that respect they have to trust us to do what's right. I wouldn't say Norwich's centre-backs were comfortable but they had the measure of him (Austin), so if you change it round – the personnel, movement, position and style – it can unsettle people.
“And I think that's why we got a few free-kicks on the edge of the box, because Vince is what he is. He's a massive unit and to knock him around you have to foul him.
“Because of him we got into a few good situations around the box and won some free-kicks.”
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