There is a time and place when a certain player is indeed the most appropriate change.
A manager, (not Dawes) would want someone like Dennis to come on and do a job for the team. Changing shape, tactics, formation. It may even be in the wrong role, but that is one way to use your bench and players.
It's just that we have started and ended games, not in the shape, formation that would suit him, for example in a four, four, two!
I would like to see him with Luke Norris, but even tho Connor was in midfield Saturday, would you drop Hawkes or Taylor, when Luke was fit.
But that is what we were asking for all last season. And we haven't mentioned Saunders!