Tell the truth..who wanted Critch out at one time

I think a lot of us had doubts early last season. I wasn't after him out as such as some of the performances were good but certainly found myself questioning his credentials.

I think Critch himself was lacking confidence early doors. His substitions and line ups were strange at times.

It's all relative now. He's an absolute diamond and we are very luck to have his services. Seems clear the feeling is mutual and I hope he plans on a lengthy stay.
 
Bandagem said:
He got unnecessary stick Blood, way too early. I’m happy just to stay up, but after this week, well WOW, I’ve be seen some football that would beat us at WF!
Massive credit to the guy (and Sadler).
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Bandagem, they’d never beat TAM’s Tangerine Footballing Machine 😁

Hope you’re well pal…..you need to get back down 👍
 
Bloodtangerine said:
I can see the way this is going ……there’ll be some who are prepared to admit “their truth”
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I have Blood. Voiced my opinions that maybe he wasn't the right guy.

But yes you'll get 99 posts now saying "Me? Critch? Out? No never".

There was a point last season when most people on here were slating him.
 
TangerineArmy said:
Not for me.. never every thought about it .. Good run chase for blood this tho 👍
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Not my intent….I retired from all that.

I was just thinking that many wanted Critch giving the bullet when things weren’t going well. I’ve had that conversation with people back then BUT Sadler and his team sticking with him and having faith has led to promotion, Victory over the Nobbers and being close to a play off place to the Prem (I know a lot if teams are closely bunched and it probably won’t last
but my point is relegation looks an extremely long way away and as Bandagem says at start of season staying up would have been most people’s wish)
 
Bloodtangerine said:
Not my intent….I retired from all that.

I was just thinking that many wanted Critch giving the bullet when things weren’t going well. I’ve had that conversation with people back then BUT Sadler and his team sticking with him and having faith has led to promotion, Victory over the Nobbers and being close to a play off place to the Prem (I know a lot if teams are closely bunched and it probably won’t last
but my point is relegation looks an extremely long way away and as Bandagem says at start of season staying up would have been most people’s wish)
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Although we're 11th, we're on the same points as 5th. Tight league but we're going up.
 
Bloodtangerine said:
I thought he had to go at one stage last season …..what a tit I am

The bloke is Solid 👍

Sorry Critch, I owe you a cold few Britneys

Anyone else prepared to be straight? ……like a Pear Cider that’s made from 100% Pears
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Fair do for owning up. So many won’t.

Personally, I was always going to give him time as I’m sick of short term planning.

Well done Simon for sticking with Critch
 
Here you go, one from as recently as February. Good old Phil clearly put a lot of thought and time on this pearler. Just shows even our most knowledgable fan can be wrong occasionally. 😀
Phil_bfc deux said:
So come on Simon, Brett and Ben time to get rid of the tinker man coach Critchley

Big fanfare when he came in almost a year ago about fast exciting 'entertaining' football yet the reality is that Critchley's record is almost the same as Graysons, the football isn't much better either

I posted a thread a couple of days ago highlighting the support Critchley has had from the board and showed examples of our current squad and how strong it looks on paper with options all over the pitch

There really isn't any excuse as Critchley has been given all the tools necessary to build a good consistent team

The problem to me is the stubbornness and his reluctance to play 2 strikers week in week out, the stats show that we win more games than we lose when we play 2 upfront

Yesterday was awful for a number of reasons

Another new formation, that looked defensive on paper with 5 in midfield, it was all about accommodating the new Sunderland lad in a free role behind Yates. He did ok but nothing special considering he was given the freedom to make things happen. We have and have had several other players who could of played that role yet weren't given the chance. Both Kemp and Woodburn have been and gone without being allowed to play in that free role 10 slot that they prefer

Ipswich were bang out of form with several key players missing yet we were impotent

Credit to Critchley for the signing of big Marv he has really improved since the start of the season, but i suppose even a broken clock is right once

Maybe Critchley was brought in the develop players if so move him sideways and get a proper manager in the manage the 1st team

Get rid now to save our season, admit the experiment hasn't worked and kick on

Simon Sadler deserves better
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Bloodtangerine said:
I can see the way this is going ……there’ll be some who are prepared to admit “their truth”
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I’ll admit, when it got to the Burton away game I thought he had to produce a win or we should think about changing managers. Luckily we won and I’ve not really doubted him since.
 
I can honestly say blood that no I didn’t want him out and if you could look back at this forum from when he joined us my posts will vindicate that.
Lots of people were slagging him off with stuff like
“Managing an under 21 team is a lot different than a league team.”
“He’s out of his depth”
Etc, etc
Even at the start of this season there was still an element on here saying he wasn’t good enough for the Championship
but now he is the best thing since sliced bread to some of them.
Unfortunately, slagging managers off is the easiest way out for some and they never consider blaming players and as soon as we slip up the usual suspects will be on Neil’s back again.

Like the honesty blood 👍
 
L’étranger said:
Here you go, one from as recently as February. Good old Phil clearly put a lot of thought and time on this pearler. Just shows even our most knowledgable fan can be wrong occasionally. 😀
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Oh come on, Phil is one of our few real fans and he know best. Perhaps he's still having a pie under the concourse so can't get a signal to reply.
 
It just proves the fickleness of us football fans. Apparently we all know more than one of the worlds highest qualified coaches. In his early forties I’d give him a 55 year contract.lol.
 
Ok, I'll be truthful, there was a point, just before the AFC Wimbledon game where I had some doubts about Critch's ability to step up into the mens game from Youth football.
 
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