Blackpool v Charlton Official Matchnight Thread 20.10.20

So the only positive from that is that Ballard is an obvious starter and Husband can never play in the centre again. I thought Mitchell got his confidence back second half after a torrid first.
Williams back to pre-Crewe I'm afraid and we're losing the confidence to keep the ball which, at the moment, is our only real strength. We never looked like scoring and looked completely shot at the end.
I would like to see Critchley maybe change the shape on Saturday. Mitchell needs help and if that means a four in midfield then so be it.
 
hertfordseasider said:
I think it is starting to get worrying. I still think we will be fine but it may take half a season and we could be well adrift by then. If things don't improve and we get relegated then I don't envy Sadler, he will be very unhappy but realising that it isn't an easy gig. The trouble is, if we lose NC then whoever comes in won't want the majority of his players so off we go again. When we did well we had some really astute signings, particularly identified by Tony Parkes and then by Ollie, and he was able, with Thommo to turn a band of misfits into the most exciting team I have seen, Charlie, Keith & Vaughnie in midfield, GTF, DJ and Brett or Dobbie up front. We haven't got a player that can hold a candle to any of them.
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Agree. Every one of the players mentioned is better than every one in the current team.
 
Absolutely devastating this is, all the positivity surrounding the club moving forward I'm praying it's just a case we haven't clicked yet but how come he didn't play the Viking? Nice to see Woodburn thrown in what was he like? If they're good enough in training give them a start I'd say can't be any worse can we?....
 
Not read any other messages yet so apologies for any repetition.

Substitutions continue to have no impact and make us weaker every time (enforced ballard change aside which was the right move and he did well).

Williams also did well to be fair and has looked 10x the player starting games than he did being thrown on as a sub.

Main issue for me was we played quite well and got it tactically right when it was 10 v 11, but we never even tried to change things up when it went 10 v 10. Very disappointing and yates and lubala made us significantly weaker. We have no attacking threat when cj is effectively marked out of games. That should result in space for others but it rarely does anywhere relevant.

Patience is all well and good but critchley looks to be struggling with some of the more managerial things especially game management through substitutions and tactical changes. He clearly wants to coach 1 system all week and stick to that regardless of the situation, but after 4 points from 7 games its clearly not working for one reason or another.

Either the players aren't good enough, they're not suited to the system, they don't understand it, or it doesnt work in league one and is easily countered.

Lots of change and it would be silly not to give it chance, but how long do you keep doing the same things every week and simply hoping it'll start to work...
 
I don’t get what the plan is- we don’t press, the front line is too static, and full backs don’t create anything. I’m genuinely struggling to see what game plan we’re going out with at the moment.
 
TangerineChris said:
Not read any other messages yet so apologies for any repetition.

Substitutions continue to have no impact and make us weaker every time (enforced ballard change aside which was the right move and he did well).

Williams also did well to be fair and has looked 10x the player starting games than he did being thrown on as a sub.

Main issue for me was we played quite well and got it tactically right when it was 10 v 11, but we never even tried to change things up when it went 10 v 10. Very disappointing and yates and lubala made us significantly weaker. We have no attacking threat when cj is effectively marked out of games. That should result in space for others but it rarely does anywhere relevant.

Patience is all well and good but critchley looks to be struggling with some of the more managerial things especially game management through substitutions and tactical changes. He clearly wants to coach 1 system all week and stick to that regardless of the situation, but after 4 points from 7 games its clearly not working for one reason or another.

Either the players aren't good enough, they're not suited to the system, they don't understand it, or it doesnt work in league one and is easily countered.

Lots of change and it would be silly not to give it chance, but how long do you keep doing the same things every week and simply hoping it'll start to work...
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4 days, if we lose against MK Dons he can walk back to Liverpool. An absolute fraud of a manager.
 
The only question now is whether we are going to improve . I know it takes time to get a new team playing in harmony but over the last 7 games i personally have seen no improvement in our problem areas . And the tactics during the game are very questionable. Bringing on yates tonight to me made no sense whatsoever . Im all for giving someone a chance but 5 losses out of 7 with no glimmers of hope...i dunno its very worrying and im leaning towards cut losses and make a change before its too late
 
NewburyOne said:
But therein lies the issue, we have players incapable of learning, it is the same mistakes every week. Mitchell is not a defender, Critchley doesn't have a clue as far as I can see. Where is our goal threat, what is that UEFA coaching license worth? Poor substitutions, poor defensive organisation, poor set piece delivery, the list goes on.

Tonight the positive was actually our effort, Ballard and MJ were immense. It was clear where their threat came from and our elite coach failed to do anything, whereas Bowyer nullified CJ.
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To be fair Boyer did nothing special marking CJ out of the game, every league one manager are going to do that as he's the only threat we have. The question is what is Critchley doing with the space left by the two players marking CJ? At the moment its sod all.
 
Final ball is terrible as are all set pieces. It’s not improved since the first game .

lubala and Yates will not provide the goals to win more than we lose . Worrying stuff mr Critchley !!
 
Real shame Woodburn had to go off as I felt he and Yates would work quite well together. Lubala I’m afraid to say looks garbage. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time and doesn’t exactly bust a gut either.
 
Im bitterly disappointed, & saw nothing that gives me hope, we just lost at home.... again.... maybe I'll feel better/more optimistic tomorrow... as I feel now, something needs to change, tactics, team or manager??
 
Aside from the fact that Charlton were a much better side all across the pitch, they had a rock solid defence. They were first to every ball. You can't build a side without a reasonably capable defensive line. Ballard looks like he understands the role, which is a start. It needs an overhaul I'm afraid. Husband, Turton, Epikakaktkaka and Mitchell ... that's a League 2 backline.
 
I could have played in goal for Charlton tonight and would have kept a clean sheet. Feel a bit sorry for Critchley as his game plan went out of the window in the first minute. He needs to stop this slide pronto.
 
What happened to performances like Everton pre season where we looked like scoring at will, clearly they can do it bu5 I think there all suffering with a lack of confidence, it’s everything in football and we seem to have been drained of it.
 
In the second half it was 10 vs 10, meaning there was a lot more space on the pitch.
Considering how much pace we have in our team that should have suited us, yet we didn’t create a single thing. Very worrying.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
Real shame Woodburn had to go off as I felt he and Yates would work quite well together. Lubala I’m afraid to say looks garbage. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time and doesn’t exactly bust a gut either.
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Yates wouldn’t work well with Messi and Neymar. Useless
 
Seaside Aggro said:
I don’t get what the plan is- we don’t press, the front line is too static, and full backs don’t create anything. I’m genuinely struggling to see what game plan we’re going out with at the moment.
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I agree if Critchley is one of the world’s top coaches, and I’m not questioning his credentials, Either he is trying to coach this bunch beyond their ability, or they are not taking any notice. Either way something has to change and fast. The window is closed we have to put up with this rubbish for the foreseeable, SS is still paying Grayson so Critchley is not going anywhere his pockets are deep, but not bottomless.
 
Hazi said:
You would know about that 20s.
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Why's that then? I said about getting Ballard into the team straight away, I said Hamilton can't cross a ball. I said play full backs as full backs, not as centre halves. I said an absolute age ago that Yates isn't the middle man of a front three. On the other hand you said

"We are doing everything right"​

I think there's enough evidence to suggest that doesn't quite ring true.
 
Has SS been blindsided by those around him? Grayson was an obvious choice for all the right reasons had it been 5 years ago but he was broken. He then goes all modern and goes for the new fangled head coach rather than manager, a PL thing, has he forgotten that we are a league 1 side who was in a pit of despair off the pitch and not much better on it. Is he trying to be too clever when it comes to managers or too naieve or a bit of both? He is a true supporter and has taken the club and transformed it from the bottom up and he will continue to do so. However he has absolutely no experience of owning a club or how to get a decent manager and players. We would all love to be in his position and we would all have done it better. If I was him I would have got Ollie back instead of Grayson and I would have got Evatt instead of Critchley. That's just me, It could have been a disaster we will never know and all of you would have done it differently if you were in the same position.

I truly hope tat NC will turn this round in the weeks to come but if he doesn't Sadler will have funded a completely new team that a new manager would have to take on and that manager may not want a majority of them, then where do we go? It's still very early days and I still believe it will come good but you can't help but worry if it doesn't.
 
Is he missing an experienced no 2 who will speak his mind rather than a nodding dog? It seems to me we need some-one on the sideline who is capable of seeing what's going on, what changes the opposition are making and getting a re-action to those changes. We play pretty much the same way for ninety minutes.
 
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