Can you see us going on ‘that run’

Ockers said:
He doesn't have a best 11
He changes to deal with the opposition
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All the great managers have a best XI and take games to the opposition.
Critchley shits his pants about the opposition and puts out an XI to counter that!
 
TimperleyTangerine said:
The statistics don’t lie, we’ve won just 6 league games in not a strong league. That’s on a par with those below us, worse than some. We have the squad to be pushing automatic, but Critchley is content with being average. His percentage football has always been dire.

The number of draws in his overall statistics paints a picture of negativity, focussed on stopping the opposition. When he was learning his trade, it was a very FA way of coaching, a mirror of Southgate.

With 3 points for a win, those tactics are likely to leave us short. Next season will be far more difficult and for me, SS needs to take a long hard look at what is happening.

I was thinking about his time with us and just the big away followings. The fans are doing their bit, but the approach and outcome is usually the same. We are never thrashed or outclassed, we just don’t turn up and play our game. Even when we are ahead and controlling a game, his approach is negative, which invites teams back into the game.

This is becoming a very frustrating season, because the squad has all the quality & depth. At what point does SS realise we’re treading water.
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Is that all it's been, 6 wins... 😔
 
Nope, but some excitement along the way would be good, each Saturday I leg it home from the pub after work to watch TTV, 20 mins in and the excitement has gone, rarely have I seen such a boring Blackpool team.
 
No too inconsistent for a run and Critchley keeps stating there are no easy games in the division, so we are on a hiding to nothing before we even kick off
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
No, I just don’t think we’re good enough to go on a good run of results.
17 games in and we’re still playing with a different team most games of the week I’m amazed Critchley still doesn’t know his best starting 11.
17 games in and we’ve still not performed over the full 90 minutes yesterday was near but we just fell away second half and invited them on to us.
Decent sides in this league do both week in week out sadly were not one of them.
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Might be something to do with Joseph, Gabriel, Norburn, Virtue, Lyons etc etc all having lengthy spells out. Get everyone fit and there is a world of difference.
 
tangysider said:
No too inconsistent for a run and Critchley keeps stating there are no easy games in the division, so we are on a hiding to nothing before we even kick off
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If he came out and said we'll piss this this weekend you'd be calling him arrogant and complacent.
 
Wizaard said:
If he came out and said we'll piss this this weekend you'd be calling him arrogant and complacent.
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There are easy games,, or at least some managers think so. His performance with the squad available is woeful.
It is always someone else's fault not his being a master tactician.
Massively different from the Holloway principle of if you score we will score more.
 
tangysider said:
There are easy games,, or at least some managers think so. His performance with the squad available is woeful.
It is always someone else's fault not his being a master tactician.
Massively different from the Holloway principle of if you score we will score more.
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There isn't a football league manager who will ever say in public there are easy games.

Show me one press conference ever (and there are 92 every week) where the manager says this week will be easy.

You can add in International games if you like
 
I couldn't see us going on that run last time Critchley was here, but we did. You never know in this league and with Blackpool. We're a nightmare to predict.
 
Just 1 away win is what’s really hurting us. We’ve still one of the best home records in the league but away from home we just aren’t picking up wins and the one we did was a backs to the wall job. Charlton and Fleetwood results were poor from the position we were in for both of them
 
Win one, change the team, lose one, change the team, draw one, change the team, win one repeat repeat etc.

No consistency (in team picked or performance of some of the players) so nope.

I do believe however this group of players could be better!

Could the team evolve over the coming weeks to?
Grimshaw
Pennington Casey Husband
Gabriel Norburn Dougal Lyons
Dembele
Joseph. Rhodes
 
JJpool said:
If we can't beat average league 1 side we don't deserve to be up there and the players and Critchley will have failed.
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I think that's what disappoints me most - three shit draws against Orient, Vale and Exeter, throwing away leads against Fleetwood and Charlton .. I can take the Posh, Derby and Bolton defeats but those 5 results were awful and convert those 5 draws in to wins and we're 10 points better off and we're up their with the leaders but as it is 10 points is a daft amount to make up (it's almost like we're the Everton of League One!)
 
Whilst Critchley plays this formation, I think it's actually impossible. It's a shit formation and we don't actually play to it's full potential which is even worse.

I am top of the league with Blackpool on FM playing a 4-4-2. Critchley take note.
 
Nope. I think a season of indifference just short of the playoffs, with renewed optimism after a positive summer... [bookmark]
 
As posted on another thread...


Well, we have a great chance now.

Fixtures coming up...


Shrewsbury

Portsmouth

Northampton

Carlisle

Cambridge

Bristol rovers

Burton

Port Vale

Lincoln

Leyton Orient

Exeter
 
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