Can't fully blame Crappleton for that

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BFC_Aspie

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to be truthful we do have 14 out (looks like 15 after tonight), we really need some strength in depth desperately in January
 
There was not one player in our team that I wouldn't swap for his opposite number tonight.
 
The thing for me tonight is that from the kick off we were nowhere near their midfield who just ran straight through us. For forty five minutes Appleton seemingly did nowt about it and we were very lucky not to be more than one down at half time. Second half, he still did nothing til it was way too late. Yep, maybe it wasn't a penalty and yep Patino was fouled and they scored their third from it but that's just making excuses for a rank bad performance.
 
You are Simon Sadler….you get a call from Neil Critchley. He says he realises that he made a big mistake joining Villa and he lays it out there that he would like to be kept in mind should the manager post become vacant at any point. He is suitably contrite.

After seeing that tonight is your trigger finger itchy? Does the return of the Critch stabilise and organise the team to survival?
 
I think you can lay some of the blame at his door. We can't just ignore glaring errors without raising them.
We were totally disorganised from the first minute to the last. That costs nothing to achieve an I never saw a Critchley side so all over the place last season. How can you have three midfielders on the pitch that never seem to be in the middle of the pitch?
Why do we leave responsibility for our distribution from the back to the league's worst passer of a football in Marv?
Why are we not playing our best keeper?
Why did we not make a sub or two at half time (considering we were miles off it in the first half), which meant they were able to take the game away from us before we decided to change things?

All of the above have nothing to do with summer signings, and nothing to do with injuries. They're MA's decisions.
I don't think he's to blame generally for our predicament, but tonight he was culpable for a lot.
 
Critchley would keep this squad of players up - of that I’m 100% sure. I’d take Critchley back in a heartbeat right now and quite frankly it’d be a good way of getting the project back on track. He knows 90% of the squad and what they’re capable of, knows 90% of the staff and board and knows exactly what finance and facilities he has to work with. The people in charge need to swallow their pride, sack off Appleton and call Critchley ASAP before another club gets there first.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
Critchley would keep this squad of players up - of that I’m 100% sure. I’d take Critchley back in a heartbeat right now and quite frankly it’d be a good way of getting the project back on track. He knows 90% of the squad and what they’re capable of, knows 90% of the staff and board and knows exactly what finance and facilities he has to work with. The people in charge need to swallow their pride, sack off Appleton and call Critchley ASAP before another club gets there first.
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I am in full agreement. Our current manager is tactically inept.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
Critchley would keep this squad of players up - of that I’m 100% sure. I’d take Critchley back in a heartbeat right now and quite frankly it’d be a good way of getting the project back on track. He knows 90% of the squad and what they’re capable of, knows 90% of the staff and board and knows exactly what finance and facilities he has to work with. The people in charge need to swallow their pride, sack off Appleton and call Critchley ASAP before another club gets there first.
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I think its too late for that.

Once he's left he's different, were different, it's not the same.

He fell out with Yates, seemingly.

The way he left was so bad that fans have turned and it won't bring the feelgood factor back.

Sadler keeps going back and it rarely works, so no, as much as I liked him, its just not on for me.
 
Whilst he picks Maxwell ahead of Grimshaw and stands there, doing feck all when we are being dry-bummed, he should at least expect some criticism. Tonight the players let him down but the sit deep tactics were badly wrong. I was gutted when Critchley left, I wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if Appleton buggered off. Wigan is a huge game, there simply has to be a reaction. If We can't improve and Bridcutt is still injured, MA and his sicknote bumchum can both toddle off.
 
When the whole team are 10 yards off their oppo when they have the ball, but are bring pressed when receiving possession, with absolutely no movement off the ball, it's clear you're going to lose the game.

All they had to do was pass and move and they went through us like a dose of salts.

That's not coaching. It's football basics and we didn't do it. There was a spell in the second half when we didn't complete two passes in sequence for 10 minutes.
 
Wizaard said:
When the whole team are 10 yards off their oppo when they have the ball, but are bring pressed when receiving possession, with absolutely no movement off the ball, it's clear you're going to lose the game.

All they had to do was pass and move and they went through us like a dose of salts.

That's not coaching. It's football basics and we didn't do it. There was a spell in the second half when we didn't complete two passes in sequence for 10 minutes.
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I like Kenny but he definitely played like someone who had missed out on going to the world cup last night, in fact, all of them did.
 
We cannot keep saying " wait until our injured players return". We've an injury prone squad and will always have players out.
It's the job of the manager to get the best out of players that are available - physically, mentally, tactically. It's not happening.
I've said all along that I don't believe MA is up to it at this level. A while back I said I thought he was on thin ice. He gone through it now. It's time to get someone else in. After Wigan there's a convenient break to get changes done. Then four games in December for a new manager to assess the squad before the January window. The Board need to act now before it's too late.
 
Decent results against decent sides have papered over cracks & glossed Appleton’s job security. The results against the bread & butter teams in this league are absolutely appalling. These are the results / fixtures that ultimately will determine which division we will be playing next season.
Next 4 games are against teams who we will be competing against at the bottom end - failure to pick up at least 7-8 points from them & we will be cut adrift.

Said before the season (&maintain the view that) staying up this season will be a massive achievement.

Today or after Wigan would be the perfect opportunity to bin Appleton
 
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