Critchley post Xmas and January poll

Where are you at with Critchley

  • We can still do it. Believe.

    Votes: 33 33.3%

  • Keep on. We'll be far better next season

    Votes: 33 33.3%

  • We would be better off if he was potted pre-christmas

    Votes: 10 10.1%

  • He never should have come back. Sick of him

    Votes: 23 23.2%
  • Total voters
    99
We can still do it, but it's more difficult and requires a great run.

We will be better next season. Look at 2024 and we've improved in many ways, ridding some of that pain from last season and healing the wounds, although not completely gone or mentality completely shifted yet, but much better.

We can't keep getting rid of managers, otherwise we'll never begin to show any consistency, as it required a stable environment when getting in players they want and to suit that, then time to implement that. Changing restarts that process somewhat.
 
JJpool said:
We can still do it, but it's more difficult and requires a great run.

We will be better next season. Look at 2024 and we've improved in many ways, ridding some of that pain from last season and healing the wounds, although not completely gone or mentality completely shifted yet, but much better.

We can't keep getting rid of managers, otherwise we'll never begin to show any consistency, as it required a stable environment when getting in players they want and to suit that, then time to implement that. Changing restarts that process somewhat.
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He is not learning from HIS mistakes(never once owned a shit performance this season) apart from throwing the players under the bus early on in the season.

Now it's any other reason bar his team selection or tactics/subs/timing.....

So what's going to be different that he can't/won't see this season JJ?
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
SACK HIM!

Then when the next guy doesn't take the league by storm playing fantasy football with THE BIGGEST BUDGET IN THE LEAGUE (c) sack them as well as we should be beating the likes of everyone in this league.
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Ah at last you’re beginning to see the wood for the trees Lytham.
I knew you’d give in to to dark side and eventually turn 😂
 
Simonized said:
He is not learning from HIS mistakes(never once owned a shit performance this season) apart from throwing the players under the bus early on in the season.

Now it's any other reason bar his team selection or tactics/subs/timing.....

So what's going to be different that he can't/won't see this season JJ?
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The squad is getting better and we are improving, yesterday was a poor nothing game and decided by a poor deflection.

Tbh if he fails this season and they decide he's not the man and went someone else so be it.

But I'm just stating that clubs don't really get much success by keeping changing managers, because when a new man comes in, almost all the players we have were brought in by NC to fit a style.

Some can adapt but you again have to rebuild and rebuild the philosophy.

It may work or it may not.

Obviously it's better to have the right manager to take us forward but who's to say the next one would be?

Then if they fail then what? Could soon become a basket case.

For me he's obviously got the season as its far from over yet, but becoming harder.

If we're honest it would always take a bit of time to overcome the shitshow of last season. So let's see how we finish.

If 2024 on the whole is much improved then you'd have to say it's the early season that cost us and looking to the future, it's more likely for success carrying on with that improvement.
 
TheLuker said:
Who would you suggest to replace Critchley?
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I wouldn't suggest anybody, it's a ridiculous question as I've stated several times

We as fans don't know who's available or who wants the job

We also aren't party to what goes on during the interview process and we don't know what the chairman wants or what budget any new manager expects to what the clubs objectives are
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
I wouldn't suggest anybody, it's a ridiculous question as I've stated several times

We as fans don't know who's available or who wants the job

We also aren't party to what goes on during the interview process and we don't know what the chairman wants or what budget any new manager expects to what the clubs objectives are
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You have a lot of opinions and know a bit about football so I thought that you may have some suggestions.
 
I have voted for "He never should have come back. Sick of him" but only because am not sure we will do any better next season (no Dembele or potentially Rhodes), am not sure sacking him pre-Xmas would have done any good or would have happened and at this moment I genuinely don't believe we can do it.
Do I believe we'd have done better under a different manager? It's the only one of those options that makes sense.
 
We were an absolute car crash last season. The squad was low on quality and confidence, even though the bulk of it was brought in under Critchley's 1st spell. It was always going to take a little time.

On the other hand, he keeps making the same mistakes, seems to have favourites no matter how poor they play and is so negative in his approach away from home.

Ultimately we are in striking distance of the play offs and 90mins away from Wembley in the only winnable Cup trophy.

I'd give him another summer window and half of next season, if we are still 8th or lower, get rid!
 
I don’t see the logic in replacing someone who is steadily improving the team. Of course there are frustrations with Critchley but who’s to say the next man wouldn’t also frustrate.

I have thought all season that this would be our best chance to get out of this division for some time, that hasn’t changed, therefore replacing him now would be daft imo.

It’s a longer shot now of making the playoffs but having looked at the remaining fixtures ahead for all the top nine plenty of teams will drop points and if results fall in our favour and we continue to improve we have a chance.
 
The more I read this forum......The more I want an IQ test before anybody is allowed to post

OK, we would lose 30% of the long term posters and probably 100% of the undercover Knobbers.......
But think how much good we will be doing by getting these OAP's out into the community.
They wont be sitting at home watching Homes Under The Hammer and making this kind of shit up.....

I mean Garry Bowyer.........You have got to be on a wind up.....if not........Stop it and get some help!!!!
 
JJpool said:
The squad is getting better and we are improving, yesterday was a poor nothing game and decided by a poor deflection.

Tbh if he fails this season and they decide he's not the man and went someone else so be it.

But I'm just stating that clubs don't really get much success by keeping changing managers, because when a new man comes in, almost all the players we have were brought in by NC to fit a style.

Some can adapt but you again have to rebuild and rebuild the philosophy.

It may work or it may not.

Obviously it's better to have the right manager to take us forward but who's to say the next one would be?

Then if they fail then what? Could soon become a basket case.

For me he's obviously got the season as its far from over yet, but becoming harder.

If we're honest it would always take a bit of time to overcome the shitshow of last season. So let's see how we finish.

If 2024 on the whole is much improved then you'd have to say it's the early season that cost us and looking to the future, it's more likely for success carrying on with that improvement.
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But how can you judge whether or not 2024 is much improved? We were in league one when he arrived and will be in league one next season, how is that an improvement? We were told, pre season, we had a top 6 budget. Surely it follows that if we don’t finish sixth the season has been a failure. I’m not advocating getting rid, I didn’t want him in the first place and that’s what I voted. But I honestly can’t see any improvement next season. To put things right you have to concede that some things are wrong. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be in Critchley’s dna.
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
The more I read this forum......The more I want an IQ test before anybody is allowed to post

OK, we would lose 30% of the long term posters and probably 100% of the undercover Knobbers.......
But think how much good we will be doing by getting these OAP's out into the community.
They wont be sitting at home watching Homes Under The Hammer and making this kind of shit up.....

I mean Garry Bowyer.........You have got to be on a wind up.....if not........Stop it and get some help!!!!
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Whereas you would put forward……..????
 
I’ll tell you what was a wind up:
Appleton and McCarthy.
I actually thought it was a Nobber wum merchant until I realised the awful truth.

Going back for Critchley mk2 was like the bit in Bullseye when they showed the hapless losers what they could have won. I guess we are stuck with him for now. Sadler needs to bring in a competent no.2 asap to challenge his stubbornness. What’s Calderwood up to these days? 😁
 
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Albert Ross said:
But how can you judge whether or not 2024 is much improved? We were in league one when he arrived and will be in league one next season, how is that an improvement? We were told, pre season, we had a top 6 budget. Surely it follows that if we don’t finish sixth the season has been a failure. I’m not advocating getting rid, I didn’t want him in the first place and that’s what I voted. But I honestly can’t see any improvement next season. To put things right you have to concede that some things are wrong. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be in Critchley’s dna.
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Pretty easily.

If we're looking better than early season and winning more games, points per game, we can make a comparison to the early season, where the squad was coming together and also we were adjusting after a terrible season before it.

Of course it would be disappointing not to finish in the top 6 and underperform slightly, mainly away, given the budget.

But as said if we look to have improved away in 2024 and maintain a good home run, we'll have shown clear progression amd you'd hope then going into a new season with far less adjustment, players having played together etc, no bad relegation to recover from, that we can hit the ground running far better.
 
JJpool said:
Pretty easily.

If we're looking better than early season and winning more games, points per game, we can make a comparison to the early season, where the squad was coming together and also we were adjusting after a terrible season before it.

Of course it would be disappointing not to finish in the top 6 and underperform slightly, mainly away, given the budget.

But as said if we look to have improved away in 2024 and maintain a good home run, we'll have shown clear progression amd you'd hope then going into a new season with far less adjustment, players having played together etc, no bad relegation to recover from, that we can hit the ground running far better.
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A lot of hope in there, I hope you’re right. I am looking forward more in hope than expectation. As I said Critchley appears to think everything in the garden is rosy.
 
Macseasider said:
So what do we think?
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Why do you only post these polls when we lose? Last time you said you wanted to gauge the feeling of the fanbase but it's clear you only want to do this when that feeling is more likely to match your own personal perspective.
 
It looks very unlikely we will make the play offs this season.
Sadler backed Critchley, bringing I quality loans like Rhodes and Dembele and Joseph and Norburn (who I don’t rate, but was apparently a key signing) on permanents.
Next season will be harder as the loan players will go back and we’ve so many players out of contract it will be a major rebuild I the summer.
This season was a missed opportunity and for that yes, I blame Critchley.
 
Martonmosser said:
Whereas you would put forward……..????
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We already have a manager......and I would give him the time he needed to build a team to get promotion (just like Evatt has at Bolton)
If that's another season.....then that's OK

Unlike some, I don't tend to change my mind on a weekly basis, depending upon us winning or losing......
One week I'm not telling fans to get down to Bloomfield to support the team....and then 7 days later saying I'm never going again....
I've watched some shit football at Bloomfield and still turned up the following week.....You make up your own mind
 
Shiggy said:
Why do you only post these polls when we lose? Last time you said you wanted to gauge the feeling of the fanbase but it's clear you only want to do this when that feeling is more likely to match your own personal perspective.
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Well nobody would want a "winning" coach to leave would they? What a daft thing to say.

We know you like to lash out at people with different views and perspectives than your own.

I think a poll is an interesting snippet of what people think without having to read hundreds of posts. I posted it after a loss as many posters seemed to be expressing great annoyance at the manager. As you can see, the poll doesn't reflect that so again I don't know what you are getting at??
 
Macseasider said:
Well nobody would want a "winning" coach to leave would they? What a daft thing to say.

We know you like to lash out at people with different views and perspectives than your own.

I think a poll is an interesting snippet of what people think without having to read hundreds of posts. I posted it after a loss as many posters seemed to be expressing great annoyance at the manager. As you can see, the poll doesn't reflect that so again I don't know what you are getting at??
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Well you've been on the manager's back all season and seem to get excited at the prospect of others doing the same, hence why you post one of these polls after every single defeat.

We can win 3 on the bounce and its relatively quite on here. Why does the pendulum have to swing so drastically when we lose?
 
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