Do you think we'll go up?

Do you think we'll go up?

  • Automatic

    Votes: 11 4.7%

  • Play Offs

    Votes: 80 34.2%

  • Get to Play Offs but miss out

    Votes: 61 26.1%

  • No chance

    Votes: 82 35.0%
  • Total voters
    234
I don't know what to vote, after the last week or two. Feels 50/50 to me. Think we'll make play offs, then it's a lottery innit.
 
I thought we were now adding consistency to our game after the 4-0 wins especially stringing together 90 minute performances but that came to an abrupt end on Tuesday. We’re still good enough for the play offs but we can’t keep dropping points to teams in the bottom half due to our inability to adjust our formation when we are being tactically out thought.
 
We might become more consistent! On our day we are at least as good as anybody.

Maybe we do need to go 4 at the back!
 
We can rule out top two already. Not sure after that. More chance of consistency if we had a manager who knew how to play a 3-5-2 properly I think.
 
It's a long hard season and our squad and bench on match days is very strong. Play Offs then fuck knows.
 
top two could be hard to pull back. We need to go on a five game + winning run and i think we've got the players with the ability to do that. But will we, can we? Top teams can but we struggle. For me, not making the play offs is failure.
 
Not automatic in my opinion- we're just too inconsistent
This is the 3rd poll I've voted in so far, and I've voted play offs every time, and if we reach the play offs, we're pretty good!!

I think we're a top 6 side, but not currently consistent enough to challenge for the top 2
 
Wizaard said:
What about teams that end an unbeaten 27 match run with a 4 0 away win?
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one game as opposed to the six quoted. Work out the balance between the two. Even to date, there's been more poor performances than good ones. I do genuinely believe we are more than good enough but it's frustrating seeing a rank bad performance after two good ones. And that has nothing to do with the fans.
 
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If we are in the top 6 at the end of December, then we have a great chance of going up automatically. We got three good players last time
we got promoted in January in Stewart, Embleton, and Simms.
A lot will depend on the transfer window, really need to keep our loan players Rhodes, and Dembele, and keep our existing better players that may be subject to bids such as Husband, Dougall, CJ, and Marv. We need to add a quality fast right-footed winger capable of beating their man, a tall
quick left-footed centre-half that can pass. A tall quick centre-forward that is better than Beasley. An attacking midfielder who is better than Weir.
There are a few players we need to get rid of, Thompson, Weir, Tharme, and Beasley. I think if we do that then we have a good chance of going up.
 
Wizaard said:
No mention of the games we've won. I believe that's called focusing on the negative.

Poor.
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see my edited post. But even so your total bias wants to focus on the one rather than the six.Where's any resemblance of balance in that?
 
hertfordseasider said:
I think his contract will expect the play offs this season, not promotion. If we fall outside of that then we will be looking for a new manager. I think we will finish between 5th and 10th but I don't think we'll be promoted. Too inconsistent and a manager who is too XG etc., driven
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Agree with you but dont think he would be potted. If we finished bottom half yes but dont think that will happen
 
20togo said:
one game as opposed to the six quoted. Work out the balance between the two. Even to date, there's been more poor performances than good ones. I do genuinely believe we are more than good enough but it's frustrating seeing a rank bad performance after two good ones. And that has nothing to do with the fans.
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Have we only won one match this season? Don't be so literal. We've won more than we've lost and we're ahead of the curve for our previous promotion when we finished third.

But ignore that and call everything off after a defeat when we were out of sorts.
 
Wizaard said:
Have we only won one match this season? Don't be so literal. We've won more than we've lost and we're ahead of the curve for our previous promotion when we finished third.

But ignore that and call everything off after a defeat when we were out of sorts.
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i can accept the defeat but what i don't accept is that the fans played any part in that defeat. You said no-one blamed the fans. I showed you a post that did exactly just that. I also asked you to work out the balance between the two. And i stand by my comment that there have been more poor performances than good ones. And as fans as much as everyone was upbeat and positive after the Pompey game then they've also a right to feel frustrated with what they saw on tuesday night. But hey you carry on making excuses for that.
 
For what it's worth I'll point out that every team above us has a better record than us over the last five games. What that tells us is that we've lost ground on all those teams above us. In fact every team in the top 14 has a better record than us over the last 5 games apart from Shrewsbury whose record is the same as ours.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
Teams that lose at home to Northampton , can't score at home to Orient and Port Vale, can't score away at Lincoln, Wycombe , Exeter, aren't consistent enough to go up.
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What about those thay lose at home to Lincoln,
Martonmosser said:
But that would go against you arse licking Critchley and everything he believes in. Hmmm 🤔
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I think that you are an opinionated but largely rational character.

Why, in your mind, have those of us that continue to support the manager become "arse lickers"?

Shouldnt we as supporters do just that and offer our support and encouragement rather than just incessantly bitching and moaning?

Three years ago, Critchley got us promoted after slow start. Are those credentials not good enough for you to get behind him and encourage him and the team on in the hope we can do it again?

My suspicion is that you and many of our fanbase are not hoping for promotion but expect promotion and its those expectations that are at the root of the discontent that you and others like you feel.

in my opinion expectations that aren't being met can often turn into anger and frustration and that is what is happening here. If more of us hoped rather than expected, I suspect that the atmosphere would be much improved.
 
TheLuker said:
What about those thay lose at home to Lincoln,

I think that you are an opinionated but largely rational character.

Why, in your mind, have those of us that continue to support the manager become "arse lickers"?

Shouldnt we as supporters do just that and offer our support and encouragement rather than just incessantly bitching and moaning?

Three years ago, Critchley got us promoted after slow start. Are those credentials not good enough for you to get behind him and encourage him and the team on in the hope we can do it again?

My suspicion is that you and many of our fanbase are not hoping for promotion but expect promotion and its those expectations that are at the root of the discontent that you and others like you feel.

in my opinion expectations that aren't being met can often turn into anger and frustration and that is what is happening here. If more of us hoped rather than expected, I suspect that the atmosphere would be much improved.
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The atmosphere would be massively improved if the team was set up to attack each game. This manager unfortunately doesn’t do that and instead relies on a boring style of attrition to wear teams down and hopefully win games. I didn’t like his style of play last time he was here and certainly wasn’t disappointed when he left although I didn’t like the way he left leaving the club in the lurch and massively unprepared.
My first post on his return stated how underwhelmed I was by his reappointment and there’s not much I’ve seen since his return to sway my opinion unfortunately.
 
Martonmosser said:
The atmosphere would be massively improved if the team was set up to attack each game. This manager unfortunately doesn’t do that and instead relies on a boring style of attrition to wear teams down and hopefully win games. I didn’t like his style of play last time he was here and certainly wasn’t disappointed when he left although I didn’t like the way he left leaving the club in the lurch and massively unprepared.
My first post on his return stated how underwhelmed I was by his reappointment and there’s not much I’ve seen since his return to sway my opinion unfortunately.
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Away at Portsmouth we started with Dale, Hamilton, Carey, Dembele, Beeley and Rhodes, went at them from the start and won 4-0 after winning our previous game 4-0

How much more attacking can we be than that?

Admittedly, Tuesdays result was disappointing but if one of the early long range efforts had gone in (as three did on Saturday) then the result could have been very different as we didn't play that badly.
 
TheLuker said:
Away at Portsmouth we started with Dale, Hamilton, Carey, Dembele, Beeley and Rhodes, went at them from the start and won 4-0 after winning our previous game 4-0

How much more attacking can we be than that?

Admittedly, Tuesdays result was disappointing but if one of the early long range efforts had gone in (as three did on Saturday) then the result could have been very different as we didn't play that badly.
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The tangerine tinted spectacles are on again……2 of those long range efforts at Portsmouth took deflections and would have been easily saved otherwise. The other massively contributing factor at Pompey was their captain and most influential player getting sent off at a crucial moment in the game
 
Martonmosser said:
The tangerine tinted spectacles are on again……2 of those long range efforts at Portsmouth took deflections and would have been easily saved otherwise. The other massively contributing factor at Pompey was their captain and most influential player getting sent off at a crucial moment in the game
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So when we win 4-0, we're lucky rather than good?
 
We are better when we play someone like Portsmouth away. They were top of the league and were hardly going set up with men behind the ball and try and hit us on the break. Northampton have set the tone for how you play against Blackpool , especially at Bloomfield. Said before, this is were Critchley earns his corn and improve his in game management.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
We are better when we play someone like Portsmouth away. They were top of the league and were hardly going set up with men behind the ball and try and hit us on the break. Northampton have set the tone for how you play against Blackpool , especially at Bloomfield. Said before, this is were Critchley earns his corn and improve his in game management.
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I agree with you on this and a few years into his managerial career you would hope that Critchley would be getting better at working out how to break teams down.

No League One manager, however, is going to be perfect and I'm not sure that a better option than the proven Critchley is or was available to us.
 
TheLuker said:
I agree with you on this and a few years into his managerial career you would hope that Critchley would be getting better at working out how to break teams down.

No League One manager, however, is going to be perfect and I'm not sure that a better option than the proven Critchley is or was available to us.
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Proven? He managed to get an expensive for the division squad up via the playoffs, managed to keep us up although the last few games of that season were awful, did fcuk all with Gerrard at Villa and won one in 11 at QPR 🤔 Certainly not proven in my opinion but then again that’s my opinion
 
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