Dougall Interview with BBC Lancs

It is such a positive game changer (excuse the pun) for people to know what they have to do and also to thus be accountable for doing it. This season on the whole we seem to be setting up to succeed with the exception of losing proven for unproven which is a gamble with so much at stake.
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
Dougall basically saying what we all knew, that last season was a mess on and off the pitch. However, he's also pointed out that this pre season is already more structured with Critchley back. Good signs.
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He’s a charismatic guy, isn’t he?

Comes across in an interview like he plays on a pitch, boring.

In all seriousness, I hope he has a good season.
 
I hope he does have his mojo back. It was obvious to see him and a couple of other players were struggling personally and mentally with the clusterf*ck of what the club was with the revolving doors of managers and staff. What players have said about Critchley is that he gives a player an easier job by telling them in simple terms exactly what their role is (the structure King Kenny mentioned) and by doing so takes pressure off them and enables them to play a simpler game and know exactly how to do it.

Some players could definitely thrive this season. We have though lost a lot of the charachter from the squad with the likes of Jerry, Big Gaz, Keshi et al moving on.
 
Yep, Good frank interview He hesitated before saying "right from the very top to the ground was.... not right"
I got the impression he wanted to say a bit more.

Just shows what most thought last season, things weren't right on and off the pitch.
 
Fylde Seasider said:
I hope he does have his mojo back. It was obvious to see him and a couple of other players were struggling personally and mentally with the clusterf*ck of what the club was with the revolving doors of managers and staff. What players have said about Critchley is that he gives a player an easier job by telling them in simple terms exactly what their role is (the structure King Kenny mentioned) and by doing so takes pressure off them and enables them to play a simpler game and know exactly how to do it.

Some players could definitely thrive this season. We have though lost a lot of the charachter from the squad with the likes of Jerry, Big Gaz, Keshi et al moving on.
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Clean slate for all the players, Kenny had obviously lost his mojo last season for whatever reason, but expect he will play a big part this season
 
Tangerine_Dream said:
He’s a charismatic guy, isn’t he?

Comes across in an interview like he plays on a pitch, boring.

In all seriousness, I hope he has a good season.
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Kenny is a great guy and a very good player. His signing transformed the team’s fortunes and of course his left foot, right foot secured promotion for the Seasiders on a memorable Wembley day.
 
tangysider said:
Clean slate for all the players, Kenny had obviously lost his mojo last season for whatever reason, but expect he will play a big part this season
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I hope so, I really rate him and it was plain to see he, among others, were really struggling last season. Yes the clean slate is very pertinent.
 
A good honest interview from a genuinely decent lad. We can’t all be Jerry Yates !!

No surprises to hear that a sense of organisation and ‘everyone understanding their jobs’ has returned!!

The attention to detail and coaching with Critchley is on a completely different level to anything they will have experienced last season.

In fairness though, I expected Appleton to be a bit slap-dash and un-intelligent … ”League 1 at best” is over-used on here, but it’s spot on for Appleton…. You need a bit more brain-power to cope in the Championship and he didn’t have enough in the locker…. We lacked shape and organisation!

However McCarthy surprised me… I expected a manager with his experience and ‘success’ to bring a lot more to the party. Whether he no longer had the enthusiasm, failed to treat the job as seriously as he should or simply lacked competence his effort too was a disorganised shambles from start to finish (Up there with the very worst Managers we’ve had !! And there’s been some shyte over the years).

Dobbie did what he did, but there’s not a sniff I’d have backed him to rebuild the squad and push on this season… It was great to let the players loose and ‘have a go’ and it was good that the fans could get behind a Club Hero, but it would have been foolhardy to think it would have been the right move…. I’ll stop short of any criticism, because it wouldn’t be fair….So all I’ll say is Maybe next time 👍
 
Good interview.

If he had been that honest on AVFTT he would be accused of being unnecessarily negative though 👀
 
Tangerine_Dream said:
He’s a charismatic guy, isn’t he?

Comes across in an interview like he plays on a pitch, boring.

In all seriousness, I hope he has a good season.
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Boring😂….there are plenty of footballers out there who couldn’t last 2 minutes in an interview without seriously being boring.🙄
 
The fans get frustrated. We get it. We were all trying. We all want the same thing - to win football matches.

It is demotivating to get criticised every week.
Some players need the stick, and thrive on it, but I'd say for the majority it has the opposite affect.

Just my view of course. And before anyone asks, I've done the 'what makes people tick', motivational stuff, NLP, counselling and the like.
 
Fylde Seasider said:
I hope he does have his mojo back. It was obvious to see him and a couple of other players were struggling personally and mentally with the clusterf*ck of what the club was with the revolving doors of managers and staff. What players have said about Critchley is that he gives a player an easier job by telling them in simple terms exactly what their role is (the structure King Kenny mentioned) and by doing so takes pressure off them and enables them to play a simpler game and know exactly how to do it.

Some players could definitely thrive this season. We have though lost a lot of the charachter from the squad with the likes of Jerry, Big Gaz, Keshi et al moving on.
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It’s the difference between a manager that just says “go out there and express yourself” and one that prepares and instructs players what their role is (which no doubt was the cause of Critchleys failure at QPR as the egos in the playing squad probably didn’t appreciate some “never been” ex player from Crewe telling them what to do”
 
Thought he came across as quite professional and eloquent, he's a decent speaker.
Be interesting to see if he goes into coaching after his playing career.
 
I would say that the way we ended the season has to be a boost to confidence despite the relegation before the last game kicked off. We showed that we were good enough to play football in that division and get results. So we should be able to do very well in League One
 
He was candid but didn't seem very upbeat, I wonder if he is going to be on the bench this season rather than in the starting XI will we see him leave by the end of the transfer window? My guess is he will be playing for someone else by September.
 
He will play. Very good player in League one. He will either play alongside Trybull and Norburn or competing with Trybull if Carey starts. We are better when Dougall plays, that was even the case in the Championship.
 
hertfordseasider said:
He was candid but didn't seem very upbeat, I wonder if he is going to be on the bench this season rather than in the starting XI will we see him leave by the end of the transfer window? My guess is he will be playing for someone else by September.
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My reading between the lines feeling was that 4 weeks back home in Oz wasnt long enough for him and he found it a wrench to come back. Not sure how that will pan out. He may feel a change would do him good but he may also just opt to see his contract out knowing things will be orderly under Critch and then he's a free agent.
 
voyeur said:
My reading between the lines feeling was that 4 weeks back home in Oz wasnt long enough for him and he found it a wrench to come back. Not sure how that will pan out. He may feel a change would do him good but he may also just opt to see his contract out knowing things will be orderly under Critch and then he's a free agent.
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He didn’t sound “right” though to me. Said he had some personal issues, obviously found last season a shit show from top to bottom and if he has had a good chat with Quitch about his future he may well be better off looking to move on. Of course he maybe very much in Quitch’s plans, but he didn’t come across like that.
 
hertfordseasider said:
He didn’t sound “right” though to me. Said he had some personal issues, obviously found last season a shit show from top to bottom and if he has had a good chat with Quitch about his future he may well be better off looking to move on. Of course he maybe very much in Quitch’s plans, but he didn’t come across like that.
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Thats kinda what i said.
 
It sounded like there are problems in his private life and his trip back to Australia did not fully resolve those issues. I half expected him to look for a club in the A-League and ask for a move once he got back. Maybe he did but the return of Critchley has given him some food for thought?
 
Comes across as a typical laid-back Aussie but thoughtful, intelligent and pleasant. Seems like a good candidate for Captain to me
 
Seainsea said:
It sounded like there are problems in his private life and his trip back to Australia did not fully resolve those issues. I half expected him to look for a club in the A-League and ask for a move once he got back. Maybe he did but the return of Critchley has given him some food for thought?
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He just finished renovating a house he bought in the northwest and moved in with a young lady so looks like he will be in England for the next 2

or 3 years. As for leaving, he was just being realistic that anyone at Blackpool is potentially for sale if someone makes a decent offer,

and a sale and move can happen very quickly. Critch rates him and played him every week in the championship, so he will think he is more than

capable in league one. However, given Virtue and Trybull's injury problems I suspect one of them will move. But in our promotion season, we lost

Ward, and Virtue to injury, and were reliant on Stewart for the final games which shows that we need decent strength in depth for promotion

at the moment we have got this in midfield if everyone is fit.
 
hertfordseasider said:
He didn’t sound “right” though to me. Said he had some personal issues, obviously found last season a shit show from top to bottom and if he has had a good chat with Quitch about his future he may well be better off looking to move on. Of course he maybe very much in Quitch’s plans, but he didn’t come across like that.
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‘Didn’t sound Right’😂
 
I can't believe Radio Lancs has sent people out to Cork. How does that work? Did they just give them a mic to do it remotely?
 
He'll be one of the best central midfielders in League 1.

Great to read all these positive comments about King Kenny because there were multiple threads at how utterly shit he was last season. His role was impossible playing in the middle with attacking flyweights in the Championship.
 
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BFC_BFC_BFC said:
A good honest interview from a genuinely decent lad. We can’t all be Jerry Yates !!

No surprises to hear that a sense of organisation and ‘everyone understanding their jobs’ has returned!!

The attention to detail and coaching with Critchley is on a completely different level to anything they will have experienced last season.

In fairness though, I expected Appleton to be a bit slap-dash and un-intelligent … ”League 1 at best” is over-used on here, but it’s spot on for Appleton…. You need a bit more brain-power to cope in the Championship and he didn’t have enough in the locker…. We lacked shape and organisation!

However McCarthy surprised me… I expected a manager with his experience and ‘success’ to bring a lot more to the party. Whether he no longer had the enthusiasm, failed to treat the job as seriously as he should or simply lacked competence his effort too was a disorganised shambles from start to finish (Up there with the very worst Managers we’ve had !! And there’s been some shyte over the years).

Dobbie did what he did, but there’s not a sniff I’d have backed him to rebuild the squad and push on this season… It was great to let the players loose and ‘have a go’ and it was good that the fans could get behind a Club Hero, but it would have been foolhardy to think it would have been the right move…. I’ll stop short of any criticism, because it wouldn’t be fair….So all I’ll say is Maybe next time 👍
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I think McCarthy genuinely had no idea what to do with a squad as lightweight as ours and tried to toughen us up when he needed to do what Dobbie did.
 
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