If we have the same start as last time under Critch

BpoolFred34

BpoolFred34

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If we don't get off to a good start I can see things becoming a little toxic. Hopefully we can get off to a good start and have a really strong season. We need to get the confidence back after the season we've just had.
 
You forget the season we were promoted that in the first 7 games we got 4 points!
That followed the draw against Fleetwood the previous season and defeat to Tranmere before covid hit.
 
He will have a degree of familiarity with the team and general set up of the club so hopefully can hit the ground running 🍊
 
Do you not feel a bit worried that we're already thinking this way.
We've got to be willing to give people time or else we're just coming across as really entitled. The ground becoming toxic at some point every season is not a good look and it's not supporting the team.
We need to get back to all being in this together.
 
If I gets toxic, it gets toxic. We wouldn’t be the first club, fans are fans and some cannot see beyond the immediate term, shit happens, just need to have the balls to plough on.
 
Dick Turton said:
The only appointment to unite the fan base was Dobbie!
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Absolutely agree.
Sadler has managed to appoint someone that he knew would divide us once again.
What is it they say about doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results!
 
Tower_75 said:
Absolutely agree.
Sadler has managed to appoint someone that he knew would divide us once again.
What is it they say about doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results!
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It's not the same thing really is it? Everyone was against Appleton pretty much. And Appleton had not done what Critch did for us previously. Critch has recent success here, and the players he inherits now are largely players he signed and worked with a year ago. And it seems to me the majority are ok with him returning.
 
voyeur said:
It's not the same thing really is it? Everyone was against Appleton pretty much. And Appleton had not done what Critch did for us previously. Critch has recent success here, and the players he inherits now are largely players he signed and worked with a year ago. And it seems to me the majority are ok with him returning.
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Yeah Ok is right

Not many delighted he's back

It's an ok safe appointment
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
About 6 I reckon
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Brett Ormerod and Jane both sounded delighted on Radio Lancs.

I do hope he sorts out his midfield and attack better this time. He won't have Bowler and Anderson to bail him out with the attacking stuff. Or Madine for that matter. Or Yates. Clean slate. Will he try to recreate that or do something very different?
 
voyeur said:
Brett Ormerod and Jane both sounded delighted on Radio Lancs.

I do hope he sorts out his midfield and attack better this time. He won't have Bowler and Anderson to bail him out with the attacking stuff. Or Madine for that matter. Or Yates. Clean slate. Will he try to recreate that or do something very different?
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Like I said the other day it's a safe appointment in that Sadler knows him

Its up to the owner now to back his man, something that he appeared to struggle doing last season with Appleton

We probably need a about 6 key players to have a chance at promotion
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Like I said the other day it's a safe appointment in that Sadler knows him

Its up to the owner now to back his man, something that he appeared to struggle doing last season with Appleton

We probably need a about 6 key players to have a chance at promotion
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To be honest i think Appleton wanted Prem loans and he got them. He just got very little out of them. Fiorini got injured, Patino got steadiily worse. Rogers came to life under Dobbie. He failed to manage Poveda. Goode and Trybull got injured. Lyons was a good signing. Dougall was a shadow of the player he had been under NC. Appleton didn't get the best out of what he had, not by a long shot.
 
Mike_BFC said:
If I gets toxic, it gets toxic. We wouldn’t be the first club, fans are fans and some cannot see beyond the immediate term, shit happens, just need to have the balls to plough on.
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Ploughed on last season.
Remind me how that went 🤔
 
I do find these type of looking-for negatives posts really sad and what kind of mindset triggers them.😌😵
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Like I said the other day it's a safe appointment in that Sadler knows him

Its up to the owner now to back his man, something that he appeared to struggle doing last season with Appleton

We probably need a about 6 key players to have a chance at promotion
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That avatar 👍🤗
 
Wizzerboy said:
Ploughed on last season.
Remind me how that went 🤔
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I don't believe we did plough on. Think we signed a load of Appleton players and then sacked him after a poor Watford game when the signings were not even match-fit. Bringing Mick in after signing a load of 4-3-3 players was not ploughing on in my view.

You could, in hindsight, argue Wigan away was the time but we all believed players would be back after the winter world cup and we ended up with more players out, which is the point it started to spiral.
 
voyeur said:
It's not the same thing really is it? Everyone was against Appleton pretty much. And Appleton had not done what Critch did for us previously. Critch has recent success here, and the players he inherits now are largely players he signed and worked with a year ago. And it seems to me the majority are ok with him returning.
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Some were happy to give Appleton a chance and some weren't. Same thing is happening now. I'd say Critch has more on board than MA did but there is still a lot more division than if Sadler had just gone with Dobbie.
 
Tower_75 said:
Some were happy to give Appleton a chance and some weren't. Same thing is happening now. I'd say Critch has more on board than MA did but there is still a lot more division than if Sadler had just gone with Dobbie.
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I don't agree. The vast majority were dismayed about Appleton. I thought it was a poor appointment not because he left us first time, but because I couldn't see what he had to offer us, and had had a difficult previous season at Lincoln where he was being treated for cancer and left by mutual consent. It was a bad time to appoint him.

There is some anti Critchley feeling now which is not ideal but he's a far strnger candidate, the majority will get behind him knowing this, and the rest will follow if he gets results, which is much more likely than it was with Appleton. Better coach, a league lower.
 
voyeur said:
I don't agree. The vast majority were dismayed about Appleton. I thought it was a poor appointment not because he left us first time, but because I couldn't see what he had to offer us, and had had a difficult previous season at Lincoln where he was being treated for cancer and left by mutual consent. It was a bad time to appoint him.

There is some anti Critchley feeling now which is not ideal but he's a far strnger candidate, the majority will get behind him knowing this, and the rest will follow if he gets results, which is much more likely than it was with Appleton. Better coach, a league lower.
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Fair enough, we can agree to disagree on that.

I'm still not willing to predict how he will do until we get to pre-season at the earliest and have an inkling of which players he'll be working with and how Sadler is going to back him.
 
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