Is Critch a Michelin Chef using Lidl ingedients?

ParkerAteMyKebab

ParkerAteMyKebab

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It did worry me the first time round that Critch is such a footie geek and studies every minutia of the game that you need players of that capability and skill to carry out those formations and ideas.
Does he need to realise that our players don't have those skills and go back to basics and just let them play football? Max Verstappen wouldn't win Hockenheim in a Chevette and similar Critch ain't going to win much with these tactics and players.
 
nothing wrong with lidl ingredients - but we have someone who's running a perfectly good local cafe, who thinks he needs to do all the flourishes for a michelin star. The problem is you look under the jus, and the filo laminates and there is no substance whatsoever.

The chef is trying to be creative in all the wrong places, hes making duck a la banana, or beef curry gateaux.

He needs to make an excellent shepherds pie.

a decent coach should be able to take the players hes got, see what strengths they posses and what weaknesses they have, try and remove the weaknesses (through coaching) and build a system that the players can easily fit into (team management and tactics). He did that the first time around but he seems stubbornly averse to it at the moment.

In pre season, and against burton and derby it looked like it was coming together, you could see the plan, the Exeter game we were a bit unlucky in all fairness, but there were things that just didn't work and it was only the defences recovery speed that saved us.
 
He is no Michelin star chef, a Michelin star chef would make something flamboyant and super tasty out of Lidl ingredients, Ollie was a 3 star Michelin Chef, Critchley is more your Bangers and Mash sort of chef and he would just get a worse taste out of Lidl bangers and mash because he wouldn't change how he does things or have the creativity to create something special.
 
HighfieldSeasider said:
I think you're kind of right, one of Critchley's problems for me is trying to play inverted wing backs like Liverpool but instead of having international footballers Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson he's trying to do it with CJ Hamilton and Callum Connolly.
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TA & Robertson don't play as inverted WB's Mark.
TA RWB Robertson on his natural left.
 
hertfordseasider said:
He is no Michelin star chef, a Michelin star chef would make something flamboyant and super tasty out of Lidl ingredients, Ollie was a 3 star Michelin Chef, Critchley is more your Bangers and Mash sort of chef and he would just get a worse taste out of Lidl bangers and mash because he wouldn't change how he does things or have the creativity to create something special.
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I wouldn't attempt Michelin Star flourishes because I know my limits. However my shepherd's pie's pretty good. Horses for courses and we're not dining in the Premier League.
 
ParkerAteMyKebab said:
It did worry me the first time round that Critch is such a footie geek and studies every minutia of the game that you need players of that capability and skill to carry out those formations and ideas.
Does he need to realise that our players don't have those skills and go back to basics and just let them play football? Max Verstappen wouldn't win Hockenheim in a Chevette and similar Critch ain't going to win much with these tactics and players.
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Yep, been making this point for a good while now. He wants/expects our players to be playing the same way that PL teams do. He forgets he has L1 players who simply can't do the basics of what some PL do.
 
20togo said:
Yep, been making this point for a good while now. He wants/expects our players to be playing the same way that PL teams do. He forgets he has L1 players who simply can't do the basics of what some PL do.
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Said teh same the other day. Reminds me very much of Hendry who thought he could treat a L1 team as if they were internationals.
 
Critch.....
As a philosopher once said... (The chances are he didn't 'actually' say it, but humour me for the sake of this post..!)

'Everything happens for a reason.
But sometimes the reason is that you're blinkered, stubborn and make bad decisions'
 
ParkerAteMyKebab said:
It did worry me the first time round that Critch is such a footie geek and studies every minutia of the game that you need players of that capability and skill to carry out those formations and ideas.
Does he need to realise that our players don't have those skills and go back to basics and just let them play football? Max Verstappen wouldn't win Hockenheim in a Chevette and similar Critch ain't going to win much with these tactics and players.
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Terrible food - and such meagre portions.

First you return, after a departure which saw no thanks for supporters' backing.

Next, accept a Scrooge recruits budget.

Then attempt tactics suited to Premier League stars, not League One mediocrity.

As a result, stir in "a little bit" wrong, amid a staggering eight hours without a goal.

And "one or two" potential signings, when the squad needs far more drastic surgery.

A coach, like predecessors from serial failures, stays at a club unfit for purpose.

A dog's breakfast? Pass the sick bag.
 
I would say there's some truth in the fact we have a patient style of play which dominates possession. However, we don't have enough quality in the end product (final third). Therefore it becomes pointless. He needs better personel.
 
ParkerAteMyKebab said:
It did worry me the first time round that Critch is such a footie geek and studies every minutia of the game that you need players of that capability and skill to carry out those formations and ideas.
Does he need to realise that our players don't have those skills and go back to basics and just let them play football? Max Verstappen wouldn't win Hockenheim in a Chevette and similar Critch ain't going to win much with these tactics and players.
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A good chef would know what ingredients were available
 
HighfieldSeasider said:
I think you're kind of right, one of Critchley's problems for me is trying to play inverted wing backs like Liverpool but instead of having international footballers Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson he's trying to do it with CJ Hamilton and Callum Connolly.
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Liverpool don't play 5 at the back though do they?

And Trent and Robertson play on the correct sides don't they?
 
Is Critchley actually a good coach? I never thought we played that well under him the first time - nothing like the football Ollie or Grayson (first time) or McMahon achieved. After he left us, the Aston Villa players and the QPR players looked as bewildered as ours do now. Since Critchley left, Aston Villa have looked like thoroughbreds. With Critchley, they looked like donkeys. Yes, he did OK with Liverpool youth but wouldn't virtually any coach?
 
No opposite, he's a burger van cook,.trying to work in a restaurant as a top chef. Problem is last time he had a good assistant chef who made the dishes, and when the assistant left, he left a few dishes in the freezer for him to use. Problem is nothing left now.. so its now just throw something together and hope it taste okay or just edible
 
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