Its got nothing to do with injuries

Phil_bfc deux said:
Fuck all to do with players being tired or covid or 2 games in a week

Its all to do with the head coach and his tactical ineptitude

Time and time again this season he's got the formations wrong against teams who ever man and his dog knows how they will set up

We have played 3 teams in the last 4 games who play 352 yet we have still played this 442 thus being outnumbered in midfield and hardly having a shot or a cross

Is it any wonder why we have created so few chances

Most of our best performances this season have either been when we press high, hold up play from Madine or when we have a fluid midfield and movement

442 2 banks of 4 with wide men on their wrong foot just isn't working and its either very naive or extremely arrogant to think that doing the same thing over and over again will have different results

40 odd games in and we still haven't played our most creative player in the middle where he can influence games

We have the strongest squad we have had for years but look like we are in the process of ** things up
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I think you should write to Simon Sadler and ask to be the next manager, because you seem to know more than the people in charge currently. I assume you’ve already got lots of football coaching and management experience and have been highly successful!!
 
Wiz, Plumbs,I just knock the ball around the ground occasionally now for fun.

My prowess and record breaking innings are legendary so no need to work too hard these days

let Phil the Welsh Dragon try to catch up a bit (he never will of course ) 🏏👍
 
Magic147 said:
Phil is absolutely bang on with this I'm afraid. Anybody who can't see it is as blind as Critchley himself.
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Rubbish from Phil & Magic

we’ve had 8 first team probable starters out since 1st Feb - that’s nearly a team (your first team)

we’ve done amazing until Lincoln - we stopped playing and we’ve never recovered

the remainder of the squad is knackered if you can’t see that Phil, please don’t insult us about NC’s eyesight !

just pray your prayers are heard and at least we get a pop at the play offs - I think we just (only just) deserve a crack at them

that’s my opinion and I am awaiting my cataract double op soon
 
Wizaard said:
And Virtue and Stewart and Ekpiteta and Gretarsson...
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Wizaard said:
And Virtue and Stewart and Ekpiteta and Gretarsson..
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Anderson, Ekpiteta, Gretarsson, Hamilton, Madine, Stewart and Virtue (in no particular order😜) would walk into any other team in League One, if they were able to.

Back in the day, how the hell would Don Revie have coped with long-term injuries to Bremner, Charlton, Clarke, Giles, Gray, Hunter and Lorimer?

To slag off our manager, given the position we are in now, is chuffin' ludicrous!

What bloody planet are some people on?
 
Macseasider said:
They scored the winning goal of the game which makes this point nonsense. They also hit the crossbar. Nothing going forward at all eh?
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Jeez your a miserable **, even in this side of the board. Opinions mate, I have mine and you hate anybody’s that isn’t yours.
 
I just don't have any confidence in this team, I thought we were really poor at times during the long unbeaten run.
 
Camberwell1 said:
Rubbish from Phil & Magic

we’ve had 8 first team probable starters out since 1st Feb - that’s nearly a team (your first team)

we’ve done amazing until Lincoln - we stopped playing and we’ve never recovered

the remainder of the squad is knackered if you can’t see that Phil, please don’t insult us about NC’s eyesight !

just pray your prayers are heard and at least we get a pop at the play offs - I think we just (only just) deserve a crack at them

that’s my opinion and I am awaiting my cataract double op soon
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The injuries have happened, and they're out of our control. What is in our control is the option to play a system we know works and gets the best out of the players we have available now. The fact we're not doing that suggests to me that the person making that decision isn't performing at the level he should be.

It really couldn't be clearer.
 
FessParker said:
Absolutely. To say injuries have played no part is just ludicrous beyond belief.
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Pardon my intrusion. It’s your “nom de plume” that intrigues me. I used to have an English teacher, Mr Parker who for reason(s) unknown to me was tagged with Fess/Fez. Is this just a coincidence?
 
Stony Hill said:
Pardon my intrusion. It’s your “nom de plume” that intrigues me. I used to have an English teacher, Mr Parker who for reason(s) unknown to me was tagged with Fess/Fez. Is this just a coincidence?
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Granville Parker was an English and Latin teacher at Arnold . He was nicknamed Fess due to his resemblance to Fess Parker the American
Actor of the 50s and 60s ( famous for playing Davy Crockett).
 
Born_in_the_Fifties said:
Anderson, Ekpiteta, Gretarsson, Hamilton, Madine, Stewart and Virtue (in no particular order😜) would walk into any other team in League One, if they were able to.

Back in the day, how the hell would Don Revie have coped with long-term injuries to Bremner, Charlton, Clarke, Giles, Gray, Hunter and Lorimer?

To slag off our manager, given the position we are in now, is chuffin' ludicrous!

What bloody planet are some people on?
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It isn't all about who is missing, we also have to look at who is available, who is being picked and how are they being deployed.
Has the manager played his available cards well, I don't think so, he might not have been dealt many aces recently but I don't think he is making the best use of what he's got.
 
Born_in_the_Fifties said:
Anderson, Ekpiteta, Gretarsson, Hamilton, Madine, Stewart and Virtue (in no particular order😜) would walk into any other team in League One, if they were able to.

Back in the day, how the hell would Don Revie have coped with long-term injuries to Bremner, Charlton, Clarke, Giles, Gray, Hunter and Lorimer?

To slag off our manager, given the position we are in now, is chuffin' ludicrous!

What bloody planet are some people on?
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A post from Fifties is rarer than a compliment from 62years.
Glad to know you ae still lurking in the background on the nght shift.
 
Born_in_the_Fifties said:
Anderson, Ekpiteta, Gretarsson, Hamilton, Madine, Stewart and Virtue (in no particular order😜) would walk into any other team in League One, if they were able to.

Back in the day, how the hell would Don Revie have coped with long-term injuries to Bremner, Charlton, Clarke, Giles, Gray, Hunter and Lorimer?

To slag off our manager, given the position we are in now, is chuffin' ludicrous!

What bloody planet are some people on?
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Ekpiteta has improved massively and probably would not sure about the rest given there weren't a load of clubs queueing up to sign them

Stewart didn't even have a club for 6 months

Not sure of your Leeds comments either considering how football has changed so much, substitutions were only started in the late 60s

The target this season is promotion we haven't achieved that yet so how is being critical 'ludicrous'

So in summary i think your post is nonsense
 
FessParker said:
Granville Parker was an English and Latin teacher at Arnold . He was nicknamed Fess due to his resemblance to Fess Parker the American
Actor of the 50s and 60s ( famous for playing Davy Crockett).
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Thanks. Curiosity sorted. I definitely had ‘Fess’ for one year (4th) but 5th yr we ended up with Steve Oliver.
There weren’t many ‘pool fans in my Year. Only me & Jonny Hegginbotham in my class. Ring a bell?
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Fuck all to do with players being tired or covid or 2 games in a week

Its all to do with the head coach and his tactical ineptitude

Time and time again this season he's got the formations wrong against teams who ever man and his dog knows how they will set up

We have played 3 teams in the last 4 games who play 352 yet we have still played this 442 thus being outnumbered in midfield and hardly having a shot or a cross

Is it any wonder why we have created so few chances

Most of our best performances this season have either been when we press high, hold up play from Madine or when we have a fluid midfield and movement

442 2 banks of 4 with wide men on their wrong foot just isn't working and its either very naive or extremely arrogant to think that doing the same thing over and over again will have different results

40 odd games in and we still haven't played our most creative player in the middle where he can influence games

We have the strongest squad we have had for years but look like we are in the process of ** things up
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Spot on that as far as I am concerned. We can see it why can't he ? He keeps sticking with this bloody 442 that doesn't work especially against lower league teams where they pack the midfield and defence.
 
Stony Hill said:
Thanks. Curiosity sorted. I definitely had ‘Fess’ for one year (4th) but 5th yr we ended up with Steve Oliver.
There weren’t many ‘pool fans in my Year. Only me & Jonny Hegginbotham in my class. Ring a bell?
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No sorry but I think I'm a fair bit older than you as I was at Arnold from 59 to 66 . At that time BPool were in the
first division ( albeit generally struggling) so there was quite a few of us supporting the club in my class. I still go to the
matches with one of my classmates to this day. There was still Saturday morning school when I was there so I used to miss
quite a lot of Pool games from January onwards as I played hockey for the school on Saturday afternoons. Fess was my Form
Master in my first year and I think I had him every year for either Latin Or English up to O Level. He was also involved in cricket
which I also played. Mainly good memories . Oh , but I hated CCF!!
 
Magic147 said:
The injuries have happened, and they're out of our control. What is in our control is the option to play a system we know works and gets the best out of the players we have available now. The fact we're not doing that suggests to me that the person making that decision isn't performing at the level he should be.

It really couldn't be clearer.
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Rubbish - give em a break !
 
Scaramanga said:
Jeez your a miserable **, even in this side of the board. Opinions mate, I have mine and you hate anybody’s that isn’t yours.
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Firstly I really hardly ever post on your politics pages. There is no point.

Secondly I am not miserable nor a **. But thanks for the unnecessary insult. I simply pointed out a blatant inaccuracy you posted as some kind of fact. On the chances front, Shrewsbury Town had far the better - and scored so to say they offered nothing going forward was nonsense.
 
Macseasider said:
Firstly I really hardly ever post on your politics pages. There is no point.

Secondly I am not miserable nor a **. But thanks for the unnecessary insult. I simply pointed out a blatant inaccuracy you posted as some kind of fact. On the chances front, Shrewsbury Town had far the better - and scored so to say they offered nothing going forward was nonsense.
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No your talking shite
 
Macseasider said:
Firstly I really hardly ever post on your politics pages. There is no point.

Secondly I am not miserable nor a **. But thanks for the unnecessary insult. I simply pointed out a blatant inaccuracy you posted as some kind of fact. On the chances front, Shrewsbury Town had far the better - and scored so to say they offered nothing going forward was nonsense.
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Not sure on the better chances. Jerry was an inch away from scoring from a foot out, he blazed wide when clear on goal, Ballard should have done better with the shot on the turn, Robson forced a good save, and the follow up was offside...
 
FessParker said:
No sorry but I think I'm a fair bit older than you as I was at Arnold from 59 to 66 . At that time BPool were in the
first division ( albeit generally struggling) so there was quite a few of us supporting the club in my class. I still go to the
matches with one of my classmates to this day. There was still Saturday morning school when I was there so I used to miss
quite a lot of Pool games from January onwards as I played hockey for the school on Saturday afternoons. Fess was my Form
Master in my first year and I think I had him every year for either Latin Or English up to O Level. He was also involved in cricket
which I also played. Mainly good memories . Oh , but I hated CCF!!
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Thanks for the update. I was there 64-71. Retired to the “Gold Coast” 3yrs ago. Good and bad memories too but I have been surprised by the number of schoolmates who said they hated Arnold. I didn’t but then, I was reasonable at sport, which probably helped. Good talking to you. C’mon you ‘pool.
 
Tangerine_Dream said:
We win games - Calderwood is the brains behind it.

We lose games - Critchley is clueless.

Literally beyond boring these OP's now.
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There's little doubt that an improvement in our defending coincided with Calderwood coming on board. This allowed us to get some narrow wins and to stay in difficult games.
I doubt Critchley would be here now if it wasn't for the Board helping him by appointing an experienced assistant.
 
62years&counting said:
There's little doubt that an improvement in our defending coincided with Calderwood coming on board. This allowed us to get some narrow wins and to stay in difficult games.
I doubt Critchley would be here now if it wasn't for the Board helping him by appointing an experienced assistant.
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What is the state of play with Calderwood's contract?
 
So it's nothing to do with missing Madine, CJ, Anderson, Stewart, Ekpiteta long term. We'd have won all these games, playing twice a week, with the same 12 or 13 players,some probably struggling through with niggles, if we'd played the right formation.
Well I only played North West Counties and Sunday Premier, but I can tell you when we didn't have our best players available, we were less likely to win against anyone, in any formation
But I bow to the OP's tactical awareness.
 
WiltsSeasider said:
It's so clear that Phil doesn't like Critchley.
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He has his nose out of joint about Sadler getting the club as well, he just doesn't have the balls to say so. But he's waiting for the day he can say "told you so" about him as well.

Criticism is fine when it is fair and balanced. Nothing the OP says is ever either, because sniping at the club he says he supports is what he does.
 
62years&counting said:
There's little doubt that an improvement in our defending coincided with Calderwood coming on board. This allowed us to get some narrow wins and to stay in difficult games.
I doubt Critchley would be here now if it wasn't for the Board helping him by appointing an experienced assistant.
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That doesn't really have anything to do with what I've said, does it?

I've said when we win, the OP credits it to Calderwood, and when we lose, the blame is put on Critchley.

It doesn't work both ways - if Calderwood is the one to credit when we're winning, then he's the one to be annoyed at when we're losing.

IMO to be in the play offs with a few matches remaining is a great achievement and people need to realise how far we as a club have come after years of neglect.
 
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I don't think we are ready for Championship football, next season may be, the team from top to bottom will have learned a lot from this season take a look at the difference from day one to now. With another season under their belt, I think they will be ready, assuming we can keep a core set of players that is. As far as the two games a week having an effect, I find it difficult to believe they are getting fatigued over 200m plus training when compared with some other sports like tennis and cycling.
 
Tangerine_Dream said:
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I've said, does it?

I've said when we win, the OP credits it to Calderwood, and when we lose, the blame is put on Critchley.

It doesn't work both ways - if Calderwood is the one to credit when we're winning, then he's the one to be annoyed at when we're losing.

IMO to be in the play offs with a few matches remaining is a great achievement and people need to realise how far we as a cub have come after years of neglect.
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People will make up their own minds as to how far the club (not cub) has come...on the field.
Perhaps Calderwood should take the blame for losses given I've yet to hear Critchley admit to making any mistakes...and there have been so many.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
So it's nothing to do with missing Madine, CJ, Anderson, Stewart, Ekpiteta long term. We'd have won all these games, playing twice a week, with the same 12 or 13 players,some probably struggling through with niggles, if we'd played the right formation.
Well I only played North West Counties and Sunday Premier, but I can tell you when we didn't have our best players available, we were less likely to win against anyone, in any formation
But I bow to the OP's tactical awareness.
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Other Clubs have suffered the same problems as Pool.
 
62years&counting said:
People will make up their own minds as to how far the club (not cub) has come...on the field.
Perhaps Calderwood should take the blame for losses given I've yet to hear Critchley admit to making any mistakes...and there have been so many.
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I don't really think it takes much more than looking at the league table to determine how far the club has come on in a short period of time.

Critchley has made mistakes, so do all managers. Some people on here seem to expect us to win 46 league games without conceding a goal and even then I'm sure they'd find something to whinge about.
 
coppiceman said:
He has his nose out of joint about Sadler getting the club as well, he just doesn't have the balls to say so. But he's waiting for the day he can say "told you so" about him as well.

Criticism is fine when it is fair and balanced. Nothing the OP says is ever either, because sniping at the club he says he supports is what he does.
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Thats bull shit I'm fully behind Sadler and all my criticism is fair and balanced 👌
 
Tangerine_Dream said:
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I've said, does it?

I've said when we win, the OP credits it to Calderwood, and when we lose, the blame is put on Critchley.

It doesn't work both ways - if Calderwood is the one to credit when we're winning, then he's the one to be annoyed at when we're losing.

IMO to be in the play offs with a few matches remaining is a great achievement and people need to realise how far we as a club have come after years of neglect.
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Thats nonsense as well

I've credited Critchley several times this season as i have Calderwood, Calderwood was bought in as a defensive coach Critchley is head coach so the buck stops with him

You think being in the play offs at this current time is a great achievement i don't

The target this season is promotion and at the moment we are clinging on to a play off position

If we get promoted then it will be an achievement if we don't then ultimately we have failed

The club has come a long way due to the investment of Simon Sadler 👏
 
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Phil_bfc deux said:
Thats nonsense as well

I've credited Critchley several times this season as i have Calderwood, Calderwood was bought in as a defensive coach Critchley is head coach so the buck stops with him

You think being in the play offs at this current time is a great achievement i don't

The target this season is promotion and at the moment we are clinging on to a play off position

If we get promoted then it will be an achievement if we don't then ultimately we have failed

The club has come a long way due to the investigation of Simon Sadler 👏
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So if Calderwood is the 'defensive' coach as you say, then who is the attacking coach? Who's responsible for coaching all those goals that have gone in?
 
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