Professor Critch.

CompleteControl said:
Insider - can you give any details of what he talked about?
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Just about players working hard through the week. Tough test against Wolves played on a fabulous pitch. (He's obsessed with good quality pitches). Building towards where they need to be. Progress doesn't happen over night. Seems to concentrating on "out of possession" work. Development Squad boys are learning alot from training with the 1st team. A decision will be made soon about how best to progress them.
 
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Insider said:
Just about players working hard through the week. Tough test against Wolves played on a fabulous pitch. (He's obsessed with good quality pitches). Building towards where the need to be. Progress doesn't happen over night. Seems to concentrating on "out of possession" work. Development Squad boys are learning alot from training with the 1st team. A decision will be made soon about how best to progress them.
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Hopefully the first team forwards are learning a lot from training with Dobbie. IN possession.
 
voyeur said:
Hopefully the first team forwards are learning a lot from training with Dobbie. IN possession.
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If you look at some of my old posts you will see I've commented on how poor we were/are out of possession and IMO that can define a team.
Don't fully understand your comment about Dobbie. As far as I know he's not involved with training the 1st team squad and for the purpose of pre-season those "development squad" players that have been training with Critch have have not featured in Dobbie's teams, unless you know different.
 
Insider said:
If you look at some of my old posts you will see I've commented on how poor we were/are out of possession and IMO that can define a team.
Don't fully understand your comment about Dobbie. As far as I know he's not involved with training the 1st team squad and for the purpose of pre-season those "development squad" players that have been training with Critch have have not featured in Dobbie's teams, unless you know different.
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I thought Critch implied the dev squad was training with the first team squad so it would all be one. I guess he just meant a handful of dev squad players.

We were excellent out of possession when Critch was last here. I just think we were weak in possession in the final third. Everything went wide and from there we didnt get quality service into the strikers.

Dobbie took a couple of days to do better, I felt. He could help. We pay his wages. Make it happen!!!
 
voyeur said:
I thought Critch implied the dev squad was training with the first team squad so it would all be one. I guess he just meant a handful of dev squad players.

We were excellent out of possession when Critch was last here. I just think we were weak in possession in the final third. Everything went wide and from there we didnt get quality service into the strikers.

Dobbie took a couple of days to do better, I felt. He could help. We pay his wages. Make it happen!!!
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The problem remains the lack of space/pitches at Squires Gate.
When the new training ground is available all the squads will be together as one big happy family.
 
Insider said:
I tend to agree with that but I do think his period away from Bloomfield Rd will have improved his management skills strangely enough.
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I understand why your saying that from his interviews but not how that improvement came about. We just won’t know until the season starts for real.
 
Yeah he did wonders at villa and QPR I’m not sure they’ll describe him as a professor, I’d describe him as a little shit personally.
 
It’s understandable he’d need an experienced coach early on, but 3 years has passed since he got his first management job and as mentioned, he’s learned from Villa and QPR.

He’s gonna be fine with the staff we have🍊
 
Insider said:
I get the impression he's happy with both his No 2s.
First time round he needed some experience alongside him. He sounds a lot more confident in himself now. Tbh he doesn't have to do much to impress us after last season.
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Is he happy with them because they agree all the time?

I'd rather the head coach coach and the asst. be the manager figure.

It just seems a cheap fix oversight in the scheme of appointments made recently.
 
Insider said:
Just listenned to Critch's Barrow pre-match interview.
What a world, and a century in terms of football coaching, he is away from the previous 2 dinosaurs.
I'd love to sit down with him for a couple of hours and just discuss football.
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Youve set off a lot of negative comments !
 
Some people cant help themselves. They see a positive, appreciative post about our coach and immediately feel obliged to look for a negative, contrary viewpoint. I don't know about NC as a person, but I do know that he has coaching ability, and gets the best out of the players at his disposal.
 
tangible said:
Some people cant help themselves. They see a positive, appreciative post about our coach and immediately feel obliged to look for a negative, contrary viewpoint. I don't know about NC as a person, but I do know that he has coaching ability, and gets the best out of the players at his disposal.
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It's also impossible to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
 
In our promotion season, imo our upturn in form was as much to do with the players we had available as having an experienced assistant. Our form improved massively as soon as Dougall started playing. His first game that season was in our 10th game, away to Burton. Say what you like about him, but he was superb that year.
 
voyeur said:
I thought Critch implied the dev squad was training with the first team squad so it would all be one. I guess he just meant a handful of dev squad players.

We were excellent out of possession when Critch was last here. I just think we were weak in possession in the final third. Everything went wide and from there we didnt get quality service into the strikers.

Dobbie took a couple of days to do better, I felt. He could help. We pay his wages. Make it happen!!!
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I would hope and assume that Dobbie is consulted and made full use of?
 
BFC_53 said:
In our promotion season, imo our upturn in form was as much to do with the players we had available as having an experienced assistant. Our form improved massively as soon as Dougall started playing. His first game that season was in our 10th game, away to Burton. Say what you like about him, but he was superb that year.
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He would be, L1 is absolutely his level
 
Marton Monorail said:
He would be, L1 is absolutely his level
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Top end of league one, which is good seeing as that's where we want to be next season.
In any case, the point is I don't really agree that having an experienced assistant to Critchley was the catalyst for our upturn in form. Or at least not the only catalyst.
 
1950`spoolfan said:
But is he a good man manager, motivator? I have my doubts.
Some are good coaches but less good managers.
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I'd imagine Appleton was mute, McCarthy was a barking dog and Dobbie will have got the most out of them and for me is most akin to Critchley. As Wizz said different class and I have no doubts about how good a manager and motivator he is.
If a player goes out confident in what he has to do that for me is the motivation.
 
voyeur said:
I thought Critch implied the dev squad was training with the first team squad so it would all be one. I guess he just meant a handful of dev squad players.

We were excellent out of possession when Critch was last here. I just think we were weak in possession in the final third. Everything went wide and from there we didnt get quality service into the strikers.

Dobbie took a couple of days to do better, I felt. He could help. We pay his wages. Make it happen!!!
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Critchley has his back room team and Dobbie isn't part of it

Why do people keep trying to force other coaches on him

What next Thommo again
 
Going back to the o/p is the problem that Critch is a highly trained coach but it's like asking Gordon Ramsay to cook Asda's own Burgers?
 
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