berthalovelybertha
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...and, if we could afford those players, it'd likely be the same relentlessly boring shite anyway.
Reading v Blackpool Official Matchday Thread 27.04.24
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neyo
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Sorry mate.
Matesrates
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Once we went 3-1 down I sort of just shrugged, expecting it I guess. Now, I’m furious, depressed, angry. Good job I’m nowhere near that clown.
Sandgrown1
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Yes they did mate... they could all have done better to be fair.... and the rest of the side too. :(
MrBoJangles
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CROTCHLESS OUT!!?
Archibald Knox
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I tend to agree. If we had won today and somehow scabbed it through the POs to be promoted then the club would have had to spend some very serious money in the summer to have a hope of staying in the Championship. It’s better to build a strong skeleton of a team where we are, before promotion. Or at least that is what I presume is consolation for Mr Sadler.
To come back stronger next season means that Critchley will have to learn some hard lessons about tactics, attitudes and player judgement. My concern is that he hasn’t learned those lessons over 46 matches this season, especially the second half of it, so can we realistically expect him to change completely over the summer?
Can't disagree with anything you have said, maybe things will change with the addition and removal of players only time will tell.
1966_and_all_that
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I suspect he will think, "we were close so I'll carry on as per..."
TangerineEggCup
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It's down to his formation and instructions
. Obviously poorly set up away . How do we go from unbeatable at home to a limp noodle away.The squad seems to lack leaders or maybe just a lack of belief.
I wished the players had been strong enough to have had a heart to heart with the manager and tell him we are struggling with this formation and it needs changing.
Theoneandonly
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We hoped but the pragmatic side of us knew what today would be. Where did you see goals coming from in our team today? Why would we be world beaters in our away form under Critchley?
Theoneandonly
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Of course not. Critchley was found out at QPR and is at his third division level now.
Disagree , but that's my opinion, my opinion again is that the players haven't performed to their capabilities especially away from home.It's down to his formation and instructions
They will have had that formation and instructions as you call them drilled into them from day one of the season and i include pre season in that and they haven't adhered to them. in my opinion
Theoneandonly
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Then it’s on the manager to improve things and he failed. We are making the same mistakes now as at the start of the season. Only improved player is Grimshaw who has had plenty of practice and not played out of position.
Sandgroanun
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Because he's thick skinned and idiots keep asking for a fist pump he thinks he is still liked.
Wilburrabbit
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Let’s be honest, of the possible scenarios that could have happened today the one where results went for us but we failed to deliver was always the most likely.
This team has ended well to make it to the last day but with no punch in attack we would never have made it through the playoffs and were simply not good enough to go up.
Take stock of the squad, clear out the deadwood, see who will be here and strengthen where we can. We have Apter pulling up trees to look forward to and maybe Rhodes will sign.
UTMP
This team has ended well to make it to the last day but with no punch in attack we would never have made it through the playoffs and were simply not good enough to go up.
Take stock of the squad, clear out the deadwood, see who will be here and strengthen where we can. We have Apter pulling up trees to look forward to and maybe Rhodes will sign.
UTMP
They all failed IMO
clappers
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Fixed.
Wilburrabbit
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I don’t think so
65 & Counting
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Without Dembele and more than likely the other loans you must be joking.
Also, if I was Grimshaw or Gabriel then I'd be doing my best to engineer a move.
DreadPool
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Disagree - give any manager a shit frontline and I defy anyone to expect successIt's down to his formation and instructions
Take out the loans and there are too many bang average players in the squad. How many of the non loan players would be shoo-ins as 1st choices for a mid table Championship club. Not many I would suggest. We would need a huge rebuild if we had scabbed it back to the Championship..I still think we'll need a big turnover of players to be successful next season in League 1. We need much better quality and more leaders if we want to be successful. There is a distinct lack of fight in the current squad..too many weak and quiet individuals..
..and as for the manager..don't get me started on him
..and as for the manager..don't get me started on him
... And who can basically be described in one word. Go on - guess! Yep, you got it: shocking. Or, if not that, maybe something a little more apposite. 'Shite', possibly ...
Camberwell1
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And who bought them or brought them in ?
My opinion of course and i don't do jokes if i did i would be on stage, who knows who will come and go. Lets wait and see
A_Tense_Grin
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We have struggled with playing the offside trap all season. Their first goal another example of this. That is the system and management.
They haven't performed full stop, blame Critchley, blame formations, tactics and all the excuses under the sun but they haven't performed especially away from home
clappers
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I blame the manager who selects them coaches them sets them up and tolerates failure game after game.
tangerine_neil
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I half expected another Critchley Disasterclass.
Was right in that two other teams’ fcuked up.
Sums up our season that we couldn’t take advantage. We don’t deserve to go up. Looked all over the place for most of the season and even the wins have mostly been soulless borefests.
The defence are easily defeated. The forwards (loans excepted) are some of the worst we’ve ever had. We had better in Lg2 under the O’s. Sadler and the (cough) Recruitment Team experts must take a chunk of the blame. There’s no sign of gradual quality improvement- it’s a slow decline into mediocrity.
Sadler will no doubt stick with his clueless chum for another year of Seaside Tedium. Not been this disengaged for a pre-season since the NAPM years.
Was right in that two other teams’ fcuked up.
Sums up our season that we couldn’t take advantage. We don’t deserve to go up. Looked all over the place for most of the season and even the wins have mostly been soulless borefests.
The defence are easily defeated. The forwards (loans excepted) are some of the worst we’ve ever had. We had better in Lg2 under the O’s. Sadler and the (cough) Recruitment Team experts must take a chunk of the blame. There’s no sign of gradual quality improvement- it’s a slow decline into mediocrity.
Sadler will no doubt stick with his clueless chum for another year of Seaside Tedium. Not been this disengaged for a pre-season since the NAPM years.
Cant comment on todays game because never seen it with being away, anyway you're only on here because we lost.
Is it shite the system and management, how can the manager be blamed if someone doesn't step up, or communication on the field is not heard or a perfectly timed pass is played. just three basic reasons
Clueless idiot as usual
That's fine and your prerogative, i disagree and that's mine.
P t Barnum
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Well giving a goal away just before halftime is really poor and I reckon they should know it
TangerinePeel
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"Give"
All our senior strikers are Critchley signings, from his first and second reign.
I don't think you should be too hard on your team for what happened yesterday. You really did play us at the wrong time. I don't think any Reading fan would have believed we would celebrate finishing 17th in League One a few years ago but it shows how far we have fallen. However we absolutely feel we have our club back. There is a real connection between the manager, player and fans. They were never going to be on the beach yesterday.
As for the game you were terrific in the opening twenty playing slick football and looking comfortable at the back. It was reflected in the noise in the away end. We then starting getting into the game and as scorelines filtered through elsewhere you became quiter.
The turning point was the Pereira save just before half time. For us to then equalise minutes later was a big shift.
We started the second half well but then you gained a little ascendancy without creating too much. However I didn't sense your fans were really fired up as other scores were still unfavourable.
In the end I thought the result was about right. Ironic that other scorelines did turn out the right way for you.
Blackpool are a proper football club. You always look to play football. You should be up there next season although Dembele will be a big loss. He is some player and was a cut above yesterday
Enjoy the summer....if we get one.
As for the game you were terrific in the opening twenty playing slick football and looking comfortable at the back. It was reflected in the noise in the away end. We then starting getting into the game and as scorelines filtered through elsewhere you became quiter.
The turning point was the Pereira save just before half time. For us to then equalise minutes later was a big shift.
We started the second half well but then you gained a little ascendancy without creating too much. However I didn't sense your fans were really fired up as other scores were still unfavourable.
In the end I thought the result was about right. Ironic that other scorelines did turn out the right way for you.
Blackpool are a proper football club. You always look to play football. You should be up there next season although Dembele will be a big loss. He is some player and was a cut above yesterday
Enjoy the summer....if we get one.
You mean those players that Critch either bought, or carefully nurtured (maybe not CJ ...) over a lengthy period of time, only to see the fruits of his labours fall at the final hurdle.
No matter how you try to present it, Critch really has been the soul architect of this complete joke of a season, and he is culpable on every level for how the campaign has oh-so-predictably concluded. 'Myopic' is the word which immediately springs to mind whenever I'm thinking of how best to describe La Critch ...
Always tangerine
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Typical was bringing Virtue on with 10 minutes to go and saying afterwards he might score ! He didn't bring Emmerson on as didn't think it would be fair on him. So why take him then ? Very negative.
That's your opinion that's fine with me and i respect that, my views are different and i am also right, i don't think a lack of foresight or myopic as you call it is the problem, the club haven't as a group and that includes the players both individually and as a team haven't been good enough hence the end position in the league, table don't lie over 46 games. Dress it up as you like but you cant get away from that.