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Yeah everyone (myself included) are probably overreacting, but I think the frustration with yesterday particularly had to do with a culmination of the issues we’ve seen all year (struggle away, no bite or edge, defensive errors, system failure) that was exacerbated by the fact that 1) a team as obviously shit as Stevenage could so easily do us in like that and 2) that same shit team are in the Playoffs!
 
AmericanTangerine said:
Yeah everyone (myself included) are probably overreacting, but I think the frustration with yesterday particularly had to do with a culmination of the issues we’ve seen all year (struggle away, no bite or edge, defensive errors, system failure) that was exacerbated by the fact that 1) a team as obviously shit as Stevenage could so easily do us in like that and 2) that same shit team are in the Playoffs!
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They're in the play offs for a reason though, we're falling in to the 'likes of' trap.

Are we shit away from home? Yep, of course we are. Is this down to the players or system? Bit of both for me.

If the players don't want to play in the system you get new players, did Guardiola adapt his tactics to his players? Silly comparison obviously but just as true 'at this level' as it is in the spoiled, comfortable environs of limitless spending.

Which raises the question of whether Critchley has the players he wants, apparently we've got a huge budget for League One so why don't we have a team that can adapt? Is the recruitment right? Is he getting the players he wants? Or are they forced on him resulting in new signings not getting on the pitch?

Critchley wants to play a certain way away from home, it's not working, something is lost in translation, so do you scrap all the plans after less than a season and start again with someone else or do you back the manager for longer?

If you get rid who do you bring in? Our track record on bringing in who we want isn't great, witness the summer of 2022, people didn't want the job, so do we go with Dobbie who won 50% of dead rubbers with little pressure or do we end up with a clueless journeyman fraud like Appleton?
 
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They're in the play offs for a reason though, we're falling in to the 'likes of' trap.

Are we shit away from home? Yep, of course we are. Is this down to the players or system? Bit of both for me.

If the players don't want to play in the system you get new players, did Guardiola adapt his tactics to his players? Silly comparison obviously but just as true 'at this level' as it is in the spoiled, comfortable environs of limitless spending.

Which raises the question of whether Critchley has the players he wants, apparently we've got a huge budget for League One so why don't we have a team that can adapt? Is the recruitment right? Is he getting the players he wants? Or are they forced on him resulting in new signings not getting on the pitch?

Critchley wants to play a certain way away from home, it's not working, something is lost in translation, so do you scrap all the plans after less than a season and start again with someone else or do you back the manager for longer?

If you get rid who do you bring in? Our track record on bringing in who we want isn't great, witness the summer of 2022, people didn't want the job, so do we go with Dobbie who won 50% of dead rubbers with little pressure or do we end up with a clueless journeyman fraud like Appleton?
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Good assessment and I agree, I wouldn't sack Critchley, he deserves the Summer for sure. Getting rid now would be a pointless endeavor.

Serious questions of him and his systems need to be asked though. Maybe it is a personnel issue and he just needs another window.

I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt (although others may not).

My main drawback though about giving him time is; what is he building us towards? He has not once in his career managed with a 3-5-2 system, there is no baseline for him to draw from.

First time around it was 4-3-3 (from Liverpool) and then a 4-4-2 which culminated in promotion and then a great season in the Championship.

He hasn't used a 3-5-2/3-4-3 once before this season began, which makes me question why he is so adamant on persisting with it? Have we had some good results with it? Yes. But we have had almost as many bad results too with problems continuing to persist.

Is it just because the formation is very trendy and he thinks he can eventually implement it in full force here? Maybe.

Perhaps it is because he wants to build something more long lasting in terms of play style? If I remember correctly one of his last interviews with Scrafton before he left was about using the Summer to implement a style of play that would allow us to sustain success.

I'm not certain, but this season's Critchley does not remind me of the Critchley we had in 20/21, where he changed systems mid season to accommodate his players to get results. He seems much more set on sticking with this system through hell or high water. Maybe it is because he wants something more long lasting.

Time will tell!
 
I get what you’re saying Lyth, I think the problem is that after the struggles we had when we were in the grip of the old perverts hands, we were a basket case club and all we really wanted was to get rid of the verminous scum, and somehow in that journey we managed to get in the EPL nearly stay there and had a good go at getting back there amongst all the surreal stuff going on around it, we then had the boycott and the court case, we were even happy to be non league to get rid of them,. Apart from the mushrooms it was an incredible journey of togetherness that culminated in that great day in court (weeks in court) where we were finally rid of them and suddenly the future was actually super positive.

Now, I was expecting a long feel good factor, years in fact but somehow our saviour came in the form of a steady hand but with his managerial appointments and sensitivity to any form of criticism that the feel good factor disappeared pretty quickly because it became so grey and blah and 5 years on we are in the same place in the football pyramid with a team who are going to finish mid table in league 1.

Season ticket sales are really decent, home crowds are better than expected yet there is no show of ambition from Sadler, he’s plodding along and the feeling you get from the club is that we should be thankful we are a league 1 club. Fuck that! You look at yesterday, 4000 home fans, a non league ground, a team of sloggers, are we better than that? Yes we really are! We are Blackpool FC, the only club to play in tangerine, why shouldn’t we be ambitious and want to be successful? Why aren’t we hearing that from the owner, the manager? It’s because they are probably 2 of the dullest people in football. Ambition isn’t employing Grayson, Critchley x 2, Appleton and McCarthy for fucks sake, that’s naivety and actually a bit condescending. 5 years on, no East Stand and no training ground, the training ground won’t happen for years if at all and the Easr stand is still sometime off.

Are we entitled? I don’t think so. Were we expecting more after the famous court case? Absolutely. Has it been what we were hoping for? I’d say not, which is why so many supporters are not entirely happy. We will never be anything other than a league 1 side with the likes of Critchley managing the club and with an owner who struggles with being a football club owner rather than a successful hedge fund person.

Should we be thankful for what he’s done? To a point, yes, but all this, he’s pumping in 5 million a year of his own money we should be thankful is all well and good, but let’s be realistic here, he got the club at a bargain price and no person who buys a football club does it thinking they are going to do anything but put their own money into the club, most owners in the EFL would probably love to put 5 million in a year. Before people start saying, well put your own money in, that isn’t relevant none of us can afford to do it and Sadler went into this with his eyes wide open. He can afford it, he would have researched it and made a decision on that knowing he was always going to lose money. However his investment has a return and when he comes to sell, which he will, he will make a tidy profit and good luck to him.

Entitled? Nah, underwhelmed? Very much so.
 
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What team would you have picked Mr Predictor? Then I’ll explain to you why we picked the team we did as you’ve clearly got zero understanding of the game of football…
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Kouassi upfront basically on his own was a joke. Yet people think he is amazing. Honestly, we deserve to mid table. Dembele on the bench was a disgrace. The formation is a disgrace. Shall I go on?
 
AmericanTangerine said:
Yeah everyone (myself included) are probably overreacting, but I think the frustration with yesterday particularly had to do with a culmination of the issues we’ve seen all year (struggle away, no bite or edge, defensive errors, system failure) that was exacerbated by the fact that 1) a team as obviously shit as Stevenage could so easily do us in like that and 2) that same shit team are in the Playoffs!
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But did Stevenage ‘do us easily’, yesterday, as you say?

1-0 home win after a late freak deflection. Looks like they got lucky to me.

On another day we’d have walked away from that with a clean sheet and a goal or two ourselves.
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Kouassi upfront basically on his own was a joke. Yet people think he is amazing. Honestly, we deserve to mid table. Dembele on the bench was a disgrace. The formation is a disgrace. Shall I go on?
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Kouassi was our only decent striker, he is decent but needs Rhodes alongside him because CJ and Joseph ran around like headless chickens yesterday and contributed nothing, plus Lavery is shit. Our best strikers are Rhodes, Kouassi and Bees and Dembele needs to be playing just in behind not out wide.
 
hertfordseasider said:
Kouassi was our only decent striker, he is decent but needs Rhodes alongside him because CJ and Joseph ran around like headless chickens yesterday and contributed nothing, plus Lavery is shit. Our best strikers are Rhodes, Kouassi and Bees and Dembele needs to be playing just in behind not out wide.
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Kouassi decent? I need to take my vitamins and grow some pecks then I might be classed as decent striker. The poor lad has been thrown into an important match.
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Kouassi upfront basically on his own was a joke. Yet people think he is amazing. Honestly, we deserve to mid table. Dembele on the bench was a disgrace. The formation is a disgrace. Shall I go o
A_Tense_Grin said:
Kouassi upfront basically on his own was a joke. Yet people think he is amazing. Honestly, we deserve to mid table. Dembele on the bench was a disgrace. The formation is a disgrace. Shall I go on?
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I expect you will 🙄
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A_Tense_Grin said:
Kouassi upfront basically on his own was a joke. Yet people think he is amazing. Honestly, we deserve to mid table. Dembele on the bench was a disgrace. The formation is a disgrace. Shall I go on?
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He was in the team for physical presence against the most direct and physical team in the league.

Him and Joseph came back into the box every throw-in to help us defend their long bombs into the box.

Did you want Lavery and Dembele back there?
 
Adams Kebab said:
He was in the team for physical presence against the most direct and physical team in the league.

Him and Joseph came back into the box every throw-in to help us defend their long bombs into the box.

Did you want Lavery and Dembele back there?
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Yes exactly. We adapted and weakened our team to play flipping Stevenage. Wow he came back to win some headers. Do you realise how silly you sound.
 
hertfordseasider said:
Kouassi was our only decent striker, he is decent but needs Rhodes alongside him because CJ and Joseph ran around like headless chickens yesterday and contributed nothing, plus Lavery is shit. Our best strikers are Rhodes, Kouassi and Bees and Dembele needs to be playing just in behind not out wide.
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To say Beesley as a striker is better than Lavery is ridiculous and unfounded.
 
I can take a defeat - I’m a Blackpool fan at the end of the day. However yesterday the frustration dialled up 100 as it became clear we’re going to finish behind a side so limited, so dreadful to watch, so one dimensional, as Stevenage. It’s anti football based on influencing officials and gamesmanship and I feel sick that it’s going to get more points over 46 games than we are.
 
It seems we are not the club to do a ‘project’.

Critchley and SS clearly want to build something lasting and that might be an overhaul of playing style, infrastructure and community base.
The sort of thing you see in the films, where a far sighted coach or owner plans a 10 year mission to slowly do something the rest aren’t doing and build up over time.

Actually something like Brentford did. Actually did. It’s clearly how SS believes a small club like Blackpool (because of our catchment area we are not a big club) can sustain a 20k fan attendance and become a Premier league team. Part of that is giving a coach a long term contract to build on a base and then over time succeed.

Unfortunately for the owner and the coach, we aren’t the fan base to do that with? We expect to be play off minimum this season, and will not accept a formation that doesn’t produce that this season. We don’t want untested kids who need to develop we expect ‘oven ready’ names in our team.

We also will run polls expecting the manager sacked in September on our fans site if we are not up around the top after 8 weeks of the season. We are not the club to try to be patient with. Just get a manager in, spend a load of your money (not ours as come on you are an owner that’s your job) and get him sacked in Oct / Nov if it’s not an instant return.

That’s who we are as a fan base, so don’t bother with your patient plan please.
 
I don’t believe you are entitled just because you want the best for the club. This season will have been a massive failure if we can’t make the play offs even if we win the Mickey Mouse cup. I don’t see the point in getting rid of the manager now but I would only give him 12 games to improve dramatically next season …any longer and that’s another season likely gone. The next window has to be utilised properly to improve the squad and we should be identifying potential targets now so that we are ready to pounce in the summer and not get the pick of the leftovers which is where we seem to have been for way too long.

I would like to see us play expansive get into em football from now home and away and let teams worry about us and not us them for a change. One game at a time now ..attack attack attack!!!
 
hertfordseasider said:
I get what you’re saying Lyth, I think the problem is that after the struggles we had when we were in the grip of the old perverts hands, we were a basket case club and all we really wanted was to get rid of the verminous scum, and somehow in that journey we managed to get in the EPL nearly stay there and had a good go at getting back there amongst all the surreal stuff going on around it, we then had the boycott and the court case, we were even happy to be non league to get rid of them,. Apart from the mushrooms it was an incredible journey of togetherness that culminated in that great day in court (weeks in court) where we were finally rid of them and suddenly the future was actually super positive.

Now, I was expecting a long feel good factor, years in fact but somehow our saviour came in the form of a steady hand but with his managerial appointments and sensitivity to any form of criticism that the feel good factor disappeared pretty quickly because it became so grey and blah and 5 years on we are in the same place in the football pyramid with a team who are going to finish mid table in league 1.

Season ticket sales are really decent, home crowds are better than expected yet there is no show of ambition from Sadler, he’s plodding along and the feeling you get from the club is that we should be thankful we are a league 1 club. Fuck that! You look at yesterday, 4000 home fans, a non league ground, a team of sloggers, are we better than that? Yes we really are! We are Blackpool FC, the only club to play in tangerine, why shouldn’t we be ambitious and want to be successful? Why aren’t we hearing that from the owner, the manager? It’s because they are probably 2 of the dullest people in football. Ambition isn’t employing Grayson, Critchley x 2, Appleton and McCarthy for fucks sake, that’s naivety and actually a bit condescending. 5 years on, no East Stand and no training ground, the training ground won’t happen for years if at all and the Easr stand is still sometime off.

Are we entitled? I don’t think so. Were we expecting more after the famous court case? Absolutely. Has it been what we were hoping for? I’d say not, which is why so many supporters are not entirely happy. We will never be anything other than a league 1 side with the likes of Critchley managing the club and with an owner who struggles with being a football club owner rather than a successful hedge fund person.

Should we be thankful for what he’s done? To a point, yes, but all this, he’s pumping in 5 million a year of his own money we should be thankful is all well and good, but let’s be realistic here, he got the club at a bargain price and no person who buys a football club does it thinking they are going to do anything but put their own money into the club, most owners in the EFL would probably love to put 5 million in a year. Before people start saying, well put your own money in, that isn’t relevant none of us can afford to do it and Sadler went into this with his eyes wide open. He can afford it, he would have researched it and made a decision on that knowing he was always going to lose money. However his investment has a return and when he comes to sell, which he will, he will make a tidy profit and good luck to him.

Entitled? Nah, underwhelmed? Very much so.
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That's not a bad effort from a doom and gloomer. I believe the East Stand is happening because I've seen some survey work going on.
There's plenty of effort going on behind the scenes which isn't worthless but is expensive.
On the pitch we are clearly hot and cold but losing to a team like Stevenage was entirely predictable as is the reaction on here when any defeat is guaranteed to bring out the moaning fcukers.
It is a transition season, we should be good enough anyway, but now certainly isn't the time to change manager (and that comes from the very first poster on here to put Dobbie's name forward as a future manager).
 
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That's not a bad effort from a doom and gloomer. I believe the East Stand is happening because I've seen some survey work going on.
There's plenty of effort going on behind the scenes which isn't worthless but is expensive.
On the pitch we are clearly hot and cold but losing to a team like Stevenage was entirely predictable as is the reaction on here when any defeat is guaranteed to bring out the moaning fcukers.
It is a transition season, we should be good enough anyway, but now certainly isn't the time to change manager (and that comes from the very first poster on here to put Dobbie's name forward as a future manager).
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“Doom and gloomer” 😂😂
 
It's all very fine margins. They created absolutely nothing and won courtesy of yet another fluke own goal, just as Charlton scabbed a point last week.

Let's make no mistake. I'm not saying we deserved to win it particularly, but we had our moments.

Stevenage are what they are and we failed to make the better of our possession and ultimately it cost us.

As I said at the start of this, its all fine margins and we fell the wrong side of it. Doesn't mean we should throw it all away and start again as some tactical geniuses are saying.

I find it odd that those criticising the 'tippy tappy' football are also unhappy we went long in the second half. I'm not sure exactly what you do want seeing as possession based football and knocking it long are the options?

Anyway, its gone. We lost in a game we didn't deserve to.

A win next week might well see us 8th 😁
 
hertfordseasider said:
I get what you’re saying Lyth, I think the problem is that after the struggles we had when we were in the grip of the old perverts hands, we were a basket case club and all we really wanted was to get rid of the verminous scum, and somehow in that journey we managed to get in the EPL nearly stay there and had a good go at getting back there amongst all the surreal stuff going on around it, we then had the boycott and the court case, we were even happy to be non league to get rid of them,. Apart from the mushrooms it was an incredible journey of togetherness that culminated in that great day in court (weeks in court) where we were finally rid of them and suddenly the future was actually super positive.

Now, I was expecting a long feel good factor, years in fact but somehow our saviour came in the form of a steady hand but with his managerial appointments and sensitivity to any form of criticism that the feel good factor disappeared pretty quickly because it became so grey and blah and 5 years on we are in the same place in the football pyramid with a team who are going to finish mid table in league 1.

Season ticket sales are really decent, home crowds are better than expected yet there is no show of ambition from Sadler, he’s plodding along and the feeling you get from the club is that we should be thankful we are a league 1 club. Fuck that! You look at yesterday, 4000 home fans, a non league ground, a team of sloggers, are we better than that? Yes we really are! We are Blackpool FC, the only club to play in tangerine, why shouldn’t we be ambitious and want to be successful? Why aren’t we hearing that from the owner, the manager? It’s because they are probably 2 of the dullest people in football. Ambition isn’t employing Grayson, Critchley x 2, Appleton and McCarthy for fucks sake, that’s naivety and actually a bit condescending. 5 years on, no East Stand and no training ground, the training ground won’t happen for years if at all and the Easr stand is still sometime off.

Are we entitled? I don’t think so. Were we expecting more after the famous court case? Absolutely. Has it been what we were hoping for? I’d say not, which is why so many supporters are not entirely happy. We will never be anything other than a league 1 side with the likes of Critchley managing the club and with an owner who struggles with being a football club owner rather than a successful hedge fund person.

Should we be thankful for what he’s done? To a point, yes, but all this, he’s pumping in 5 million a year of his own money we should be thankful is all well and good, but let’s be realistic here, he got the club at a bargain price and no person who buys a football club does it thinking they are going to do anything but put their own money into the club, most owners in the EFL would probably love to put 5 million in a year. Before people start saying, well put your own money in, that isn’t relevant none of us can afford to do it and Sadler went into this with his eyes wide open. He can afford it, he would have researched it and made a decision on that knowing he was always going to lose money. However his investment has a return and when he comes to sell, which he will, he will make a tidy profit and good luck to him.

Entitled? Nah, underwhelmed? Very much so.
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Please explain to us why Sadler's purchase price was a "bargain". Try using facts such as sale prices of other clubs, asset values, catchment areas etc.

Please also explain how he is going to make a profit if he is pumping in 5 million quid a year as so far with the money he has put into the club and the purchase price he must be in for 30 million.

Please also explain why you start taking a swipe at the owner after a tight 1-0 defeat but we hear fuck all from you about Sadler when the team is doing well as it did during January.

You're an obsessed weirdo. If I was Sadler I'd probably take out a restraining order against you. Oh, hang on, he won't need one because you never go to Blackpool!
 
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It's all very fine margins. They created absolutely nothing and won courtesy of yet another fluke own goal, just as Charlton scabbed a point last week.

Let's make no mistake. I'm not saying we deserved to win it particularly, but we had our moments.

Stevenage are what they are and we failed to make the better of our possession and ultimately it cost us.

As I said at the start of this, its all fine margins and we fell the wrong side of it. Doesn't mean we should throw it all away and start again as some tactical geniuses are saying.

I find it odd that those criticising the 'tippy tappy' football are also unhappy we went long in the second half. I'm not sure exactly what you do want seeing as possession based football and knocking it long are the options?

Anyway, its gone. We lost in a game we didn't deserve to.

A win next week might well see us 8th 😁
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Get it right Wiz…. It’s tippy tappy football in our box and then HOOF!

Hubby taking the goal kicks, passing to Grimmy in the middle of the 6 yard box back to Hubby, back to Grimshaw, oh shit the attackers are on us so HOOF!
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Yes exactly. We adapted and weakened our team to play flipping Stevenage. Wow he came back to win some headers. Do you realise how silly you sound.
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I give up you are absolutely clueless about football, but… you predicted us to lose 1-0… but didn’t bet on it… just probably walked round your house telling your kids you said it would be 1-0.

What a life 😂
 
Chunkylad said:
It seems we are not the club to do a ‘project’.

Critchley and SS clearly want to build something lasting and that might be an overhaul of playing style, infrastructure and community base.
The sort of thing you see in the films, where a far sighted coach or owner plans a 10 year mission to slowly do something the rest aren’t doing and build up over time.

Actually something like Brentford did. Actually did. It’s clearly how SS believes a small club like Blackpool (because of our catchment area we are not a big club) can sustain a 20k fan attendance and become a Premier league team. Part of that is giving a coach a long term contract to build on a base and then over time succeed.

Unfortunately for the owner and the coach, we aren’t the fan base to do that with? We expect to be play off minimum this season, and will not accept a formation that doesn’t produce that this season. We don’t want untested kids who need to develop we expect ‘oven ready’ names in our team.

We also will run polls expecting the manager sacked in September on our fans site if we are not up around the top after 8 weeks of the season. We are not the club to try to be patient with. Just get a manager in, spend a load of your money (not ours as come on you are an owner that’s your job) and get him sacked in Oct / Nov if it’s not an instant return.

That’s who we are as a fan base, so don’t bother with your patient plan please.
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Our fan base, yesterday...

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Adams Kebab said:
I give up you are absolutely clueless about football, but… you predicted us to lose 1-0… but didn’t bet on it… just probably walked round your house telling your kids you said it would be 1-0.

What a life 😂
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Where as you probably talk to your Kouassi poster on the wall and say ‘Don’t worry big lad, you are very strong so deserve to play’.

Picked because he comes back and wins header at throw ins… and you call me clueless!
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
I don’t believe you are entitled just because you want the best for the club. This season will have been a massive failure if we can’t make the play offs even if we win the Mickey Mouse cup. I don’t see the point in getting rid of the manager now but I would only give him 12 games to improve dramatically next season …any longer and that’s another season likely gone. The next window has to be utilised properly to improve the squad and we should be identifying potential targets now so that we are ready to pounce in the summer and not get the pick of the leftovers which is where we seem to have been for way too long.

I would like to see us play expansive get into em football from now home and away and let teams worry about us and not us them for a change. One game at a time now ..attack attack attack!!!
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EVERY Bfc fan wants the best for the club that is a given. However, expecting or demanding instant success is entitled!
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
We used to laugh at Sunderland or The Massive for being a bunch of self entitled whingers who thought they had a divine right to walk the league?

Thems were the days...
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Who’s asking to walk the league? 🤷‍♂️

I’d be happy if we just challenged for a top 6 spot something we could and should be doing with this squad.

If others are happy that we just stay in the top 8/10 with a good home form then fair enough but clearly we should be doing much better with this squad and that’s not whinging.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Who’s asking to walk the league? 🤷‍♂️

I’d be happy if we just challenged for a top 6 spot something we could and should be doing with this squad.

If others are happy that we just stay in the top 8/10 then fair enough.
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That game could very easily have seen us win. That would have taken us above Stevenage. I'd say that is still challenging for a top six spot. To say otherwise is just wrong.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Who’s asking to walk the league? 🤷‍♂️

I’d be happy if we just challenged for a top 6 spot something we could and should be doing with this squad.

If others are happy that we just stay in the top 8/10 with a good home form then fair enough but clearly we should be doing much better with this squad and that’s not whinging.
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Jaff no fan wants us not to be fighting for promotion just like all BFC fans want the best for the club.

The difference between wanting and expecting is what dictates disappointment or entitlement
 
Jose Mourinho was moaning about anti football when done by probably Burnley & I thought why should they try to effectively trade punches with a team miles better at that. They found a way & whilst not pretty it worked. It was the same yesterday. So if you’re not good enough to adapt to these types of games you don’t deserve to win. We however didn’t deserve to lose & a draw would have been a fairer result.
 
Wizaard said:
That game could very easily have seen us win. That would have taken us above Stevenage. I'd say that is still challenging for a top six spot. To say otherwise is just wrong.
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Agreed but how many times have we said we should have done this/that?
Stevenage we’re the most boring/negative team I’ve seen this season and yes i agree we should have won but we didn’t.
We can’t carry on saying the same things week in week out something needs to change as squad wise we’re up there at the top so what’s holding us back other than the manager?
 
A_Tense_Grin said:
Where as you probably talk to your Kouassi poster on the wall and say ‘Don’t worry big lad, you are very strong so deserve to play’.

Picked because he comes back and wins header at throw ins… and you call me clueless!
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Do you remember our previous managers talking about the importance of Madine in our own box winning headers and helping out on set-pieces?

You won’t do, because you do not understand football or tactics and enjoy being a moaning miserable sap.

It’s a shame for you, so much more to life 💪🏽
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Agreed but how many times have we said we should have done this/that?
Stevenage we’re the most boring/negative team I’ve seen this season and yes i agree we should have won but we didn’t.
We can’t carry on saying the same things week in week out something needs to change as squad wise we’re up there at the top so what’s holding us back other than the manager?
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The mentality of the players?

Changing managers has got us absolutely nowhere apart from relegation.

We need stability on and off the pitch. Every successful side in the last 100 years has had that.
 
Adams Kebab said:
Do you remember our previous managers talking about the importance of Madine in our own box winning headers and helping out on set-pieces?

You won’t do, because you do not understand football or tactics and enjoy being a moaning miserable sap.

It’s a shame for you, so much more to life 💪🏽
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Can you imagine the atmosphere in that Blackpool Mechanics changing room as they all sat there watching the Blackpool Baresi telling the manager that his tactics are shit and the rest of the players except him are shit and they’d no chance of winning before the game kicks off?
 
Wizaard said:
It's all very fine margins. They created absolutely nothing and won courtesy of yet another fluke own goal, just as Charlton scabbed a point last week.

Let's make no mistake. I'm not saying we deserved to win it particularly, but we had our moments.

Stevenage are what they are and we failed to make the better of our possession and ultimately it cost us.

As I said at the start of this, its all fine margins and we fell the wrong side of it. Doesn't mean we should throw it all away and start again as some tactical geniuses are saying.

I find it odd that those criticising the 'tippy tappy' football are also unhappy we went long in the second half. I'm not sure exactly what you do want seeing as possession based football and knocking it long are the options?

Anyway, its gone. We lost in a game we didn't deserve to.

A win next week might well see us 8th 😁
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That’s fair enough but those fine margins have no doubt cost us at Lincoln, port vale, Wycombe , Cambridge Fleetwood, Burton etc etc..the problem is that we are losing and drawing games we could win all too frequently ..even if we win every home game(we won’t) it may not be enough to make the play offs. Getting rid of Critchley now is a poor option but he has to temper his stubborn streak and compromise by at least playing our best 11 and going for it.
 
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