You can only start to blame the players if they fail to execute good tactical planning. You can't begin the blame players not good enough or playing out of position. I wonder if Husband thinks it's a fantastic idea to him to launch 70 yard diagonals from the first minute?
I'm not sure we're in any kind of postion to address that final point you raise, but I find it hard to believe Mr Husband is simply acting on instructions 'from on high'. There has to be some degree of 'player autonomy' in all this, and, I'm sorry, but for all their limitations (and, yes, we know, there are plenty ... ), do you honestly think the training staff are simply directing the defence, and Jimmy in particular, whenever they find themselves in possession of the ball, to just blindly "launch it forward" to no-one in particular?
Tactically speaking, and it certainly doesn't take a genius to arrive at this conclusion, we are 'all over the place' at the moment. We are witnessing games in which there is no discernable sign of leadership, and also where there is no evidence whatsoever of any kind of game-plan. Players are having to 'think on the hoof' because they simply don't appear to have been given any meaningful directives (hence Jimmy with his '70 yard diagonals') from the 'in-house' training staff.
I hate to use the phrase but, currently, watching the team perform in games these days is like 'watching the blind leading the blind'. There is no sign of purpose or direction to be seen out on the pitch, our players are being led 'a merry dance' by opponents the minute a game has kicked off, and, though it pains me to say it, and I can only judge on appearances, but I get the growing impression certain players are doing little more than 'going through the motions', at best.
I almost feel the club is now at something of a crossroads. After what has been a truly awful season (sorry, but how else do you describe it?), there are clearly major changes needing to be made in the close-season, and this is going to involve difficult decisions having to be made. New faces will appear (both on the playing side, and also behind the scenes), and then, of course, there will also be a sizeable number of personnel heading off to pastures new, and we wish them well - wherever they end up going.
There needs to be something of a sea-change at Blackpool Football Club. The great memories of the recent past are in danger of becoming little more than a fading dream of days gone by, and, sadly, there is increasing evidence of how the feel-good factor that permeated those memorableI times is being replaced with a distinct air of disillusionment and despondency.
Circumstances do change, however, as I'm sure they will in the weeks and months ahead. We just need to see a renewed sense of purpose and direction, brought about by new recruits being brought in, with the express purpose of breathing new life into the club after a period during which it appeared to be undergoing something of an identity crisis. Basically, all I am asking, is that whoever these individuals turn out to be, they really do need to step up to the plate.
Upwards and onwards.