Simon Grayson provides update on Jay Spearing's condition and points out what Blackpool need to do to end 'sticky spell'

[GJJW]

The 31-year-old was replaced by Matty Virtue at the interval after being involved in a collision during the first half.


The Seasiders badly lacked Spearing's leadership qualities in the second period as Gillingham completed a remarkable turnaround, snatching the three points with the last action of the game.


It condemned Grayson's side to another costly defeat, their seventh from their last nine league outings.


When asked if he will look to shake up his side for the weekend trip to Bristol Rovers, Grayson said: “We will see how everybody is.


“Jay had to come off at half time with a bit of concussion so I’m not sure if that will rule him out for the weekend - we’ll have to analyse that.


“But when you lose a game and make individual mistakes like we did, then you have to rectify it by maybe making changes again.


“What we’ve tried to do with the players is allow them to go out and express themselves and enjoy themselves.


“In the second half we didn’t do that enough, we didn’t take the game to them. Instead we looked quite comfortable to win the game 1-0. But then the errors have cost us.


“We’ve just got to see where it takes us. We’ve got to look and analyse the game but players have got to take responsibility for their mistakes as well.


“It's not an ideal run.


"But if we had picked up four points out of six we would have been quite comfortable and happy with that and move on to the Bristol Rovers game.


“I thought the crowd were good in the first half when we were on top but obviously it made it a bit more difficult in the second half.


“We’ve just got to work hard, there’s no other way of getting through this sticky spell.


“As players, and as staff, we’ve all got to take responsibility and look at what we can do better.”

 

[HighfieldSeasider]

“I thought the crowd were good in the first half when we were on top but obviously it made it a bit more difficult in the second half.

So it's the fan's fault?

 

[Wizaard]

We had better chances to score in the second half but tried to walk it in then Turton and Feeney had a 20 minute spell when they refused to cross the ball but just faffed about until we lost it. The one cross we put in we scored from.

 

[SeasideKurt]

Never ever his fault. His wanky tactics are the problem.

 

[18YearFreeTrial]

This is what seriously pies me off the most. His lack of belief and is happy to just sit on the bench and hope next game is better? Can he not see what is happening, that this is unacceptable. If I was Sadler, and I wanted to keep Grayson, I'd be on the phone, telling him to get the first team-up at 8 in the morning, on the sand dunes, doing some f**** fitness and playing on the sand, gelling the squad and telling them we do this till you boys can give us a performance on the pitch. Whatever they're doing at training is explicitly not good enough.

Stop this 'so and so' malarky and get this team together, early, and training hard for each other. Enough is enough.Things need to change