Stevenage v Blackpool Official Matchday Thread 03.02.24

Always tangerine said:
Critchley said, before the game, that after today there were lots of points available. Felt he wasn't positive enough about winning today.
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Itā€™s like heā€™s a reserve or youth coach where results and points donā€™t matter. The way Sadler worships him probably encourages this approach. Itā€™s like the whole club is more bothered about causes, looking nice, and having a modern approach to training than going being a winning side. Frustrating but we are now going to have to get used to sand pit selections and building for another season under the snake.
 
AlternativeSeaside said:
If Stevenage make the playoffs itā€™s a crime against football, fuck ing awful side which we donā€™t have the capability or the wherewithal to deal with.

Super frustrating afternoonšŸ˜”
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If Stevenage making the play-offs would qualify as a crime against football, how would you describe it if, by some miracle, we were to somehow manage the feat? A 'heinous' crime against football, perhaps?
 
tangysider said:
We have a, positivity sponge as head coach. Simon will stick with him, but he and his 2 muppetts need to walk, or it will be rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future
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I really don't know what the two Muppets do. They seem to write in notepads a lot but zero input. Critchley needs an experienced manager to work alongside and have an input. Gary Bowyer springs to mind.
 
Seasider1 said:
I'm one of the worst for moaning when We play badly (because I know We are so much better, and We have some great players).
But honestly how horrible would it be to support a team like Stevenage?... A truly awful team that wouldn't look out of place playing in the six nations.
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I have a mate who is a Stevenage fan - and heā€™s loving it
 
BpoolFred34 said:
For me this is purely Critchs fault. We needed to bring Byers and Dembele on at around the 60 min mark, but he just stood there watching us struggle. The guy is f****g clueless
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Agreed . His team selection was experimental but failed. Similar to his career. It will become painfully obvious by the end of the season.
 
Clearly Pool are nowhere near good enough to reach the play offs. Blighted by Critchley's poor team selections and tactics.
It's blatantly obvious that Kouassi, Joseph and Lavery don't have and will never have enough goals in them. I fear the league season is not far from over. Let's hope Pboro don't kick our arse in the BSM Trophy.
Sadler continues to sit on transfer income and cup revenue and seems happy where we are.
 
Critchknows said:
I'm not as pissed off after today's game as I have been after a few others. Stevenage are a shite, shite house of a team who have done this to plenty of other teams. Doesn't excuse us but I always thought we'd get turned over today. I've never bought into this one of the best squads in the league thing. We have poor defenders and strikers who don't score.
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What do you mean, '... poor defenders and strikers who don't score.'? I must have hallucinated that effort at the end of the game from the peerless Marvin Ekpiteta, then!
 
He really should have been getting us in the play offs at a minimum.Automatic should have been more realistic with the players he has been given.He was given Jordan Rhodes ffs in League One.

I respect his coaching pedigree but he still fails to react tactically in game and his reluctance for a settled side hampers us imo.

If he has rested Dembele to protect him today I can possibly understand what he has tried to do but itā€™s such a big game he should be starting.Lavery shouldā€™ve started over Kouassi aswell.
 
Heā€™s made a counter attacking team who are great if teams come onto us like Forest or Portsmouth but donā€™t know how to break down teams who donā€™t want to commit
 
BpoolFred34 said:
For me this is purely Critchs fault. We needed to bring Byers and Dembele on at around the 60 min mark, but he just stood there watching us struggle. The guy is f****g clueless
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the signs were there towards the end of the first half, actually the last fifteen minutes of the first half, needed to change the approach not just personnel, norburn does nothing to control the midfield - needed to go, Cj was having a mare trying to win headers against a shithouse defence needed to be on the wing or replaced by dembele. gabriel wasnt getting forward. coulson was overcomplicating things whenever he had the ball, morgan was being forced to play deep and knock balls long instead of driving at the opposition. a shit show from top to bottom frankly
 
Ormergod said:
He really should have been getting us in the play offs at a minimum.Automatic should have been more realistic with the players he has been given.He was given Jordan Rhodes ffs in League One.

I respect his coaching pedigree but he still fails to react tactically in game and his reluctance for a settled side hampers us imo.

If he has rested Dembele to protect him today I can possibly understand what he has tried to do but itā€™s such a big game he should be starting.Lavery shouldā€™ve started over Kouassi aswell.
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thought kouassi was doing ok in the first half but faded in the second. you dont bring on Lavery and fire long balls at him though, which we seemed intent on doing all afternoon. thats what stevenage do all day every day, in training because thats all they can do. respect his badges but being out-tactic-ed by fat man evans something to be ashamed about.
 
Whatā€™s with all this negativity? I for one am feeling positive.



Positive weā€™ll get beaten next week, if we carry on playing like this.
 
We didn't deserve to lose, but didn't deserve to win either.

No-one did enough, it piss poor defending that cost us again from Marv.

But surely will 'all our talent' we should have been doing far better than that.
 
Excellent from the fans today. Dembele chant was ace. We should have been 1 up early on. First half we were decent and in control. Second half was a disgrace. What happened? Hard to explain but I will say again that this Blackpool team ainā€™t ready yet for promotion, not got enough between the ears to work out how to grab points where itā€™s hard to do so. Kouassi and Joseph next season might be a force, but not there yet.
 
NewburyOne said:
CJ, Gabriel, Norburn, Morgan, Coulson and Husband all played poorly. Zero quality from any of them. To play with those tactics against Stevenage, we must be brain dead. I feel for the 700+ who traveled to witness an awful game, and a worse performance. Those play offs look a long way off.
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Anyone who didnā€™t know wouldnā€™t believe Critchley has been after Norburn for 2 years. Why?
 
Can anyone remember when we last beat a team that played like Stevenage?
(Actually it was 14 Oct when we beat Stevenage)
Stats were very similar except they scored one and we didn't score. We didn't play enough football, particularly in the 2nd half, and got out battled.
Can't argue with the starting line-up except I would have played Dembele ahead of CJ but Kaddy probably would have ended up with a broken leg.
It's now 10 wins from 16.
Tough ask.
 
JJpool said:
I remember people saying it wasn't Marvs fault against Charlton and he's done the sort of clumsy thing today.

Good defenders don't do that or certainly don't do it often.
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How does the saying go? 'Once is unlucky; twice is incompetence.'?
 
tarantula said:
How does the saying go? 'Once is unlucky; twice is incompetence.'?
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He's got it in his locker, it's not a surprise if and when he makes one of the major f ups or in this case diverts the ball into his own net, due to trying to play dangerous balls when his body position isn't right.

In fairness today it may heave been going in if not, but we'll never know.
 
Insider said:
Can anyone remember when we last beat a team that played like Stevenage?
(Actually it was 14 Oct when we beat Stevenage)
Stats were very similar except they scored one and we didn't score. We didn't play enough football, particularly in the 2nd half, and got out battled.
Can't argue with the starting line-up except I would have played Dembele ahead of CJ but Kaddy probably would have ended up with a broken leg.
It's now 10 wins from 16.
Tough ask.
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Exactly, during Critch 1.0 he learned very quickly how to deal like teams like Stevenage.

Remember we got done in by Gillingham early on, but the return fixture we thumped them 4-1 because Critch changed tactics swiftly.

We've played 3-5-2 or some variation of it throughout the season with very little tweaking.

Does he really think that this system is the one to bring the most out of this squad?

He came in with his sophisticated 4-3-3 trying to play the Liverpool way and changed after it repeatedly failed, is it because we've actually had some decent results with the 3-5-2 this year that makes him reluctant to abandon it?
 
Sandgrown1 said:
I had an appointment at the dementia clinic and a week later the consultant rang and asked me why I didnā€™t attend the appointment. I replied, ā€œwhat appointmentā€
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BpoolFred34 said:
For me this is purely Critchs fault. We needed to bring Byers and Dembele on at around the 60 min mark, but he just stood there watching us struggle. The guy is f****g clueless
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Just like yourself then
 
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