What BFC era was the most boring ever?

Blackpoolmad

Blackpoolmad

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Worthington?
Ince?
Hendry?
Harry Potts?

Nah, none of them compare to this seasons football, especially away.
12 away games with no goals scored, losing 11 of them.
No shots on target most of these games too.

Anyone on here enthralled with this style of play?
We have great players that get lectured on how great the opposition are before every game. They are all under achieving thanks to being told DO NOT SHOOT and if you do get a chance to shoot, knock it wide for the wingers that can't cross the ball, so they knock it backwards and 20 passes later, the keeper gets the ball to hoof it forward.

Most boring tactics I've seen in 55 years watching my team.
 
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Blackpoolmad said:
Worthington?
Ince?
Hendry?
Harry Potts?

Nah, none of them compare to this seasons football, especially away.
12 away games with no goals scored, losing 11 of them.
No shots on target most of these games too.

Anyone on here enthralled with this style of play?
We have great players that get lectured on how great the opposition are before every game. They are all under achieving thanks to being told DO NOT SHOOT and if you do get a chance to shoot, knock it wide for the wingers that can't cross the ball, so they knock it backwards and 20 passes later, the keeper gets the ball to hoof it forward.

Most boring tactics I've seen in 55 years watching my team.
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And, like most season ticket holders, you will buy another.

No to a collective boycott unless a coach with recent success replaces Critchley?

Such masochists evoke the risible complaint from a restaurant diner.

Terrible food - and the small portions...
 
Hendry, Worthington & Ince all bad..We're frustrating to watch now..I imagine McDonald's season was bad but didn't watch any of it
 
Blackpoolmad said:
Worthington?
Ince?
Hendry?
Harry Potts?

Nah, none of them compare to this seasons football, especially away.
12 away games with no goals scored, losing 11 of them.
No shots on target most of these games too.

Anyone on here enthralled with this style of play?
We have great players that get lectured on how great the opposition are before every game. They are all under achieving thanks to being told DO NOT SHOOT and if you do get a chance to shoot, knock it wide for the wingers that can't cross the ball, so they knock it backwards and 20 passes later, the keeper gets the ball to hoof it forward.

Most boring tactics I've seen in 55 years watching my team.
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That just about nails it.
I couldn't agree more.
 
What about Potts away form in74/75. Decent home performances including Walsh Goal of season.
Consistent defending producing a string of 0-0 draws.
Last season away form was worse than this season.
 
Wizzerboy said:
Thought Megson would have had a mention 🤷
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Second half of the Megson season was decent from what I can remember, just missing out on the play offs. I was looking forward to the following season and then he decided Stockport was the bigger club!.
Worthington but even then we had some high points like beating Stoke away, I think oyston being in jail at the time and tightening the purse strings didn't help.
 
I'd like to give a special mention to Jimmy Mullen, the one and only time
I wrote to the club and asked for my season ticket money back. His one
saving grace was signing David Eyres.

As regards the OP, I totally agree, I didn't like Critchley's style of play first
time round. I thought he might change after his brief and disastrous spells
at Villa and QPR, sadly he hasn't. This for me rates as the most boring, easily
forgotten season ever.

All the other Managers mentioned had little or no budget. Critchley has a decent
budget at this level. The current squad is under achieving, due to boring, negative
tactic's.

Is he the worst Manager we've ever had ? I'd say absolutely not, his statistics prove
that. The question the OP asks is 'is it the most boring era ever' and I'd have to say
yes, I don't see it ever changing and for me a new management team is required.
For me the one word that sums us up at the moment is STALE.
 
The Harry Potts era produced a seemingly never ending run of away 0-0 draws.

But two key differences are that in the era of only 2 points for a win, and 1 for a draw, getting a point away was far more valuable in relative terms.

Also: fewer people travelled to away games and no one had access to streams to confirm how boring we were.
 
I would say the present time.

We were shite back in the dark days of the old third and fourth division you pretty much expected getting beat with the team we were putting out we also had no money to spend.

With the manager we today (cough cough) and the squad we have plus a very decent budget we should be comfortably in the top 2/3.

I honestly don’t recall a season watching dull lethargic football away from home like we are experiencing this season.

I also don’t recall a season where the manager has blamed his players so much but never himself.
 
Appleton last season was far more boring than Critchley this imo
McCarthy was also worse, comically bad at times

Of all time, maybe the season when we got reelected. Was it Graham Carr? Boring, terrible football in a literally empty crumbling stadium.
Far, far more boring and worse than Critchley in every way.
 
2002-2006 we had five consecutive seasons where we finished in the bottom half of the third tier. So boring.
 
Most of those mentioned I've boycotted at one time or another but missing are (57 players) Clark and Ferguson. Boy they could dish up boring s##te. Riga? Jammy P Ince who kept on nicking wins at the start only to fade quickly.
I've said it on here many times Pool supporters demand attacking football, win lose or draw . It's in our DNA.
4-3,S either way. Last minute goals etc etc
Please let's hope we get it back
 
Harry Potts. Two points for a win days, so 1 0 was good enough. One season was in binary. I'm sure we didn't score 2, or maybe it just felt that way.
 
I immediately thought of 80-81 under Alan Ball when I read the o/p.

It was bad in 1980, but I feel this season has been a big let down (maybe my expectations were too high) and pretty dull overall, especially given our supposed higher budget.

Yesterday it all seemed very flat, like nobody was really bothered. I'm worried about attendances / revenues next season.
 
Hendry was at the beginning of my journey as a Blackpool supporter. I was 9/10, fairly enthusiastic, just loved going to football every Saturday. Paul Ince would have to be the worst for me. I was at his first game in charge. 0-2 defeat away at Leeds and I remember telling my pal that this guy is clueless. Took most fans a good while to figure it out. Was also at his final game. Lost away at Barnsley. He was receiving pelters at half time.
 
Statistically the worst team was the one who had to apply for re-election to the league and the manager at the time was Sam Ellis who actually gained automatic promotion for Pool in 85 which is the only time Pool have gained automatic promotion in recent times without play offs.
Under Harry Potts I stand to be corrected but I think Pool only scored 9 goals away from home that season amongst the many 0-0 draws but at home they were decent.
So it's Graham Carr for me but Mullen, Ball and Hendry were pretty dire too.
 
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