When did Grayson get his job back?

BlackpoolJord

BlackpoolJord

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What an absolute abject performance that was. Slightly better than against Cardiff, but still horrendous. I just can't see what the game plan is? From what I can gather, we have 4 defenders who are slow and look uncomfortable on the ball, so naturally we knock it around the back until one of them either lumps it long, gets tackled or pass (badly) into a midfielder who has 2 men on him which results in them giving away possession. And that is what we do for the entire 90 minutes which is resulting in gifting the opposition clear 6/7 chances a game at the moment. Its only a matter of time before one of these teams takes those chances and gives us a real hiding.

I can understand what Critchley is trying to do, and appreciate the way he wants to play. The simple matter is - the players we have are not up to it. They are lower league plodders who aren't able to move the ball quickly, pass with one touch. Our only attacking outlet is give to ball to bowler and let him run with it. Something is going to have to change as we can't keep getting battered for the majority of the game and have any hope of staying up. The football the past two games reminds me of Graysons last stint and we know how that ended up for him.

Looking at our squad you can see why we are struggling. Lets look at our summer signings.
Reece James - released from league one Doncaster. Enough said
Bowler - Looks a decent player, i was concerned about his end product when he signed (scored 1 goal all season for hull) and he will need to work on it.
Connolly - Played for Fleetwood...
Keogh - What can i say? Reminds me of a slower Kirk Broadfoot - absolutely shocking signing and whoever authorized that should be removed from the job immediately
Lavery - A Gamble
Casey - Never played a professional game
Carey - Never played a professional game

Are these the types of signings you need when promoted to a division where the step up in quality is huge. They are not. They are all cheap gambles that might pay off. The problem is if you sign too many like this and add them to a squad that was already much weaker than the one that got promoted, you are asking for trouble. If Oyston had made these signings he would be getting pelters.

The good news is there is still time to bring people in of the quality needed because without a handful of players we won't end up with 10 points by the time January comes around.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
What an absolute abject performance that was. Slightly better than against Cardiff, but still horrendous. I just can't see what the game plan is? From what I can gather, we have 4 defenders who are slow and look uncomfortable on the ball, so naturally we knock it around the back until one of them either lumps it long, gets tackled or pass (badly) into a midfielder who has 2 men on him which results in them giving away possession. And that is what we do for the entire 90 minutes which is resulting in gifting the opposition clear 6/7 chances a game at the moment. Its only a matter of time before one of these teams takes those chances and gives us a real hiding.

I can understand what Critchley is trying to do, and appreciate the way he wants to play. The simple matter is - the players we have are not up to it. They are lower league plodders who aren't able to move the ball quickly, pass with one touch. Our only attacking outlet is give to ball to bowler and let him run with it. Something is going to have to change as we can't keep getting battered for the majority of the game and have any hope of staying up. The football the past two games reminds me of Graysons last stint and we know how that ended up for him.

Looking at our squad you can see why we are struggling. Lets look at our summer signings.
Reece James - released from league one Doncaster. Enough said
Bowler - Looks a decent player, i was concerned about his end product when he signed (scored 1 goal all season for hull) and he will need to work on it.
Connolly - Played for Fleetwood...
Keogh - What can i say? Reminds me of a slower Kirk Broadfoot - absolutely shocking signing and whoever authorized that should be removed from the job immediately
Lavery - A Gamble
Casey - Never played a professional game
Carey - Never played a professional game

Are these the types of signings you need when promoted to a division where the step up in quality is huge. They are not. They are all cheap gambles that might pay off. The problem is if you sign too many like this and add them to a squad that was already much weaker than the one that got promoted, you are asking for trouble. If Oyston had made these signings he would be getting pelters.

The good news is there is still time to bring people in of the quality needed because without a handful of players we won't end up with 10 points by the time January comes around.
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Agree about the setup, we look like a side who wants to play passing football but has no idea the right way to execute it at times. Its across the back and hoofed anyway after all that.

Where is the setup to play out? Saying that second half we did pass it better but it takes us that long to get going were chasing games.

We haven't time to work on this through the season we need it right now and the back line isn't good enough.

The signings like Lavery and Bowler look promising, Carey looked decent but hasn't played in the league.

Its bee a terrible start with bad planning with no RB, injuries, covid etc.

Playing some square pegs in round holes or wrong pegs all together.

There was a distinct lack of quality at both ends tonight, were not at our best but still, its not great.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
What an absolute abject performance that was. Slightly better than against Cardiff, but still horrendous. I just can't see what the game plan is? From what I can gather, we have 4 defenders who are slow and look uncomfortable on the ball, so naturally we knock it around the back until one of them either lumps it long, gets tackled or pass (badly) into a midfielder who has 2 men on him which results in them giving away possession. And that is what we do for the entire 90 minutes which is resulting in gifting the opposition clear 6/7 chances a game at the moment. Its only a matter of time before one of these teams takes those chances and gives us a real hiding.

I can understand what Critchley is trying to do, and appreciate the way he wants to play. The simple matter is - the players we have are not up to it. They are lower league plodders who aren't able to move the ball quickly, pass with one touch. Our only attacking outlet is give to ball to bowler and let him run with it. Something is going to have to change as we can't keep getting battered for the majority of the game and have any hope of staying up. The football the past two games reminds me of Graysons last stint and we know how that ended up for him.

Looking at our squad you can see why we are struggling. Lets look at our summer signings.
Reece James - released from league one Doncaster. Enough said
Bowler - Looks a decent player, i was concerned about his end product when he signed (scored 1 goal all season for hull) and he will need to work on it.
Connolly - Played for Fleetwood...
Keogh - What can i say? Reminds me of a slower Kirk Broadfoot - absolutely shocking signing and whoever authorized that should be removed from the job immediately
Lavery - A Gamble
Casey - Never played a professional game
Carey - Never played a professional game

Are these the types of signings you need when promoted to a division where the step up in quality is huge. They are not. They are all cheap gambles that might pay off. The problem is if you sign too many like this and add them to a squad that was already much weaker than the one that got promoted, you are asking for trouble. If Oyston had made these signings he would be getting pelters.

The good news is there is still time to bring people in of the quality needed because without a handful of players we won't end up with 10 points by the time January comes around.
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Probably agree with only 50% with what you say Jlord but one thing you have got bang on is what has happened to this exciting brand of football we were promised? Granted it’s only two games in but it Hasn’t been entertaining thus far 😕 we’ve gone backwards in that area.

We must play the ball out from the back quicker and get it forward - we shouldn’t be passing back to the keeper from free kicks when we are in the opposition half after two or three passes.
 
Decent post bar the title of it.
Grayson played dull, pedestrian football. That was high octane stuff last night and let's face it, despite all the early pressure, is a game we could have ironically have won.
Grayson and Critch are world's apart.
 
That first half was Grayson-esque. Disorganised, clueless, shambolic.

That second half is the difference in Grayson-ball. We'd have never come out like that and changed the game like we did, IMO we were much the better side in the last 45 minutes - under Grayson we'd have come out and played the exact same and lost 2 nil.
 
BlackpoolJord said:
What an absolute abject performance that was. Slightly better than against Cardiff, but still horrendous. I just can't see what the game plan is? From what I can gather, we have 4 defenders who are slow and look uncomfortable on the ball, so naturally we knock it around the back until one of them either lumps it long, gets tackled or pass (badly) into a midfielder who has 2 men on him which results in them giving away possession. And that is what we do for the entire 90 minutes which is resulting in gifting the opposition clear 6/7 chances a game at the moment. Its only a matter of time before one of these teams takes those chances and gives us a real hiding.

I can understand what Critchley is trying to do, and appreciate the way he wants to play. The simple matter is - the players we have are not up to it. They are lower league plodders who aren't able to move the ball quickly, pass with one touch. Our only attacking outlet is give to ball to bowler and let him run with it. Something is going to have to change as we can't keep getting battered for the majority of the game and have any hope of staying up. The football the past two games reminds me of Graysons last stint and we know how that ended up for him.

Looking at our squad you can see why we are struggling. Lets look at our summer signings.
Reece James - released from league one Doncaster. Enough said
Bowler - Looks a decent player, i was concerned about his end product when he signed (scored 1 goal all season for hull) and he will need to work on it.
Connolly - Played for Fleetwood...
Keogh - What can i say? Reminds me of a slower Kirk Broadfoot - absolutely shocking signing and whoever authorized that should be removed from the job immediately
Lavery - A Gamble
Casey - Never played a professional game
Carey - Never played a professional game

Are these the types of signings you need when promoted to a division where the step up in quality is huge. They are not. They are all cheap gambles that might pay off. The problem is if you sign too many like this and add them to a squad that was already much weaker than the one that got promoted, you are asking for trouble. If Oyston had made these signings he would be getting pelters.

The good news is there is still time to bring people in of the quality needed because without a handful of players we won't end up with 10 points by the time January comes around.
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Along the lines of what I've already said. I got panned for it!
 
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