Who's the better manager, Critch or Ollie?

Critch will build you a good team, Ollie will get them promoted.

Do it the other way round, Ollie will likely build you a s*** team, Critch would likely get them relegated.

No offence or judgement intended for either, they just have different strengths and weaknesses.
 
Ollie for me for now, Critch still learning and hopefully will get there but he needs to start learning from his mistakes if not this season certainly by next...
 
Critch as a long term option. Holloway was great in the particular circumstances, mainly with an inherited squad, a fantastic motivator and man manager, but he bought some terrible players and wasted a lot of money.
 
Critch, took a team recently in receivership, overhauled the whole playing squad and got us promoted to the championship in his first full season,
winning manager of the year to boot. Then has us more or less safe with a third of a season to go, Hull and Peterborough would gladly swap places.
 
Ollie. He knew how to motivate and get the best out of players.

Critch, I'm sure will admit is still learning.

btw I saw Ga(e)rrity on the touchline but not the new appointee?
 
Ollie was old school like warnock etc
Time to move on critch has experience from liverpool
He is an up and coming coach and needs a bit of time and money available to bring in who he wants
He will learn from his mistakes this season on team selection thats if he had
choice with injuries ?
I think Blackpool have done great this season and should be further up the table
 
Critch is young hungry & is improving (not last night though) Ollie is old & has done very little since leaving us. I really can't compare them.
 
Lost Seasider said:
Critch will build you a good team, Ollie will get them promoted.

Do it the other way round, Ollie will likely build you a s*** team, Critch would likely get them relegated.

No offence or judgement intended for either, they just have different strengths and weaknesses.
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Holloway built a better team in 2011/12 than the one he inherited with much less infrastructure than Critch currently has access to, we had zero scouts, he cobbled it together from DVDs and word of mouth and still was a millimetre away from promotion again while comfortably making the play offs.

He was also a lot more experienced than Critch which helped, given time the current manager will do as well if not better, I rate him more highly than Holloway but let's not pretend Holloway got lucky with a team and then just sent them out with a decent speech, he basically single-handedly held the entire thing from going under for three years while performing minor miracles on the pitch through sheer force of personality and graft.

I said at the time it would all go to pot once he left and that's exactly what happened. The recent revisionists trying to taint his time here are full of shit.
 
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Holloway, for those three seasons, was arguably the best manager in the country. It was lightning in a bottle, the right man for the right team at the right time.

I think Critch will go on to bigger and better heights than Ollie achieved and I think he’s clearly building not just a team but a club, in the Liverpool mould. But I think for that brief period what Ollie did was hard to surpass.
 
Gazboro said:
Ollie was old school like warnock etc
Time to move on critch has experience from liverpool
He is an up and coming coach and needs a bit of time and money available to bring in who he wants
He will learn from his mistakes this season on team selection thats if he had
choice with injuries ?
I think Blackpool have done great this season and should be further up the table
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Ollie was nowt like Warnock. Agree with the rest.
 
I would be more interested in comparing Critch to Evatt as they are both of the same era.
Critch has 1 promotion but Evatt might conceivably manage 3 with 2 clubs over a similar time frame.
I was a huge Evatt fan and thought he should be considered when Grayson went, but overall glad we have Critch.
 
voyeur said:
Ollie was nowt like Warnock. Agree with the rest.
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I agree, at the time he was innovative and a absolute breath of fresh air in the Prem. First of the smaller teams to get promoted and play exciting, attacking, mad, mad football. We were a joy to watch back then. Win or lose it was damned exciting
 
For what it's worth I preferred Holloway. Playing a 4 3 3 was thrilling to watch (same as Klopp) and he performed miracles on a relatively tiny budget. Critch doing a great job so far, but not always the best to watch.
 
The Holloway era was very exciting to watch, fans want to see attacking football and he provided that in spades with his "We'll score more than you" approach. It was boom or bust and when you look at how he was hamstrung by the bastards, it was indeed remarkable.

Critch is far more pragmatic, nowhere near as flamboyant but probably a safer pair of hands long term. Still learning and sometimes overthinking and tinkering but doing a great job after getting us promoted when I certainly didn't expect it. Still impressively punching above our weight given our budget, he's got some way to go to become a BFC legend but slowly, slowly, catchee monkey 👍
 
Ollie all day long for me, passionate and fearless, we went to the likes of Liverpool, Man Utd and Spurs and went for their throats attacking wise and it was an absolute pleasure to watch. Critch has some great attributes in terms of the way he likes to play etc but he has his downsides too, he’s young and hopefully he will learn from those mistakes and become a very good manager.
 
Ollie was a fantastic man manager/ He got the players to believe in themselves and got that extra yard out of them, but tactically naive thommo was the tactician great pairing.
just my opinion
 
Ollie was a better 'manager' using the old definition. Critch is the epitome of a modern coach in terms of fitness, scouting, tactics etc (although he does over complicate things worrying too much about the opposition).

I think Critch will achieve much more in his career than Ollie.
 
Yarmouth Seasider said:
The Holloway era was very exciting to watch, fans want to see attacking football and he provided that in spades with his "We'll score more than you" approach. It was boom or bust and when you look at how he was hamstrung by the bastards, it was indeed remarkable.

Critch is far more pragmatic, nowhere near as flamboyant but probably a safer pair of hands long term. Still learning and sometimes overthinking and tinkering but doing a great job after getting us promoted when I certainly didn't expect it. Still impressively punching above our weight given our budget, he's got some way to go to become a BFC legend but slowly, slowly, catchee monkey 👍
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Two excellent managers with different circumstances I think. But different personalities and approaches, and experience levels too. This our first season back in the Championship and we have set out to re-establish ourselves, which Larry did last time round. And Critch is getting to grips with the management game. Also, we had that unique set of players assembled by Larry and Tony Parkes, and we had Charlie Adam with his passing range, his strength of personality, his set pieces and his goals. And we had DJ up front, quite a rare player in our history. He could play up front alone and link up and get in behind and was sharp in front of goal.

I think Critch will seek to build on this season's foundation. The issue is probably whether we can find a couple of players to elevate the ability of the side to attack and cause problems to the opposition. I think Bowler will leave and we will seek to use the money to bring in a couple of players who can give us a better balance. Sell to buy.

The Ollie period was incomparable. But Ollie had a particular set of circumstances that meant it all clicked for him here. Critch may well go on to have a more sustained career at a higher level. A more stable character with an excellent understanding of the game and a better overall long term management strategy.
 
Ollie proved himself to be a one trick (ok two at a push) pony.

My opinion is NC will have a longer and generally more successful career than the barn pot did.

We were lucky to have Ollie when the stars aligned ... but I wouldn't have him back ever.
 
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