Wonder how Simon Sadler is feeling this morning?

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Thinking about it, that pathetic starting XI could’ve cost him a potential big gate receipt windfall.

If Bradford win tonight they’ll easily take 30,000 plus. Big club that should be top end league one, minimum.

You’d have thought we’d have taken around 15,000+. Let’s say 48,000 attendance x an average ticket price of £50 = £2.4m so I make that £1.2m thrown down the toilet by starting the likes of Connolly and Virtue while having Pennington on the bench, Casey in the stands, Dembele, Byers, CJ and Lavery all twiddling their thumbs on the bench. Lyons nowhere to be seen while Coulson starts. Is he any better than Lyons? More poor recruitment from the club.

This isn’t an anti-Critchley agenda. I’m a Blackpool fan. I want us to win every game. Last night was an opportunity for a decent day out and big payday and we didn’t even give ourselves a chance to win over a good Peterborough side
 
I imagine he’s more concerned about looking a right tool after going in massively and gushingly over the re-appointment of what we now now (and many of us knew at the time) was a busted flush crazy lazy appointment. And wondering how the hell he can get out of this without damaging his own ego.

My money is on him brazening this out far far far longer than necessary hoping for a turn around. He won’t like the lost revenue opportunity but I’m convinced Sadlers ego is more important than dropping a few hundred grand on not getting to Wembley.
 
If he had a pair he should publicly put something out to stop the negativity and nip it in the bud ask for unity and try push for the playoffs. He won't, he doesn't come across to be bothered , he won't speak up only to tell us peasants to shut up and count ourselves lucky we have a good manager and a great team around him 😫😳
 
clappers said:
He won’t like the lost revenue opportunity but I’m convinced Sadlers ego is more important than dropping a few hundred grand on not getting to Wembley.
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Unfortunately clappers, I think you have it spot on.

Taking away the surprise of promotion (when Calderwood was the dominant factor), when has Sadler actually been successful with a decision?

Manager appointments have been abject, player recruitment the same and as for his backroom 'staff', I remain unimpressed.
 
Athers said:
Thinking about it, that pathetic starting XI could’ve cost him a potential big gate receipt windfall.

If Bradford win tonight they’ll easily take 30,000 plus. Big club that should be top end league one, minimum.

You’d have thought we’d have taken around 15,000+. Let’s say 48,000 attendance x an average ticket price of £50 = £2.4m so I make that £1.2m thrown down the toilet by starting the likes of Connolly and Virtue while having Pennington on the bench, Casey in the stands, Dembele, Byers, CJ and Lavery all twiddling their thumbs on the bench. Lyons nowhere to be seen while Coulson starts. Is he any better than Lyons? More poor recruitment from the club.

This isn’t an anti-Critchley agenda. I’m a Blackpool fan. I want us to win every game. Last night was an opportunity for a decent day out and big payday and we didn’t even give ourselves a chance to win over a good Peterborough side
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Average tickets price £50!

Cheapest tickets £20,kids in all areas £10 and dearest seat £60 for last year's final they surely wouldn't put them up that much.
You need to rethink your figures pal.
 
clappers said:
I imagine he’s more concerned about looking a right tool after going in massively and gushingly over the re-appointment of what we now now (and many of us knew at the time) was a busted flush crazy lazy appointment. And wondering how the hell he can get out of this without damaging his own ego.

My money is on him brazening this out far far far longer than necessary hoping for a turn around. He won’t like the lost revenue opportunity but I’m convinced Sadlers ego is more important than dropping a few hundred grand on not getting to Wembley.
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Each and every Managerial choice that this club has made have been done with the very best of intentions and not once has SS shied away from making the difficult decision to part company (as and when the time was right). Just because he didn’t sack Critchley after 4 games like some of you numpties were calling for, doesn’t mean he’s not been right to give the manager a proper chance to build and develop.

From what I can see it a few like yourself who need to look at their Ego’s and maybe learn that you can’t always have your chocolate.
 
Raging_Bull said:
If i was in Simon's shoes I'd be looking at a replacement for next season right now, he needs something positive to beat the drum about in the summer otherwise the season ticket holder fanbase will drop like a stone.
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Been saying similar to that... And did to the football club staff last night
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Each and every Managerial choice that this club has made have been done with the very best of intentions and not once has SS shied away from making the difficult decision to part company (as and when the time was right). Just because he didn’t sack Critchley after 4 games like some of you numpties were calling for, doesn’t mean he’s not been right to give the manager a proper chance to build and develop.

From what I can see it a few like yourself who need to look at their Ego’s and maybe learn that you can’t always have your chocolate.
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I agree x 3 but if it goes wrong on Saturday it could be a reaction he never wants to hear.
I'm very concerned that after Bolton we have 4 out of 5 games away.
 
We fell hook, line and sinker for their tactics last night. I asked my Catalan mate who watched a lot of it on Sky how we should have played in his mind against Posh.

His view was teams like Posh need you to come and chase them. The defenders stand on the ball long enough for you to press and then pop it into space, two or three passes later it goes into midfield then forward again and you are all out of shape.

He said the teams that stop Barca playing (I’m not saying Posh are Barca btw) just sit back and don’t even bother pressing them. They wait for them to come into their half and then press them as it leaves no gaps behind. He felt we made the mistake on a decent sized pitch of trying to be attacking as maybe that’s what the fans expected / wanted? If we had sat back we could have done the reverse to them, got the first goal and then they start to panic and hurry their passing.

Interesting hearing his view - it resonates with me as we got suckered in so many times and a few passes later Connolly or Hubby were pulled out of position chasing a winger with massive hole left in centre.
 
Raging_Bull said:
If i was in Simon's shoes I'd be looking at a replacement for next season right now, he needs something positive to beat the drum about in the summer otherwise the season ticket holder fanbase will drop like a stone.
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Threatened season ticket boycotts last May could have brought a better coach.

Similar threats could have prevented Appleton's hire and a division three fall.

Sadler's dire appointments deserve flak.

Blame habitual loyalists too for decline.
 
He should feel like an idiot because he’s acting like one. He’s cuckholded himself by appointing poor managers and his current “manager” is on a contract he didn’t earn by merit and would be a costly divorce. So Sadler watches and pays for his own club to flounder. He gave one tactic Critchley everything he asked for and he has proven himself just not up to the job.

Our impotent chairman neither gets Critchley a number two who can fill his knowledge gaps or fires him to salvage some value from the season. We have achieved nothing this year except waste time and money and at this juncture it’s appropriate for fans to ask if they should be wasting their hard earned time and money on Critchley’s poorly coached shadow of what we could be. Why the senior pros have not called a team meeting is beyond me. Norburn should be acting like a captain on and off the pitch.
 
the_stockport_one said:
I agree x 3 but if it goes wrong on Saturday it could be a reaction he never wants to hear.
I'm very concerned that after Bolton we have 4 out of 5 games away.
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Of course, because whichever way Sadler looks, he’s got Fans with influence trying to undermine everything he tries to do. The bloke is trying to run a football club with one hand tied behind his back.

We’ve got Dickheads stirring up protests because they’ve been blocked on Twitter for acting like absolute bellends.

We’ve got fans constantly pumping out this same kind of negativity on here and other forms of Social Media…

We’ve been on the whole “If we fail to win this game then questions need to be asked” train from the day the Season kicked off.

Last season we had the MSG ripping into a young loan player before he’d even kicked a ball.

There’s no question that our smacked arse crew will be up in arms if they don’t get what they expect on Saturday, because that’s modern football and modern life in general.

Too many big ** egos who got themselves a bit ** ‘famous’ in the Boycott years and aren’t prepared to give an inch for the good of the Club…
 
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Chunkylad said:
We fell hook, line and sinker for their tactics last night. I asked my Catalan mate who watched a lot of it on Sky how we should have played in his mind against Posh.

His view was teams like Posh need you to come and chase them. The defenders stand on the ball long enough for you to press and then pop it into space, two or three passes later it goes into midfield then forward again and you are all out of shape.

He said the teams that stop Barca playing (I’m not saying Posh are Barca btw) just sit back and don’t even bother pressing them. They wait for them to come into their half and then press them as it leaves no gaps behind. He felt we made the mistake on a decent sized pitch of trying to be attacking as maybe that’s what the fans expected / wanted? If we had sat back we could have done the reverse to them, got the first goal and then they start to panic and hurry their passing.

Interesting hearing his view - it resonates with me as we got suckered in so many times and a few passes later Connolly or Hubby were pulled out of position chasing a winger with massive hole left in centre.
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Yes, thanks Chunky, interesting view that. And it wasn't just the centre we got exposed in - the gap where a right fullback should have been was hit three times in the first half with JG upfield. Three clean through chances (one flagged) and it was only RoD and Marv's great work saved us from a real hammering last night. We got one in terms of play anyway, but we could easily have lost that 6 or 7.
 
You win some you lose some. We could have gone out of this at group stage and nobody batted an eyelid. Can't really bank on the Bristol Street Motors trophy for a payday and if you are then your business model is doomed to failure anyway.

The only way it would really hurt is if the EFL suddenly announced the trophy winner gets 10 league points. But they're never going to do that so it's just a competition that the organiser is desperately trying to keep alive and you're either in it or you're not.

Peterborough were the better team on the night and deserved it. They prepared to win. But we're just about still in with a sniff of the spot they currently occupy in the league because we somehow managed to break the mould of our season so far and turn a 0-1 into a 2-1 win and away from home at their place last weekend when nobody expected it. So whilst that is still in play then it needs everyone to regroup now and focus on that. I think we all know we'll probably piss that up a wall too with how we are and how we've been, but whilst there's a mathematical chance then we've got to try and go for it now with no distractions.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Of course, because whichever way Sadler looks, he’s got Fans with influence trying to undermine everything he tries to do. The bloke is trying to run a football club with one hand tied behind his back.

We’ve got Dickheads stirring up protests because they’ve been blocked on Twitter for acting like absolute bellends.

We’ve got fans constantly pumping out this same kind of negativity on here and other forms of Social Media…

We’ve been in the whole “Of we fail to win this game then questions need to be asked” train from the day the Season kicked off.

Last season we had the MSG ripping into a young loan player before he’d even kicked a ball.

There’s no question that our smacked arse crew will be up in arms if they don’t get what they expect on Saturday, because that’s modern football and modern life in general.

Too many big ** egos who got themselves a bit ** ‘famous’ in the Boycott years and aren’t prepared to give an inch for the good of the Club…
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Wow you do like to hear yourself talk. Not enough attention at home???
 
Athers said:
Thinking about it, that pathetic starting XI could’ve cost him a potential big gate receipt windfall.

If Bradford win tonight they’ll easily take 30,000 plus. Big club that should be top end league one, minimum.

You’d have thought we’d have taken around 15,000+. Let’s say 48,000 attendance x an average ticket price of £50 = £2.4m so I make that £1.2m thrown down the toilet by starting the likes of Connolly and Virtue while having Pennington on the bench, Casey in the stands, Dembele, Byers, CJ and Lavery all twiddling their thumbs on the bench. Lyons nowhere to be seen while Coulson starts. Is he any better than Lyons? More poor recruitment from the club.

This isn’t an anti-Critchley agenda. I’m a Blackpool fan. I want us to win every game. Last night was an opportunity for a decent day out and big payday and we didn’t even give ourselves a chance to win over a good Peterborough side
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Agree, if I was SS, I wouldn’t be happy.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Just because he didn’t sack Critchley after 4 games like some of you numpties were calling for, doesn’t mean he’s not been right to give the manager a proper chance to build and develop.
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So with that in mind BFCx3, do you think he should go now?

Team selections, performances in general have both been abject, and if he's had input in recruitment, that's truly been awful.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Each and every Managerial choice that this club has made have been done with the very best of intentions and not once has SS shied away from making the difficult decision to part company (as and when the time was right). Just because he didn’t sack Critchley after 4 games like some of you numpties were calling for, doesn’t mean he’s not been right to give the manager a proper chance to build and develop.

From what I can see it a few like yourself who need to look at their Ego’s and maybe learn that you can’t always have your chocolate.
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I don’t like chocolate! Give me Bertie Bassets Allsorts any day 😀Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. I think people like you Bfster are too wedded to the “it’ll come good because it did X amount of years ago” whilst overlooking his abject failure in everything since he left. Comfort blanket appointment for comfort blanket fans like yourself 😜
 
Raging_Bull said:
If i was in Simon's shoes I'd be looking at a replacement for next season right now, he needs something positive to beat the drum about in the summer otherwise the season ticket holder fanbase will drop like a stone.
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I’m sure there’s an ongoing list of potential candidates after what happened last time with Critchley.
 
clappers said:
I imagine he’s more concerned about looking a right tool after going in massively and gushingly over the re-appointment of what we now now (and many of us knew at the time) was a busted flush crazy lazy appointment. And wondering how the hell he can get out of this without damaging his own ego.

My money is on him brazening this out far far far longer than necessary hoping for a turn around. He won’t like the lost revenue opportunity but I’m convinced Sadlers ego is more important than dropping a few hundred grand on not getting to Wembley.
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You're having a go at via guesswork. Quite a common theme on this forum.
 
Athers said:
Thinking about it, that pathetic starting XI could’ve cost him a potential big gate receipt windfall.

If Bradford win tonight they’ll easily take 30,000 plus. Big club that should be top end league one, minimum.

You’d have thought we’d have taken around 15,000+. Let’s say 48,000 attendance x an average ticket price of £50 = £2.4m so I make that £1.2m thrown down the toilet by starting the likes of Connolly and Virtue while having Pennington on the bench, Casey in the stands, Dembele, Byers, CJ and Lavery all twiddling their thumbs on the bench. Lyons nowhere to be seen while Coulson starts. Is he any better than Lyons? More poor recruitment from the club.

This isn’t an anti-Critchley agenda. I’m a Blackpool fan. I want us to win every game. Last night was an opportunity for a decent day out and big payday and we didn’t even give ourselves a chance to win over a good Peterborough side
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clappers said:
It’s an opinion piece Voyeur. They do them in The Guardian sometimes too 😜 Hence “I imagine” and “My money’s on”.
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I know that, I'm simply pointing out that you are choosing to have a go at our owner on the basis of guesswork. Your opinion is based on nothing more than your imagination.

Not sure what the Guardian has to do with anything either. Put that tabloid down!
 
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Think you could have your sums wrong there,I’m led to believe after exspenses,the remaining balance is split three ways,I could be wrong,but yes a good sum of money to lose out on,but would sadler have invested it in bringing qaulity players, the club on record,saying only players better than what’s already at the club will be signed.
 
paulco said:
Threatened season ticket boycotts last May could have brought a better coach.

Similar threats could have prevented Appleton's hire and a division three fall.

Sadler's dire appointments deserve flak.

Blame habitual loyalists too for decline.
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Only a non fan would’ve threatened our owner with an ST boycott across the fans groups. You’re either buying one or not according to your own finances or situation. Loyalty to the club is our cross to bare as fans and it takes fans getting sued to break that loyalty
 
I suspect they ee should have done a “Stevenage” on them. They came to play, and we tried to do the same, but couldn’t match. “All behind the ball all night , and wait for something to turn up”, might have been a better option.
 
Here’s another hypothetical. If Critchley had our 2020 squad available to him this season do you think he would have got us promoted?
 
Chunkylad said:
Here’s another hypothetical. If Critchley had our 2020 squad available to him this season do you think he would have got us promoted?
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This squad , but different coach or manager with different tactics and different formation You think pool be higher

Critchley was out fought last night , no plan b , you can tell certain players don’t like the system
Seen loads say posh were very good , no it wasn’t , pool were bad all over , including from critchley
 
Tangerine Manc said:
This squad , but different coach or manager with different tactics and different formation You think pool be higher

Critchley was out fought last night , no plan b , you can tell certain players don’t like the system
Seen loads say posh were very good , no it wasn’t , pool were bad all over , including from critchley
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Interesting. So for you it’s the manager more than the players?
 
Bend it like Suddick said:
Unfortunately clappers, I think you have it spot on.

Taking away the surprise of promotion (when Calderwood was the dominant factor), when has Sadler actually been successful with a decision?

Manager appointments have been abject, player recruitment the same and as for his backroom 'staff', I remain unimpressed.
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I recall him looking shell shocked after the play off win, the thought of having to resource the playing side for the championship clearly wasn't what he really wanted. That's when his nightmare began.
Time for him to move on.
 
Chunkylad said:
Only a non fan would’ve threatened our owner with an ST boycott across the fans groups. You’re either buying one or not according to your own finances or situation. Loyalty to the club is our cross to bare as fans and it takes fans getting sued to break that loyalty
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I have remained a Pool fan over decades.

Consumers who buy products despite a slump in quality get what they deserve.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Of course, because whichever way Sadler looks, he’s got Fans with influence trying to undermine everything he tries to do. The bloke is trying to run a football club with one hand tied behind his back.

We’ve got Dickheads stirring up protests because they’ve been blocked on Twitter for acting like absolute bellends.

We’ve got fans constantly pumping out this same kind of negativity on here and other forms of Social Media…

We’ve been on the whole “If we fail to win this game then questions need to be asked” train from the day the Season kicked off.

Last season we had the MSG ripping into a young loan player before he’d even kicked a ball.

There’s no question that our smacked arse crew will be up in arms if they don’t get what they expect on Saturday, because that’s modern football and modern life in general.

Too many big ** egos who got themselves a bit ** ‘famous’ in the Boycott years and aren’t prepared to give an inch for the good of the Club…
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It was always going to have a diluted Appleton effect bringing Critchley back & IMHO was the wrong choice. However I have tried very hard to support him & will not utter anything derogatory should he still continue, we've been hoping he would see the light but that's not what has happened. As for Sadler yes he pays the bills so can do what he wishes, but he's learnt nothing either & yes we as fans like to know what's going on at the club we support, but the comm's have been terrible. I still hope we can turn things round (this season) but I'm far from convinced. I'd like him out now & SD in his place, it won't happen unless he takes a dump on Saddler's desk though.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
No …. I don’t think he should go… Why on earth would I think that ?

It’s ridiculous that we are even discussing it
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But he's absolutely shit Daz and this is football it happens at every club, sometimes it just doesn't work and it hasn't worked this time. If we let him see his 4 years ut you will be watching league 1 football for all of it.
 
Allegedly we got promoted a year ahead of our time.Now we are predicted by the analysts to finish 12th in the table.Again allegedly Sadler has said anything less than 6th place will not be good enough.Looking at the teams we have lost against away already.I think with the teams we have to play both home and away,12th position is even in danger.Best solution SACK CRITCHLEY NOW/BRING DOBBIE BACK AS MANAGER/BRING ALL THE LOANEES BACK/IMAGINE IT'STHE START OF A NEW SEASON/SORT THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF
 
65 & Counting said:
I recall him looking shell shocked after the play off win, the thought of having to resource the playing side for the championship clearly wasn't what he really wanted. That's when his nightmare began.
Time for him to move on.
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Ridiculous .

Of course he wants to get the club promoted back into the championship .
 
Chunkylad said:
We fell hook, line and sinker for their tactics last night. I asked my Catalan mate who watched a lot of it on Sky how we should have played in his mind against Posh.

His view was teams like Posh need you to come and chase them. The defenders stand on the ball long enough for you to press and then pop it into space, two or three passes later it goes into midfield then forward again and you are all out of shape.

He said the teams that stop Barca playing (I’m not saying Posh are Barca btw) just sit back and don’t even bother pressing them. They wait for them to come into their half and then press them as it leaves no gaps behind. He felt we made the mistake on a decent sized pitch of trying to be attacking as maybe that’s what the fans expected / wanted? If we had sat back we could have done the reverse to them, got the first goal and then they start to panic and hurry their passing.

Interesting hearing his view - it resonates with me as we got suckered in so many times and a few passes later Connolly or Hubby were pulled out of position chasing a winger with massive hole left in centre.
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I’d say that was right. They were very confident on the ball and drew us in to which we were only too obliged to do. If it would have been 0-0 half time we should have changed to what your friend said above but by then we were chasing the game and only way we would have scored is from a mistake from them when passing it around at the back.

We were so far of it in terms of on the pitch but also who is doing the analysis of next opponents because they got it spot on whereas we got it wrong. We’d just played them ffs.

It’s happening all too often. Who does our scouting of who we play?
 
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