Finished the season how we expected to start it. Job well done in the end. Brilliant turnaround from where we were a couple of months ago. Now we have a platform to build on. As always though recruitment is key…
Massive massive MASSIVE win! Horrible game, horrible ref, horrible opposition who came for a point by play acting and time wasting from the get go. Didnt matter how we did it, we just needed to win. Now we’ve given ourselves a chance. On to Friday 🍊
@bwfc_elliot Lack of effort and basic errors due to lack of concentration are on them as players. Whether Evatt is the right fit for us is up for debate. He wouldn’t have been my first choice. We’ve been on a steady decline for a number of years now. Problems run deeper than the manager
Honeyman was right midweek. I’ve never seen a group of players so soft and so devoid of any fight. Evatts system may be crap but that doesn’t excuse these so called professionals being so poor week in week out. The team who recruited them are culpable. What a failure all round
@bwfc_elliot I accept your point but these players gave the same level of effort when we played 4-4-2 earlier in the season under a different manager. Sometimes you have to look at them as well. They aren’t digging in or fighting. That being said his system is stifling us, we can all see it
@DamianCough Yes absolutely. Every decision we could’ve got wrong we have. Top to bottom it’s been a shambles but signs were there after Critch v1 and it’s been a steady decline since.
@Nxozane_ Evatt will rightly claim they aren’t “his” players but his reluctance to adapt isn’t helping us at all. The environment won’t be a great one currently. Those 2 in boardroom have overseen a general decline since they came in so a change is required there as a minimum.
I look at our squad and think who can I identify and connect with as what we know as a Blackpool type player. Who gets it like we do? I’m struggling… That’s how Downes & co have got it so wrong. They don’t “get” our club or what we stand for. That is reflected in our recruitment
@Nxozane_ The getting it bit is about the effort translated on the pitch, that’s all we expect. Honeyman gives us effort, I respect him and can get behind players like him. Not many others can hold their head up and say the same. That’s what I’m on about.
@TrottersBlog I don’t doubt he could be a good manager and has proved that elsewhere, but we were told about his rigidity and being married to this god awful system and it is killing us. These players have been culpable all season but he’s not helped and we’ve gone backwards if anything
@Nxozane_ As in we’ve signed a load of mercenaries that don’t give one. Players like Jerry Yates got what it meant to play for this club, his performances reflected that. This lot don’t care at all. We’ve signed players purely off stats and data rather than who would be a good fit for us
Playing for a draw at home in a relegation 6 pointer really paying dividends now eh? Evatt not helping himself. It’s like Critchley v2 with his rigid system that is killing us. Recruitment has been terrible (Ennis aside). Can’t say we don’t deserve to go down. We absolutely do