Critchley Gone

[Snake Plissken]

See when you look at yesterday and how effective the back to basics is, reflecting on the mess Critchley got into is fucking mental man

Convinced himself that Shankland was a 10, that we had no wingers so this mental diamond was the only way.

Absolute madness man. We need a manager who realises simplicity is the way in this league. We’ll generally have better players than the other team so there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.

Fox would have had us in the top six, absolutely no doubt. That's not even an endorsement of Fox; it's an indictment of how badly wrong the youth coach got it that he dragged this squad back into a relegation scrap after getting clear with simple tactics.

The one half-decent thing about this side was the Penrice-Spittal combination, which was rendered useless by that diamond nonsense. Forrest is limited, but he gives you that energy and width that can work well enough in this league, ditto Vargas. I think that was the first time either had started a game in months.