Blackpool Post Match Thoughts

[Pocket rocket]

I very rarely go away, so it's just the result that matters for me.

Fair enough but for me the result won?t make any difference to our season but we?re showing nothing to encourage us supporters that we?re on the right path.
Oh and the abuse of Powell last night from some fans at the end was uncalled for.
He?s missing having McWilliams at the side of him.

[Derbymiller]

Fair enough but for me the result won?t make any difference to our season but we?re showing nothing to encourage us supporters that we?re on the right path.
Oh and the abuse of Powell last night from some fans at the end was uncalled for.
He?s missing having McWilliams at the side of him.

I am surprised that people abused Powell, how insane is that? He works so hard for that team and is all over the pitch, look at how many assists he has got, never mind the number of times his tracking back has stopped a goal. Yes his set piece quality hasn't been as good as we all expected but my god, we are very lucky to have a player of that quality in our team. I also think that McWilliams is a bigger miss than people thought he would be. So looking at this season overall, my opinion is there is failure across key positions in the club.
I won't defend Evans because i think he is a better manager in his head than reality shows. He surrounds himself with mediocre people (something I think he has in common with TS), because it is all about him. However if the tradesman isn't given the tools and materials to do the job, then the output will always be worse than it could have been. Now i have no idea if SE is to blame for pressurising the board to sign off on some deals to bring in some players, that meant we blew a good budget on a few players or whether it was others in the club that just gave bad contracts, what i will say is bad contracts have occurred at RUFC before SE came back. It is clear now that JCH and Raggott were gambles that have not paid off and I suspect they take quite a bit of that budget, however rafferty, Powell, james, Jules, McWilliams and Kelly (yet to see the best of him) have been decent L1 signings.
All teams get injuries it isn't unusual for a squad to have 4 or 5 out injured, so when you have a first team squad of 19 players excluding the U21 loans and internals and one of those 19 is a player you didn't want here (Kayode) then you get an outcome below what you would expect.
The squad is too small and for me that issue sits at board level, including the Director of Football Recruitment. We are not playing attractive football, losing repeatably to L2 teams and some of the basics like set pieces are poor and that sits at SE and PR door. What we are seeing is the accumulation of failure across the club.