Recent content by Poolster

Do they really have plans and targets or do they just wait for Critchley to nominate a few whom he knew in his youth football days? All of the teams we have had in charge of recruitment have talked of metrics and targets led by policy but we still end up with duffers compared to the likes of...

Brilliant posts by both Clappers and CP which sum the quandary we face - a supposedly great coach and developer of players who quite clearly is not very good at either.

I swallowed the notion that we had recruitment planning for both managers and players under the new regime. My faith in this was undone when Critchley left and we were left floundering, as the hierarchy have admitted. If you have a recruitment plan, you already know your next possible manager as...

It has improved but is still not good enough. They need to take more drastic action. Morecambe FC, whose pitch used to be awful by January, now have a good pitch which looks excellent all year. If they can do it , so can we.

It isn't surprising given how few games the development squad played. When it did play, Dobbie seemed to have to make up the numbers with plenty of youth players, as half the squad were on loan at disappointing levels of senior football. More worryingly, when some of these players were given a...

A lot of the criticism of the club on here is constructive rather than negative and comes from a desire for the club to be the best it can be. It comes from supporters who love the club. Any organisation that resents criticism or "grumbling" is unhealthy as it is ignoring feedback that can lead...

I'm beginning to agree with the last comment. I say this with disappointment as I want my club to be an example of how to run a football club with positive engagements with the fans in a variety of ways. The talk is often given that this is what we will be but in reality we seem only to engage...

How depressing it is that so many posters take aim at BST, which has done so much for this club and its supporters. I, for one, think the organisation would have done a great job.

Quite frankly, the lad is brilliant. If Critchley doesn't play and develop him, then he (Critchley) will reveal himself as a fraud, given that he was taken on to create a team sprinkled with up and coming stars.

At present, he just seems to be another example of Critchley's dubious judgement about young players. To me, he (Critchley) seems really poor at something he was supposed to be good at.

I think LA1 is being ironic/sarcastic about some of the moans emanating from the anti-woke brigade. If he's not, yikes!

2 years ago Jake dazzled as a 17 year old against Newcastle's and Chelsea's youth teams. Don't write him off yet.

Superb goal again. Apter is a terrific talent.

The writing is already on the wall, as Critchley, master-coach and technical genius, took a look at him in January after his recall, and decided he would be better off in League Two. This, of course, was without offering him a single minute in League One. So the person who rates CJ highly...

In actual fact, Apter had only been at Tranmere a week when the previous manager to Adkins was sacked. Adkins then didn't play him, except as a sub for a month or so. When he came on a sub, he immediately impressed home and away supporters. Adkins finally gave him a game and he transformed...