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TANGERINETOWERPOWER

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Hand on heart how many of you would play Garbutt, CJ and Thompson against QPR? They should all be on the bench at best and McCarthy clearly hasnt done any homework on us or the players and the arrogance of that is astounding. McCarthy and Appleton are probably the worst managerial double act in the history of the club and show an astounding lack of ambition...still its only little Old Blackpool eh
 
Everything started to go wrong at Loftus Road, despite winning.
So may be everything will go right again after beating them tomorrow 🙏🙏🙏

And I wouldn't play any of those 3. I wouldn't have Dom or Garbutt on the bench either. There's always a small chance CJ might have a moment of magic in him, rather than provide a comedy act, so I'd have him as a sub.
 
All 3 on the bench for me.
I've posted and read on a few match threads this season that our bench looks strong, whilst we start with CJ and Garbutt, and Thompson.

It's the wrong way around completely. CJ is often very good impact sub against tired legs, i like Thompson but he is a bit of a loose cannon. And Garbutt in midfield!!!!!
 
Loco said:
Everything started to go wrong at Loftus Road, despite winning.
So may be everything will go right again after beating them tomorrow 🙏🙏🙏

And I wouldn't play any of those 3. I wouldn't have Dom or Garbutt on the bench either. There's always a small chance CJ might have a moment of magic in him, rather than provide a comedy act, so I'd have him as a sub.
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Yep, the football god of cruelty, Ĕĺ Çřåpáĉůŝ, will undo the curse put on us on that day.

Finally, we may now have a chance.
 
CJ proved beyond a reasonable doubt on Saturday why I have said many times he is not a footy player.
League One at a push but please not in our league one team 🤦‍♂️🙏
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
Hand on heart how many of you would play Garbutt, CJ and Thompson against QPR? They should all be on the bench at best and McCarthy clearly hasnt done any homework on us or the players and the arrogance of that is astounding. McCarthy and Appleton are probably the worst managerial double act in the history of the club and show an astounding lack of ambition...still its only little Old Blackpool eh
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None of them 3 would be in my starting lineup
 
Ditch_the_Dino🦖_Simonized said:
CJ proved beyond a reasonable doubt on Saturday why I have said many times he is not a footy player.
League One at a push but please not in our league one team 🤦‍♂️🙏
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I like Hamilton, appears to be a great lad, if he could just show a bit of composure he would be dangerous. Unfortunately like the majority of our players at the moment, when they get the ball it's panic stations. Confidence has gone and we have no real leaders that I can see.
Still if we win tomorrow that could all change 🙏 🙏 🙏
 
Thomson worries me every time he’s on the ball, and seemed to be massively out of position on several occasions Saturday

Garbutt is not a midfielder and again lacks positional sense because he’s playing out of his natural position

As I’ve said in other threads I just don’t get the anti CJ posts. In my opinion he’s been one of our better players of late, although I accept mainly off the bench
 
no9 said:
I like Hamilton, appears to be a great lad, if he could just show a bit of composure he would be dangerous. Unfortunately like the majority of our players at the moment, when they get the ball it's panic stations. Confidence has gone and we have no real leaders that I can see.
Still if we win tomorrow that could all change 🙏 🙏 🙏
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Being a ‘great lad’ doesn’t make him a footballer. He couldn’t trap a bag of cement, his crosses are , 9 times out of 10, terrible he refuses to contest a 59/50 ball, he’s 6’1” and I’ve never seen him try to head a ball. All he has is speed, which he rarely uses these days, as has been said, at best lower league 1 but hopefully not with us. If McCarthy prefers him to Poveda, he has really gone down in my estimation.
 
tigger said:
Thomson worries me every time he’s on the ball, and seemed to be massively out of position on several occasions Saturday

Garbutt is not a midfielder and again lacks positional sense because he’s playing out of his natural position

As I’ve said in other threads I just don’t get the anti CJ posts. In my opinion he’s been one of our better players of late, although I accept mainly off the bench
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It’s not anti Hamilton , it’s anti him being McCarthys first choice over far better players. Poveda, Patino, Rogers to name but 3.
 
Albert Ross said:
Being a ‘great lad’ doesn’t make him a footballer. He couldn’t trap a bag of cement, his crosses are , 9 times out of 10, terrible he refuses to contest a 59/50 ball, he’s 6’1” and I’ve never seen him try to head a ball. All he has is speed, which he rarely uses these days, as has been said, at best lower league 1 but hopefully not with us. If McCarthy prefers him to Poveda, he has really gone down in my estimation.
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I don't think McCarthy will think that and I've no idea why he's not picking him.
I think it looks bad on Poveda that he's not being picked.
With his talent and work rate it's almost impossible for him to not get in this team - what's the issue, is he a complete numpty 🤷‍♂️
As for Hamilton, not every footballer is a hard case, just how it is and has always been.
Don't agree he doesn't use his speed, when he's on he definitely causes defenders problems albeit I agree he's not always the most cultured on the ball😉
 
no9 said:
I don't think McCarthy will think that and I've no idea why he's not picking him.
I think it looks bad on Poveda that he's not being picked.
With his talent and work rate it's almost impossible for him to not get in this team - what's the issue, is he a complete numpty 🤷‍♂️
As for Hamilton, not every footballer is a hard case, just how it is and has always been.
Don't agree he doesn't use his speed, when he's on he definitely causes defenders problems albeit I agree he's not always the most cultured on the ball😉
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It’s not much use being able to outrun defenders if you can’t do anything with the ball when you get there, if it was we would sign Johnny Peacock. Poveda may be a bit of a bad lad but in our position we need him. George Best was a bad lad but you wouldn’t drop him, same could be said of quite a few modern day players. If we need his contribution to save us, bloody well play him. What we don’t need just now is McCarthys, I’ll show you who’s boss attitude. Neither he nor Poveda will be here next season, it’s the here and now which matters.
 
There have been times this season where I’ve thought an AVFTT poll could pick a better team than our manager.

That goes for Appleton and McCarthy.

You see it and go “well that’s not going to work”, and it doesn’t.
 
Albert Ross said:
It’s not much use being able to outrun defenders if you can’t do anything with the ball when you get there, if it was we would sign Johnny Peacock. Poveda may be a bit of a bad lad but in our position we need him. George Best was a bad lad but you wouldn’t drop him, same could be said of quite a few modern day players. If we need his contribution to save us, bloody well play him. What we don’t need just now is McCarthys, I’ll show you who’s boss attitude. Neither he nor Poveda will be here next season, it’s the here and now which matters.
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I agree, I'd play him as long as the other players are happy to have him in the team. Maybe they aren't though, seems a strange situation when we need our best players playing. Don't get it.
 
Loco said:
Everything started to go wrong at Loftus Road, despite winning.
So may be everything will go right again after beating them tomorrow 🙏🙏🙏

And I wouldn't play any of those 3. I wouldn't have Dom or Garbutt on the bench either. There's always a small chance CJ might have a moment of magic in him, rather than provide a comedy act, so I'd have him as a sub.
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Everything started to go wrong after the win at Coventry and WPC stated to everyone in his Lee Charles video rant that we were the best team in the league and that we were going up😳🙄
 
CJ will have 2 or 3 games a season where he looks decent, but far too many games where hes total shite, bench at best for me

Dom Thompson i would persevere with, could be a very good player but has a mistake in him, needs to cut this out

Garbutt i wouldnt even play in the development squad. Get rid
 
Thompson started the season well but does look shaky and on Saturday was badly out of position a number of times. He also has a habit of turning back rather than surging forward - confidence will be an obvious cause.

But in a relegation battle … experience is best and husband should be playing instead for me .
 
Not too many Garbutt fans and when the fans sing Carlo said that he was shite now hes flippin dynamite I think perhaps it could be Carlo said that he was shite and you know that he was right
 
No I wouldn't start any of them tomorrow. I would however have played Thompson in the last couple of games because Hubby looked dead on his feet last time he started but he's had a rest now so I'd bring him back.
I never thought CJ was Championship quality and I'm still waiting to see Garbutt's "wand of a left foot".
 
I think Thompson could be decent. He did really well against Tella last week - he's inconsistent and had some bad ones, but I just have a gut feeling that there's a good player there.
Garbutt was decent in league one last time, but I'm not sure he's good enough defensively to be a left back tbh.
If we're looking to improve and make an attempt at getting back to the championship, we need better than CJ. I don't think that because he's quick he's a useful asset - there are loads of fast players in the top half of league one and they're mostly better with the ball at their feet than CJ is.
 
Insider said:
No I wouldn't start any of them tomorrow. I would however have played Thompson in the last couple of games because Hubby looked dead on his feet last time he started but he's had a rest now so I'd bring him back.
I never thought CJ was Championship quality and I'm still waiting to see Garbutt's "wand of a left foot".
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the cross he put in the stand on saturday, I couldnt have hit that badly. It's a kind of magic...
 
(sorry Luke!) - I actually think Garbutt could be a decent player, but like so many, injuries and stop start have hampered him and he doesnt look good at the moment.
 
Hamilton looks best from the bench when he can go past tiring players and put a low ball in. Gabriel should have scored from one against Burnley.

Thompson is a strange one. One minute he looks solid as a defender then he gifts the ball, misses a header, does something inexplicable.

Garbutt. Is a wand, not has a wand of a left foot. Failed to deliver from being signed.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
Hand on heart how many of you would play Garbutt, CJ and Thompson against QPR? They should all be on the bench at best and McCarthy clearly hasnt done any homework on us or the players and the arrogance of that is astounding. McCarthy and Appleton are probably the worst managerial double act in the history of the club and show an astounding lack of ambition...still its only little Old Blackpool eh
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I cannot get on board with the Thompson stuff at all. He did a fine job on Saturday and probably covered more ground than anyone.
 
Loco said:
Have a watch of Blackburn's goal at Ewood. He was missing in action.
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He isn’t the only one who’s made mistakes. Maxwell has made some howlers. Husband did the other week. Nelson single handed Lt gave away the 2nd goal on Saturday. He’s let down by lack of an outball in midfield and lack of cover too. He’s a bad scapegoat to be honest. He was decent on Saturday.
 
Ditch_the_Dino🦖_Simonized said:
CJ proved beyond a reasonable doubt on Saturday why I have said many times he is not a footy player.
League One at a push but please not in our league one team 🤦‍♂️🙏
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CJ proved it at Bristol, when he caught the ball with both hands, whilst still in play and stood a foot from the bl**dy touchline :)
I hate to say this, but I wouldn't have any of the 3 even on the bench ... but needs must for MM.
The Lancs Sport reporter agrees with what most of us saw, in that Bristols 1st goal was down to Thommo. He was stood two meters off their striker, and invited him to shoot.
He also criticised Nelson (I though he had a good game BTW) for passing the ball to their player for the 2nd goal .
These stupid, basic mistakes cost us in every game 😭
 
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Go on then, I'll make the 'case' for Garbs...

We all know he's weak defensively, so having him at left back is not ideal. That said, he can tackle and pass AND (in theory) is our best set-piece taker (he has a wand of a left foot don't you know...) So given that we are so utterly devoid of anything in central midfield, I can kind of see what Mick has been trying to do there. But it's real silk purse from a sows ear stuff and frankly reflects the dearth of talent that is available in central midfield. The flip side is CC, who can tackle, but is a rabbit in the headlights when it comes to finding a player in tangerine.

As for CJ and Dom, to be frank, if they're your left-hand side then it tells you the truth about the quality of your side. It's League 1 all the way.
 
no9 said:
I don't think McCarthy will think that and I've no idea why he's not picking him.
I think it looks bad on Poveda that he's not being picked.
With his talent and work rate it's almost impossible for him to not get in this team - what's the issue, is he a complete numpty 🤷‍♂️
As for Hamilton, not every footballer is a hard case, just how it is and has always been.
Don't agree he doesn't use his speed, when he's on he definitely causes defenders problems albeit I agree he's not always the most cultured on the ball😉
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CJ looks worse than he is because we have ceased to be recognisable as an Association Football team.
We could carry him before as a weak link and hope for something but now he is unrecognisable from the player I saw in that Covid game vs Swindon.
 
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SeasideKurt said:
I cannot get on board with the Thompson stuff at all. He did a fine job on Saturday and probably covered more ground than anyone.
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I really dont know what you were watching...complete liability and was partially at fault for both goals whilst he was AWOL for the umpteenth time...hes an athlete but he needs an awful lot of football coaching,,,he has cost us at least 5 goals this season
 
SeasideKurt said:
He isn’t the only one who’s made mistakes. Maxwell has made some howlers. Husband did the other week. Nelson single handed Lt gave away the 2nd goal on Saturday. He’s let down by lack of an outball in midfield and lack of cover too. He’s a bad scapegoat to be honest. He was decent on Saturday.
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He's been responsible for plenty of goals this season. Swansea at home for another. Plus his stupid red card at Sheff U.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
I really dont know what you were watching...complete liability and was partially at fault for both goals whilst he was AWOL for the umpteenth time...hes an athlete but he needs an awful lot of football coaching,,,he has cost us at least 5 goals this season
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The first goal was down to Rogers really. There’s an argument to say Dom should have closed him down better, but Rogers had done all the hard work tracking back and then just seemed to switch off.
 
Loco said:
He's been responsible for plenty of goals this season. Swansea at home for another. Plus his stupid red card at Sheff U.
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And Connolly and others have been sent off numerous times. He isn’t the only one that’s for sure.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
I really dont know what you were watching...complete liability and was partially at fault for both goals whilst he was AWOL for the umpteenth time...hes an athlete but he needs an awful lot of football coaching,,,he has cost us at least 5 goals this season
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Second goal had fuck all to do with him in reality. Bar being a Blackpool player on the pitch.
 
I don't get the Thompson slating, some of the blame he gets is clearly scapegoating. I think he's fine and will be a good player in time, he's young and a bit erratic that's all but he always gives his all.
Garbutt would be sold or released, don't need him.
CJ would be sold or released too.
 
Larryknows said:
I don't get the Thompson slating, some of the blame he gets is clearly scapegoating. I think he's fine and will be a good player in time, he's young and a bit erratic that's all but he always gives his all.
Garbutt would be sold or released, don't need him.
CJ would be sold or released too.
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He's got loads of enthusiasm and runs about a lot but he's never in the right place. Work in progress. Too costly to be in a relegation battle with the errors he makes.
 
seasidepaddle said:
He was literally at fault for the second goal. L1 at best
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You must be blind then, the striker backs into him when he’s committed to the header. If anything it’s our free kick.

Nelson has a basic clearance to do. It’s entirely and individually Nelson’s fault. Watch it back.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
Hand on heart how many of you would play Garbutt, CJ and Thompson against QPR? They should all be on the bench at best and McCarthy clearly hasnt done any homework on us or the players and the arrogance of that is astounding. McCarthy and Appleton are probably the worst managerial double act in the history of the club and show an astounding lack of ambition...still its only little Old Blackpool eh
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All 3 are garbage and if that's our starting point for next season then we're fooked!
 
SeasideKurt said:
You must be blind then, the striker backs into him when he’s committed to the header. If anything it’s our free kick.

Nelson has a basic clearance to do. It’s entirely and individually Nelson’s fault. Watch it back.
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Doesn't get to Nelson if Thompson is half way decent. Nelson was superb through the game, DT has cost us countless goals this year.
 
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