Cheeky loan bid for Amass to fill the LB spot? I know Championship clubs want him but surely a move to an in form title chasing League One team is just as good
And in a slightly more true to form antagonistic post for the Hartridge fans.
Would you still like Tyla Dickinson in goal? Is Dave Wheeler still a suitable right winger? What about Daryl Horgan in the 10? Maybe Alex Pattison can do a job in midfield?
I think we should allow reasonable critique of our own players. I wouldn’t call them a donkey. I wouldn’t boo them or ridicule them in real life.
But this is an anonymous online forum that they likely don’t know exists. I will share my opinion on here as I like. I don’t think Hartridge is cut out for a team in the top 2 in League 1. I don’t even think he’d do a great job in the bottom four of this division. Please don’t make us out as subhuman for disagreeing with you. Opposing fans will surely never ever pick out Hartridge as one of our better players.
We were below par across the whole pitch for the first half. Not many coming out with credit. Passing was not what it’s been and when we got it wide neither winger seemed to get it under control.
Playing Humphries deep created chaos. Interesting we switched that after going 1-0 up and for the last 5 mins of first half we opened them up time and again.
I feel sorry for Hartridge, on another day it would have been a foul and no second yellow. He tried to clear the ball, striker got there a millisecond before him and he caught him. No difference to our penalty and the challenge on Kodua in 2nd half. Neither of their players got booked, so was inconsistent at best.
He was a good back up to Harvie at left back, when he was suspended and I think today was just him having a lack of match sharpness and feeling the pressure. I’ve got no issue with him playing again due to and injury or suspension. I’m sure he will be fine and we should be looking to support him and not throw him off a cliff.
We’d been so disciplined in defence it was a shame a moment of indecisiveness cost us at the end.
I thought we played pretty well today and could have had 3 ( Kone and Low missed chances). Hartridge is not the solution at CB and was very rash with both the challenges he got booked for.
Nice to see Josh back and playing a full game.
Absolutely gutted that we just failed to hold on for the win but for me the lads really did put a lot of effort into that game.
Bring on Huddersfield and hopefully we can get a few recruits in the door to help the cause.
1) he was "miles" offside. Extraordinary that it wasn't given
2) worse than that, it was inside the area and should have been a penalty. Got kicked in the face (although, and I understand your point , he wants actually injured)
3. Utterly brainless. He got two yellow cards for more or less the exact same offence. Silly for the first one, downright moronic for the second. Skura is a far better footballer
Can't understand anyone criticising Bloomfield for his substitutions today, they were all spot on. And we played as well defending a lead with ten against eleven as I've ever seen us. Clear signs of having worked on that in training and each player knew exactly what to do. Hanlan and Kodua in particular did fantastically well
Such a shame we couldn't hold on. The feel good factor would have been through the roof. But overall far more to be happy with today than not
The Humphreys incident definitely looked outside the area on the TV angle, but could be wrong.
Totally agree on Hartridge - the "bad luck" part of it is that if the freekick is given on the edge of their area, that challenge never happens a minute or so later.
Played some nice balls into Harvie, spotted a Kone run and tried to put him through but didn’t put enough pace on it. Low was excellent defensively but gave the ball away a couple of times passing forward.
It’s just the decision making - Hartridge was beaten for pace and just scythed the guy down. Then to do something similar was completely brainless. Cost us 2 points and himself any chance of a run in the team.
Compare that to Scowen who knew he was on a yellow and stopped himself diving in a couple of times when he normally would have - just common sense.
Good point at the end. Him and Low showed great understanding of the assignment staying so disciplined for well over 30mins under all sorts of pressure.
I actually thought it was a decent performance and close to a great result. Blackpool are a much stronger side away from home and tight defensively, so it was never likely to be a game where we carved them open and created a load of chances. We started the 2nd half well and looked like we'd get a 2nd before the sending off. That completely changed the momentum. Even so, it looked like we'd hold on reasonably comfortably until that late sucker punch.
The criticism of Hartridge for the 2 bookings is justified in my opinion. Very poor decision making from him. I'm not having all this rubbish about how poor he was and he should never play for us again though, that's just ridiculous. Apart from the bookings, he was fine and there seemed a consensus on the terrace that he was having a good game. Poor decision making happens when players aren't playing regularly. Pretty sure he'll be back in the side next Friday. The guy needs games!
It looked a harsh second yellow from the terrace but on second viewing I have no sympathy at all. The first yellow was reckless. The second was so preventable.
How do you have a two yard advantage yet manage to get yourself sent off?
It’s diabolical. Be amazed if he starts a league game for us again.
Well, I was kind of on the right lines, not that it gives me any pleasure.
A lot of heat on here tonight. Around 88mins I thought to myself that if we see this out it’ll be lauded as one of our best ever backs-to-the-wall performances and the stuff promotion winning teams are made of. Fine margins. Blackpool played the usual brand of Richard Keogh-inspired tippy tap at the back, but failed to do much of note until their no. 25 decided to turn on terror mode in the last 20mins.
Hartridge…poor bloke. I thought he did ok against Bolton and was doing ok until his sending off today. The phrase ‘daft challenge’ makes me chuckle as it almost implies he intended to do something silly. He was simply too slow to the ball and the sound of contact reverberated around the Family Stand for the second offence. Otherwise, McCleary and Fred were my two biggest disappointments.
But on another day we see it out and avoid a spawny equaliser against an opponent where draws are the frustrating norm.
His reading was very poor. Expected the ball to come to him quicker? Didn’t anticipate the attacker moving? Mentally not switched on? It looked lazy and then the ‘tackle’ was made to look worse. As you say very preventable
At least one person saw the same game as me then @williwycombe.
The ref definitely failed in his duty when not stopping play for the "injury" to Humphreys. He even turns to look at him when the ball is in a neutral area on the left as Blackpool attacked and still did nothing. Poor.
Loved the players who'd been substituted, lead by Kone, getting the fans in the terrace to up the noise as we tried to hold out too.
such a frustrating end, game management was top notch, we would have won that game if we had 11 on the pitch and that was even with us not playing particularly well...I really do feel for Hartridge, he is low on confidence and maybe some time on loan may help him regain his confidence, as have a few players who i believe are not at the level of top 6 league 1 team, such as Hartridge, Leahy, Wheeler , great ambassadors of the club but just not good enough imo ...come on Blooms get some quality through those days...
The most annoying thing about the head injury that wasn't given, was that earlier the ref had taken an exhausting amount of time for one on their side. That's fine as it's the rule, but apply it both sides
For me, the most annoying part of our defending the lead was our strikers inability to keep the ball or try to win fouls and ease the pressure.
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Cheeky loan bid for Amass to fill the LB spot? I know Championship clubs want him but surely a move to an in form title chasing League One team is just as good
And in a slightly more true to form antagonistic post for the Hartridge fans.
Would you still like Tyla Dickinson in goal? Is Dave Wheeler still a suitable right winger? What about Daryl Horgan in the 10? Maybe Alex Pattison can do a job in midfield?
I think we should allow reasonable critique of our own players. I wouldn’t call them a donkey. I wouldn’t boo them or ridicule them in real life.
But this is an anonymous online forum that they likely don’t know exists. I will share my opinion on here as I like. I don’t think Hartridge is cut out for a team in the top 2 in League 1. I don’t even think he’d do a great job in the bottom four of this division. Please don’t make us out as subhuman for disagreeing with you. Opposing fans will surely never ever pick out Hartridge as one of our better players.
We were below par across the whole pitch for the first half. Not many coming out with credit. Passing was not what it’s been and when we got it wide neither winger seemed to get it under control.
Playing Humphries deep created chaos. Interesting we switched that after going 1-0 up and for the last 5 mins of first half we opened them up time and again.
I feel sorry for Hartridge, on another day it would have been a foul and no second yellow. He tried to clear the ball, striker got there a millisecond before him and he caught him. No difference to our penalty and the challenge on Kodua in 2nd half. Neither of their players got booked, so was inconsistent at best.
He was a good back up to Harvie at left back, when he was suspended and I think today was just him having a lack of match sharpness and feeling the pressure. I’ve got no issue with him playing again due to and injury or suspension. I’m sure he will be fine and we should be looking to support him and not throw him off a cliff.
We’d been so disciplined in defence it was a shame a moment of indecisiveness cost us at the end.
Big game Tuesday! COYB!
Who on earth are you addressing this to? Not sure there are any Hartridge "fans" as such are there?!
A few hope he does well, and hope he might be "solid" type sentiments etc, but that's about it?
I think it might have been GHF that hilariously suggested he has "pace" though.
I thought we played pretty well today and could have had 3 ( Kone and Low missed chances). Hartridge is not the solution at CB and was very rash with both the challenges he got booked for.
Nice to see Josh back and playing a full game.
Absolutely gutted that we just failed to hold on for the win but for me the lads really did put a lot of effort into that game.
Bring on Huddersfield and hopefully we can get a few recruits in the door to help the cause.
Fucking clueless
Did Hanlan touch the ball more than a couple of times ?
sorry that we don't agree with your agenda....maybe watch the match h closely fella
If I may be so bold....
1) he was "miles" offside. Extraordinary that it wasn't given
2) worse than that, it was inside the area and should have been a penalty. Got kicked in the face (although, and I understand your point , he wants actually injured)
3. Utterly brainless. He got two yellow cards for more or less the exact same offence. Silly for the first one, downright moronic for the second. Skura is a far better footballer
Can't understand anyone criticising Bloomfield for his substitutions today, they were all spot on. And we played as well defending a lead with ten against eleven as I've ever seen us. Clear signs of having worked on that in training and each player knew exactly what to do. Hanlan and Kodua in particular did fantastically well
Such a shame we couldn't hold on. The feel good factor would have been through the roof. But overall far more to be happy with today than not
When you say we are you speaking for all your accounts?
Definitely feels the angrier second account of one of our regulars...
there number 25 2qw very good but we gave him too much space
Whilst he obviously has great potential, I think he's too young at 17 to be consistent.
The Humphreys incident definitely looked outside the area on the TV angle, but could be wrong.
Totally agree on Hartridge - the "bad luck" part of it is that if the freekick is given on the edge of their area, that challenge never happens a minute or so later.
There's levels of the complaint at the ref isn't there.
At the very minimum he should have stopped the game when clearly seeing a player had taken a kick to the head.
Then we get to the foul and where it was levels.
Very perceptive interview responses from Blooms following the game. He evaluates very well. Very fortunate to have him as manager. Really impressed.
Just seen the highlights back. Why have we allowed their star striker to stroll into the box unmarked for the winner in stoppage time?!
I thought Hartridge was ok overall first half.
Played some nice balls into Harvie, spotted a Kone run and tried to put him through but didn’t put enough pace on it. Low was excellent defensively but gave the ball away a couple of times passing forward.
It’s just the decision making - Hartridge was beaten for pace and just scythed the guy down. Then to do something similar was completely brainless. Cost us 2 points and himself any chance of a run in the team.
Compare that to Scowen who knew he was on a yellow and stopped himself diving in a couple of times when he normally would have - just common sense.
Good point at the end. Him and Low showed great understanding of the assignment staying so disciplined for well over 30mins under all sorts of pressure.
I actually thought it was a decent performance and close to a great result. Blackpool are a much stronger side away from home and tight defensively, so it was never likely to be a game where we carved them open and created a load of chances. We started the 2nd half well and looked like we'd get a 2nd before the sending off. That completely changed the momentum. Even so, it looked like we'd hold on reasonably comfortably until that late sucker punch.
The criticism of Hartridge for the 2 bookings is justified in my opinion. Very poor decision making from him. I'm not having all this rubbish about how poor he was and he should never play for us again though, that's just ridiculous. Apart from the bookings, he was fine and there seemed a consensus on the terrace that he was having a good game. Poor decision making happens when players aren't playing regularly. Pretty sure he'll be back in the side next Friday. The guy needs games!
Low's booking was infuriating. Clearly just stopping the game in a harmless place for Humphreys, to do the ref's job for him.
It looked a harsh second yellow from the terrace but on second viewing I have no sympathy at all. The first yellow was reckless. The second was so preventable.
How do you have a two yard advantage yet manage to get yourself sent off?
It’s diabolical. Be amazed if he starts a league game for us again.
Well, I was kind of on the right lines, not that it gives me any pleasure.
A lot of heat on here tonight. Around 88mins I thought to myself that if we see this out it’ll be lauded as one of our best ever backs-to-the-wall performances and the stuff promotion winning teams are made of. Fine margins. Blackpool played the usual brand of Richard Keogh-inspired tippy tap at the back, but failed to do much of note until their no. 25 decided to turn on terror mode in the last 20mins.
Hartridge…poor bloke. I thought he did ok against Bolton and was doing ok until his sending off today. The phrase ‘daft challenge’ makes me chuckle as it almost implies he intended to do something silly. He was simply too slow to the ball and the sound of contact reverberated around the Family Stand for the second offence. Otherwise, McCleary and Fred were my two biggest disappointments.
But on another day we see it out and avoid a spawny equaliser against an opponent where draws are the frustrating norm.
I do feel bad for Hartridge, big career move, big life move away from home, hard to see how it could be going worse.
His reading was very poor. Expected the ball to come to him quicker? Didn’t anticipate the attacker moving? Mentally not switched on? It looked lazy and then the ‘tackle’ was made to look worse. As you say very preventable
At least one person saw the same game as me then @williwycombe.
The ref definitely failed in his duty when not stopping play for the "injury" to Humphreys. He even turns to look at him when the ball is in a neutral area on the left as Blackpool attacked and still did nothing. Poor.
Loved the players who'd been substituted, lead by Kone, getting the fans in the terrace to up the noise as we tried to hold out too.
such a frustrating end, game management was top notch, we would have won that game if we had 11 on the pitch and that was even with us not playing particularly well...I really do feel for Hartridge, he is low on confidence and maybe some time on loan may help him regain his confidence, as have a few players who i believe are not at the level of top 6 league 1 team, such as Hartridge, Leahy, Wheeler , great ambassadors of the club but just not good enough imo ...come on Blooms get some quality through those days...
You might want to watch the “highlights.” Joe Low is being played onside by Albie Morgan. Then again, you might not.
The most annoying thing about the head injury that wasn't given, was that earlier the ref had taken an exhausting amount of time for one on their side. That's fine as it's the rule, but apply it both sides
For me, the most annoying part of our defending the lead was our strikers inability to keep the ball or try to win fouls and ease the pressure.