MATCHWATCH : Blackpool (h)

[stealthpapes]

three.

[Snowflake Royal]

Defence has been dreadful.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Should've probably been a Blackpool pen tbf. Could've been a different story if Knibbs had scored in the first half, but we've been terrible ever since.

[Snowflake Royal]

Should've probably been a Blackpool pen tbf. Could've been a different story if Knibbs had scored in the first half, but we've been terrible ever since.

Nah, coming together and the play had already moved on.

[Snowflake Royal]

Anything loose is falling to them. Our second touches, passes, tackles, flicks, rebounds.

[Snowflake Royal]

Ballard covered in claret.

Utterly incompetent from the officials. Clear head injury to him and Ahmed... carry on lads.

[traff]

Looks like our best crowd for a while (our first 3pm kick-off in months).

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s over 13,000 home fans (helped by the schools deal they’ve got going for this one).

Not anymore emptying very quickly
Relegation odds slashed from 50/1 to
Freefalling

[morganb]

Smith on a yellow so misses next match

[stealthpapes]

this is numbingly bad

[Snowflake Royal]

We seem to have settled for playing out the 0-3

[andrew1957]

Not blaming Noel but you cannot help wondering if all the crap the players have had to deal with this season and now changing managers too has finally caught up with them.

[Snowflake Royal]

Well there were few aspects of that game that weren't arse. Defence. Midfield. Attack. Ref.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Not blaming Noel but you cannot help wondering if all the crap the players have had to deal with this season and now changing managers too has finally caught up with them.

There may be something in this. I'd also say that Selles' style had specific demands, and you wonder how easy it is to replicate with an entirely new coaching team. He took his assistants with him too. I remember JOP last year on a podcast talk about the relentless out of possession drills they did and how to adapt formation once we retrieve it. Will Hunt, Leigertwood and Gibbs replicate that? They feel more old school.

It feels like the move will be lose-lose. We'll fall down the table but thankfully have plenty of points on the board so should be OK. But I also think Selles will fail at Hull with a trigger happy owner who won't give him the time to implement his style while they stay in the bottom 3. They only lost 2-1 today, but it was an absolute battering. And if he fails at Hull, his work here will quickly be forgotten.

Surely the smarter career move was to see out the season with us and wait for the right vacancy in the summer?

[andrew1957]

Not blaming Noel but you cannot help wondering if all the crap the players have had to deal with this season and now changing managers too has finally caught up with them.

There may be something in this. I'd also say that Selles' style had specific demands, and you wonder how easy it is to replicate with an entirely new coaching team. He took his assistants with him too. I remember JOP last year on a podcast talk about the relentless out of possession drills they did and how to adapt formation once we retrieve it. Will Hunt, Leigertwood and Gibbs replicate that? They feel more old school.

It feels like the move will be lose-lose. We'll fall down the table but thankfully have plenty of points on the board so should be OK. But I also think Selles will fail at Hull with a trigger happy owner who won't give him the time to implement his style while they stay in the bottom 3. They only lost 2-1 today, but it was an absolute battering. And if he fails at Hull, his work here will quickly be forgotten.

Surely the smarter career move was to see out the season with us and wait for the right vacancy in the summer?

Agree re Hull.Thought Selles was making a bad decision and should have stuck with us until a better job came up. If he fails at Hull he might well struggle to get another gig. One can only worry that he knew that there was something very bad ahead at RFC and he didn’t want to be here for it.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Not blaming Noel but you cannot help wondering if all the crap the players have had to deal with this season and now changing managers too has finally caught up with them.

There may be something in this. I'd also say that Selles' style had specific demands, and you wonder how easy it is to replicate with an entirely new coaching team. He took his assistants with him too. I remember JOP last year on a podcast talk about the relentless out of possession drills they did and how to adapt formation once we retrieve it. Will Hunt, Leigertwood and Gibbs replicate that? They feel more old school.

It feels like the move will be lose-lose. We'll fall down the table but thankfully have plenty of points on the board so should be OK. But I also think Selles will fail at Hull with a trigger happy owner who won't give him the time to implement his style while they stay in the bottom 3. They only lost 2-1 today, but it was an absolute battering. And if he fails at Hull, his work here will quickly be forgotten.

Surely the smarter career move was to see out the season with us and wait for the right vacancy in the summer?

Agree re Hull.Thought Selles was making a bad decision and should have stuck with us until a better job came up. If he fails at Hull he might well struggle to get another gig. One can only worry that he knew that there was something very bad ahead at RFC and he didn’t want to be here for it.

Even if that was the case, I still think it was a bad career move. If the squad got decimated in January and we ended up finishing 15th or so, his stock from the job he did here would still be relatively high. Sometimes you just have to ride things out.

[Linden Jones' Tash]

I thought Club 1871 were supposed to be the hard core fans who back the team come hell or high water...

very quiet today....

streaming for the exits with the mums & dads at 3-0 down....

3/10

[Royal_jimmy]

Luckily I didn't go to this. What a dire result and performance by the sounds of it

[JR]

That was bad.

Outfought throughout the 90 by a physically stronger Blackpool team who were on it throughout. Felt like they always had extra players on the pitch.

Seemed we were short of attacking ideas and we don’t have anyone that can excite by taking it past players.

I only think we should have got one pen - but it was nailed at 2-0 against Knibbs. Who knows if we would have kicked on and grabbed a point or better, but to be fair we got exactly what we deserved from that.

[traff]

Att: 14,455

Att: after 75 min 6,000

Worst performance for quite some time.
The future doesn't look bright, unless you're orange.

[Royal_jimmy]

There may be something in this. I'd also say that Selles' style had specific demands, and you wonder how easy it is to replicate with an entirely new coaching team. He took his assistants with him too. I remember JOP last year on a podcast talk about the relentless out of possession drills they did and how to adapt formation once we retrieve it. Will Hunt, Leigertwood and Gibbs replicate that? They feel more old school.

It feels like the move will be lose-lose. We'll fall down the table but thankfully have plenty of points on the board so should be OK. But I also think Selles will fail at Hull with a trigger happy owner who won't give him the time to implement his style while they stay in the bottom 3. They only lost 2-1 today, but it was an absolute battering. And if he fails at Hull, his work here will quickly be forgotten.

Surely the smarter career move was to see out the season with us and wait for the right vacancy in the summer?

Agree re Hull.Thought Selles was making a bad decision and should have stuck with us until a better job came up. If he fails at Hull he might well struggle to get another gig. One can only worry that he knew that there was something very bad ahead at RFC and he didn’t want to be here for it.

Even if that was the case, I still think it was a bad career move. If the squad got decimated in January and we ended up finishing 15th or so, his stock from the job he did here would still be relatively high. Sometimes you just have to ride things out.

I think with all the turbulence in recent weeks a home stinker was always coming. We got away with it vs Harborough. The players have had to deal with a shower, Selles was also very popular with the players. Hard to see why he left but only he'll know why he made that choice. Selles may turn Hull around, sometimes it takes a manager a few weeks to bed in ideas etc.

Hard to blame Noel at all, he's been thrown well into a baptism of fire. I guess it's a nothing to lose for him in this situation.