Neil Critchley has described Ryan Lowe’s comments as “strange” after the Preston North End boss criticised Blackpool’s team selection in a recent Central League fixture between the two sides.
The Seasiders named a number of senior players in the 3-0 victory at Springfields, with Marvin Ekpiteta, Andy Lyons, Sonny Carey, Karamoko Dembele and Jake Beesley among those to start.
In his press conference on Thursday, Lowe shared his disappointment over the team Blackpool selected.
The Seasiders named a number of senior players in the 3-0 victory at Springfields, with Marvin Ekpiteta, Andy Lyons, Sonny Carey, Karamoko Dembele and Jake Beesley among those to start.
In his press conference on Thursday, Lowe shared his disappointment over the team Blackpool selected.
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00:00 I just wanted to ask you about Ryan Law's comments about the Sensual League game on Tuesday.
00:04 He said he was disappointed with the side he put out.
00:06 He was expecting two young teams and I think he's finished with that Blackpool for you.
00:11 So what did you make of his comments?
00:14 Yeah, I felt it was pretty strange, to be honest.
00:18 Ryan was fully aware of what we were intending to do because out of respect for them,
00:24 we let them know early last week what our intention was to do.
00:27 So they were fully aware that we were going to play some of our senior players in the game.
00:34 We take a lot of time and thought in what's right for our players.
00:38 And we've got a lot of midweek games coming up and this was the perfect Tuesday opportunity for some of our players to play who haven't been playing.
00:45 So we let them know. They knew that.
00:49 Initially, I believe that they said they would play some of their fringe players, which the game was changed to Uxton, their first team training base,
00:57 which I think we even advertised the game on our website as being at Uxton.
01:02 We then found out later in the week that they decided to change their decision and not play their senior players, which is their prerogative.
01:13 Fine. No problem. And they said they were going to play younger players.
01:18 No problem. That's up to them. But our senior players needed to play.
01:22 And at that stage, it was too late in the day for us to arrange another game.
01:28 We felt geographically it was down the road. Good pitch.
01:31 We knew they had good young players, so it would be a decent game.
01:35 So we decided to carry on with our original plan, but they were fully aware of what the plan was.
01:42 So I'm not sure why Ryan said what he said in the way he said, to be honest.