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Interesting post Spooner just because I couldn't work out if I had lost interest in football because of Blackpool or because of football in general. Didn't enjoy the Prem, wasn't gripped by the Play Offs, went out gardening in the second half of the cup final and don't get me on my disinterest in England!
It's a strange old time for me and my love of the great game because it is waining - that starts with Blackpool and be interesting to see what happens next season and if that love for the game returns.
Get him over - the more the merrier - got a really nice feel to this site at the moment - good combination of the negative and positive and whatsmore Osbourne seems to have fallen by the wayside!
The bloody Oyston's lure me in to this false sense that something good will happen every bloody year and it never does. You think here's a chance to rebuild, invest and push ahead with a bright. dynamic manager for the new season and instead they throw us a curve ball statement that amounts effectively to nothing, have no manager in place and I really am starting to think no hope.
I'm a die hard who has been through a lot more than this but genuinely if Graham Westley's name is announced that's me done with this lot.
Expect plenty of this Graham if you arrive in Blackpool
Two things: Have I missed this 'tabled bid' that is being put in by BST and if the above are all adhered to where does that leave BST as a campaign group?
The one thing I would say is that I always felt this game would have a pivotal moment involving a sending off and so I'd stick with it! 19 minutes gone and 2-0 .. only Blackpool wouldn't be able to come back from that!
As we clearly aren't all going to get to ask Karl what the fans want to know the answers to, and actually I won't be applying, I thought it would make an interesting straw poll to ask what you would like to know from him. So, within reason, what is the burning question you'd ask. Mine would be
Why bother with a youth team when you embarrass them with pitiful contracts and flog them off at the first opportunity?
I may be alone in my thinking with this but actually if the O's made a few bob from the Premier League then good for them. Until the PL says that you have to account for parachute money then I suppose as a business they can do with it what they like. The fact though that they have torn apart a good side, plunged us back in to League One, disconnected so much with the fans that they are forced to take action, sue their own supporters and make the vilest of comments is inexcusable.
This though for me is the worst of the lot. Develop a Youth System, spend time with the players, nurture them and bring them on and flog them at the first available opportunity whilst not rewarding them for having done so well. If I was on the Fans Parliament that would be my first question.
Karl trying to pacify existing season ticket holders and arguably exclude the troublemakers? I get the feeling we'll see much more of this in the future. I reckon the strategy is keep those who are still going sweet and don't give in to those who want the O's out. Classic case of divide and conquer.
There’s no question of Peter Clarke’s affection for Blackpool, where he has spent three spells as a player. But having moved back to Bloomfield Road almost a year ago he knows only too well what the remaining players have in store come July.
He was recruited in a haphazard pre-season where former manager Jose Riga was forced to fill in the blanks as friendly matches were cancelled. By the time the first game against Nottingham Forest came around Riga had a squad of 15 available. Blackpool were beaten, and eight months later they were preparing for life in League One.
“It’s a case of deja vu,” Clarke told Sky Sports News HQ, “it’s not a good base for any manager going in there. In one sense they’ve got a blank canvas to work with, but at the same time anyone who does go in there is going to want to make inroads into recruitment and it’s going to be difficult.”
A veteran of more than 550 career appearances Clarke was released despite being a near ever-present for Blackpool this season. He’s lifting the lid on what he downplays as a “tough” season for the Seasiders spent battling against the tide.
Set against the backdrop of basic training facilities, supporter protests and everyone having to wash their own kit — more than 50 different players represented the club at one point or another during the ill-fated campaign. As it stands only seven are guaranteed to return from the summer break.
And having been let go, the defender admits his thoughts are with those still under contract as he said: “Of course you have sympathy with them, it’s a tough environment to be in. It was challenging and you had to play the deal you were dealt. The sooner players learnt that the better. Some perhaps didn’t and fell by the wayside, while performances probably suffered.”
Clarke is now looking for a new chapter in his own playing career, although he admits the pressure to find a new footballing family is increased by trying to look after his own.
“It’s one of the hazards of the job. Your main priority is finding a new club and supporting your family, paying the bills and putting food on the table,” he said.
At 33 years old he knows it’s got to be the right offer for himself and his four children, and although he wants to stay in the Championship it could mean looking into Leagues One or Two, “I’m waiting for the phone to ring,” he says with a smile, “sometimes I wonder if it’s out of signal!”
Damned if you do and damned if you don't Allez. Needs complete transparency over which 12 people are chosen, I would suggest using the new app Periscope so that fans can watch proceedings live (or webcam it) and the questions can't be vetted beforehand.
"Everyone bar Charles Dunne take a step back" The front row are retained, the back row are released." Come on Charles .. let's go and practise how to close down a striker ....!"
Here's the latest betting - I still think Mellon with Matt could be the winning combination here.
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