Blackpool v Bolton (home) 22/11/14

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BLACKPOOL v BOLTON 

Saturday 22nd November 3.00 pm

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PRE MATCH

Wow things are taking off out of the bottom 3 and exciting football, we are by the seaside next,it's got to be a bolton win 2 1 to the wanderers

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Ha ha so much positivity!have had some great days out at Blackpool,so I'm going for a 3 0 win and lee Clarke getting the sack again!

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But what the hell - Blackpool 1 v 2 Bolton - dead nervous last 15 minutes as Blackpool throw everything including the kitchen sink at us and our defence wobbles all over the place - unbelievably miraculous keeping by Lonergan just about lets us keep our noses in front as we scrape through the 8 minutes of time added on... and so on! A deserved 3 points to the greens!

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Sold out our allocation three weeks ago and Chris Eagles is reportedly training with them.

Interesting development re Eagles. Personally, I rated him and would be concerned if he featured on Sat.

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This is the type of match that the Bolton of old, and I include the 'glory days' under Big Sam in this too, would lose.

Hopefully Lennon will be able to keep them focused and rid ourselves of the 'charity boys' tag which had plagued us for years.

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Eagles is a decent player, so long as he is allowed to run with the ball unchallenged. A few rough tackles should see him out of the game.

That said, i'm glad for him after being booted out of the club like he was, he did have a following here.

It speaks volumes that nobody bothered to come in for him over the summer though.

I kinda get the feeling that he HAS to score. they always do.

I expect nothing less than a win though.

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1-1 or 2-2 blackpool will be more fired up than normal, simply because it's Bolton. I also can't believe it's been that long since we last won there.

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Pool 1-3 Bolton .

They're so s*** even an off day from us will be too much for them.

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I think we will win by four or five, I will go with 5-1. We will grind them into the dirt and unlike the pussy Freedman when we are ahead Lennon will urge them on to heap on the humiliation. They are the worst team in the league and we will crush them.

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With a new manager and his first home game you just never know. He's had them playing OK has Clarke. But then again, playing away from home will probably be easier for them. I think we will dominate this one

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Could, and probably should, be a 3rd win on the spin. Blackpool are lacking in confidence and are a poor side. We're flying. Win it, and we could be on for a four or five game streak. 

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1977 was the last time we won at Bloomfield Road and it was 2-0

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Anyway, are we going to shove it right up them tangerine c**ts arses?

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They'll be easy to spot in tangerine, where as we, in our camouflage green ghillie suits will be able to merge in with the grass.

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Leeds v Blackpool (away) 8/11/14

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LEEDS v BLACKPOOL 

Saturday 8th November 3.00 pm

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PRE MATCH

When Leeds travelled to Blackpool last Christmas, the two sides were firmly in the race for promotion, yet almost 12 months on tomorrow sees them battle it out in a relegation six-pointer.

With the weakness of the opponents tomorrow, anything but three points will be a disaster, and I am hugely confident that the eight-match winless run will come to a resounding end.

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we are playing a team who have nothing to lose because they are favourites for relegation, so we need to win the game. We are at home and anything but a win is simply not good enough.

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4-0 against these mugs. This has gotta be 3pts against the worse team in the league by a mile. Bogpool should be in the non league.

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Blackpool are really poor, it will be a miracle if they stay up and I think we will hammer them and run out easy winners. They scraped a draw away at Fulham last night but I think that's not likely to happen against us.

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Blackpool the laughing stock of English football these past few months just start playing well days before they play us .... typical

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Head coach Neil Redfearn:

“Obviously they have changed their manager, they have brought four or five players in, they are playing a bit differently and to go and put themselves 2-0 up at Fulham is no mean feat.

“And then they went and got a point with ten men.

“They’re decent. They’re not bad and when I look at their squad they’ve got decent players.

“Lee Clark has brought one or two better players in and they’ve got pace in the side so it’s going to be a tough game for us.

“It’s going to be a tough game but these are the games - particularly at home - that we have got to start winning.”

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Blackpool v Ipswich (home) 01/11/14

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BLACKPOOL v IPSWICH 

Saturday 1st November 3.00 pm

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RESULT 0-2 

0 pts   

LEAGUE POSITION  24/24

POST-MATCH

Three points from what could have been difficult with a new manager arriving. Ipswich were the better team, Blackpool showed individual flashes but our passing and movement won the day. Good pie and pint afterwards with Blackpool fans - they are good sporting folks.

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It has to be said we'd have looked pretty silly with anything less than a win. Blackpool couldn't beat themselves at the moment.

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Great result but what an atrocious game of football, we did a job but Blackpool were terrible, seems like it's been back to basics with Mick going back into his comfort zone. We'll take what could've been a difficult game but it wasn't a good performance, it's an entertainment business and that certainly wasn't!!

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We needed the win and I was really pleased with the 3 points but tbh I was disgusted with the quality of football from both sides!!

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Mick McCarthy:

“I pointed out to the squad before hand, in our team meeting that we always have, that Blackpool have good players. They have two strikers in (Nile) Ranger and (Ishmael) Miller who are a proper handful, (Nathan) Delfouneso... There are lots of them who have been places. (Joan) Oriol’s a good little footballer. They are no mugs.

There are a lot of players there who have been drawn together at the start of this season and that doesn’t make it easy, but they have some individual talents there and I think that showed at times today.

[Asked if his side had been in a bit of a no-win position, going to a team that they were expected to beat, the Blues boss replied:] 

“B******s, there’s no such thing. We’ve just won and got three points. I kind of know what you mean, but who thinks Ipswich are that good that we can just breeze up here and beat Blackpool? Not a chance. We’ve had to really put a shift in there. That has been a hard game.”

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PRE-MATCH

New manager or no new manager we really need a positive result in this one, at the VERY least a point. Blackpool are in disarray and one win in 14 games says it all, they have accrued 6 points and the leading scorer has 2 goals !!!!! Lee Clark is no miracle worker that much I do know.

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If a side like Blackpool arent there for the taking,then i dont know what kind of side will be!

Awful squad and awful manager coming in,who will barely have had a chance to work with the players.

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We've got no chance in this one I'm afraid. Team with new manager and us being on one of our standard poor runs makes for a defeat. We'll have to wait for a home game to finally get a win.

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Stephen Hunt:

“My celebration (a goal celebration a year ago which was primarily aimed at Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston) was just a matter of letting all my emotions out. For them to do what they did to me was disrespectful to a professional footballer. We had agreed a deal before I turned up and I said I would do a two-day medical.

My agent travelled from London to complete the deal and then when he got there the chairman tried to swivel the deal around, just because he wanted to. We walked, mainly out of principle. It was horrendous.

New manager, it’s an absolute nightmare. You’d rather still have the former manager in charge and the chairman moaning, I suppose. The new manager will probably do exactly the same as Ian Holloway did at Millwall last season, clapping the whole ground like a Messiah when he turned up for his first home game in charge and they went on to beat us.

We have to kill all that early on and make sure we don’t concede an early goal. The new manager might not be able to lift the morale but he could lift the performance on a first game basis.

With where they are in the league – they are pretty isolated at the bottom and seven points from safety – they will be thinking this is a must-win game for them.”

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Mick McCarthy:

"Their new manager will have seen the response I got at Birmingham two years ago and I guess he’ll be looking for the same sort of response I got. Let’s hope he doesn’t.

The players you pick for your first game, that gives them a boost. They’ll run around and give that little bit extra. It’s maybe made it that little bit tougher for us.

I’ve been watching the Blackpool games and they’re no mugs by any stretch of the imagination.”

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Reading v Blackpool (away) 25/10/14

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READING v BLACKPOOL 

Saturday 25th October 3.00 pm

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A win at last, hardly convincing though. We needed a goalkeeping howler, an own goal and a penalty to beat the bottom team. But, as the old saying goes, a win is a win, no matter how it was gained.

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I pity those poor b@stards that travelled from Blackpool to watch that. Fair play to them as I couldn't stomach it in their position. 

Can see them freefalling out of the football league completely. 

One of the poorest games I've seen in years.

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Dreadful game, Blackpool will go down, their keeper was terrible.

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How shit were Blackpool?

At least we're not that shit.

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Not convinced today. Goalkeeper errors and penalty for our goals. Blackpool could've scored two (at least).

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Blackpool's biggest loss of the season and we should have scored more.

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Don't get too carried away, we played a team who are sitting rock bottom of the table and it showed! Hopefully though it might boost our confidence a bit!

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PRE-MATCH

I think this is a critical game for us as a club, and Adkins as manager. From what I've seen recently I can see us handing victory to Blackpool. Derby, who thrashed us at home, only managed a 1-0 over them last night.

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I think this is the game where we find out if the players are playing for Adkins, if they want to win I'm sure they will, if they want Adkins gone then we'll probably lose.

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I'd say this has draw written all over it, but Blackpool really are the team NA wants to face right now.

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The sort of change that's required is defensive and I'm not sure you can justify trying stop the rot by playing defensively against a team that is such a shambles (Blackpool that is) so I wouldn't be surprised to see us make few changes, play for a win and get done.

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Very difficult to predict this one, we are conceding for fun but they struggle to score. The form we are in its the sort of game where you could expect them to take their first away win of the season, or perhaps a 0-0 bore draw.

But on paper we really should be beating them, and we seriously need to. We could do with hammering them with a clean sheet for our confidence. Can't really see that though but I'm going to be positive

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A sizeable minority of the crowd will arrive with an extremely negative attitude towards the manager and players, almost hoping to be proved right by a defeat at the hands of Blackpool.

The more sensible majority will be very nervous and these nerves will be passed onto the team who will already be edgy due to the amount of abuse received from the negative minority the moment someone made a mistake.

As a consequence, it will be an extremely edgy affair with a high risk that Blackpool will capitalise on the atmosphere and nick three points through a very lucky goal and some bus parking.

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Adam Federici: 

“Blackpool will look at our recent form and come to us hoping for three points. It’ll be a tough game, there are no easy games in the Championship. They’ll be looking at the game and happy they’ve got us, and we’ll be the same.

Blackpool v Cardiff (home) 3/10/14

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BLACKPOOL v  CARDIFF 

Friday 3rd October 7.45 pm

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RESULT 1-0

3 pts   

LEAGUE POSITION  23/24

POST MATCH

Blackpool might have a team full of odds and sods brought in from here there and everywhere but tonight they showed Cardiff City Football Club what heart, desire, the will to win, attitude, togetherness and fight are all about. I for one salute them tonight, City are a disgrace on and off the pitch

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Poor very poor - both sides, a draw would have been fairer but just 2 shots on target for both sides is not good.

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Team spirit, fight and plenty of effort won that game, really disappointed with our mob.

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What Cardiff City lack. Blackpool have in abundance. Desire

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You could tell by the players' body language that they were disinterested and not up fot it, I suppose that they felt that they only had to turn up to collect the 3 points against a relegation outfit and sadly that's what Blackpool are.

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I said to my mate their first win will be against us tonight, it was always on the cards. They flew up to the game. They've got state of the art training facilites. What they haven't got is hunger and desire,the fans deserve better than to be mugged off by those bunch of losers,

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Blackpool looked like scoring every time they got anywhere near our box, the opposite can be said of our lot.

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When are we going to put in a good performance over 90 minutes? Miller ran us ragged.

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That Fabio tackle - we were lucky not to concede a penalty with no contact with the ball at all. Marshall could also have gone for handling outside the area.

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How we're crying out for players like the blonde guy, Perkins ? in midfield for Blackpool, he was awesome, and should have had motm by a mile.

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It was a shocking performance from the team and unfortunately it really looked like there was more desire from the Blackpool players than City's.

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Someone on twitter has just said, at a point this pre-season Cardiff City had spent £15million and Blackpool had an eight player squad.

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Yes , we played the worst side in the league who were better than us over 90. We're looked ok for the last 15 mins although they should have killed the game . We were shit

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PRE MATCH

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Blackpool v Norwich (home) 27/09/14

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BLACKPOOL v  NORWICH 

Saturday 27th September 3.00pm

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RESULT 1-3

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LEAGUE POSITION  24/24

POST MATCH

I don't know if you watched the game today, but I did, and I genuinely don't think our tactics today were to wear the opposition down and then attack them in the later stages of the game. We started the second half the same as the first, and even once we got level I don't think we really took the initiative until we got the second goal. If it wasn't for two, quite frankly lucky goals, we could easily be talking about how we shouldn't be losing to teams at the bottom of the league. 

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Blackpool raised their game today and made it hard for us, but we stuck to our game and came through in the end. The own goal was a bit of luck, but it was luck we forced by having players threatening in the box. Grabban's second goal wasn't a huge deflection as some have said - it was a shot on target which IMO would have gone in without the deflection, which is why he has been credited with the goal. 

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Feel for the Blackpool fans, I really do. If my club had been mismanaged to the point where Nile Ranger was playing for us, a disgrace to football in my eyes, then I'd be pretty upset. A moral for what the evil money of the premier League can do to a club. Worries me greatly.

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It did feel like Marriner was giving them the majority of decisions until the second half when it evened out. but crikey Miller and Ranger are big units.

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I hope they stay up, albeit not under the current ownership. How they can live with themselves 'trousering' £11 mill in salaries and £20 mill diverted into their own businesses before spending a penny on the squad is outrageous ........... good luck to them anyhows and to Joe Lewis - hope they do well this season

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PRE MATCH

A must win game really with how the last couple of games have gone I'd say (Cup included). Blackpool have only scored 3 league goals so far this season, so if there has ever been a chance for our defence to keep a clean sheet and regain some form/confidence, now is the time.

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This'll be tight, I expect they'll put 11 behind the ball and try and nick a 1-0.

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Blackpool appear to be getting their act together now, so will certainly not be the push over they were a few games ago. 

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 Blackpool are ripe for the picking. Wes will want to play well versus his former club too. 

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Blackpool haven't won a game and they've only scored 3 goals in 8 in the league.

We're 2nd top and they're 2nd bottom. We have to make that show.

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I'd be disappointed if we didn't beat these fairly comfortably to be honest, they look to be becoming adept at keeping solid at the back but they are still a very poor team overall. We should be dominating possession and having many more chances than them at least. 

With Blackpool having scored just 3 goals in their first 8 games this is one where we really can't afford to concede a sloppy early goal either. If we do concede early again to this bunch then we'd have to ask start asking some serious questions of our defence. 

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Neil Adams:  “We’ve had them (Blackpool) watched quite a lot and the reports we’ve had suggest they are better than those results,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Joe Royle, who has seen them four times I think this season in his various roles, and he said, ‘Look, they have two points, they are down in the relegation zone, but they are better than that.’ Like any team in this division they are more than capable of causing us a problem or two if we let it, as we discovered at Cardiff and for brief spells at Brentford, but we showed when we put our foot to the floor what we are capable of.

“That will be the same on Saturday. We know it will be tough and they will be organised and playing for their first victory but we are playing for three points to stay near the top of the table.”

“I am well aware they are not getting smashed five or six every week,” said Adams. “For me, it doesn’t hold any fears whether you play the top or the bottom. We’re well aware we won’t be going up there and it’ll be a case of, ‘How many are we going to score?’ We’ll have to earn that right and take care of a team fighting for every point in the same manner as us, albeit for different reasons. They got a respectable draw away from home last week and a lot of people have said that they don’t really deserve the results they’ve had.”

Brighton v Blackpool (away) 20/09/14

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BRIGHTON v BLACKPOOL 

Saturday 20th September 3.00 pm

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RESULT 0-0

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LEAGUE POSITION  23/24

POST MATCH

I'm sorry to say but that was just dire against a terrible side.

If Blackpool are a gauge on where we are then we will be fighting relegation.

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I felt like we played like a team that wasn't entirely sure they wanted to score. Blackpool packed their box out time and again and we never, ever, ever have an answer for that. We didn't when west ham did it, not when wigan did it, not when blackpool did it. We don't have the creativity, movement, strength, or determination to break down a well or just moderately disciplined defence - even when they're down to 10 men.

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Blackpool reminded me of us when we used the championship while at withdean and had no money. They fought hard and got a good point. We did that to many a good championship side. I don't understand why they are so skint though with parachute payments.

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Horrible horrible game of football. We made Blackpool look semi competent which is not a good thing. 

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We showed pretty little today and could easily have been beaten by an odd goal from a relatively poor side. Give them credit though, Blackpool have had some problems but to only let one goal in during the past 3 games is to their credit.

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Blackpool were incredibly bad, so at least we are not worse than they are, just about equal.

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As a team Blackpool were quite dreadful, spirited but talentless yet they came closer to scoring than we did. Says it all really.

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Blackpool's centre halves had Baldock and Colunga in their pockets and had a pretty easy afternoon to be honest.

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PRE MATCH

Blackpool have just consistently lost by the odd goal and are no mugs. Expect a tough game. They will look 'rubbish' of course as most consider the opposition are, but I expect them to be pretty effective. 

Blackpool will reckon they can win this and nearly will !!!

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We're not great at the moment but Blackpool aren't either. Based on them only losing by the odd goal I'm plumping for 2-1

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On the grounds that Blackpool have only lost by more than 1 goal once this season, and have a well drilled defence, I am going for an optimistic 1-0 win

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Its quite a common occurrence Ex Albion players scoring against us.....as long as we get the 4 first I wouldn't begrudge Orlandi getting on the score sheet

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The Blackpool game COULD be a turning point in our season--lose it and we are in trouble--if we are to be there or there abouts at the end of the season we now need to be putting in good performances against every team and especially those deemed to be poorer teams

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Lose to Blackpool though and there should be some difficult questions asked of Hyypia's management credentials.

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I do remember last season ..peeps were expecting a struggling Blackpool side to be thrashed ..1/1 draw ...however a defeat to probably an even weaker side than before would be more than a tad disappointing.... we do need to get that first goal

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Blackpool are by far and away the worst team in the division (Fulham have got problems but they are better than bottom) and almost nailed on for relegation even at this early stage. Not even their manager's fault, they just weren't prepared for the season after finishing last season very badly. Eight players or whatever it was the week before, and you know what's coming.

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I doubt Blackpool are going to arrive and play open and attacking football. We will need to be patient and take any chances that come our way. 

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Blackpool have let in 10 goals so far this season - the same as us. They haven't lost by more than the odd goal since the 2-0 defeat at Forest on the opening day.

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Anyway, we are the absolute masters at ending struggling sides losing streaks, so with Blackpool having lost 6 from 7 including losing all 4 away games scoring only 1 goal.... I will be thoroughly suspicious that something was wrong if we don't go ahead and let them Win.

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