Barnsley 1 – 0 Blackpool

Posted on February 28, 2010
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A very poor result and performance yesterday against Barnsley, the tactics seemed to be the problem. DJ doesn’t like to play wide which means Burgess spent the majority of the first half on the left wing, he’s not a left winger.

Barnsley Football Club

It took 60 mintes until our first shot on target but even before that you knew that Barnsley would get on the score sheet after the way they started the second half. Mr Singh did his best to disrupt the play being conned time after time.

Barnsley Freekick

The only interesting points from the day was that some Pool fan had one planted on him from another Pool fan and an crazy old man tried to run people over at the railway crossing after the game. You know when those are the highlights it’s not been the greatest game of football.

Photo’s from the match over on my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpcampbell/sets/72157623524631122/

Barnsley V Blackpool

Posted on February 27, 2010
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It was a big of a risky journey to today’s game through the snow, wind and rain from Manchester but the conditions here at Oakwell are good.

The pitch is a little bare down the middle and a few area are cutting up, it’s better than Bloomers not a great achievement really.

It looks like big Ben will be playing with Ormerod and DJ in support.

Fancy a 3-1 win today.

That’s Better

Posted on February 17, 2010
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After a ok result against Preston tonights win over Middlesbrough was a great way to get back on track. We dominated the first half but didn’t grab a second goal we deserved. Boro were always going to come out and give it some welly in the second half unless we grabbed an early goal.

It nearly all went to pot when Charlie somehow managed to stay on the pitch after fouling Jeremie Aliadiere. I do think that was the reason for the pen later on, the ref thought he’d made a mistake by not show Charlie a red. He still managed to flash the red to Edwards who didn’t have the best luck with a pass he didn’t want and a shit pitch. He should have booted it but the lad must be feeling pressured to improve his distribution to keep a place in the team.

You knew after the save from Matt Gilks that the three points were ours and the tap in form DJ Campbell to get his first goal since coming back was the icing on the cake.

Only problem I’m missing the Reading game but really looking forward to the Barnsley match…. Oh and Preston were tonked 5-3 this evening doesn’t get any better.

Pool 0 – 1 Leicester City

Posted on February 6, 2010
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Half time and somehow we are one down. A breakaway goal was the difference but we’ve hit the bar and had around 10 shot but only forcing saves a couple of time.

The pitch isn’t helping

QPR Have No Hart

Posted on January 16, 2010
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Today it’s back to normal football, no more freezing conditions or snow but one thing remains the same, QPR changing managers.

After former Pool defender Paul Hart left as manager of QPR this week the stats about the merry-go-round at QPR were revealed. Since the new owners came into Loftus Road in 2007 the team has had 9 managers and amazing 90 transfers of players in the same time.

paul hart

Stability has been the foundation of success, in the same time that QPR have seen off 9 manager we have had three. Grayson, Parks and Ollie.

It’s hard to predict todays game, a team that’s recently recently lost it’s manager is similar to a wounded animal. It might get up, try to fight or it’s going to lie down to die. Let’s hope that QPR are going to lie down and roll over.

Cardiff 1 – 1 Blackpool FT

Posted on January 10, 2010
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This is the kind of result we should be grinding out away from home. We’ve too often gone behind away from home and not fought back. Yesterday was the third time we have managed to grab a point after going behind, the other two away at Watford and the 3-3 cracker at Doncaster.

We’ve still yet to come from behind away and win but the performance yesterday and the win at Derby shows we are starting to play a lot better away from home.

Credit also has to go to the back four, missing Evatt, Edwards and Crainey, debutant Andy Butler (above) and Joe Martin apparently did well after a dodgy start to the game.

Let just hope we have some games to play in the coming weeks!

Blackpool 1 – 2 Ipswich FT

Posted on January 2, 2010
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It didn’t go to plan today which was partly due to ourselves and a little bit from referee Eddie Ilderton. We got off to a shocker again conceding an early goal to Ipswich, but after that started to get into the swing of things. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game with as many cross-field balls.

The pen looked an easy one to give for the lino, Brett played for it but not a surprise that Charlie missed. Second half we seemed to have Ipswich ready for the taking after the great goal from Brett.

Then Mr Eddie Ilderton intervened, the first on from my view looked like Evatt didn’t get the ball. The second looked really harsh decision, there were covering players and also Edwards didn’t look to know that Jon Walters was coming from behind him.

Here’s looking forward to some new faces in the coming week!

Pool V Ipswich Town

Posted on January 2, 2010
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The game is on but the pitch looks very firm and will get slippy as the sun goes down.

The covers are pilled up at the south and a closer look they do look second hand.

The good news is that we have a match to look forward too!!

Another match off?

Posted on January 2, 2010
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It’s 2:17 in the morning and I can’t sleep. I’m not sure if thats due to me sleeping half of today or the excitement that a Blackpool home game may be going ahead tomorrow after two matches being called off.

After the two matches fell foul of the cold weather we seem to have borrowed some sheets to cover the pitch, the webcam caught the sheets in action, there wasn’t a big announcement about them on the website unlike Fleetwood Town who ranted on about them paying 15k for the covers.

So why have we only go them in time for the Ipswich match? Keano

I’m sure Oyston wouldn’t want to occur the wrath of Roy. But it’s currently -3 outside and those sheets don’t look that thick!

5 Ways to Defrost a Football Pitch

Posted on December 28, 2009
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Following today’s postponement of the Blackpool V Sheffield Wednesday game I’ve spent time coming up with five ingenious ways to defrost a pitch.

1. Multiple Hair Dryers

Lots of power adapters and lots of hair dryers, top setting on the hair dryers and systematically cover the pitch.

2. Fire Bins

Around 30 / 40 fire bins jacked up on bricks would defrost the pitch. Slowly move them about and be careful not to set the grass on fire.

3. De Icer Sprinkler system.

Combing a few thousand bottles of de icer with the sprinkler system at Bloomfield Road and start spraying. As long as the pitch gets an even spray it should defrost, not sure what the state of the grass would be in due to the chemicals in the de icer.