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Transfer on the Horizon?

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:28:17 +0000

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Transfer on the Horizon?

The man is class

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:29:33 +0000

Just about calming down after last nights great win. I’ve been reading up on the reviews of the match and came across this from Ollie on the Football Manager site. He give’s a little team talk, 6 in total and he’s in his Blackpool tracksuit!

Head over to http://www.footballmanager.com/ to see the advert.

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The man is class

Nottingham Forest 3 – 4 Blackpool (agg 4 – 6) Wembley here we come!

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:16:27 +0000

Tonight is one of those nights you’ll never forget. I’ve had plenty of them beating Preston 1-0 twice, a Golden goal by Bully at Huddersfield, 4-3 against Watford away, winning at Birmingham last year, Scunny away this year! but thats been topped by tonight’s 4-3 win at Forest securing a place at Wembley in the Championship Final. I’m pretty knackered but won’t be sleeping for a while as the adrenaline is still pumping around my body and I want to see the highlights on SSN.

We always knew that Forest were going to come at us, but we always knew that we were going to score goals, it was matter of scoring as many or more than the home side. What really proved its worth tonight was a little bit of experience being able to soak pressure and more importantly take our chances.

After Earnshaw slotted in the opener I was surprised that the home side didn’t push on, it might have been a little bit of in inexperience from their part or our middle three starting to get a hold on the game. Forrest didn’t really come out in the second half, DJ took his goal really well, there was the agonising second waiting for the ball to hit the back of the net.

Straight after that Gilk’s pulled off a great double save, at that point you just knew it was going to be our night. Dobbie’s goal came from a great little serge forward from Crainey and a lucky deflection. If that didn’t knock the stuffing out of Forest then DJ’s second (which was the goal of the night) did end the tie.

His third looked offside but who cares! We now have a great day to look forward to, most importantly we have Charlie Adam without the worry of a yellow card and Cardiff / Leicester should be scared of us.

FInal note and picture has to go to this man, what a job he has done! He’s bursting with pride for his players, we the fans are bursting with pride for him.

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Nottingham Forest 3 – 4 Blackpool (agg 4 – 6) Wembley here we come!

Blackpool v Nottingham Forest

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:05:24 +0000

I don’t think I’ve been up earlier on a match day, today started at 5:00am wake up call and a short drive to Bloomfield Road to queue up for an away leg ticket. After sitting in the car the queue started at 7:30am with the office opening earlier at 8:45, it took 2 mins to get the ticket after the 3 and half hour wait. Just need to get one more ticket which is looking unlikely, (if you have a ticket give us an email johnpcampbell1985 @ googlemail.com)

Sky were getting set up this morning ready for the match, the pitch had been cut and the sun is out at the moment all ready for a great day of football. Today is a big chance to give us a slight advantage going into the second leg. A draw today wouldn’t be a disaster but I feel that a one nil win would really bad for us, it would invite Forest to have a real go at us in the first 20 mins of the second leg. We have to take advantage of being at home today and look to put at least 3 past Camp.

What ever the outcome of today’s game it’s been a great season and mainly due to that man above, Ian Holloway, What a season and what a manager.

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Blackpool v Nottingham Forest

Play Offs…..Just

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:44:15 +0000

In the end we stumbled over the line thanks to Swansea’s inability to score, 40 goals in total this season makes the Swans the lowest goal scorers in the division. Considering we grabbed a 1-1 draw at the Liberty and thrashed them 5-1 at home we deserved the final play off spot.

The atmosphere was great on Sunday, having all three stands makes a difference and the addition of a second drummer in the north really adds to the noise. Whatever the division we are in next season it would be great to see us occupy three ends every home match.

As mentioned we stumbled over the line with not the greatest performance of the season. The rubbish pitch, wind, nerves and Charlie having to twinkle toe around to avoid a yellow all took it’s toll, but with 7th place secured that can all be forgotten.
The first leg on Saturday against Nottingham Forest should be a good match, but one that will be a different encounter to the easy 3-1 win on Saturday. Forest once again rested first team players in the 2-2 draw with Scunthorpe this weekend, Camp, Gunter, Majewski, Earnshaw and Blackstock all started on the bench, I’d expect them all to start on Saturday.

Let’s just hope for some similar scenes at the full time whistle this Saturday!

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Play Offs…..Just

Burscough FC v Blackpool Twitter Updates

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:43:38 +0000

It’s the first game of the season and also the first game under the management of Ollie. I’ll be heading over to Burscough this afternoon and you can keep upto date with the game on my twitter profile.

http://twitter.com/blackpoolfcblog

It’s all dependent on a good connection but it should mean updates every 5 mins with pictures too. He looking forward to a sunny afternoon and a few goals!

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Burscough FC v Blackpool Twitter Updates

Ian Holloway new Blackpool Manager

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:21:39 +0000

Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog recently but with the good news this week a new post was needed. Following the departure of Tony Parkes the reigns have been taken up by the one and only Ian Holloway.

He comes with a bit of a reputation as a joker and plays up to the press but listening to his interview it’s clear that he’s raring to get started.

His teams in the past have always been attacking and built around talented hardworking players. The current crop of players are hardworking but he’s going to have find some more talent. DJ Campbell and Charlie Adams should still be top of our list for summer buys, that still should be the case with Tommo staying on as number 2.

Even though the season was only over two weeks ago I now can’t wait for next season to start.

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Ian Holloway new Blackpool Manager