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Pool 2 – 1 WBA – A win’s a win!

Posted on November 3, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam | 3 Comments

It was a strange feeling at full time on Monday night, relief at getting the first home win of the season but also a slightly unfilled feeling from anther performance that lacked in comparison with other games this season.

It might have been slightly different performance if West Brom had kept 11 men on the park but  I’m not going to complain against playing 9 men.

No analysis on the match this week instead head over to UpThePool, Tangerine Dreaming and Zonal Marking who have sliced and diced the stats about to conclude…

• Charlie passed the ball a lot, but didn’t pass it anyway useful (bar the 1st goal)
• We keep on attacking down the left, very lopsided
• We had a hatfull of chances, more shooting practice but West Brom did manage 7 blocks
• Evatt may have been playing left wing second half
• We are poor at crossing or poor at winning the ball in the box

What’s important to remember is a win is a win, three points in the bag, points on the board etc etc.

Lets hope for a slightly better performance against Everton next week!

A one man team?

Posted on October 25, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam | Leave a Comment

Not the greatest of results at the weekend and not the greatest of performances. Things just didn’t click, that might have been our tactics, Birmingham’s formation or the players just not turning up. One player who just couldn’t get going was Charlie Adam.

Comparing Adam’s Saturday performance to his master class at Manchester City, he only managed 17 successful passes before going off with an ankle injury.

Vs Manchester City
Total passes 56
Successful passes 49
Successful passes 6
Assists 1

Vs Birmingham
Total passes 19
Successful passes 17
Successful passes 2

He did however manage two shots against Birmingham, one wide and one on target. Against Manchester City he fired three shots wide and one on target which Joe Hart tipped over the bar.

What was interesting is that Birmingham lined up with two upfront, Zigic and O’Conner, with Helb just behind the two thus occupying the space Adam normally operates in. As a result we can see Birmingham won their fair share of tackles in the Blackpool half. O’Conner made 10 tackles winning 3, while Zigic made 9 tackles and won 7.

What we really needed on Saturday was a player to get hold of the ball in the middle, pass it about, make a few runs. Many were calling for the introduction of Grandin. We could have done with Barry Ferguson who made 63 passes, all successful.

After Ollie’s praise for McLeish’s tactics it will be interesting to see if other sides try a similar formation.

Pool 2 – 3 Manchester City

Posted on October 17, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam, Craig Cathcart, DJ Campbell, Elliot Grandin, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Ian Evatt, Luke Varney, Marlon Harewood, Matt Gilks | 4 Comments

To have an overriding feeling of disappointment after a 3-2 defeat to Manchester City shows us how far we’ve come and the quality of today’s performance. There’s also an overriding feeling of pride for the team and the club again for matching up to a team that cost over 100 times more and get paid many thousands more. It shows that money isn’t everything.

In the end as one City fan on the train home put it “Silva was the diference…”, which promoted the reply from myself, “yes and the other £300 million pounds worth of players”. That bit of class and ability to get efforts on target proved the difference.

The starting 11 was the same as the Liverpool match with Cathcart and Gilks recovering from knocks. We started really well in the first half but City had the real 1st chance when Gilks tipped a Johnson shot over the top. After that it was a case of us trying and then failing to hit the target with Varney, Adam and Campbell all having great chances test out Hart, who had a great reception on his return.

We carried on in the second period as we had started and could…should…maybe had a goal from Gary Taylor-Fletcher but for a flag happy lino. Watching a couple of times more, it looked like the lino was keeping his flag down until Grandin reached for the ball. That should have been irrelevant as DJ Campbell should had hit the back of the net 1 on 1 with Joe Hart.

Tevez who had been quiet all first half then popped up to flick the opening goal, I’m sure standing a yard off side helped him to get infront of Cathcart. Marlon grabbed the equaliser from a cracking ball in from Charlie Adam, a deserved goal.

Glad All Over had just finished and then Tevez grabbed his second, once again Ian Evatt being fouled / knocked off the ball to loose possession. Thats happened a few too many times now, Fulham’s first goal was the same when he was bundled over in the run up to the goal.

Silva grabbed a great third jinking past two of our defenders and slotted into the far corner giving Gilks no chance, no complaints. Our second made the score reflective of the performance and good to see another goal for Fletch, and assit for Varney.

The initial disappointment tonight should turn to pride over the coming days, we once again impressed and surly won over the neutrals watching on Sky. Hopefully we’ll get some more points on the board next week at Birmingham so we don’t have to look over our shoulders for another week!

Liverpool 1 – 2 Blackpool FT

Posted on October 3, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam, Craig Cathcart, DJ Campbell, Elliot Grandin, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Luke Varney, Matt Gilks | 6 Comments

Wow, we managed to hang on in the second half and take all three points in an amazing afternoon of football at Anfield beating Liverpool 2-1. Yes we beat Liverpool 2-1!!!

Back to a strong line up with Campbell, Varney and GTF upfront, we were set out from the start to attack. The first half we had loads of possession and deserved the two goal lead.

Once again Varney cutting in from the flank won the pen, similar to the Newcastle game, same outcome from the spot from Charlie.

The second was a great breakaway goal with Varney hitting the back of the net. Let’s hope we have a pre agreed fee for him!

Second half Liverpool were always going to come at us, it was a puzzling decision for the foul and disappointing we let them take the kick quickly from which the grabbed one back.

After that the home side huffed and puffed but didn’t really test Gilks too much, bar one effort in injury time. Cole and Ngog ahold have scored with efforts they both put wide.

We even nearly managed to grab a third on the break. Phillips did well at rightback, as did Keinen. However withs Baps injured and now injuries to Cathcart and Eardley it’s not looking good for our next match.

Once again Mike Jones was appalling as the man in Black. Gerrard, Meireles should have been booked with Kyrgiakos seeing red for a second booking.

Overall a really great day out, great performance and another big step towered survival.

edit : Seasiders podcast about the Liverpool game is live.

Newcastle United 0 – 2 Blackpool

Posted on September 12, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam, DJ Campbell, Luke Varney | 1 Comment

Whats a result, what a performance, what a day, what a game, what a season this is turning out to be. There’s no doubt today we weathered the storm and thanks to a man of the match performance from Matthew Gilks managed to keep ourselves in the match. But in truth for all the possession and chances Newcastle had they didn’t look like grabbing a goal.

We should have been 1 up earlier on when DJ missed a one-on-one, something that happend last year when we went to lose 4-1. The goal was deserved from a great move from the loanee Varney drawing the foul from Smith.

After 20 mins in the second half it was clear to see that with Newcastle coming forward we would have chances on the break. We took our time but DJ took his chance with a awesome finish!

It was great to see both goals celebrated with a reference to Gary Parkinson who’s currently in hospital after a stroke, hopefully this result will do something to aid is recovery!

So seven points in the bag, 4th in the league, and another huge step today to survival!

Vote for Charlie!

Posted on September 6, 2010
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We only two weeks left to register their vote for Charlie Adam to be named North West player of the year.

Adam will battle it out against Andrew Lonergan for the prestigious title, voted for by supporters, at this year’s MBNA North West Football Awards.

Head over to http://www.northwestfootballawards.co.uk/index.php/your-vote/, to vote!

Voting closes on 19 September 2010.

Draw Charlie Adam

Posted on July 31, 2010
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Right, all you Tony Hart and Neil Buchanan wannabes watch and enjoy MrWalks12 on YouTube drawing Charlie Adam. It’s a lot better than his Dirk Kuyt, it’s strange what you find on YouTube…..

BFCBlog Blackpool FC Player of the Season 2009/10

Posted on May 25, 2010
Filed Under Charlie Adam, Poll results | 3 Comments

Last night was the main event at the Blackpool FC players of the season awards. The awards went all to Charlie Adam, bar goal of the season to Barry Bannan for his effort against Coventry.

So to the BFCBlog Blackpool FC Player of the Season award for 2009/10……..and the prize goes to……Charlie Adam.

A total of 187 votes were cast and Charlie received 66% of the vote. In second place with 12% Brett Ormerod and in third Alexis??? (late night posting) Baptiste with 9% of the vote.

So well done to Charlie who wins nothing but further confirmation of what a great season he had.

So to the next question, pretty simple:

Can Blackpool survive in the Premier League?

The vote is over in the side bar to the right of this article. Get voting!

Play Offs…..Just

Posted on May 4, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam, Ian Holloway | Leave a Comment

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!

WBA 1 – 1 Pool HT

Posted on March 13, 2010
Filed Under Blackpool FC, Charlie Adam | 2 Comments

Half time and all level after taking the lead. It was a great strike by Charlie Adam for his 14 of the season. Right on the botttok corner.

WBA goal was a mistake from Vaughan losing the ball in the middle. They could have increased the lead but thanks to the post, Southern and Gills we’re still in this one!!! Bring on the second half.

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