Category: Charlie Adam

Transfer Deadline – Blackpool FC

It’s tomorrow, a lot might happen, nothing much could happen but if something does happen it’s going to involve one of the below.

Matt Phillips

As we know Phillips handed in a transfer request the day before the opening of the season. Interest has come from Cardiff in the past, however they have signed Noone from Brighton and look to be signing Maynard from West Ham. Swansea have also shown interest, and with Scott Sinclair possible going to Manchester City there is a slot, but the Swans have signed Pablo Hernandez a winger from Spain today so might have filled the gap already.

Oyston and Ollie have both stated there’s no need to sell Phillips, and he’ll be staying

Verdict: Stay

Tom Ince

A super start to the season and lots of interest from various clubs, however his Dad wants him to stay and Tom has said the same. Not much chance of a move unless some crazy money is offered. Some offers might have come in.

Verdict: Stay

DJ Campbell

DJ could be back for a third spell at the club he’s not going to feature at QPR, Huddersfield and Bristol City are interested. Coming back to the Pool doesn’t look on the cards as DJ is apparently looking for similar wages to his last spell e.g. Premier League wages. It’s unlikely he’ll be biting at Blackpool badge anytime soon.

Verdict: Going to another Championship Club

Charlie Adam

Brendan Rodgers doesn’t look like he wants Charlie Adam,  a possible move back to the seaside could be on, however it would look like a step back for the midfielder and no chance of keeping the same wage. He was at Bloomfield Road last weekend watching the win over Ipswich. However a £4 deal to Stoke looks on the cards.

Verdict: Going to Stoke to play long balls

Stephen Dobbie

Apparently fees have been agreed, but wages were a problem, Celtic and Middlesbrough are also interested parties. We’ve had a few instances of signing players after great loan spells Wes, Charlie, DJ and Dobbie could be another depending on his flexibility on wages.  The possible departure of Scott Sinclair could also have a knock-on effect.

Verdict: Moving on but loan again? Maybe to Bloomfield Road.

Any more? Stick any in a comment below

The Ultimate Blackpool FC Twitter List

Over the past 12 months there’s been an explosion in people using twitter and there’s a few BFC related twitter accounts.

So I’ve created a list of players, ex-players, officials, local press and Pool fan sites. You can see the list and follow people via www.twitter.com/blackpoolfcblog/the-ultimate-blackpool-fc/members. I’ve also listed all the accounts below.

If you think I’ve missed anyone out leave a comment or message on me on twitter.

Current Players

Ex Players

Officials from the club

Press

Blackpool FC on the web

Pool 2 – 1 WBA – A win’s a win!

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.

Charlie Adam celebrates goal

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?

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

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

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.

Soccer - Barclays Premier League - Liverpool v Blackpool - Anfield

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

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!

DJ campebell goal at newcastle

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!

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.

BFCBlog Blackpool FC Player of the Season 2009/10

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!