Thunder Bolt
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The away fans are at the side of the pitch, not behind the goal.
West_Stand_Ultra
New member
- Jan 29, 2015
- 12
Hi Seagulls ,Blackpool fan here first of all if you can make your presence felt outside The West Stand at 2-30 and give us 5 minutes of your time for a bit of vocal support that would be much appreciated.You will be made to feel very welcome ,as regards to taking an Oyston Out banner I believe a Pool fan is going to buy some Oyston Out scarves and give them to you Seagulls fans to take in to the ground and please make them visible ,we just hope you agree to do this for us .Fans together Oyston Out.
Have a good day to the ones who are traveling.
Have a good day to the ones who are traveling.
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Hotchilidog
Well-known member
- Jan 24, 2009
- 9,143
Hi Seagulls ,Blackpool fan here first of all if you can make your presence felt outside The West Stand at 2-30 and give us 5 minutes of your time for a bit of vocal support that would be much appreciated.You will be made to feel very welcome ,as regards to taking an Oyston Out banner I believe a Pool fan is going to buy some Oyston Out scarves and give them to you Seagulls fans to take in to the ground and please make them visible ,we just hope you agree to do this for us .Fans together Oyston Out.
Have a good day to the ones who are traveling.
Good luck. Hope you get a good turnout from your fellow supporters. You can certainly have five minute of my time if the coach gets there in time.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
Hi Seagulls ,Blackpool fan here first of all if you can make your presence felt outside The West Stand at 2-30 and give us 5 minutes of your time for a bit of vocal support that would be much appreciated.You will be made to feel very welcome ,as regards to taking an Oyston Out banner I believe a Pool fan is going to buy some Oyston Out scarves and give them to you Seagulls fans to take in to the ground and please make them visible ,we just hope you agree to do this for us .Fans together Oyston Out.
Have a good day to the ones who are traveling.
Five minutes in return for a scarf sounds like a deal. I'll give you a vocal ten.
Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
- 28,075
Will it be a half and half scarf?
tbf boys the official boycott is arrive at ground at 2.30 and don't go in for the game (stay outside), but this is only BFC fans, we wouldn't expect your boys to join in. But would be nice for you to join us at 2.30 for a bit of banter and anti oyston songs.
We have done various demo's and to be honest Koko has just worn us all down. The family have killed the club.
I know you guys have had issues (don't know the in and outs) but with your ground etc now, bar your league position you are in a fabulous situation now. Never been to your ground, as with little one have put weekend trip off due to cost, but looks brilliant and hopefully one day I will visit (but don't thing it will be in the league)
But just to fill you in in our plight, can'tell you everything as my post would be huge but a few things our chairman and family have done
1. Land opposite club (when travel lodge is now) the club sold it to an oyston owned company for 650k, 4 years later that company sold it back to BFC for 6.5M!!
2. On relegation from prem Owen Oyston (who bought the clubfor a pound) was paid 11M
This season
3. No pre season. I went to Forest 1st game and at miday we only had 9 players registered. By KO we couldn'tll the bench
4. 2 youth players (one was MOM against Villa and one scored week before on 1st start in championship) were offered a professional contract on 200pw, they wanted 300pw. Koko has refused that and will not let the kids play with first team. Our clueless manager Clark has said its up to them, they sign they play. How disgraceful to treat 18yr old kids.
5. Our player of the season, Lewis (keeper) is on loanfrom cardiff, a deal was agreed for the season and if he plays 40 games we would sign on a deal. This week Koko has sent him back as doesn't want to pay the 40K for him should he play 40 games. He is a top championship keeper, so why would you not want to sign him for peanuts? (Presume he is on a decent wage). Cardiff are refusing him back as on loan, so he isn't training with first team now.
6. Sueing fans for comments on internet, one fan is due in court next friday, it has cost him 4k already and oyston is sueing for 150k!! His life is gonna be ruined. Yes maybe he shouldn't have put on a MB what he did (don't know what he said) but why would a multi millionaire be bothered or be trawling boards. Oh not forgetting that Koko used to post regular on our boards winding fans up
ANyway I could go on and on. But our club is being used as a cash cow and without doubt Oystons aim is to destroy the club.
So any anti oystons songs from your end will be great, and I actually hope you batter us (and 3 nil up early so fans walk out), will show clark and koko what a bunch of has been we have got (apart from O'hara and Orlandi who is a top top pro). And Oyston said at the start of the season.....'judge me at the end of the season'. We wont need to wait till then. Oh and be prepared for a totally empty knackered stadium yet the crowd will be over 9K.
All the best guys
a lot worse than I initially thought
see you at 2:30
TWOCHOICEStom
Well-known member
Glad that something's being done. The scarves is a great idea. Gotta make sure that the Argus or other journalists know about the protest outside though!
West_Stand_Ultra
New member
- Jan 29, 2015
- 12
Yes half Oyston half Out
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TangerineArmy
New member
- Jan 29, 2015
- 46
We'll be there with you.
I will be nipping off for a beer at some point though
Really appreciate your support boys, even a minute protest is quality. If you fancy a beer the nearest place is the No1 club. From the armfield statue is across the road away from ground (30 sec a way). Away support are welcome. So thats your nearest. Plenty of others around but guess you know about them.
Do you guys read Orlandi's blog? He is the only player from our club who has come out with any respect since our dismal performance at Watford. Real pro
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Really appreciate your support boys, even a minute protest is quality. If you fancy a beer the nearest place is the No1 club. From the armfield statue is across the road away from ground (30 sec a way). Away support are welcome. So thats your nearest. Plenty of others around but guess you know about them.
Do you guys read Orlandi's blog? He is the only player from our club who has come out with any respect since our dismal performance at Watford. Real pro
We do read it. A lot of us were upset when he was released last season. He had been unlucky with injuries, but is still a good player.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,645
The whole "Wonga" shirt sponsor thing looks even more shabby in light of this saga, doesn't it?
I seem to remember- don't know if this is still the case- that Blackpool once named part of their ground after a legendary ex-Pool & England star...and then attached a sponsor to it, thus the great Sir Stanley became commemorated by "The Pricebusters Matthews Stand".
I know money is vital to all clubs, but a few people in charge at BFC do seem to lack a bit of class at times.
I seem to remember- don't know if this is still the case- that Blackpool once named part of their ground after a legendary ex-Pool & England star...and then attached a sponsor to it, thus the great Sir Stanley became commemorated by "The Pricebusters Matthews Stand".
I know money is vital to all clubs, but a few people in charge at BFC do seem to lack a bit of class at times.
Sheebo
Well-known member
- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,319
Really appreciate your support boys, even a minute protest is quality. If you fancy a beer the nearest place is the No1 club. From the armfield statue is across the road away from ground (30 sec a way). Away support are welcome. So thats your nearest. Plenty of others around but guess you know about them.
Do you guys read Orlandi's blog? He is the only player from our club who has come out with any respect since our dismal performance at Watford. Real pro
Top top fella and pro. Silly decision by us to let him go and glad u boys have seen what a gem he is...! Met him at players dinner & was also very polite & kind...
As for Oyston - sounds like another Bill Archer - Build a Bonfire! And I hope the travelling Albion support do the rest of our fans proud and go to the West Stand at 2-30 tomo - fans united!
OfficialKnights
New member
- Jan 30, 2015
- 13
Hi there, Blackpool fan and one of the "Tangerine Knights" protest group.
Just wanted to comment if that is ok!
The background to the events at Bloomfield Road would fill a book as long as 'War And Peace' and much of it is quite unbelievable, so there is little point in my trying to provide all the proof about the Oyston family and their treatment of our club. However, each day seems to bring something new, more and more surreal and soul destroying for fans. Just as one small example of that this week one lifetime fan, a family man, has taken the step of packaging up his families three season tickets, his replica BFC shirt, wrapped them in tangerine and returned them to the club, addressed to Chairman Karl Oyston. He accepts that it is probably a futile gesture but it is one of many, many examples of just how much supporters cannot take what the Oyston family are doing to our club.
The club has one official supporters club, Blackpool Supporters Association (BSA) which Karl Oyston will talk to, and only talk to. He will not talk to any other fans group. A while ago a group of fans established Blackpool Supporters Trust (BST) as an independent fans group. Although Karl stated he would not talk to them and totally dismissed them as an irrelevancy, they quickly grew to be the largest fan group. At one early meeting he turned up with the then chairman of BSA, sat there laughing, sneering and strangely constantly typing into his phone. At the same time, a poster (The Dark Lord - TDL) was posting on one of the main message boards, AVFTT, (Another View From The Tower) on fansonline laughing about the meeting, mocking it, mocking those in attendance. TDL had always been suspected to be Karl Oyston and at times one of his sons Sam (general manager of the clubs hotel despite having no experience in that field and who also spends much of his spare time winding up Blackpool fans) or one of their friends. TDL would at times post reasonably but would also often taunt fans.
A couple of months ago during textgate one of the texts from his phone confirmed that he had indeed been TDL together with others....
Throughout 2014 there has been regular protests and demonstrations including the "tennis balls protest" when the home game against Burnley last season was halted and also three fans invaded the pitch with Oyston Out resulting in Sky Sports commentators stating that the atmosphere was toxic and going too far; protests during the game against Derby County when fans tried to get to the Directors Box, after which Derby fans joined us to protest and so on. The Tangerine Knights came about during 2014 as a group of fans who have simply had enough and with one sole aim a change of ownership. We have staged additional protests, some of which have made national and interntional media including the human Oyston Out flash mob at the Comedy Carpet opposite Blackpool Tower - a comedy carpet for a comedy club. The 1953 protest, a nod to the clubs FA Cup win in 1953, in the live home game against Cardiff City on Sky Sports and we also released two batches of texts that became "textgate" between Karl Oyston and three fans. Just to give you an example of how much hatred and disconnect there is between fans and the Oystons, during that Cardiff game the vast majority of chants were calling for the Oystons to go... And the more volatile, younger fans then and now have the highly toxic chant simply calling for Oyston to die... Not the most palatable of chants by any means but it shows the sheer hatred that most fans have toward the family.
Although Karl Oyston claims that he was only replying to fan abuse, all those texts clearly show that for the most part those fans were simply asking perfectly reasonable questions, with no insults or swearing. yet his responses included some appalling insults and derogatory comments which brought condemnation from the mental health charity MIND, both local MP's, the local newspaper (often derided on the Fylde coast for never criticising the club) took the step of removing Karl Oyston from his weekly column and demanded that he explained himself and even Wonga, described by Patrick Collins in the Daily Mail as legalised loan sharks, even criticised him - and this week they withdrew their sponsorship of the club. Karl Oyston also claimed in some texts that he was on a revenge mission with "Operation Conference" well on track (to get the club relegated to the Conference).. Whether or not he was being serious is not the point, he still has said the most appalling things.... It is little wonder that some more volatile fans have gone to extremes, because they have simply had enough.
The Oystons are also taking legal action against a number of fans for daring to criticise them....
Support has also come from numerous other clubs fans including but not exclusively, Burnley, Cardiff City and Rotherham United. The Tangerine Knights also supported Leeds United fans when they protested at the Football League HQ in Preston recently and the two sets of fans joined together.
We have a number of initiatives and investigations ongoing, and have been in touch with minority owner, Latvian businessman Valeri Belokon, who has himself been highly critical of the Oystons (and without whose input we would never have reached the Premier League) calling on fans to ask for the resignation of Karl Oyston and who has stated his wish to buy the club.
The list of those who have condemned Karl Oyston and the Oyston family is long but it includes Mat Le Tissier, Stan Collymore, Colin Murray at talkSPORT, Patrick Collins, Graeme Le Saux and so on and so on. Former Pool player Keith Southern stated back in August how it breaks his heart to see the club in such a mess.
Just as one small example of how the Oyston families priorities lie well away from football - the clubs training ground at Squires Gate remains virtually the same as it was when Sir Stanley Matthews played for us. Little has been done to the facilities which Ian Holloway and numerous other managers have stated are not even fit for purpose. They are quite simply appalling and players have even stated how roofs leak in the couple or ramshackle buildings with buckets to collect the rain water. The sign at the entrance which has been there for years reads Blackpool FC ...... "Centre of ExcellAnce".......... Yet last year the Oystons paid £2.5m for the beautiful Quernmore Park Hall which they are converting to a wedding and events venue whilst much of the money that the club earned from that one glorious season in the Premier League has ended up in the multitude of Oyston family companies (at least 20 registered at the stadium and others), most of which are loss making, yet money intended for the benefit of the club has been filtered through these companies. All whilst Karl and his father Owen claim that the club is cash rich... And yet they run it as if it is in administration.
Just to get back to tomorrow and your visit --- the Tangerine Knights (TK) have always encouraged fans to do what they can, and we have actually moved on to phase two, mostly away from match day protests. And so the protest the 'Stand Out' protest has actually been organised by one single fan who has worked hard over the last weeks to garner support on social media and the local press. That would also be one of the reasons why Brighton fans were not contacted about the protest, because it was just one fan, who has admitted that he has never organised anything before, but he needed to do something. And of course we would also not expect you to come all this way up north and then not attend the game.....
However, given that the protest begins at 2:30pm if any Brighton fans would care to stand with us even for 10 minutes that would be very welcome. The local newspaper and the BBC have expressed interest in the protest. TK have tried before now to get banners into the away end - Rotherham and Burnley in particular tried but had banners removed..... The protest will be outside the West stand opposite the reception and we hope to see some of you there if you can. We are fully aware too of the struggle you had as a club and the remarkable turnaround now. And of course football without fans is nothing.... That is where Blackpool FC, or more appropriately, Oyston FC is currently headed.
For any of you who wish to see, the TK page is here - www.facebook.com/tangerineknightssupport
Have safe journey and also be aware that the main route into Blackpool and the stadium, Yeadon Way, which leads onto Seasiders Way, is currently closed for repairs. Diversions are in place.
Just wanted to comment if that is ok!
The background to the events at Bloomfield Road would fill a book as long as 'War And Peace' and much of it is quite unbelievable, so there is little point in my trying to provide all the proof about the Oyston family and their treatment of our club. However, each day seems to bring something new, more and more surreal and soul destroying for fans. Just as one small example of that this week one lifetime fan, a family man, has taken the step of packaging up his families three season tickets, his replica BFC shirt, wrapped them in tangerine and returned them to the club, addressed to Chairman Karl Oyston. He accepts that it is probably a futile gesture but it is one of many, many examples of just how much supporters cannot take what the Oyston family are doing to our club.
The club has one official supporters club, Blackpool Supporters Association (BSA) which Karl Oyston will talk to, and only talk to. He will not talk to any other fans group. A while ago a group of fans established Blackpool Supporters Trust (BST) as an independent fans group. Although Karl stated he would not talk to them and totally dismissed them as an irrelevancy, they quickly grew to be the largest fan group. At one early meeting he turned up with the then chairman of BSA, sat there laughing, sneering and strangely constantly typing into his phone. At the same time, a poster (The Dark Lord - TDL) was posting on one of the main message boards, AVFTT, (Another View From The Tower) on fansonline laughing about the meeting, mocking it, mocking those in attendance. TDL had always been suspected to be Karl Oyston and at times one of his sons Sam (general manager of the clubs hotel despite having no experience in that field and who also spends much of his spare time winding up Blackpool fans) or one of their friends. TDL would at times post reasonably but would also often taunt fans.
A couple of months ago during textgate one of the texts from his phone confirmed that he had indeed been TDL together with others....
Throughout 2014 there has been regular protests and demonstrations including the "tennis balls protest" when the home game against Burnley last season was halted and also three fans invaded the pitch with Oyston Out resulting in Sky Sports commentators stating that the atmosphere was toxic and going too far; protests during the game against Derby County when fans tried to get to the Directors Box, after which Derby fans joined us to protest and so on. The Tangerine Knights came about during 2014 as a group of fans who have simply had enough and with one sole aim a change of ownership. We have staged additional protests, some of which have made national and interntional media including the human Oyston Out flash mob at the Comedy Carpet opposite Blackpool Tower - a comedy carpet for a comedy club. The 1953 protest, a nod to the clubs FA Cup win in 1953, in the live home game against Cardiff City on Sky Sports and we also released two batches of texts that became "textgate" between Karl Oyston and three fans. Just to give you an example of how much hatred and disconnect there is between fans and the Oystons, during that Cardiff game the vast majority of chants were calling for the Oystons to go... And the more volatile, younger fans then and now have the highly toxic chant simply calling for Oyston to die... Not the most palatable of chants by any means but it shows the sheer hatred that most fans have toward the family.
Although Karl Oyston claims that he was only replying to fan abuse, all those texts clearly show that for the most part those fans were simply asking perfectly reasonable questions, with no insults or swearing. yet his responses included some appalling insults and derogatory comments which brought condemnation from the mental health charity MIND, both local MP's, the local newspaper (often derided on the Fylde coast for never criticising the club) took the step of removing Karl Oyston from his weekly column and demanded that he explained himself and even Wonga, described by Patrick Collins in the Daily Mail as legalised loan sharks, even criticised him - and this week they withdrew their sponsorship of the club. Karl Oyston also claimed in some texts that he was on a revenge mission with "Operation Conference" well on track (to get the club relegated to the Conference).. Whether or not he was being serious is not the point, he still has said the most appalling things.... It is little wonder that some more volatile fans have gone to extremes, because they have simply had enough.
The Oystons are also taking legal action against a number of fans for daring to criticise them....
Support has also come from numerous other clubs fans including but not exclusively, Burnley, Cardiff City and Rotherham United. The Tangerine Knights also supported Leeds United fans when they protested at the Football League HQ in Preston recently and the two sets of fans joined together.
We have a number of initiatives and investigations ongoing, and have been in touch with minority owner, Latvian businessman Valeri Belokon, who has himself been highly critical of the Oystons (and without whose input we would never have reached the Premier League) calling on fans to ask for the resignation of Karl Oyston and who has stated his wish to buy the club.
The list of those who have condemned Karl Oyston and the Oyston family is long but it includes Mat Le Tissier, Stan Collymore, Colin Murray at talkSPORT, Patrick Collins, Graeme Le Saux and so on and so on. Former Pool player Keith Southern stated back in August how it breaks his heart to see the club in such a mess.
Just as one small example of how the Oyston families priorities lie well away from football - the clubs training ground at Squires Gate remains virtually the same as it was when Sir Stanley Matthews played for us. Little has been done to the facilities which Ian Holloway and numerous other managers have stated are not even fit for purpose. They are quite simply appalling and players have even stated how roofs leak in the couple or ramshackle buildings with buckets to collect the rain water. The sign at the entrance which has been there for years reads Blackpool FC ...... "Centre of ExcellAnce".......... Yet last year the Oystons paid £2.5m for the beautiful Quernmore Park Hall which they are converting to a wedding and events venue whilst much of the money that the club earned from that one glorious season in the Premier League has ended up in the multitude of Oyston family companies (at least 20 registered at the stadium and others), most of which are loss making, yet money intended for the benefit of the club has been filtered through these companies. All whilst Karl and his father Owen claim that the club is cash rich... And yet they run it as if it is in administration.
Just to get back to tomorrow and your visit --- the Tangerine Knights (TK) have always encouraged fans to do what they can, and we have actually moved on to phase two, mostly away from match day protests. And so the protest the 'Stand Out' protest has actually been organised by one single fan who has worked hard over the last weeks to garner support on social media and the local press. That would also be one of the reasons why Brighton fans were not contacted about the protest, because it was just one fan, who has admitted that he has never organised anything before, but he needed to do something. And of course we would also not expect you to come all this way up north and then not attend the game.....
However, given that the protest begins at 2:30pm if any Brighton fans would care to stand with us even for 10 minutes that would be very welcome. The local newspaper and the BBC have expressed interest in the protest. TK have tried before now to get banners into the away end - Rotherham and Burnley in particular tried but had banners removed..... The protest will be outside the West stand opposite the reception and we hope to see some of you there if you can. We are fully aware too of the struggle you had as a club and the remarkable turnaround now. And of course football without fans is nothing.... That is where Blackpool FC, or more appropriately, Oyston FC is currently headed.
For any of you who wish to see, the TK page is here - www.facebook.com/tangerineknightssupport
Have safe journey and also be aware that the main route into Blackpool and the stadium, Yeadon Way, which leads onto Seasiders Way, is currently closed for repairs. Diversions are in place.
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,645
Good luck, [MENTION=30854]OfficialKnights[/MENTION], off the pitch at least