Just back from the game.

[LamieRobertson]

You still up Lamie?
Get on the phone to Blackpool in the morning and offer your services to sort their pitch out

Lol..no this is an automatic answering service

I haven't got a year to spare

 

[Eeyore]

In fairness, playing on a dreadful pitch when you are not used to it can be a huge leveller. The game sounded like a lottery.

Mr Oysten clearly has a lot to answer for. Ensuring a decent set up for the pitch is an important duty of the club.

I really feel sorry for that club's supporters. The pitch being a reflection of its leadership.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Anyone blaming the pitch is a bad loser.

I'll stack them in the same pile as those supporters who think the Amex is a sh!thole when their team loses.

 

[perseus]

I thought the Amex was slightly bumpy against Arsenal.

 

[OfficialKnights]

Terrible pitch, really like watching a league 2 match today. Freezing cold and very windy with debris all over the pitch. Tickets £25 and worse still £15 for my 7 year old lad who tripped and scuffed his knee outside the ground. How can clubs charge so much for a kid is beyond me. All the best to Blackpool but how they ever got to the Premiership is beyond me.

We got to the Premier League in 2010 nearly five years ago. Totally different circumstances.

 

[OfficialKnights]

£25 if you paid for a padded seat!

Yes, the pitch was poor, but it doesn't excuse an awful game. And one of the coldest I've been too.

The main disappointing thing for me was that we were playing a team low on confidence, and bottom of the table - yet never really went for it. We left one up front isolated for far too long. Blackpool were so dire in the first half, we didn't really need to have anyone at the back at all.

And Blackpool has deteriorated since I last went there around 10 years ago - most of it seemed closed up (winter I suppose - the pub didn't have any 'proper' beer on because they don't stock it in winter as they don't sell enough. However, Fosters was only £2 a pint, you can spend the difference on not sitting on your padded seat).

No idea what you saw ten years ago but believe me Blackpool (well the 10% of the town that tourists only ever see and then call that Blackpool...) has improved incredibly in the last 10 years. However, it is January, nothing will be open or even close to looking ready to be open in tourist Blackpool.

 

[bigcabboy]

I thought the Amex was slightly bumpy against Arsenal.

i agree saw several bumps in arsenal game first time ive seen that at home

 

[JBizzle]

Yes, it's the same for both teams but only one of those play on it every other week. The pitch has been a disgrace for a while now and it's not going to change any time soon.

The loss wasn't down to the pitch though. We had a game to forget. So let's do just that: Move on and support the team next week.

 

[Shoreham Gull]

My mate blamed the pitch.. For the losing!

I said are you Louis van Gaul in disguise...

Poor excuse for losing, every other team beat blackpool there!!!

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

i agree saw several bumps in arsenal game first time ive seen that at home

Mr Wenger commented after the game that it was a difficult pitch.
I did not think it was difficult but Arsene does like a good moan even when they win.
The Blackpool pitch looks bad on the picture above but they showed it on FL show last night and it is a lot worse than that.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

My mate blamed the pitch.. For the losing!

I said are you Louis van Gaul in disguise...

Poor excuse for losing, every other team beat blackpool there!!!

True but it must get worse every week especially if they have had rain and frost.
Once you lose a pitch you cannot get it back without relaying.
As they are bottom maybe they see it as their leveller to escape relegation thats 2 in 2 at home now.
I agree with others you cannot play every week on decent pitches and then expect to turn in a performance on that.
Maybe we should have trained all week on a poor pitch somewhere and not our new perfect pitches at the acadamy.

 

[Machiavelli]

Yes, God willing. Three or four hours then Roast rib of beef. Perfect day.

Sounds good all round.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Just got back and agree with the opening post other than I don't think the pitch is dangerous. Could have been if it hardened in a night time frost though.

But overall the pitch made the game a total lottery. A half decent free kick won it when neither team deserved to win it.

A completely pointless exercise in every respect and ridiculous to judge the team in anyway.

Will be back to the lush green of the AMEX next week when I fully expect our revival to be back on track.

I went with dangerous because we certainly wouldn't have risked Lua Lua's comeback on that pitch and we didn't risk Tex.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I went with dangerous because we certainly wouldn't have risked Lua Lua's comeback on that pitch and we didn't risk Tex.

And how was your roast rib of beef?

 

[The Merry Prankster]

And how was your roast rib of beef?

Still about half an hour away. Late lunch. Beautiful walk to a place called Kirkby Lonsdale that is just the right side of quaint. Log fire roaring. Footie on. Beef resting. I want for nothing.

 

[Ernest]

Why is the pitch so bad ?

 

[El Presidente]

Beef resting.

I have a Scandinavian DVD with the same title.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

A proper pitch.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

I have a Scandinavian DVD with the same title.

I suppose I should be grateful we are not having pork as I would imagine you have an entire library on the subject.

 

[El Presidente]

Why is the pitch so bad ?

Half the pitch had no grass on it, and for some free kicks the ball would roll in the breeze 5-10 yards from where it was placed as nothing to grip onto. It was also covered in divots, so difficult to pass on the ground as it would veer unpredictably off the mounds.