Thank-you,Blackpool,Ian Hollaway & Charlie Adam.

[Leekbrookgull]

Quite simply for playing the game in the way i believe it should be played,you may have gone down ,but it was one hell of a ride.

 

[El Turi]

I don't think Gareth Bale will agree with your opinion of Charlie Adam.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I don't think Gareth Bale will agree with your opinion of Charlie Adam.

I think Gareth Bale might have a better understanding of the game than you do if you think that. And it's a very pathetic first reply to this thread.

Blackpool have been brilliant entertainment, and that's all that matters to the neutrals who just want to watch football. Alright, you can criticise their defending (Ian Evatt, what the hell?) but that's just moaning because it's easy. Where's the praise for scoring the highest number of goals a relegated team has ever managed? I've heard a lot of talk about how good Wigan are at attacking, but their goals scored stat is pathetic. Blackpool have been the most entertaining team all season. For all that, though, it might be better they went down with their heads high than do a Hull and crash badly. Charlie Adam would have left this summer, stay up or go down. They wouldn't have been as good next season without him and it might have turned a bit sour, but atleast this way people only remember them fondly.

And it means we get to play against a good attacking team next season, which will mean a better game to watch. As a fan, that's what I want to see.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Ninja. With you.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I think Blackpool are one of the few 'one-season wonders' in the Premier League that will have come out in great financial shape, if not in playing shape.

They have not spent all of the £40m TV money, keeping a very sensible wage structure with Charlie Adam the top earner on £500k-a-year. All of the bigger earners contractually lose half their salary on relegation, and so may leave. That means not only will they have most of this year's TV money left in the kitty to spend on infrastructure and replacements, but also up to four years of an additional £12m a year with no massive earners on the books. They will need 8-10 players, but basically, as long as they recruit sensibly (they'll be after a lot of the same UK-based players we will, I imagine), it could set them up for good as a top-half Championship club at worst.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Nice to see a football club stick to a stringent wage cap (I assume they did and haven't done anything on the sly), but the acid test will be what they do with their windfall i.e. £90mish. Invest in the club/area/community schemes or will the board simply trouser a great deal of it?

Half a million or so p.a. is still outlandish to play football but getting closer to a sense of reality.

 

[METALMICKY]

Frankly its all about the result and as proven by Gus's tactics you can still play good football but crucially get the result. It will be no consolation next season if we got relegated by a small margin from games where we perhaps 2 up and failed to shut the game out.

Holloway seems an honest and sometimes entertaining bloke. However it could be argued that his gung ho approach cost them dear.

 

[El Turi]

I think Gareth Bale might have a better understanding of the game than you do if you think that. And it's a very pathetic first reply to this thread.

Don't get me wrong, Adam is a great player and I'm not denying Blackpool have been very good to watch this season but that was a nasty tackle the other week on one of Britain's best young players.

 

[El Presidente]

Best convicted rapist owned club in the country by far.

 

[Paddy B]

Best convicted rapist owned club in the country by far.

Nope that was Owen Oyston. the current chairmans dad

 

[Bold Seagull]

I'm not sure they had to play like that simply because they were so bad at the back and Holloway knew he didn't have the players that could defend at that level (last season they conceded more than anyone else in the top 8, even Palace conceded less!!). Their gung-ho style I think is through necessity rather than choice, conceding just the 2 goals was the equivalent of a clean sheet for them, they simply had to attack.

 

[El Presidente]

Nope that was Owen Oyston. the current chairmans dad

..........and majority shareholder, I stand by what I said earlier.

 

[HoveHorace]

Yeah well done Blackpool and all that.

Now let's p*ss all over them home and away next season.

 

[El Turi]

Yeah well done Blackpool and all that.

Now let's p*ss all over them home and away next season.

Although they'll get the parachute payments Holloway has already said the team will probably be dissapated so I can see them struggling next season.

 

[beorhthelm]

entertainment, but f***ing shitehouse defending. watching the ManU highlights i was stunned at how poor their midfield was defensivly. they tracked back but failed to actually do anything usfull like press the ball, mark/track anyone or deny them space, leaving the back four overwhlemed despite bodies but there. woefull, and cost them dearly.

 

[NMH]

entertainment, but f***ing shitehouse defending. watching the ManU highlights i was stunned at how poor their midfield was defensivly. they tracked back but failed to actually do anything usfull like press the ball, mark/track anyone or deny them space, leaving the back four overwhlemed despite bodies but there. woefull, and cost them dearly.

THIS.

They had a lead, and blew it. Hardly great tactical nouse to keep an open pitch when you are up by a single goal at Old Trafford.
The keeper was woeful, and should have left his line sharpish with that first goal. His communication wasn't the best either, and he was afraid of going for a ball inside his own 6yards from crosses.

2-1 up and end 4-2 down? Not swashbuckling stuff if you aren't around to show it there next season. in fact

 

[Skint Gull]

I'm not sure they had to play like that simply because they were so bad at the back and Holloway knew he didn't have the players that could defend at that level (last season they conceded more than anyone else in the top 8, even Palace conceded less!!).

Whilst admiring the fact they didn't go out and spunk loads of money in a desperate attempt to stay up, you can't help thinking that to go down by such a close margin, it may have been worth just a small investment in January. When they announced that the fat bugger Ian Evatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who fell over for the first goal and scored an OG later had played in every league game this season it was quite obviously apparent why they have conceded as many as they have!

 

[Albumen]

When was the last gap-toothed Liverpool player? David Speedie?

 

[ali jenkins]

Whilst admiring the fact they didn't go out and spunk loads of money in a desperate attempt to stay up, you can't help thinking that to go down by such a close margin, it may have been worth just a small investment in January. When they announced that the fat bugger Ian Evatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who fell over for the first goal and scored an OG later had played in every league game this season it was quite obviously apparent why they have conceded as many as they have!

Its easy to say that now, but back in January there was no way of telling if they would finish bottom by a mile, or survive quite easily

 

[Racek]

entertainment, but f***ing shitehouse defending. watching the ManU highlights i was stunned at how poor their midfield was defensivly. they tracked back but failed to actually do anything usfull like press the ball, mark/track anyone or deny them space, leaving the back four overwhlemed despite bodies but there. woefull, and cost them dearly.

Totaly agree. They were good value this season but their defending was shit for even a Sunday league team in parts.