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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 21, 2024 15:26:05 GMT
Cambridge has also just signed Josh Stokes on loan from Bristol City (formerly at Aldershot). Be interesting to see if he can make the step up - looked excellent vs us / in the NL in the first half of last season. Still only 20.
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Post by Imposter on Aug 21, 2024 15:27:25 GMT
Are they? Maybe historically if we’re going way back. Very similar home gates for the first matches of the season and I doubt they have any more ambition. Bigger stadium, bigger fanbase (considering we're on the up, they are on the down). Much higher than us in the leagues in recent memory and have been to the EPL. More history - they've won the FA Cup for example and been higher in the leagues than we ever have. I think we've got more ambition and a great thing going on but, as it stands, Blackpool is a bigger club. (For the record, DC would be silly to move to them with our current squad and plans and how he's settled.) On the other hand they've also got the bigger ground to put fans in, and the recentish Premier League and Championship seasons during which to create a fanbase. Going back to the 90s and 00s they were always the bog standard 3rd tier club. They were really big/successful I'm the 50s. In the first 2/3 of the 60s they were your top flight strugglers/lower table. In the late 60s they were relegated, came back up for one season in the top flight in the vert early 70s and then relegated. Throughout most of the 70s they were a decentish 2nd tier club. Then following relegation to the 3rd tier in 1978 they've been a third tier side. In 45 seasons since 1978 they've spent 9 in 2nd tier, 1 in 1st tier, 8 in 4th tier, but 27 in the 3rd tier. Sure they gained/regained a fanbase and done up the ground since their journey to the top flight. But they aren't that big a club. Solidly 3rd tier - along with Peterborough, Port Vale, Wrexham, County, Tranmere, Swindon, Walsall, Bristol Rovers, Oldham, Chesterfield, Grimsby, Gillingham, Rotherham, etc...
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Post by wnm on Aug 21, 2024 15:36:23 GMT
Cambridge has also just signed Josh Stokes on loan from Bristol City (formerly at Aldershot). Be interesting to see if he can make the step up - looked excellent vs us / in the NL in the first half of last season. Still only 20. Seemed to tail off quite a bit once bought and sent back on loan. Think L1 might be a step too high this season for him but we’ll see.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 21, 2024 15:40:11 GMT
Heckingbottom appointed at PNE. Interesting Challinor doesn't appear to even mentioned by Blackpool fans. Because they know there is zero chance of getting him. He's now got his own thread - everything does on their forum though so it isn't much of an achievement. Consensus is that they missed the boat. avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/dave-challinor.55534/
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Post by alkringtonhatter on Aug 21, 2024 15:52:25 GMT
Yep, why would any manager leave us to go work for a club whose owner is about to be banged up? (Not for the first time…) Is he? Knew they were a bit of a mess behind the scenes but not that much! www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq3wp3j873o
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Post by desmond on Aug 21, 2024 15:55:07 GMT
He’d better not think about sailing a yacht around Italy.
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Post by kennypowers on Aug 21, 2024 15:56:58 GMT
They should go for Pete Wild
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Post by atmosphere on Aug 21, 2024 16:01:42 GMT
They should go for Pete Wild He couldn't handle the expectations there.
Make no bones about it, he was booted from Barrow.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 21, 2024 16:36:59 GMT
He’d better not think about sailing a yacht around Italy. Ooh, too soon! (Although I gather those in charge at the HKSAR aren’t exactly backward in coming forward…)
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Aug 21, 2024 17:22:00 GMT
They should go for Pete Wild Don't think Wild is the right fit. He's stood out for taking unfancied sides with low resources and overachieving with them, whereas Blackpool were firmly expecting playoffs last season. Somewhere like Burton or even Shrewsbury would be ideal for Wild if those jobs come up.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 21, 2024 22:41:21 GMT
Smith from Shef Wed and Bradshaw from Millwall both being linked with Wrexham on their board. Both proven in the league above, with decent goalscoring records and improve them but both 32 and you think looking for one last payday and on big wages.
Feels very short term with Palmer 32, Fletcher 37 and both Mullin and Marriot 29. But that's always been their way to try and buy immediate success and they do need a striker. Smith would probably suit them more as the bigman with Palmer a bit out of favour and Fletcher only able to play 20-30 mins. Then Mullin or Marriott as the second striker.
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Post by palmersears on Aug 22, 2024 5:43:21 GMT
Smith from Shef Wed and Bradshaw from Millwall both being linked with Wrexham on their board. Both proven in the league above, with decent goalscoring records and improve them but both 32 and you think looking for one last payday and on big wages. Feels very short term with Palmer 32, Fletcher 37 and both Mullin and Marriot 29. But that's always been their way to try and buy immediate success and they do need a striker. Smith would probably suit them more as the bigman with Palmer a bit out of favour and Fletcher only able to play 20-30 mins. Then Mullin or Marriott as the second striker. Feel like Wrexham's plan is to get to the upper ends of the Championship as quickly as possible and worry about how to sustain that position when they arrive. Different strategy to us, but there's more than one way to skin a cat and all that. Think it's their lack of off-field development that might be their achilles heel, in that sense we're much further ahead.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 22, 2024 5:58:14 GMT
Smith from Shef Wed and Bradshaw from Millwall both being linked with Wrexham on their board. Both proven in the league above, with decent goalscoring records and improve them but both 32 and you think looking for one last payday and on big wages. Feels very short term with Palmer 32, Fletcher 37 and both Mullin and Marriot 29. But that's always been their way to try and buy immediate success and they do need a striker. Smith would probably suit them more as the bigman with Palmer a bit out of favour and Fletcher only able to play 20-30 mins. Then Mullin or Marriott as the second striker. Feel like Wrexham's plan is to get to the upper ends of the Championship as quickly as possible and worry about how to sustain that position when they arrive. Different strategy to us, but there's more than one way to skin a cat and all that. Think it's their lack of off-field development that might be their achilles heel, in that sense we're much further ahead. Yeah I think that's right with the documentary and media coverage - keep the momentum going and get more big deals and/or someone mega rich to buy a share. They've also got the revenue to be less "smart" about it. To be fair to them, they are sorting out the ground but infrastructure takes time.
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Post by timberwolf on Aug 22, 2024 8:21:26 GMT
Are they? Maybe historically if we’re going way back. Very similar home gates for the first matches of the season and I doubt they have any more ambition. Bigger stadium, bigger fanbase (considering we're on the up, they are on the down). Much higher than us in the leagues in recent memory and have been to the EPL. More history - they've won the FA Cup for example and been higher in the leagues than we ever have. I think we've got more ambition and a great thing going on but, as it stands, Blackpool is a bigger club. (For the record, DC would be silly to move to them with our current squad and plans and how he's settled.) Its all in history though that most of their fanbase have never witnessed. Do not think their fanbase is much different to ours at the numbers. Its just they have a bigger and always have had ground. Won the FA Cup, well so have bury and you got sick of hearing about that when their troubles first started. Possibly blackpool fans ar living in the past thinking their club should be back in a higher division in the same way we thought the same back in the NL and NLN days. Henry Ford must have been thinking of football when he said that history was bunk.
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Post by mat1scfc on Aug 22, 2024 15:00:44 GMT
Notts county at home to Grimsby tonight on sky
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