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The obvious examples being Allardyce and Ellis, who both had appalling first seasons as managers. Allardyce almost got us straight up the following season and of course within two years Ellis achieved the only automatic promotion of the last 50 years. Fortunately there was no internet in...

Of course. And having been a season ticket holder under Mullen, Carr, Allardyce, Worthington, Hendry, Ince, Grayson (mark 2) Appleton twice and McCarthy, I’m thoroughly looking forward to it!

The total cost is £540m for the first 300 that go there, or £1.8m each. Just a bit of loose change for the Cons - the equivalent of a couple of Michelle Mones.

I’m not sure anyone would have signed him last summer - he wasn’t fit until December!

If we do draw next week, and Oxford and Lincoln both lose, then it will come down to goal difference as we’d all be on the same points. And obviously we’d probably lose out. If only Critchley had released the handbrake and we’d gone for an 11-0 win today! Edit to add, if we do fail to win at...

He said he deliberately doesn’t over- train the players in the summer, ‘so they aren’t knackered by October’. Better to finish the season well rather than run out of steam on April like many teams do. Also we weren’t able to get Dembele and Rhodes in until late August which was obviously a big...

That’s 26 points from the last 13 games. All bodes very well for next season whichever division we’re in. Exciting times to be a Blackpool fan.

A thoroughly enjoyable game and fully deserved win. Critchley and all the players deserve plaudits for one of the most one-sided first halves we’ve seen all season. To be 2-0 up was the least we deserved. We were bound to tire in the last 20 minutes after the effort that was put in...

Twice in two games in ‘87. Port Vale away and Bristol Rovers at home. Two Stewart hat tricks if memory serves.

Well that’s Menzies, Benton and Maynard all either sacked or under investigation. Possibly the worst group of MPs the Fylde coast has ever seen. The election can’t come soon enough.

Allardyce’s first season was far worse than this one. Despite having a top three budget and signing top players such as Morrison, Ellis and Mellon we finished 12th with 64 points and had to suffer appalling defeats at Chester and Birmingham (7-1) and were thrashed by the mighty York 4-0 and 5-0...

Would that be the same Barnsley team that recently laboured to a 2-0 home defeat against Cambridge and have lost their last two away games against teams that are below us in the league?

Utd 0 Pool 1 Joseph

Is it the Reform Party agm?

Oyston gave us a free home game in the early 90’s(?) v Swansea. Still didn’t sell out 😀.