Andy Pilley/Fleetwood

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Just heard him give an interview on Radio Lancs about the Wimbledon game.
Said it's the biggest game for years, get your tickets fast because it's going to be a sell out and the town are really backing the club.
Then he says if you can prove you live local, come down to the ticket office and we will give you one free. Don't take the Mick asking for 20 at a time but 2 is acceptable.
Comedy Gold.
The sad fact is if it was Liverpool in a pre season friendly it would sell out easy.
 
todayistheday said:
Really feel for him, honest hard working Chairman trying to put the positives in the town of Fleetwood. Think they will find it hard to stay up and it will be a big blow if they go down.
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Well they will have to come to Bloomfield Road to support a proper team!
 
We also bash Blackpool just as much.......You should hear what certain people have to say about the Manager....Makes this shit look tame!!!!!
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
I'm a Fleetwood born Lad as are many Pool fans ; Fleetwood can't exactly be an easy sell when it comes to attracting ,players, staff, sponsors etc & Newcastle Fans they have it tough in those matters 🙄 Try being Being Fleetwood or Barrow for that matter :
26K Population so very limited possibilities . Must be one of smallest towns in EFL
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Nailsworth, the home of Forest Green Rovers population around 5,000
 
Not sure why anyone would feel sorry for him. He’s pumped money into a club that could not survive at that level without millions of his money. The day he stopped pumping money in was always going to come.
 
We're all in the same boat here, we'd be in league 2 without a pilley bit what is rellavent here is he is a real football fella and we know this because he has been letting most of our kids use his £10million football facility over the last 5 year years, you'd be a myopic prick to think differently.
 
Accrington have about a 40% larger population than Fleetwood but still only get similar crowds to Fleetwood.

Morecambes/Lancasters population is more than double that of Fleetwoods, with no competition from other league clubs in the surrounding area, but still Morecambe don't get that much bigger gates than Fleetwood..

Fleetwoods population is a tiny 26,000 with a very limited catchment area, and they get home crowds of approx 2,600 (which is 10% of their population).

We can only dream of Blackpool getting 10% of of our population attending home games, and we are in the championship, (not near the bottom of league 1) and thats not including towns like Lytham St. Annes (with a 40,000+ population) on our doorstep .

It's like asking, why do teams like Sheff United, Derby and Nottm Forest get much bigger gates than Blackpool?

It's not because they are better fans than us, it's because they have a much bigger population.
 
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Couldn’t care less one way or the other if they get relegated or not.
 
AP speaks thought he was still in South Africa with this new club he's invested with.

Deserves everything that has happened to the club should have paid back the EFL loan then maybe you wouldn't have been so shite and been able to pay for players to sign or give them more wages like you've done in the past.
Now he has to give out free tickets!

Hope they get relegated.
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
Accrington have about a 40% larger population than Fleetwood but still only get similar crowds to Fleetwood.

Morecambes/Lancasters population is more than double that of Fleetwoods, with no competition from other league clubs in the surrounding area, but still Morecambe don't get that much bigger gates than Fleetwood..

Fleetwoods population is a tiny 26,000 with a very limited catchment area, and they get home crowds of approx 2,600 (which is 10% of their population).

We can only dream of Blackpool getting 10% of of our population attending home games, and we are in the championship, (not near the bottom of league 1) and thats not including towns like Lytham St. Annes (with a 40,000+ population) on our doorstep .

It's like asking, why do teams like Sheff United, Derby and Nottm Forest get much bigger gates than Blackpool?

It's not because they are better fans than us, it's because they have a much bigger population.
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and how many of us pool fans come from fleetwood cleveleys st anne etc.
I remember when i was a kid fleetwood used to take 5 or 6 coachs from fleetwood plus the 14 buses which ran 2 at a time every half hour and the trams. they were all full from 1 oclock
 
seasiderjohn said:
and how many of us pool fans come from fleetwood cleveleys st anne etc.
I remember when i was a kid fleetwood used to take 5 or 6 coachs from fleetwood plus the 14 buses which ran 2 at a time every half hour and the trams. they were all full from 1 oclock
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Correct have you seen the size of Thornton nearer the Cods than BR its probably quadrupled is size in the last 30 years.
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
Accrington have about a 40% larger population than Fleetwood but still only get similar crowds to Fleetwood.

Morecambes/Lancasters population is more than double that of Fleetwoods, with no competition from other league clubs in the surrounding area, but still Morecambe don't get that much bigger gates than Fleetwood..

Fleetwoods population is a tiny 26,000 with a very limited catchment area, and they get home crowds of approx 2,600 (which is 10% of their population).

We can only dream of Blackpool getting 10% of of our population attending home games, and we are in the championship, (not near the bottom of league 1) and thats not including towns like Lytham St. Annes (with a 40,000+ population) on our doorstep .

It's like asking, why do teams like Sheff United, Derby and Nottm Forest get much bigger gates than Blackpool?

It's not because they are better fans than us, it's because they have a much bigger population.
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It's not really a case of getting 10%, more of attracting the support who will go every home game, it's not about population so much with small town teams, you'll always get 2-3k as a minimum if you're league one, it's then building on that.

To suggest we should be getting 10% of the population like they are doesn't really ring true, few if any city (which Blackpool is in all but name) teams could achieve this.
 
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It makes me laugh this suggestion that AP is spunking money left right and center argument on the club and it’s unsustainable etc…
Yes he probably is, but so is virtually every football club owner in the country…
How much has SS spent propping blackpool up? It’s a rich persons game owning football clubs.
 
Killingmesoftly said:
It makes me laugh this suggestion that AP is spunking money left right and center argument on the club and it’s unsustainable etc…
Yes he probably is, but so is virtually every football club owner in the country…
How much has SS spent propping blackpool up? It’s a rich persons game owning football clubs.
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But can a club survive without an owner spunking cash in the Cods situation no they'll fall down the pyramid.
 
Killingmesoftly said:
It makes me laugh this suggestion that AP is spunking money left right and center argument on the club and it’s unsustainable etc…
Yes he probably is, but so is virtually every football club owner in the country…
How much has SS spent propping blackpool up? It’s a rich persons game owning football clubs.
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There is a bit of a difference between clubs like Blackpool than Fleetwood!

They have a fan base and history with potential to progress.
Well done to Pilley for his achievements at Fleetwood but even League 2 is punching above their weight.
 
Killingmesoftly said:
Yeah I get that, and so would Man City if sheikh what’s his name stopped bank rolling them..is my point..
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No they wouldn't Man city would still be in the Prem,we'd be hovering around this league or below ,Cods back to non league.

They can't open the doors without his cash on Monday for the week it's a massive difference.
 
poolseasider said:
No they wouldn't Man city would still be in the Prem,we'd be hovering around this league or below ,Cods back to non league.

They can't open the doors without his cash on Monday for the week it's a massive difference.
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Tbh i’m not following Fleetwood /AP situation at all, i’m just pointing out that most clubs are propped up by wealthy owners.
Man City we’re a championship/premiership bobbing up and down team before the current rich owners came in…
 
I hope Wimbledon win tbh. After all their fans have been through, they finally get into their new ground back at Plough Lane after Covid and they fill it out all season. And they've now gone 26 games without a win and face relegation to L2. Not the season they were hoping for! They are owned by the Supporters Trust, I think 3000 fans have a stake.
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
Accrington have about a 40% larger population than Fleetwood but still only get similar crowds to Fleetwood.

Morecambes/Lancasters population is more than double that of Fleetwoods, with no competition from other league clubs in the surrounding area, but still Morecambe don't get that much bigger gates than Fleetwood..

Fleetwoods population is a tiny 26,000 with a very limited catchment area, and they get home crowds of approx 2,600 (which is 10% of their population).

We can only dream of Blackpool getting 10% of of our population attending home games, and we are in the championship, (not near the bottom of league 1) and thats not including towns like Lytham St. Annes (with a 40,000+ population) on our doorstep .

It's like asking, why do teams like Sheff United, Derby and Nottm Forest get much bigger gates than Blackpool?

It's not because they are better fans than us, it's because they have a much bigger population.
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Population of Blackpool in 2021 was 138,380. We don't dream of 10%, we get more than that regularly, despite the transient nature of the population, coming in with existing football loyalties.

Fleetwood as a proportion of indigenous population should get more than they do.
 
Don't think we can really go pontificating about crowds to anyone tbh, given we are 4th bottom of the Championship attendance table.
And we would be even lower, if 2 of the 3 clubs below us didn't have restricted capacities.

But it's not because we are poorly supported (which we are not).
It's purely because Blackpool is a small town relative to almost all the other towns and cities above them, in that table.
Likewise for Fleetwood, who actually must be one of (if not) the smallest towns in the entire 4 leagues.

It's all relative.
 
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I personally can't be bothered with what Pilley does or doesn't do, but purely for the fans I know I hope they manage to survive. Morecambe too.
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
Don't think we can really go pontificating about crowds to anyone tbh, given we are 4th bottom of the Championship attendance table.
And we would be even lower, if 2 of the 3 clubs below us didn't have restricted capacities.

But it's not because we are poorly supported (which we are not).
It's purely because Blackpool is a small town relative to almost all the other towns and cities above them, in that table.
Likewise for Fleetwood, who actually must be one of (if not) the smallest towns in the entire 4 leagues.

It's all relative.
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Blackpool is the 20th town by population size in the EFL Championship. Those smaller than Blackpool are: Blackburn, Preston, West Bromwich and Barnsley.
 
Dollar Thief said:
The thing with AFC Wimbledon that annoys me is that they were shit on by MK Dons. Kingstonian helped them out by letting the groundshare, AFC then bought the ground only to later on sell it to Chelsea which then left Kingstonian homeless.

Saying that, I'd still rather see Fleetwood go down.
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Wimbledon gave Kingstonian a million quid at the time, to be fair. Complicated situation.
 
Think the writing was on the wall when they let their big earners such as Evans and Madden go. Pilley is running a tighter ship now and it's a massive game for them Saturday.
 
If they win tomorrow I think they will be OK, just about. If they don't, they are really on the edge.

There is a lot at stake, isn't there? They are already losing fans in droves, and relegation would make it a lot worse. Plus there is the court case, and if he ends up going to jail then all bets really are off.
 
Some people have short memories, Blackpool had to get re elected into the league, if it was like today we could entertaining teams in the NWCL.
 
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