Blackpool v Burnley Official Matchnight Thread 27.07.21

boomeranger said:
Anyone know if it will be on the new 'Tangerine TV'?
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It'll be nice if it is coz our Maude has gone gym crazy so won't need much encouragement to disappear for a few hours ..... Mind you, it'll interfere with her viewing of Love Island .... Small mercies eh
 
Well I think we will put out a fairly strong team for about 60 minutes, and then a flurry of substitutes to give our youth and our triallist right back a bit of a test , overall the result doesn’t matter but we are getting to see the mighty at Bloomfield Rd . UTMP.
 
voyeur said:
When we're we last in the same division? How many seasons in the last 20 years?
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Not playing each other regularly will definitely have played a major role, but it is a strange thing as not playing each other when it comes to established derbies often has the opposite effect of that. Look at us and Preston, when we don't play each other for long periods that anticipation actually fuels the fire and we've played Preston LESS than Burnley over the last 20 years (13 meetings with Burnley, 8 with Preston).

Most Blackpool fans would put Burnley as their 2nd biggest derby behind Preston, I even saw a couple of people who started going games in the 90s putting Burnley as their first when that question was asked on here/twitter. Anyone who was going back then will tell you how big the Burnley fixture was, Turf Moor being an 'orrible place to go to.

It's our most played fixture and a derby steeped in history. Surprising to see it can fall away so quickly, from the heights of rivalry to a friendly in under 2 decades. We could go 20 years without playing Preston once I reckon and they'd still never organise it as a friendly cos it'd be too much hassle so its just surprised me is all that they can do it with Burnley. I reckon all it'd take to reignite the fixture though would be us meeting in the same division again.

Wow, didn't expect to write an essay on that 😂
 
TangerinePeel said:
Not playing each other regularly will definitely have played a major role, but it is a strange thing as not playing each other when it comes to established derbies often has the opposite effect of that. Look at us and Preston, when we don't play each other for long periods that anticipation actually fuels the fire and we've played Preston LESS than Burnley over the last 20 years (13 meetings with Burnley, 8 with Preston).

Most Blackpool fans would put Burnley as their 2nd biggest derby behind Preston, I even saw a couple of people who started going games in the 90s putting Burnley as their first when that question was asked on here/twitter. Anyone who was going back then will tell you how big the Burnley fixture was, Turf Moor being an 'orrible place to go to.

It's our most played fixture and a derby steeped in history. Surprising to see it can fall away so quickly, from the heights of rivalry to a friendly in under 2 decades. We could go 20 years without playing Preston once I reckon and they'd still never organise it as a friendly cos it'd be too much hassle so its just surprised me is all that they can do it with Burnley. I reckon all it'd take to reignite the fixture though would be us meeting in the same division again.

Wow, didn't expect to write an essay on that 😂
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7/10. 👍
 
TangerinePeel said:
Not playing each other regularly will definitely have played a major role, but it is a strange thing as not playing each other when it comes to established derbies often has the opposite effect of that. Look at us and Preston, when we don't play each other for long periods that anticipation actually fuels the fire and we've played Preston LESS than Burnley over the last 20 years (13 meetings with Burnley, 8 with Preston).

Most Blackpool fans would put Burnley as their 2nd biggest derby behind Preston, I even saw a couple of people who started going games in the 90s putting Burnley as their first when that question was asked on here/twitter. Anyone who was going back then will tell you how big the Burnley fixture was, Turf Moor being an 'orrible place to go to.

It's our most played fixture and a derby steeped in history. Surprising to see it can fall away so quickly, from the heights of rivalry to a friendly in under 2 decades. We could go 20 years without playing Preston once I reckon and they'd still never organise it as a friendly cos it'd be too much hassle so its just surprised me is all that they can do it with Burnley. I reckon all it'd take to reignite the fixture though would be us meeting in the same division again.

Wow, didn't expect to write an essay on that 😂
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Stared supporting Blackpool in 1990 and can confirm that Burnley was just as big as Preston back then for me
 
TangerinePeel said:
Not playing each other regularly will definitely have played a major role, but it is a strange thing as not playing each other when it comes to established derbies often has the opposite effect of that. Look at us and Preston, when we don't play each other for long periods that anticipation actually fuels the fire and we've played Preston LESS than Burnley over the last 20 years (13 meetings with Burnley, 8 with Preston).

Most Blackpool fans would put Burnley as their 2nd biggest derby behind Preston, I even saw a couple of people who started going games in the 90s putting Burnley as their first when that question was asked on here/twitter. Anyone who was going back then will tell you how big the Burnley fixture was, Turf Moor being an 'orrible place to go to.

It's our most played fixture and a derby steeped in history. Surprising to see it can fall away so quickly, from the heights of rivalry to a friendly in under 2 decades. We could go 20 years without playing Preston once I reckon and they'd still never organise it as a friendly cos it'd be too much hassle so its just surprised me is all that they can do it with Burnley. I reckon all it'd take to reignite the fixture though would be us meeting in the same division again.

Wow, didn't expect to write an essay on that 😂
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Still our most played fixture.
 
Remember going in the Burnley end at turf moor with my tangerine jacket on many a moon ago. That was fun.
 
That's the Leicester lad then.

We look like we have a lot of injuries, which isn't a good thing just before the season starts.

Grettarson, Stewart, Dougall, Anderson, Bowler, Madine, they're a big miss, hope it's nothing long term.

It also shows clearly that we need a couple of right backs, a creative midfielder and a striker.
 

@matt_scrafton

Keshi Anderson took a knock to his quad at Carlisle on Saturday, so I assume that's why he's missing. Will have to find out why Marvin Ekpiteta is absent. Despite the return of five players, Pool are still without 13.
 
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