Is Blackpool Vs Fleetwood a derby

It's a local game with all that brings.

But for me, only Preston is a derby.

It's got over 100 years of rivalry, not 8 games of which we've won 5 and drawn 2.

Bolton and Burnley are more important local games. I've never been that bothered by Blackburn.
 
More for the Cods than us I'd say, PNE will always be our derby and most hated rivals. In saying that the Cods are favourites going in tomorrow's game, I suggested on the old AVFTT that one day that would happen and got laughed at by all and sundry, tomorrow I go to the game more in hope than expectation, the Cods look strong right now and a good bet for promotion.
 
FessParker said:
Of course it's a derby as would be AFC Fylde and of course Preston. To say it's not a derby because we haven't
played them very often is just plain daft.
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To be a derby in my opinion, there has to be a history to develop the rivalry. In this case there just isn't. That's why I see Preston as the derby game.
 
Been waiting all week for this thread....

Yes and yes.

Only snobbery and a sense of superiority says no.

Every other thread this week has been about Barton, poolfoot, FFP, their ticket sales, etc... This tells me to say its more important to them is way off the mark.

Reading this board lately I'd say we have a chip on our shoulder about Fleetwood. I know a few Fleetwood fans who are quite relaxed about this game.
 
No.

Im quite relaxed about the game. We win, fantastic, we lose, so what, we’ve lost plenty this season. There’s zero pressure on us, it’s all on Fleetwood.

I know a fair few Fleetwood fans, and trust me, they aren’t as confident as others make out.

UTP
 
Wizaard said:
It's a local game with all that brings.

But for me, only Preston is a derby.

It's got over 100 years of rivalry, not 8 games of which we've won 5 and drawn 2.

Bolton and Burnley are more important local games. I've never been that bothered by Blackburn.
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You've forgotten Morecambe-again-which is only short ride away in a motorboat.
They did send agent Harvey to AFC too 😀
 
The way I'd describe it to someone who knows football but didn't know much about Blackpool or Fleetwood is that on paper.... it's a derby. In emotion and importance it's better to win than lose but I'll have forgotten about it going in to work on Monday.

Edit: most loses I feel on the Sunday still and are forgotten by Monday. Preston & Burnley. Ingrained in to my memory for life.
 
I agree with Athers. Location wise yes it is a derby, but emotionally no it isn't. I have not ill feeling towards Fleetwood at all. Part of me actually admires what they have done in a relatively short space of time. They seem to detest us, but tbh they have never had a proper rival so can see why. If we keep playing them for the next decade or two and the history builds than yeah it will be a proper full blown derby, but Preston, Bolton and even Burnley are way more important to me
 
In my opinion a derby describes games between two teams which are geographyically close to each other, you hear people describe pretty much any time two Lancashire teams play each other as a "Lancashire Derby".

Whether a derby has a rivalry is an entirely different thing. You can have a derby without a rivalry and you can have a rivalry between two teams that isn't a derby (United vs Leeds).

I've said before on a similar thread, Fleetwood is a bigger game for the post boycott teenage crowd that have never seen us play Preston and are filling the gap in the meantime. Although this seasons game against them definitely had a derby atmosphere and until we get the proper derby back it'll keep gaining traction.
 
The fact that their ground holds a little over 5000 and they haven't sold all their tickets proves this isn't a derby.

It's us playing a tin pot club that just happens to be a few miles up the coast.
 
Not yet.

If we regularly play them for the next 5 years then it could become one. That’s how a rivalry and a derby is made, history between 2 clubs. We don’t currently have that with the cods. Not really that much to do with location in my opinion.

If Man Utd got relegated, and Rochdale promoted, it wouldn’t make Championship matches between them a derby would it? And certainly not a rivalry! Same principle applies here for me.
 
Of course it's a derby. Especially for the youth.
Already much bigger than Accrington, Rochdale , Oldham & Bury derbies for instance. Some of whom we have plenty of history with.
Just look how the Blackpool fans home crowd spikes when we play them (as opposed to those above mentioned), and then there's the euphoria, fans fighting on the pitch, pitch invasions, flares and smoke bombs etc.
Not to mention the hysteria on facebook/twitter and even the immense overload of threads on this forum that the Cods create.
There's even much more social media coverage for this fixture, than both the Bolton games!
So let's stop pretending it means nothing, eh?
 
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