Sadler speaks

We are so lucky, our ownership experience really has gone from one extreme to the other.

That statement is everything a football fan would like to hear from their club's owner - pragmatic, passionate, honest, funny, humble, ambitious but not overpromising.

Thank you Simon, for making me prouder than ever to be a Seasider.

Bring on next season. Now, please.
 
Toastrack said:
That statement is everything a football fan would like to hear from their club's owner - pragmatic, passionate, honest, funny, humble, ambitious but not overpromising.
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100% and thought the comments about getting out of League One within 3 seasons was spot on. Always felt it was a bit optimistic but it's what every fans wants to hear and why fans 'buy in to' a club.
 
A tremendous read and shows us, once again, what a great guy he is, and how lucky we are to have him.

It's an article of two halves. 😁 The first half is as a fan as he describes the feelings every one of us had over the course of the season, culminating in that deserved victory.

Once it's clear that we really are in the Championship, the second half begins to look at our goals and priorities:

"Our first target now we’re there is to stabilise and ensure that we don’t get relegated. I’ve said before that I feel that our natural place in the football pecking order is as a mid-table Championship side but with the right wind behind us we can make it back to The Premier League."

He then covers how we do that, and suggests that although he may be a multi-millionaire, he's not a multi-billionaire:

"I don’t have the wherewithal to buy our way in to the next tier so we’ll have to earn it. To do that we’ll need to rely in the first instance on our coaching and recruitment and in time on our Academy."

We've discussed on here recently what our priorities should be - a new east stand, the training ground, or spending on players. Simon is in no doubt about that:

"... we clearly need new, integrated training facilities. This is by far and away my top investment priority and hopefully we will have good news to impart on this matter in the coming months."

Then he mentions our part, which I won't quote, in buying season tickets and spending in the club shop. If you can afford it, please do it.

He then ends by thanking everyone, but as Curryman says in an earlier post, the person who deserves thanks more than anyone is Simon himself. 🍊🍊🍊
 
'Working hard and being organized, to provide a platform for the flair players'.
Love that! It's the philosophy that got us promoted and it's obvious he wants it running through the club like a message in a stick of Blackpool rock.
Very clear what his values are, and that he places us, the supporters, in the centre. UTMP.
 
Fantastic read. A true Blackpool fan who experiences all the emotions that we all do. The club is now being built on very firm foundations owned by some one honest with real and realistic ambition.
 
the_dog said:
Love the humility of the man - hope he reads AVFTT to see how much he’s appreciated.
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Yes. That's what I like. It's brilliant that he's acknowledged the Armfield Club, BST etc because there's such a potential for self aggrandisement but he's seemingly almost slightly embarrassed to find himself at the epicentre of everything and aware that a club is only meaningful because of everyone that supports it.

Any rich fucker can turn up and chuck money at a football club. What astonishes me is we seem to have one who is doing it because he actually understands what a football club is and can be.

It's really quite mind blowing. Still not 100% accepted that it's real.
 
None of the "Big I am" (Not to be confused with Will I Am!!) Modest and still unbelieving what he has done and how great it is.

I took from that, that he is going to invest wisely but he can't do it on his own, so it is down to US, the supporters to now support him, buy season tickets, buy merchandise, invest in the club so that with his money and ours we can have a club that can compete at the highest level and not crash into debt.

I really hope the football supporters in the town read this and those thinking about a season ticket, just commit and get one. If we can pretty much fill Bloomfield Road every home game and create the best atmosphere in the Championship then the players will be inspired.

UTMP indeed.
 
Brilliant read...quite simply, he gets it!!

We're in this together! He's our leader, but the club belongs to the people of Blackpool!! 💛
 
Grumpy_no_more said:
"Our first target now we’re there is to stabilise and ensure that we don’t get relegated. I’ve said before that I feel that our natural place in the football pecking order is as a mid-table Championship side but with the right wind behind us we can make it back to The Premier League."
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Maybe the Phantom Farter in the West can become our 12th man!
 
Just brilliant! From a nightmare to the sweetest dream, still have to pinch myself it’s happened! UTMP.
 
What a fantastic owner we have at our club and what is more exciting is he’s in it for the long haul. Long may he continue and making the club the best as it can be. UTMP 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊
 
I've got a theory, we all know that there's actual Footballing Gods don't we? We know they've always been on the side of good, 1970 at Deepdale, giving us Billy just when we needed him, getting Holloway sacked at Leicester so he spent a year looking after chickens and rethinking his tactics, making sure Chopra hit the bar, making sure GTF signed, creating Charlie and Brett etc...

Anyway, they do have a lot to look after apart from us (the whole 'PKE Will Fail' taskforce, sending Horwich to the lower leagues, hilariously giving us Sunderland to mock etc...) One day five years ago they're sat around having the morning handover when a junior God notices they've completely forgotten to read the debrief from special envoy Belokon detailing how the Oystons must be punished, there's a stunned silence as they realise the error has led to the World's Greatest Football Club languishing in the lower leagues with fans being sued and the Premier League money being squandered by a rapist.

All other business is immediately dropped and Special Envoy Belokon is summoned to a hastily arranged crisis meeting, after apologies for their oversight, the Footballing Gods task their envoy with destroying the Oystons, an easy job he says, they're idiots, I'll just drown them in their own hubris and incompetence, but I can't take over the club as Special Envoys to the Footballing Gods can't directly own clubs as your charter forbids it, so what to do when I've chocked the very life out of their business like a cat playing with an especially thick mouse?

The Footballing Gods look at each other knowingly, do not worry Special Envoy Belokon, they say, many years ago we worked on a project for just this occasion, it took many years and many failed attempts, but eventually we created what can only be described as 'The Perfect Football Club Owner', our remit was a tough one, he would need to be a local, a supporter from an early age, a self made man with the financial resources to resurrect the club, but also a humble man working for the greater good who put his faith in a progressive manager and young hungry players, we named him Simon Sadler.

And all was well, the world was once again Tangerine and the gods slept the sleep of the good.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I've got a theory, we all know that there's actual Footballing Gods don't we? We know they've always been on the side of good, 1970 at Deepdale, giving us Billy just when we needed him, getting Holloway sacked at Leicester so he spent a year looking after chickens and rethinking his tactics, making sure Chopra hit the bar, making sure GTF signed, creating Charlie and Brett etc...

Anyway, they do have a lot to look after apart from us (the whole 'PKE Will Fail' taskforce, sending Horwich to the lower leagues, hilariously giving us Sunderland to mock etc...) One day five years ago they're sat around having the morning handover when a junior God notices they've completely forgotten to read the debrief from special envoy Belokon detailing how the Oystons must be punished, there's a stunned silence as they realise the error has led to the World's Greatest Football Club languishing in the lower leagues with fans being sued and the Premier League money being squandered by a rapist.

All other business is immediately dropped and Special Envoy Belokon is summoned to a hastily arranged crisis meeting, after apologies for their oversight, the Footballing Gods task their envoy with destroying the Oystons, an easy job he says, they're idiots, I'll just drown them in their own hubris and incompetence, but I can't take over the club as Special Envoys to the Footballing Gods can't directly own clubs as your charter forbids it, so what to do when I've chocked the very life out of their business like a cat playing with an especially thick mouse?

The Footballing Gods look at each other knowingly, do not worry Special Envoy Belokon, they say, many years ago we worked on a project for just this occasion, it took many years and many failed attempts, but eventually we created what can only be described as 'The Perfect Football Club Owner', our remit was a tough one, he would need to be a local, a supporter from an early age, a self made man with the financial resources to resurrect the club, but also a humble man working for the greater good who put his faith in a progressive manager and young hungry players, we named him Simon Sadler.

And all was well, the world was once again Tangerine and the gods slept the sleep of the good.
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Post of the Year! 👍 Brilliant!

I suppose your can't reveal your "sauces" for this, Lytham? 😁
 
Sadler is the man. If you can afford to, buy a season ticket. I’ve got one knowing I won’t make every game (midweek will be difficult travel wise and who knows what the pandemic will throw at us this winter) but if it helps up sign a player or gives the ground a new like of paint I’m happy to pay.

He’s given us so much, we need to back the club like he has
 
What a brilliant read this is from Simon Sadler. It brought tears to my eyes. I am so proud for our club that we have such a man at the helm, giving all he’s got, not just in money but in appreciation of those who work for him and with him. It was nice that he thanked the volunteers as well.

Yes, he has the large projects he is moving on with, but those smaller jobs which still cost huge amounts of money like painting the steelwork do make a difference to fans and their “belonging” to the club. It’s no longer the run down club we were supporting

I’ve read all the posts and it’s so good that he is appreciated.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you. UTMP 🍊
 
Great read.
It's fantastic to hear what SS has said after years of rubbish under the Os.
We can only go forward now and invest in our fantastic club.
Can't wait for day one of the season. 👍 👍
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I've got a theory, we all know that there's actual Footballing Gods don't we? We know they've always been on the side of good, 1970 at Deepdale, giving us Billy just when we needed him, getting Holloway sacked at Leicester so he spent a year looking after chickens and rethinking his tactics, making sure Chopra hit the bar, making sure GTF signed, creating Charlie and Brett etc...

Anyway, they do have a lot to look after apart from us (the whole 'PKE Will Fail' taskforce, sending Horwich to the lower leagues, hilariously giving us Sunderland to mock etc...) One day five years ago they're sat around having the morning handover when a junior God notices they've completely forgotten to read the debrief from special envoy Belokon detailing how the Oystons must be punished, there's a stunned silence as they realise the error has led to the World's Greatest Football Club languishing in the lower leagues with fans being sued and the Premier League money being squandered by a rapist.

All other business is immediately dropped and Special Envoy Belokon is summoned to a hastily arranged crisis meeting, after apologies for their oversight, the Footballing Gods task their envoy with destroying the Oystons, an easy job he says, they're idiots, I'll just drown them in their own hubris and incompetence, but I can't take over the club as Special Envoys to the Footballing Gods can't directly own clubs as your charter forbids it, so what to do when I've chocked the very life out of their business like a cat playing with an especially thick mouse?

The Footballing Gods look at each other knowingly, do not worry Special Envoy Belokon, they say, many years ago we worked on a project for just this occasion, it took many years and many failed attempts, but eventually we created what can only be described as 'The Perfect Football Club Owner', our remit was a tough one, he would need to be a local, a supporter from an early age, a self made man with the financial resources to resurrect the club, but also a humble man working for the greater good who put his faith in a progressive manager and young hungry players, we named him Simon Sadler.

And all was well, the world was once again Tangerine and the gods slept the sleep of the good.
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Brilliant, just spat my orange juice out at the thick mouse bit 😂😂😂
And if that statement by Simon doesn’t have you buying a season ticket then nothing will 👍🏼
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I've got a theory, we all know that there's actual Footballing Gods don't we? We know they've always been on the side of good, 1970 at Deepdale, giving us Billy just when we needed him, getting Holloway sacked at Leicester so he spent a year looking after chickens and rethinking his tactics, making sure Chopra hit the bar, making sure GTF signed, creating Charlie and Brett etc...

Anyway, they do have a lot to look after apart from us (the whole 'PKE Will Fail' taskforce, sending Horwich to the lower leagues, hilariously giving us Sunderland to mock etc...) One day five years ago they're sat around having the morning handover when a junior God notices they've completely forgotten to read the debrief from special envoy Belokon detailing how the Oystons must be punished, there's a stunned silence as they realise the error has led to the World's Greatest Football Club languishing in the lower leagues with fans being sued and the Premier League money being squandered by a rapist.

All other business is immediately dropped and Special Envoy Belokon is summoned to a hastily arranged crisis meeting, after apologies for their oversight, the Footballing Gods task their envoy with destroying the Oystons, an easy job he says, they're idiots, I'll just drown them in their own hubris and incompetence, but I can't take over the club as Special Envoys to the Footballing Gods can't directly own clubs as your charter forbids it, so what to do when I've chocked the very life out of their business like a cat playing with an especially thick mouse?

The Footballing Gods look at each other knowingly, do not worry Special Envoy Belokon, they say, many years ago we worked on a project for just this occasion, it took many years and many failed attempts, but eventually we created what can only be described as 'The Perfect Football Club Owner', our remit was a tough one, he would need to be a local, a supporter from an early age, a self made man with the financial resources to resurrect the club, but also a humble man working for the greater good who put his faith in a progressive manager and young hungry players, we named him Simon Sadler.

And all was well, the world was once again Tangerine and the gods slept the sleep of the good.
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Excellent work FY 👍
 
what a fantastic article by our new true passionate owner.
That’s sums up why the season ticket was purchased last year and no refund requested.
Anything that helps the club in this new era.
If fans of other clubs read that they’ll then understand why we got to the playoffs and got promotion back to the championship.
Just reward for our 5 years of boycotting under The Stains!!!!!
 
An owner with pride in our football club,that's all we have ever wanted. Thank you so much Mr.Sadler,one season ticket being bought on Friday UTP.
 
When Simon Sadler brought the club I was very reserved in my opinion of him, it seemed too good to be true!

Now two years on and I am simply very envious of him.

He is a local lad, a normal lad, he has worked hard and been successful and he is now living his dream and my dream if the truth be known.( hence the envy, not to be confused with jealousy)

I believe that he is doing what he's doing because he loves the town and the football club and wants to give something back.

Well Simon, you may be living your dreams but in doing so you are making mine and thousands of others dreams come true!

I never wanted the club to get in to Europe or buy success,

What I have always wanted was a club that was a real club, a club that was inclusive and represented the people who are proud to call The Fylde coast home ( wether we've moved away or have never even lived here). A bright, upbeat, fun but sensitive and caring club that unites the town behind it, we have that now!

Thank you Simon!
 
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