The football club - Blackpool FC

Kyle Seasider said:
Agree with everything that is said by Phil on this occasion. Something is wrong right now and it's hard to put my finger on exactly what it is. I also think that the communications from the club are awful at times, another Blackpool fan, Ryan Powell, has been blocked on Twitter today for criticising the club. I know most don't care about that, but to alot of us, that's not a good look. Especially when it's one of our most vocal fans that has a decent following. I dont know of another club that is blocking fans on a public platform for voicing their opinions.

Sometimes I feel like the club needs overhauling from top to bottom. One thing is for sure, our marketing team isn't great and our social media team isn't either. Look at Fleetwood social media team last season compared to ours, they were miles better. They mugged ours off on several occasions and we had no come back. It was embarrassing. Like I said before, I know alot won't care about that, but in todays age, social media is huge and when used right it can be free advertising to a huge audience, especially the younger generation. We didn't even push the Forest home game untill the day of the game. Its not good enough.
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It’s so Vanilla….Its like Derek from Accounts has been put in charge of club promotions….
 
It’s a tough one this, but there’s an awful lot of sense from Raggy and the Grim Reaper there.

I’ve said this before, but the Club is lacking personality and a clear sense of direction. Now it’s perfectly possible that those things may exist from an internal perspective, but certainly not when you look at it from a fans perspective.

Ultimately it comes down to effective leadership…

Two very simple things have been missing from day 1.

A clearly defined plan and well communicated plan that includes our ambitions and how and when we will accomplish them…including

On Pitch Progress
Development of Revenue Streams
Growth of Fanbase
Community Engagement
Capital Projects
Etc…

We then need visible and engaging / energetic leadership. That doesn’t need to come from Simon, but it seems that he calls the shots and so people naturally want to hear from him.. Poor communication has been a consistent theme as has piss poor marketing and that opens the door to rumour and ill feeling.

Finally the Club needs to not take criticism personally and to learn to recognise that football fans are rarely completely content… Understand the difference between genuine criticism and simply ‘sounding off’… ultimately we all want the same things…
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
I saw that Powell has been blocked. I dont care what anyone on here says, that's a bad bad look for the club. It's already starting to get some traction on Twitter with fans of other clubs commenting how wrong it is. The club don't help themselves, if they don't want to see what he's saying, then just mute him. That way he gets to say what he wants but the club don't see it. It stinks of a social media team that don't have a clue what they're doing.
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Add on top of this someone from the club searching his LinkedIn profile and the same day he gets an anonymous complaint to his work. That's a huge coincidence.
 
Brilliant post that Phil and I agree with every word.

Raggy and Gricey also spoke a lot if sense on the pod.

We have a lot of talented and passionate people within our fanbase. If I was in charge, I'd be doing everything I could to harness that for the good of the club. As it stands, the club have blocked yet another fan from their Twitter account for voicing a negative opinion about the performance on Tues night. They seem intent on shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity.
 
Kyle Seasider said:
Add on top of this someone from the club searching his LinkedIn profile and the same day he gets an anonymous complaint to his work. That's a huge coincidence.
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Blocking someone who’s continuously moaning and sending abuse at the club, fair enough.

Getting in touch with his work over it? Ffs, grow up. That’s Oystonesque stuff, that. Very bad look
 
Simonized said:
This and Matt's blog epitomizes everything that's going wrong at the club.
I am just bored and I can't even get angry anymore which is so sad as I have put 50-odd years into this club and I just can't even gee myself up for a game.

Being bored even when we win is not a feeling I want or like😢🙄
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What happend with Matt's blog?
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
It’s a tough one this, but there’s an awful lot of sense from Raggy and the Grim Reaper there.

I’ve said this before, but the Club is lacking personality and a clear sense of direction. Now it’s perfectly possible that those things may exist from an internal perspective, but certainly not when you look at it from a fans perspective.

Ultimately it comes down to effective leadership…

Two very simple things have been missing from day 1.

A clearly defined plan and well communicated plan that includes our ambitions and how and when we will accomplish them…including

On Pitch Progress
Development of Revenue Streams
Growth of Fanbase
Community Engagement
Capital Projects
Etc…

We then need visible and engaging / energetic leadership. That doesn’t need to come from Simon, but it seems that he calls the shots and so people naturally want to hear from him.. Poor communication has been a consistent theme as has piss poor marketing and that opens the door to rumour and ill feeling.

Finally the Club needs to not take criticism personally and to learn to recognise that football fans are rarely completely content… Understand the difference between genuine criticism and simply ‘sounding off’… ultimately we all want the same things…
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I was just thinking about that last paragraph and the comparison to the stains, Karl in particular. It's like we are the enemy when in fact, we are the total opposite. The Stains had a chance to really be loved by the supporters, it was there right in front of them but they are greedy, have no morals, are sociopathic and narcissistic. Had they had any decency at all they could have used the promotion to the EPL and supported the club instead of themselves and would have made more money than they did, but they were scumbags.

I feel that Sadler thinks the supporters are against him too, they really aren't, we understand he took over the club with no knowledge of football or running a football club and one of the things that go with that is that you are King when things are going well and villain when they're not, but at the end the day it's a customer focused business in the world of sport and entertainment, not a hedge fund business, they are miles apart and for the football club the supporters should mean everything, without them you are fucked. You have to keep the customers happy and at the moment I get the feeling he sees us as an unappreciative bunch who are scheming behind his back and we just aren't. We just want our football club to be an exciting place to be involved with, not the suspicious, bland, silent, cold place it is currently. If he fights the supporters then A. he will lose and B. we will decline rapidly. If he realises that we want him to do well and will support him if he was more open, less clandestine and actually listened then things would be much better. We don't want to read snarky pieces on the club website moaning at the supporters or being treated like imbeciles like the Critchley/dossier interview, we want you to have some passion, like Ollie bought to the club, some fire in his belly. We have been used to over 20 years of terrible ownership, we are still smarting from that, we need more from you Simon and when you give more you will get it in return in spades. As it is it is the most boring place in the country, open your eyes man!
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Might be a bit of a long post this as I'm sat on a train

Listening to the Seasider podcast last night got me thinking this morning, so i thought i would share some thoughts based on some of the stuff i heard and read last night on the podcast and also some of the Twitter content I've seen this week

Firstly i thought the podcast was pretty decent, to be honest i don't always listen to it as it comes across a bit dull sometimes with the same blokes saying the same things week in week out, however last night was good

The Raggy speech was fantastic and summed up some of how i feel about the goings on at our club, Andy with his marketing background also made some really good points that i agree with and i urge fans who haven't listened to it to give it a whirl, i think there were less than 200 people watching it last night so not massive numbers

In the words of that tw@t from Dragons Den this is where I'm at

Firstly I'm not anti Simon Sadler, this is something that I've been accused of recently and I'm not. I was actually pleased when he bought the club and I've been supportive and critical in equal measures i think. When he first bought the club he did what i think was right in getting rid of Grayson and bringing in a fresh faced younger coach in Critchley, it was difficult for NC in the early days and his inexperience showed and it wasn't until he changed his formation and playing style that the results improved. Simon Sadler was also instrumental in this early journey by backing NC in both transfer windows with some really good loans like Ellis Simms and some key experienced players like Kenny Dougal who had been playing at a higher level. We paid money for young hungry players like Marv, Jerry and Keshi who were all key to our promotion. Promotion was very much a joint effort between the owner, board and coach, the fans played a small part as it was mainly during covid but Oxford at home and the win at Wembley were fantastic. ALL LOOKED GOOD ........

We had a feel good factor about the place as the club went into the new Championship season on a high, we made some decent signings but mainly focusing on younger players who had been at bigger clubs, Josh Bowler being the main man and what a delight he was to watch, a couple of decent loans in Ryan Wintle and Djon Sterling but if I'm being honest looking back we were still a little short in key areas. The first half of the season was good, we had some great results and away days and it really felt like the club was aligned with fans buying in to the process, the North stand and the work done by a few individuals to get that stand rocking was something really special, it was probably the most passionate home end in the country.

Then something changed in my opinion around January time, i was a poor transfer window and we looked a bit under cooked in several positions, NC also looked like he had lost his mojo a bit, it was strange as we weren't actually that far from the play off places and the season just fizzled out, losing at PNE was one of the worst performances i can remember for a long time, bizarre post match interviews form NC and club just seemed dead with very little coming from the board or owner

NC left amid some rumours about a lack of backing from the owner and we went into the new season looking miles off, poor marketing from the club at season ticket time and a ludicrous match day price point didn't help the mood. I've also never understood why the club don't do a 12 month direct debit option like other clubs do, Andy and Raggy spoke about this last night. It was a right mess from top to bottom, poor signings, a new old manager in Appleton (who the fans were never going to get behind) and a shed full of loan players it was a cluster fuck of incompetence from top to bottom. We heard very little form the owner whilst the ship was sinking and any feel good factor from the start of the season before had gone. it was like people at the club just weren't @rsed

And so it continued

Relegation was nailed on and McCarthy was probably up there with our worst ever manager and that takes some doing when you consider idiots like Carr, Clark, Hendry and Riga

We still heard very little from the owner unless of course it was the NC welcome back interview or the telling off to fans, NC was always going to divide fans just like the MA appointment its almost like its been done on purpose

This season hasn't been much better than last season and that takes some doing, boring football, poor tactics and players played out of position, losing Yates was a blow as he was the heartbeat of the club, similarly with Dougal and this January transfer window was garbage

The club is just sleep walking again and everything we as a fanbase fought for appears to be lost, the atmosphere at games is poor and some crowds have been really low we as a club have become as dull as dishwater, you only hear from the club when they want something and all this talk of fans parliaments and charters are a complete waste of everybody's time and effort except of course for the 3 FSA people who appear to run BST and their 800 members, they love all this sort of shite

We are a unique fantastic club in the party capital of the UK and when we are all united we are hard to stop, we have a fantastic passionate support that is dwindling and this malaise needs to stop NOW, even my kids aren't that bothered about going to matches, Port Vale and Burton in a week saw to that

I want to hear from Simon Sadler, i want to know what the plan is for the future, i want to know what's happening with the stand and training ground projects, I want to know how the club is going to get back to how it was 2 and a half years ago and i want to know what is going to happen with our current manager who appears to have lost his mojo again' he either needs help or sacking as the whole club is in a steady decline.

I expected better from life long fan Simon Sadler (if some cnut thinks that makes me entitled then so be it its nonsense word used by folk with zero ambition anyway)

Lets get this club back aligned and everyone moving in the same direction it has to come from the top though

Over to you Mr Sadler
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Great post that Phil and sums up certainly how l see things. As Ive said before on here, the Critchley decline started when we played Forest at home in March 2022 and got taught a footballing lesson live on Sky by a team who were a shambles for the first 7 games of that season. We won 2 games against Birmingham and Barnsley out of the last 10 games of that season culminating in that horror show away at Peterborough. Those final 10 games made my mind up that Critchley is nowhere near being a manager / head coach and should always remain a player coach. Since he slithered off to pastures new this club, fans, players, management team, owner etc have never been as disjointed and this is never more evident than on a match day at Bloomfield Road. Yes we’ve had our moments but they are few and far between and everything seems to be an effort especially in The North which should be the heartbeat on match day. All the key stakeholders are pulling in different directions and it’s up to Simon to put his dummy back in, accept that the football being served up is well short of one of the key cornerstones that he said he wanted when he took over, of playing entertaining football and get us all united again. He’s the man at the top and the only person that can sort this out otherwise he must know what the consequences are!
 
Spot on post that mate,January 2022 was definitely when something changed '!
I’m committed to Peterborough and Orient now but I’m not looking forward to them at all,I can’t remember feeling like this for a long time.
I remember chatting to someone in the bogs at a game this season about not being sure about Sadler when someone shouted yeah let’s go back to the Oystons shall we, it just about sums up some of our fans
I honestly can’t see anything other than a heavy defeat on Saturday and out the cup next week and a mid table finish, with some of the most boring football I’ve seen
Not a lot to look forward to especially with season ticket sales in mind😔
 
BFCAleman said:
Does SS get to see these excellent comments though ? Does he frequent this site to know what is being queried and asked for ?
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I’ve heard that he spends his life on these forums and has fake accounts he posts with. I think this is shown in that statement he made telling fans off for complaining about him. Apparently he reads it all and takes it all quite personally
 
South shore lad said:
I’ve heard that he spends his life on these forums and has fake accounts he posts with. I think this is shown in that statement he made telling fans off for complaining about him. Apparently he reads it all and takes it all quite personally
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The same as Karl then. If that is true, then he needs to stop doing it, I believe he probably reads it, but fake accounts? Surely that would be too risky and paranoid.
 
One thing I forgot to add in, the club have taken the piss with the new “seamless and smooth online season ticket passes”…

Entrance to the ground is now a total chore with long queues (that never happened when it was just cards) and the searches from people in hi-viz who’d struggle to spell cat and dog, asking children to empty their pockets and checking old age pensioners.

It’s a classic example of taking and not delivering and also not understanding the fanbase.

The queue to get in the ground for the Bolton cup game was a joke and we’ve got 1 stand 3/4 full. They should be trying to sort it but instead you’ve got people loving the power for someone carrying a bottle top.

I get we’ve had a couple of issues with throwing things but it’s complete overkill.
 
hertfordseasider said:
The same as Karl then. If that is true, then he needs to stop doing it, I believe he probably reads it, but fake accounts? Surely that would be too risky and paranoid.
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I'd be willing to bet at least 1 active user account on this forum is SS and that he both reads and replies to comments. How would anyone know? If it is true I agree he needs to stop. It's not the sign of a great owner to be trawling through every negative comment written about him on forums and getting upset about it
 
South shore lad said:
I’ve heard that he spends his life on these forums and has fake accounts he posts with. I think this is shown in that statement he made telling fans off for complaining about him. Apparently he reads it all and takes it all quite personally
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Even the best owners in world still get shit from the fans. It's an unfortunate consequence of owning a football club, if you can't handle criticism then you shouldn't own a club.
 
South shore lad said:
I'd be willing to bet at least 1 active user account on this forum is SS and that he both reads and replies to comments. How would anyone know? If it is true I agree he needs to stop. It's not the sign of a great owner to be trawling through every negative comment written about him on forums and getting upset about it
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If he really is doing this he would be better to address it positively through the club website, I can't believe he posts, surely not? Why doesn't he realise we are all on the same side and just want what is good of the club. It sounds from what you are saying he is hating it.
 
South shore lad said:
I'd be willing to bet at least 1 active user account on this forum is SS and that he both reads and replies to comments. How would anyone know? If it is true I agree he needs to stop. It's not the sign of a great owner to be trawling through every negative comment written about him on forums and getting upset about it
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Ok I’ll delete my account….
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
I saw that Powell has been blocked. I dont care what anyone on here says, that's a bad bad look for the club. It's already starting to get some traction on Twitter with fans of other clubs commenting how wrong it is. The club don't help themselves, if they don't want to see what he's saying, then just mute him. That way he gets to say what he wants but the club don't see it. It stinks of a social media team that don't have a clue what they're doing.
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Blocking the guy because the club don't like his opinion (assuming it was legal & not abusive) is a real own goal.
Whoever made the decision, will have been aware of the fans (not just ours) reaction of doing so & must surely have consulted at the highest level within the club, which is even more concerning. This is England, not Russia, Korea or China.
 
Kyle Seasider said:
Add on top of this someone from the club searching his LinkedIn profile and the same day he gets an anonymous complaint to his work. That's a huge coincidence.
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If that’s right and someone from the club is checking his LinkedIn then that is completely and utterly embarrassing from the club and shows how mentally weak they are.

Weird way to act.
 
585 = never give up said:
Blocking the guy because the club don't like his opinion (assuming it was legal & not abusive) is a real own goal.
Whoever made the decision, will have been aware of the fans (not just ours) reaction of doing so & must surely have consulted at the highest level within the club, which is even more concerning. This is England, not Russia, Korea or China.
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On Tuesday night he said that we were wank and that Sadler cares more about balancing the spreadsheet than us succeeding on the pitch, that's was the last thing he tweeted at them.
 
A top post Phil.
The most sickening thing about our current status is while we're heading one way, the Nobbers, with all their faults, are heading in the other and that is baffling.
The club must act now to rectify the current situation. If SS isn't willing to keep losing his family income, which is understandable, then he should recruit other investors onto the board - that's what other clubs do.
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
I saw that Powell has been blocked. I dont care what anyone on here says, that's a bad bad look for the club. It's already starting to get some traction on Twitter with fans of other clubs commenting how wrong it is. The club don't help themselves, if they don't want to see what he's saying, then just mute him. That way he gets to say what he wants but the club don't see it. It stinks of a social media team that don't have a clue what they're doing.
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Can you enlighten us please as I don't know who Powell is
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Might be a bit of a long post this as I'm sat on a train

Listening to the Seasider podcast last night got me thinking this morning, so i thought i would share some thoughts based on some of the stuff i heard and read last night on the podcast and also some of the Twitter content I've seen this week

Firstly i thought the podcast was pretty decent, to be honest i don't always listen to it as it comes across a bit dull sometimes with the same blokes saying the same things week in week out, however last night was good

The Raggy speech was fantastic and summed up some of how i feel about the goings on at our club, Andy with his marketing background also made some really good points that i agree with and i urge fans who haven't listened to it to give it a whirl, i think there were less than 200 people watching it last night so not massive numbers

In the words of that tw@t from Dragons Den this is where I'm at

Firstly I'm not anti Simon Sadler, this is something that I've been accused of recently and I'm not. I was actually pleased when he bought the club and I've been supportive and critical in equal measures i think. When he first bought the club he did what i think was right in getting rid of Grayson and bringing in a fresh faced younger coach in Critchley, it was difficult for NC in the early days and his inexperience showed and it wasn't until he changed his formation and playing style that the results improved. Simon Sadler was also instrumental in this early journey by backing NC in both transfer windows with some really good loans like Ellis Simms and some key experienced players like Kenny Dougal who had been playing at a higher level. We paid money for young hungry players like Marv, Jerry and Keshi who were all key to our promotion. Promotion was very much a joint effort between the owner, board and coach, the fans played a small part as it was mainly during covid but Oxford at home and the win at Wembley were fantastic. ALL LOOKED GOOD ........

We had a feel good factor about the place as the club went into the new Championship season on a high, we made some decent signings but mainly focusing on younger players who had been at bigger clubs, Josh Bowler being the main man and what a delight he was to watch, a couple of decent loans in Ryan Wintle and Djon Sterling but if I'm being honest looking back we were still a little short in key areas. The first half of the season was good, we had some great results and away days and it really felt like the club was aligned with fans buying in to the process, the North stand and the work done by a few individuals to get that stand rocking was something really special, it was probably the most passionate home end in the country.

Then something changed in my opinion around January time, i was a poor transfer window and we looked a bit under cooked in several positions, NC also looked like he had lost his mojo a bit, it was strange as we weren't actually that far from the play off places and the season just fizzled out, losing at PNE was one of the worst performances i can remember for a long time, bizarre post match interviews form NC and club just seemed dead with very little coming from the board or owner

NC left amid some rumours about a lack of backing from the owner and we went into the new season looking miles off, poor marketing from the club at season ticket time and a ludicrous match day price point didn't help the mood. I've also never understood why the club don't do a 12 month direct debit option like other clubs do, Andy and Raggy spoke about this last night. It was a right mess from top to bottom, poor signings, a new old manager in Appleton (who the fans were never going to get behind) and a shed full of loan players it was a cluster fuck of incompetence from top to bottom. We heard very little form the owner whilst the ship was sinking and any feel good factor from the start of the season before had gone. it was like people at the club just weren't @rsed

And so it continued

Relegation was nailed on and McCarthy was probably up there with our worst ever manager and that takes some doing when you consider idiots like Carr, Clark, Hendry and Riga

We still heard very little from the owner unless of course it was the NC welcome back interview or the telling off to fans, NC was always going to divide fans just like the MA appointment its almost like its been done on purpose

This season hasn't been much better than last season and that takes some doing, boring football, poor tactics and players played out of position, losing Yates was a blow as he was the heartbeat of the club, similarly with Dougal and this January transfer window was garbage

The club is just sleep walking again and everything we as a fanbase fought for appears to be lost, the atmosphere at games is poor and some crowds have been really low we as a club have become as dull as dishwater, you only hear from the club when they want something and all this talk of fans parliaments and charters are a complete waste of everybody's time and effort except of course for the 3 FSA people who appear to run BST and their 800 members, they love all this sort of shite

We are a unique fantastic club in the party capital of the UK and when we are all united we are hard to stop, we have a fantastic passionate support that is dwindling and this malaise needs to stop NOW, even my kids aren't that bothered about going to matches, Port Vale and Burton in a week saw to that

I want to hear from Simon Sadler, i want to know what the plan is for the future, i want to know what's happening with the stand and training ground projects, I want to know how the club is going to get back to how it was 2 and a half years ago and i want to know what is going to happen with our current manager who appears to have lost his mojo again' he either needs help or sacking as the whole club is in a steady decline.

I expected better from life long fan Simon Sadler (if some cnut thinks that makes me entitled then so be it its nonsense word used by folk with zero ambition anyway)

Lets get this club back aligned and everyone moving in the same direction it has to come from the top though

Over to you Mr Sadler
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Great post
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
On Tuesday night he said that we were wank and that Sadler cares more about balancing the spreadsheet than us succeeding on the pitch, that's was the last thing he tweeted at them.
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He could have used a more pleasant description of how we played 🤣. But his comment about SS's priorities may have some truth about it - who knows but SS & his wife? Certainly doesn't merit being banned and the adverse publicity it will attract.
 
Adams Kebab said:
One thing I forgot to add in, the club have taken the piss with the new “seamless and smooth online season ticket passes”…

Entrance to the ground is now a total chore with long queues (that never happened when it was just cards) and the searches from people in hi-viz who’d struggle to spell cat and dog, asking children to empty their pockets and checking old age pensioners.

It’s a classic example of taking and not delivering and also not understanding the fanbase.

The queue to get in the ground for the Bolton cup game was a joke and we’ve got 1 stand 3/4 full. They should be trying to sort it but instead you’ve got people loving the power for someone carrying a bottle top.

I get we’ve had a couple of issues with throwing things but it’s complete overkill.
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You should have tagged the @SLO_BFC in that and of course, bfcx3 who was in hyperdrive when contactless was announced calling out anyone and everyone that said/saw it would turn to shite.
 
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One of your best @Phil_bfc deux

For me, it went badly wrong in the late autumn of our first season back in the Championship. We were doing well and looking very good. Then, for whatever reason our approach changed. You’ve referred to NC and a loss of mojo, but for me it was a very calculated move, to be more cautious, so we didn’t go down. Performances away at Derby and Birmingham for example set the tone for what was to come and what we are seeing now.

Of course, that first season in the Championship our goal was to stay up, but when you are doing well you try to maintain that and press on. It seemed to me that NC decided to grind out points to get to safety. Once you start down that path it’s hard to regain momentum. That lack of confidence and ambition is shining through now.

I was pleased when he left, as I disliked his brand of football. Who could have predicted the shocking managerial appointments that followed, in particular McCarthy, when at that point we still had a strong chance of staying up.

The sickly interview when NC returned said much about how we are as a club and the approach of SS. You simply don’t do that interview, it was naive and for me, left NC in a position where he didn’t feel threatened. I feel he has a high degree of arrogance, evidenced by his look at me celebrations, whilst disappearing after consistently bad performances.

The problem for me is that SS is not well advised. The appointment process for NC was laughable. He needs someone like Gary Bowyer in there to say that with respect, that’s bollocks Simon. I don’t know if SS wants that sort of challenge in his business, but he needs to get tough and sack NC now. That and stop telling off the fans, when they’ve been proved right.
 
hertfordseasider said:
Can you enlighten us please as I don't know who Powell is
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Thanks for that, I am getting more and more concerned about our club and our ability to get weird owners. I can see this escalating now with lots of wild rumours flying about in all directions and with a paranoid owner sitting and reading everything and becoming increasingly more defensive and paranoid.

If this happens without something to clear the air then it will be terribly damaging for the club. We need to quash or confirm these rumours before it gets out of hand.
 
Great post Phil and a very passionate post at the same time it would appear that Sadler has lost his buzz for the club and that we need answers asap as to which direction our great club is going in because if we are not careful the club is going in to the direction of free fall which is very worrying,hopfully he will bring the club back to where it needs to be other wise the club is in a world of trouble which is very sad to see.if he is not up for the challenge since he and his pal fell out I think personally he should consider his options and let the fans know exactly where his moral’s lie with in the club and the fan base.So please Simon can you have the courtesy and the manners to put our proud football club at ease by letting us know exactly what your plans are kind regards .
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
Ryan Powell, he's been on it's not orange podcast a few times and is well known on twitter, by not just our own fans but fans from other clubs as well. Usually has some strong opinions.
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Yeah he's out spoken, only recently started speaking to him. But he actually is really passionate about Blackpool FC and doesn't want us to sit back and be below mediocre. He isn't unreasonable and asking for us to spend millions.

But the last two seasons have been extremely disappointing, don't start behaving like the Oyston's did. You'll lose support fast. We won't put up with it.
 
Athers said:
Blocking someone who’s continuously moaning and sending abuse at the club, fair enough.

Getting in touch with his work over it? Ffs, grow up. That’s Oystonesque stuff, that. Very bad look
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I can understand contacting someone's employer if the account they're using specifically states who they work for, but Ryan does not say anything about his work on X, someone at the club has specifically gone and looked him up on Linked In, which I think is a bit low to be honest, thankfully Ryans boss doesn't care about his opinions as they aren't illegal.
 
My attention level went after the first three paragraphs, so I’ll take everyone else’s comments that the post is spot on.

For me, SS has been badly advised, I’m quite sure he doesn’t personally review all candidates and make the decision on his own.

As for critchley, I’ve been consistent in my opinion that he shouldn’t have been given the job second time round, and he should go right now to give a new guy time to work with the players he’s got and make judgments for next season. Who knows, he might just get us into the playoffs with positive, rather than negative tactics.
 
BFC_Aspie said:
I can understand contacting someone's employer if the account they're using specifically states who they work for, but Ryan does not say anything about his work on X, someone at the club has specifically gone and looked him up on Linked In, which I think is a bit low to be honest, thankfully Ryans boss doesn't care about his opinions as they aren't illegal.
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If it's true, and I repeat, if it's true, it isn't alright at all, it is very not alright and if it was me I would be ** fuming.

Who's going to be the first supporter to be sued???

The above is why this needs putting to bed now or we are in for a shit show and it is probably all bollocks.
 
Matesrates said:
My attention level went after the first three paragraphs, so I’ll take everyone else’s comments that the post is spot on.

For me, SS has been badly advised, I’m quite sure he doesn’t personally review all candidates and make the decision on his own.

As for critchley, I’ve been consistent in my opinion that he shouldn’t have been given the job second time round, and he should go right now to give a new guy time to work with the players he’s got and make judgments for next season. Who knows, he might just get us into the playoffs with positive, rather than negative tactics.
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You should read these posts properly!! It's not like you've got much else to do at your age, at our age, at my age!!! 😂😂
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
We are a unique fantastic club in the party capital of the UK and when we are all united we are hard to stop, we have a fantastic passionate support that is dwindling and this malaise needs to stop NOW, even my kids aren't that bothered about going to matches, Port Vale and Burton in a week saw to that
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My daughter has just got home and asked if she can go to the Trafford Centre with her friend and her friends mum shopping on the 24th, told her that's Bolton at home and she shrugged and said she'd rather go with her friend because we're boring and probably gonna lose anyway. This kid has never asked to miss a home game for anything before, even missing friends birthdays to watch us play. So she's going to missing probably our biggest home game of the season, I'm gutted tbh, but what can I do.
 
Kyle Seasider said:
My daughter has just got home and asked if she can go to the Trafford Centre with her friend and her friends mum shopping on the 24th, told her that's Bolton at home and she shrugged and said she'd rather go with her friend because we're boring and probably gonna lose anyway. This kid has never asked to miss a home game for anything before, even missing friends birthdays to watch us play. So she's going to missing probably our biggest home game of the season, I'm gutted tbh, but what can I do.
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It's the sign of the times
 
Well done Phil. Your post is "top trumps".
I would have replied earlier but I spent 2hrs catching up with the Podcast.
Of course we have had an epic "I'm on the train" thread before and even though it was KoKo it brought out the best in our supporters but because it was KoKo it was all ignored.
So we're here again, a sensible thread, with sensible ideas, very supportive to a certain extent of our owner (despite what he appears to think) and with an overwhelming theme of we all want the best for BFC.
Simon will be reading this so as others have said it's not "you against us". It is your money but the more you keep us on board the more of our money we'll spend supporting our club. (Don't forget you're just the Custodian).
How many posters have referenced communication as a key failing. It costs nothing to tell us what's going on.
Start with that and see where it takes us.
PS.
And its very easy to put a poll on this Board when you want to appoint a new Manager 😉
 
Insider said:
Well done Phil. Your post is "top trumps".
I would have replied earlier but I spent 2hrs catching up with the Podcast.
Of course we have had an epic "I'm on the train" thread before and even though it was KoKo it brought out the best in our supporters but because it was KoKo it was all ignored.
So we're here again, a sensible thread, with sensible ideas, very supportive to a certain extent of our owner (despite what he appears to think) and with an overwhelming theme of we all want the best for BFC.
Simon will be reading this so as others have said it's not "you against us". It is your money but the more you keep us on board the more of our money we'll spend supporting our club. (Don't forget you're just the Custodian).
How many posters have referenced communication as a key failing. It costs nothing to tell us what's going on.
Start with that and see where it takes us.
PS.
And its very easy to put a poll on this Board when you want to appoint a new Manager 😉
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Thanks Insider appreciate the nice comments

I hope Mr Sadler will be reading this, I'm sure he will be from everything i know about him, maybe he can give me a call to discuss the things he doesn't agree with, we don't need any SLO to sort

His mate Brett has my number
 
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Kyle Seasider said:
My daughter has just got home and asked if she can go to the Trafford Centre with her friend and her friends mum shopping on the 24th, told her that's Bolton at home and she shrugged and said she'd rather go with her friend because we're boring and probably gonna lose anyway. This kid has never asked to miss a home game for anything before, even missing friends birthdays to watch us play. So she's going to missing probably our biggest home game of the season, I'm gutted tbh, but what can I do.
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That sums up the dire situation we're at this time. It's really sad, but inevitable. My advice to you Kyle is - join your daughter at the Trafford & treat them all to lunch 🤣
 
Matesrates said:
My attention level went after the first three paragraphs, so I’ll take everyone else’s comments that the post is spot on.

For me, SS has been badly advised, I’m quite sure he doesn’t personally review all candidates and make the decision on his own.

As for critchley, I’ve been consistent in my opinion that he shouldn’t have been given the job second time round, and he should go right now to give a new guy time to work with the players he’s got and make judgments for next season. Who knows, he might just get us into the playoffs with positive, rather than negative tactics.
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How rude
 
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