The minority

Since Simon Sadler took over we've been promoted and he has steadied the club.
Critchley went for a rumoured 10 x salary increase and let's face it who wouldn't?
Philbfctrois said:
Critchley didn't go for 10 times his salary, that's absolute nonsense

Appleton is a proven manager I don't understand why people have it in for him, the issue facing Appleton is the fact that he wasn't backed properly in the transfer window

Getting rid of a manager now would be beyond stupid

As for the training ground there are still more questions than answers like who's paying for it

Oh and the owner appointed the manager so all in all your post doesn't make any sense whatsoever
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Reportedly went for X10.
The key word is reportedly.
Appleton is not a proven manager. He may have had a 8 appointments over a decade but he hasn't achieved anything in that time.
Checkout his stats. For a manager who has had 8 appointments his record is piss poor.
 

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Doc said:
Since Simon Sadler took over we've been promoted and he has steadied the club.
Critchley went for a rumoured 10 x salary increase and let's face it who wouldn't?

Reportedly went for X10.
The key word is reportedly.
Appleton is not a proven manager. He may have had a 8 appointments over a decade but he hasn't achieved anything in that time.
Checkout his stats. For a manager who has had 8 appointments his record is piss poor.
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Then we'll see if he can do it at Blackpool.
Holloway was appointed just after taking Leicester down to League One for the first time in their history and after walking out on Plymouth when they were doing well.

Let's give Appleton a chance and get behind him. And yes I'll probably give him a hammering if we lose to Norwich. That's football.
 
Ginge said:
How do you know?

It's all hearsay...

Are you saying he didn't want Thompson, Poveda and Patino?
What about Callum Wright or Fiorini?

Are you saying he didn't want those players because apart from the highly rated Wright who only arrived on deadline day, the rest have featured in Appletons squads and teams since the day they arrived.......injury allowing.....
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Filling the squad with short term loans isn't the policy that the board promised us
 
Philbfctrois said:
Filling the squad with short term loans isn't the policy that the board promised us
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It depends. Are we expecting the board to be at the point where they have delivered their promises or are we expecting them to be working towards delivering their promises. If it’s the former you’re not wrong, if it’s the latter, and I think it is, then I think we’re actually on the right track.

A number of young talented players have been brought into the academy and development squad and whilst they’re not ready to challenge for first team football they may be able to do so in 12/18 months. Because we’re bringing them in very raw we’re getting financially very good deals and are able to sign them to long contracts on terms acceptable to the club. When (if) they break into the first team squad they’re Blackpool players with lengthy contracts and a sense of allegiance to the club (hopefully) and they’ll have a team full of talented peers all at a similar place in their career - which bodes very well for the club in terms of the ability of the squad at that point but also the prospect of making serious profit on any transfer dealings.

If we have to make do with loans for the next 12/18 months to hold the fort until our development squad and young prospects start forcing their way into the first team then it’s a small price to pay and makes a lot of sense. It would also be the club making good on their promises- even if it isn’t immediately obvious.
 
Philbfctrois said:
Filling the squad with short term loans isn't the policy that the board promised us
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Would you have said that had we brought in Cameron Archer?

The loan market has served BFC well over the years and I site Steven Dobbie, Seamus Coleman and Joe Hart as just 3.
The club have made some bang average signings during Simon Saddlers early tenure but also some fantastic ones too.
Nit picking as you seem to love doing helps nobody.
The state the club was in when SS took over compared to now are a million miles apart.
He's certainly not doing it for the money, like a certain family did.
He's doing it because he's a fan, just like you and I.
I suggest you give him some slack.
Progress on and off the field, and after a season with NO income..or have you forgotten about that.
If the TG and East weren't being sorted you'd moan at that, if the stands were rusting or the pitch a mess you'd be moaning at that. Almost everything that needed attention has been done.
All you seem to do is search through the positives until you find a negative.
 
LA1/Ginge

As I've said previously, I support Sadler 100% and I'm grateful he's the owner of our club and he's seemingly doing a great job.
But I've touched on this point previously. How much do you think a relegation back to L1 would set us back? I know it's hard to quantify because the answer may well depend on how quick it takes us to bounce back up. I do think you two are both focusing on the long term too much without taking into account the effect a relegation would have on the ability to plough funds into the long term. Would relegation not mean Sadler has to plough more money into the team to try and get us back up? All of which is a gamble as history has proven.. For me, the biggest factor in generating support,interest and finance in BFC is crowds and that will only improve by the club being in the highest league possible and that at the moment is the Championship.
 
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LA1/Ginge

As I've said previously, I support Sadler 100% and I'm grateful he's the owner of our club and he's seemingly doing a great job.
But I've touched on this point previously. How much do you think a relegation back to L1 would set us back? I know it's hard to quantify because the answer may well depend on how quick it takes us to bounce back up. I do think you two are both focusing on the long term too much without taking into account the effect a relegation would have on the ability to plough funds into the long term. Would relegation not mean Sadler has to plough more money into the team to try and get us back up? All of which is a gamble as history has proven.. For me, the biggest factor in generating support,interest and finance in BFC is crowds and that will only improve by the club being in the highest league possible and that at the moment is the Championship.
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Many good points 20s.
I personally don't think thevpromotion to the championship was expected as soon as it came, especially when you take into consideration the car crash of the previous season and the amount of players coming and going.
I think we are a year ahead of where the club expected to be.
Last season we did ok....that was it. We had far too many long term injuries which no one could have foreseen. It's the same this season injury after injury.
I don't think relegation would necessarily be the armageddon people imagine.
As a club we are punching massively.
Realistically we will always be top half Lg1 bottom half championship. This is based on gates only but that is a pretty good barometer.
We've got some good young talent in the squad and coming through but we need to have patience as a group of supporters.
I think most people are realistic about where we are AND where we would like to be but the two are currently poles apart......but unlike before we are now building, sensibly, towards a target.
We aren't a rudderless ship anymore and we have a man in charge who is investing millions into the infrastructure, the business side of things to make sure the football side is funded to the maximum.
If you spend money it's gone.
If you invest money properly it pays you dividends.
That's what business people do.......look at Bowler. That's why Mr Saddler has got a big fat bank balance.
I'd much rather trust in him than some of the know it alls around and about our town and club.
 
LA1 Seasider said:
The facilities and infrastructure is what is going to allow us to compete and hopefully thrive in the Championship long term and hopefully grow to a point where we can push on even further.

Even if SS spent £50 million on a team of players next summer there’s still no guarantee we get promoted - in fact we’d still likely be outside the play offs given the relegated PL teams and other championship teams who’ve been spending money for years. If you fail with that gamble you’ve lost that money for good and every subsequent year finances get tighter.

Put the infrastructure in place and build a squad from the ground up may well cost the same £50 million but at least this way there’s other way to bring finances back into the club other than hoping for miracles on the field - also the club is in a better position to capitalise on any success it does achieve.

Infrastructure is the most appropriate and sensible way for SS and BFC to achieve long term success given the means available.
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I agree, just look at the money spent by Notts Forest and they are one of the bookies favourites for the drop!
 
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