The professionalism that Dolphin Bar speaks of is what we've been crying out for for decades. Wonderful that it has finally arrived in some of our lifetimes to be honest.
Having watched Blackpool FC from the time of the last days of Stanley Matthews in tangerine and clearly remembering the likes of Ball, Fisher, Hughes, Lee, Moir and co. playing for our club, I always felt that we were run more on hope than real purpose. Possibly without exaggeration, the last occasions we identified and boldly signed game changing players of the calibre of Jerry Yates were when our directors accosted Jimmy Hampson coming out of a cinema in Nelson, or when we approached Morty and Matthews himself about joining the 'Pool after the Second World War. Of course over the years we've been lucky with a good number of signings a la Brett Ormerod and Charlie Adam, or with youth coming through the ranks in the shape of Alan Wright, Trevor Sinclair and others - but now it seems there's real planning and real purpose.
Given the relative success we've all enjoyed over the past twenty years or so, it's exciting to think of what achievements may come with a genuine strategy and investment. And it almost goes without saying that we should collectively support Simon Sadler to the hilt.
P.S. DB, demolishing that Art Deco Queens building in Cleveleys was an act of sheer folly and vandalism.
