All 4 have gone a goal up within 17 minutes in our league. In the Championship, Oxford left it until the 28th minute, but overcame Norwich, who were in the play-offs last season. Whilst they didn't win, Pompey did draw with losing play off finalists Leeds. In league 2, Bromley beat Harrogate on their EFL debut, and Chesterfield took the lead early at Swindon before being pegged back. Obviously, there's 3 league 1 games still to be completed, but as it stands, only Derby of last seasons promoted sides have lost on the opening day. Whilst our performance last night wasn't the best, there's something to be said for sides who are riding the crest of a promotion wave.
I wonder if the Blackpool message board has gone into complete meltdown, demanded the exit of the board, manager and coaching staff, and written off the entire season after 40 minutes.
If you back these owners continual managed decline of our football club, then yes you are the problem!
Ok, so what's your solution? It's not like firing the manager and employing a new one. So unless you're in the process of assembling a consortium to buy them out and then invest around £10 million quid a year ad infinitum, then you're as much a part of the "problem" as anyone else.
I’d like to see some proof of ‘managed decline’ - I asked someone to explain themselves a short while ago, but didn’t get a reply. Two consecutive play off campaigns and bringing in proven championship signings like Hourihane & Roberts suggests we’re trying to get out of the league at the right end.
I dont think its 'managed decline' but I do think it's 'avoidable decline caused by greed by Conway and his venture capitalist mates and also by general incompetence'. Doesn't scan as well as 'managed decline' but I think I have a point
But that just puts us in the same boat as dozens of other clubs that think they should be doing better Re - Conway and Co, there is a certain irony that some of the people who are now blaming them are probably same ones that welcomed them with open arms thinking they would bankroll us to the Prem.
To be fair mate I think that it’s the lack of replacements for 30 plus goals that Cole and McAtee accounted for last season. There’s some over the top reactions on here for sure but I do sympathise a bit with the frustration felt. We always seem to be playing catch up by September.
But that’s not managed decline, because that would suggest the owners had done it on purpose. I get people are allowed to be disappointed, but we’re one game into the season and some people are just totally over the top.
How do you know that though? I mean how do you know there’s no excuse? I haven’t a clue what goes on behind the scenes. This isn’t me just defending the owners and staff for the sake of it btw. It’s just that we all talk like we know things as fact, and that’s not fair. It’s how conspiracy theories start.
But its not the first time Fitz, so do they keep making the same naive errors each season then I wonder. And it has to be asked (along the lines of what Chaplin and Duff have said), have they given us a reputation as a club. That maybe makes it harder to get targets in, and sooner in the pre seasons ?.
Duff and Chaplin are just two out of a huge amount of managers and players that have passed through the club. Mike Flynn accused us of being a strange fanbase, or words to that extent. none of them have owned a football club, so theyre about as unqualified to judge as the rest of us really.
Speaking of that, weren't Dave Bassett and Lars Leese (to name just two more) critical of our fans after they had gone. That peed me off when I heard it, and it makes me think we're best off without them, if they really think like that.
@James8225 I'm still waiting for your proposed solution. Unless of course you don't actually have one. But surely that can't be the case?
