Let's all feel for Blackpool and what asset striping really feels like: http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28194124 See life as a Saint now is not all bad.
It's about the third time it's been posting on the site, and it isn't really a laughing matter. In fact, I feel for Blackpool fans. It seems an appallingly run club. Puts our situation into a little perspective, footballwise.
The premier league you're having a laugh was reference to our meeting at St Mary's in the cup where Ian Holloway proudly claimed "yes we are premier league and yes we are having a laugh" which riled most.
That was in retaliation to our fans singing it at them which wound Ollie up. ****ty situation for Blackpool fans, this.
So the message of this thread is sort of the equivalent of saying we shouldn't moan about our country and its government because, well, look at Somalia.
The chairman must be on the glue or something. Why would you come out and say that you see it as a positive and not a negative lol?
To try and keep the fans on side. To be fair, we're yet to see who they will be bringing in. Maybe there's cash waiting to be spent.
The fans aren't stupid though. Trying to suggest that having only 8 contracted players (not a goalkeeper to speak of) is better than having a full squad waiting to go is absolute bullshit, who is he fooling?
Did you go on to read the next sentence? I don't think he's suggesting for a second that they'll start the season with eight players, or that having eight players is better than having 25. "It allows the manager to bring in his own team, as opposed to a manager picking up a squad that is already overloaded and he doesn't think is good enough." That is more-or-less a promise of lots of new signings.
I did read the next sentence, yes. I also didn't suggest that they would be starting the season with 8 players but they're not in as strong a position as he is making out. Having only 8 players and no keeper is not a positive. Of course they will have to make lots of new signings but they'll need quantity over quality. Shambles of a club.
I went on a Blackpool forum a few weeks ago, they were all talking about whether Riga would leave before the start of the season. I mean, what. Wonder how many season tickets they've sold.
Fit and proper just applies to financial wrong doing in the eyes of the law, not the fans. I don't think anything Oyston has done anything wrong so as not to meet the criteria. It must be worrying to be a Blackpool fan, but the club is basically Oyston's to do with as he pleases so they need to hope that he isn't as mental as the situation seems to show and that they will indeed have a squad for the start of the season
Hasn't he been chairman there for about 12 years? So it's not as if he's come in to strip the club. I don't even think the fit and proper persons test was in place back then?
