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Excellent game, end to end both sides having chances, thunderous tackling, aggressive nature, great atmosphere created by both sets of supporters (never heard Blackpool fans actually sing before, it's usually us making all the noise!). A draw was fair result to me. Stanley much better going forward tonight. Armstrong played well, good hold up and link up play. Rodgers was a bit more dodgy! In general we gave the ball away sometimes in poor positions. The open nature of the game left us exposed at the back.
Difficult game on Saturday. Rochdale and Fleetwood are looking big derby games to me. The sending off is an annoying situation.

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Great game tonight in a great atmosphere unfortunately spoilt by some idiots throwing things on the pitch including a bottle thrown at Emitov which with his response in throwing the bottle out of the playing area results in a red card disgrace with 11 players still on think we could have had a great chance of a point.
 
was a good game after a very poor start, we thought it was just like a cup tie,we could not argue oer the penalty certainly looked one to us, finley was very unlucky with a superb shot crashing the crossbar, bottom line though 4pts from 4 home games aint good enough.
 
Really good game, excellent atmosphere.
Blackpool were the better team, but we did ok. Pleased to see Harvey back. Thought Barlaser and Sam had very good games.
Our goalie looks like a madman to me. (Maybe a hasty judgement on the evidence of two games). I gather Coleman is unhappy with the sending off but if someone had chucked a bottle that hit him in the face I’m sure he’d change his view.
 
Just listened to the Coley interview.
He’s right to a degree, and I can understand a very passionate man being so angry, but bottom line is there will always be one idiot in a crowd of 1,500 and whether you “loop” the bottle back into the crowd or throw it hard you will get sent off.
Probably very hard to stop yourself when you are wound up after the goal as well, but what alternative is there for the officials?
 
Lord Didsbury said:
Just listened to the Coley interview.
He’s right to a degree, and I can understand a very passionate man being so angry, but bottom line is there will always be one idiot in a crowd of 1,500 and whether you “loop” the bottle back into the crowd or throw it hard you will get sent off.
Probably very hard to stop yourself when you are wound up after the goal as well, but what alternative is there for the officials?
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heard the interview going home last night and thought he would be a lot more wound up than he was. the ref was on a hiding to nothing with the incident. he could have ignored the lino and just got on with the game and then been torn apart by the assessor for it. he will probably report blackpool for their fans throwing stuff on the pitch so he had to do something about emtimov. pity the incident it what will be talked about more than the excitment on offer last night. we deserved a point last night just as they did. no more no less.
 
monkey hanger said:
heard the interview going home last night and thought he would be a lot more wound up than he was. the ref was on a hiding to nothing with the incident. he could have ignored the lino and just got on with the game and then been torn apart by the assessor for it. he will probably report blackpool for their fans throwing stuff on the pitch so he had to do something about emtimov. pity the incident it what will be talked about more than the excitment on offer last night. we deserved a point last night just as they did. no more no less.
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If he doesn't report the Blackpool fans there's something very seriously wrong, he could have prevented the incident with Evtimov if he'd had the bottle to stop the game temporarily when the missiles were being thrown onto the pitch in the first place.
 
cashman said:
bottom line though 4pts from 4 home games aint good enough.
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While I absolutely agree with you Cashy, we've got 12 games left and 41 points: IF - big "if" - we get a point a game, history says we'll stay up ........ I seem to remember I did a "how many points saves your bacon" analysis some weeks back in a match thread, and either 52 or 53 has always meant salvation

Can I top up your (half-full) glass for you?

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Can't argue with the red in my opinion.
I'm sure Blackpool will face repercussions from the FA for the fans, but we should only worry about what we can control, and unfortunately Dimi made the wrong decision regardless.
If you're a player and you shove another player during a game, you'll probably get booked. Shove a fan and no doubt you will be having an early shower!

Apart from that incident - how badly are we missing Ross Sykes at the back!
Thought Harvey had a good game, Yozzer was sloppy which is very unlike him.
Callum caught out of position for cover for their first goal, think he was in two minds as a wing back.
Janoi is not a centre half full stop. Can't agree with Paul Lambert, he's strong and physical, definitely a full back in my view. Too many times Hughes was left 2 on 1 with their centre forwards.
Clicker aka Mr no end product (sorry 28!!) wasted another golden opportunity in front of goal. I love him, he has technical ability that wouldn't look out of place for a team at the top of the championship - but I can think of at least 5 opportunities he's had this year where it would have been easier to score than miss. Thought he played too central in first half, his natural instinct was to take the ball wide when a through ball to Armstrong would have been a better choice.

Armstrong was fantastic, ran himself into the ground, very strong on the ball and held it up well. Didn't rate him the other week in the Lancashire Senior Cup - happy to be proved wrong!!

Understand why people not happy Smyth didn't get a look in - personally I agree with Coley bringing Billy on but thought should of been sooner.
The amount of balls bobbling in the Blackpool box just needed a poachers instinct, and to peel off from the defender for crosses. Billy is a natural at that.

Saturday can't come quick enough.
 
StanleyJosh said:
Understand why people not happy Smyth didn't get a look in - personally I agree with Coley bringing Billy on but thought should of been sooner.
The amount of balls bobbling in the Blackpool box just needed a poachers instinct, and to peel off from the defender for crosses. Billy is a natural at that.

back to the substitute issue once again. didn,t they use 3 before billy finally come on and why not at least 15 minutes earlier. thought we might have seen smith on to replace sean who was on an early caution anyway and by replacing i do not mean with 5 minutes to go.
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The experience J.C.has as a manager, yet still brings billy on with less than two mins of normal time is crazy too me. i cannot think of any reason at all for that, if anyone can see the sense please speak out.
 
monkey hanger said:
StanleyJosh said:
back to the substitute issue once again. didn,t they use 3 before billy finally come on and why not at least 15 minutes earlier. thought we might have seen smith on to replace sean who was on an early caution anyway and by replacing i do not mean with 5 minutes to go.
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I'm in two minds over this.
On one side, especially as Blackpool had already made the 3 changes, I thought Coley could of made a few substitutes, changed our formation/style of play and made Blackpool adapt to us with what they had on the pitch. (e.g put all 3 sub strikers on, play 4 strikers on the pitch and see how there winger does playing centre half to cover haha - not that drastic but you get my gist!)

On the other hand, I agree with Coley about picking a team with the right players to do the job. It was a physical game - not suited to Smyth in my opinion. I'd of brought Billy on earlier and allowed Sean and Clicker to drift wide and stretch Blackpool. Personally I'd of started Scotty Brown and gone 4-1-4-1 and let the front 4 roam freely behind Armstrong.
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It's a poor return four points from four home games and like it or not we're in a war.
Jordan has missed a couple I agree and no one beats himself up over it more than the lad himself.
However he's not the only one.
Last night the ball bobbled in front of him but agree at least hit the target.
He's never put himself down as a scorer - he's a creator.
As for going central you do what your Manager wants.
A big day for Jordan Saturday personally and I hope he notches one.
Overall however as an eternal pessimist I cant see us us bringing any points away - but what do I know.
On the sending off rules are rules. Pick the bottle up draw it to the refs attention and hand it over. I don't care he only tossed it - stupidity beyond belief and leaving the ref with no alternative.
10 points needed don't give a stuff how - as Nike says Just Do It.
 
Don't know why you say how much we miss Ross Stanley Josh. We were having the same results with him in the side haven't we? Although a great player and a lad I don't know where your coming from with that one.we need to start putting our chances away that's the top and bottom of it.
 
I think we’ll be okay. Definitely more positive after last night compared to Saturday and feel if we play like that we’ll win more between now and the end of the season than we’ll lose.
First 30 mins especially we were magnificent and their goal came against the run of play. Game petered out to half time, don’t think any team can keep up the tempo we had first 30 for a full half.
Second half game could have went either way. Both had chances and a draw would have been a fair result overall in my opinion.
As for the red card, feel it was unnecessary. Yes Dimi threw it back but it weren’t aimed at anyone and no one was asking for a red card. By showing the red everyone came away from the game talking about this one incident which could have been avoided.
I think the Barnsley game will suit us more, big pitch in front of a big crowd. Hopeful we can get something from the game.
 
Lord Love Rocket said:
Don't know why you say how much we miss Ross Stanley Josh. We were having the same results with him in the side haven't we? Although a great player and a lad I don't know where your coming from with that one.we need to start putting our chances away that's the top and bottom of it.
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Missing him in terms of we don’t have good enough cover.
Big Ben not good enough in my opinion.
Janoi is best at full back but now having to cover centre half.
Because of that Gibson has come in to team having played little football and it’s showing.

Sometimes the simplest of changes cause the biggest differences.

I’d like to see Harvey at centre half and push Janoi back to left back
 
Twenty Eight said:
It's a poor return four points from four home games and like it or not we're in a war.
Jordan has missed a couple I agree and no one beats himself up over it more than the lad himself.
However he's not the only one.
Last night the ball bobbled in front of him but agree at least hit the target.
He's never put himself down as a scorer - he's a creator.
As for going central you do what your Manager wants.
A big day for Jordan Saturday personally and I hope he notches one.
Overall however as an eternal pessimist I cant see us us bringing any points away - but what do I know.
On the sending off rules are rules. Pick the bottle up draw it to the refs attention and hand it over. I don't care he only tossed it - stupidity beyond belief and leaving the ref with no alternative.
10 points needed don't give a stuff how - as Nike says Just Do It.
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Scorer or creator regardless I think that’s the only thing letting him down on being a top player.
Agree with doing what your manager asks, just think his instinct overruled as Coley played him central but he kept doing wide, seemed that Coley noticed and adapted for second half.

Personally I think we may need 12 points given how tight it is
 
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