What do points make........

...........possible survival.

 

With only 10 more games remaining and half of them away fixtures with a possible 30 points at stake, what are our chances of survival? At one time you could predict where we were going to get the points from, alas no more. These are my predictions, see if you agree.

Sat.    22/03/2014 Home.    Huddersfield Town……………..1-1 Draw 1pt

Tues. 25/03/2014 Away      Bolton W……………………………. 0-3 Loss  0pts

Sat.   29/03/2014 Away      QPR……………………………………. 0-3 Loss  0pts

Sat.   05/04/2014 Home      Yeovil T……………………………… 1-0 Win   3pts

Tues. 08/04/2014 Home     Derby C……………………………….1-2 Loss  0pts

Sat.   12/04/2014 Away      Leeds Utd…………………………….1-1 Draw  1pt

Fri.    18/04/2014 Home     Burnley (on Sky, ugh)………...0-2 loss   0pts

Mon.  21/04/2014 Away     Brighton H A………………………..1-3 loss   0pts

Sat.   26/04/2014 Away      Wigan………………………………….1-3 loss  0pts

Sat.   03/05/2014 Home     Charlton A……………………………2-1 Win  3pts

As you can see my optimism is not what it should be. I see us with a possible 8 points from the remaining games, making us reliant on teams around us dropping points, which is never a healthy option. I just hope our survival is not reliant on the final game against Charlton, especially now they've changed manager. Of course we could upset the odds and get a few wins we didn’t expect, but these are desperate times and we never seem to play well under pressure. We’ve got an untried manager, a team with no set pattern of play, which seems to change every week instead of having a settled side.

Still, now’s not the time to think we’re doomed to League 1, but equally the players have really got to start believing in themselves and not rely on other results keeping us up. So, prove my predictions wrong and get us the points we need and fight for your pride, because the fans will get behind you if we see determined effort. Just think this was us not too long ago.....

 

......let's do it again. Come on Pool. Fight for the points. UTMP.

The start of the run in.....

Well, we're entering the final run in and as things are going it's going to be an uneasy ending to the season. I thought last season was bad enough, but we don't seemed to have learnt our lesson. BF has been in charge for 10 games now and his record is not very encouraging. Yesterday's 3-1 defeat by Leicester undid the result against Millwall, but came as no surprise considering they're running away with the league this season. Strange when you think both sides were level on points at the start of the season. I don't what it is about Leicester I dislike intensely but I do. Oh, I remembered. The king of smugness that is Nigel "Mr Non-Personality" Pearson, who never manages to give any opposing sides credit especially if they beat his little Leicester boys. There is also the fact some Leicester fans suffer from delusions of grandeur, big time. Anyway enough of them.

 

Is BF the man for us? I don't think he is. You can't fault him for passion, but he's fallen into the trap of thinking because he's got the passion and experience of playing it automatically gives him the tools to manage. It doesn't. You only have to see how, despite playing at the higher level, some famous names have not hacked it as managers. Notice most of the successful managers of our time weren't necessarily good players, average maybe, but successful, not many. 

Do we give him time like we did with Simon Grayson, because he struggled at first. But Grayson experienced managing the reserves before being given the chance to manage the first team. With BF we don't have the luxury of giving him much longer, otherwise we're going to be relegated.

 

Unfortunately, trying to attract an experience manager to Bloomfield Rd is never an easy task, as proved in the past. That's why I can't see Karl Oyston shifting from his present stance. So, like most Blackpool fans we're just hoping we can scramble over the championship finishing line this season in the hope we can move on next season. But we need a complete rethink about investing in a quality manager and players, otherwise the progress motto on our badge will have to be ditched for good.