Karl Oyston must be replaced.

In all the years I’ve been supporting the ‘Pool (which is a hell of a long time) I have never known it to be this bad, whereby the chairman has openly gone behind the manager’s back to seek a replacement for him and then has the audacity to question Jose Riga’s professionalism! How the hell can he talk about another’s professionalism, when it’s the last thing he has shown since he’s been in charge of the club? Karl Oyston has managed to turn even the most loyal club supporters against him. So far as we know it, he has approached Owen Coyle for the 3^rd time, Gary Rowatt, a Spanish guy and we’ve heard today Mark Robbins. All apart from the latter (watch this space) have quite rightly turned him down. When is it going to dawn on him people do not want to work for him, especially if they are being asked to take over from someone who is already in the job.

Jose Riga is also very popular with us fans, simply because we know what a hard job he’s taken on in a very short time and despite having no support from a clueless chairman. The fans gave Jose a rapturous reception last Saturday against Wolves. The cries of “Oyston out” and “Riga,Riga,Riga” rang out throughout the game and he was given a standing ovation at the end. Even Kenny Jacket the Wolves manager commented that the fans were applauding Jose Riga after a 0-0 draw.

As I said earlier, it’s a bad time at the moment; we’ve played 6 games and only managed 1 point and are currently lying second from the bottom (an improvement on the week before, when we were bottom) with a game against Watford coming up tomorrow night. Yet the support for Riga remains constant, that to me says it all and puts what Oyston is trying to do in perspective. I dislike the man immensely, which when you consider he didn’t bother me in the past says a lot.

I am also annoyed at the lack of interest shown by the Owen Oyston over the current state of affairs. He is after all the major shareholder (and owner) and yet we have heard nothing from him at all. Does he condone his son’s actions? Is he actually telling his son what to do? If the answer is Yes to either of these questions then I’m afraid the club is going nowhere. I have joined the Blackpool Supporters Trust in the hope that we can exert more pressure on the Oystons to improve things. I think the major stumbling block of moving forward and repairing the damage done to the image of BFC is for Karl Oyston to be removed as chairman. Until that happens things are only going to get worse.