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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Oct 25, 2015 10:48:04 GMT
Keepingg clean sheets as well which is always a good basis to work from.
Not played any decent team s for a game or two though.
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Post by gazz on Oct 25, 2015 19:16:22 GMT
Keep it up, Blackers!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 3, 2016 1:20:00 GMT
my brother still got a new ground (he's been working the last two seasons when we've played harrogate) by persuading my parents to go to burton with him (working again the one time we played at the pirelli stadium when i went). it was the first time my dad had seen the seasiders in the flesh since he didn't renew his season ticket at the end of 2013/14. unusually for him, he described seeing them again as 'an emotional experience' if not an uplifting one.
burton were down to ten men just before half time, and the blackpool contingent were pretty unhappy throughout, before losing 1-0. at 0-0, they regaled their players with "you're not fit to wear the shirt" and "they've only got ten men". they were away at the joint leaders...
at the end, they booed the only players who came over to applaud them, including the 'keeper who i'm told was their best player on the day. they beckoned former county loanee tom aldred over and then booed him. personally, i can accept booing at full time, and i can even understand in the heat of the moment being annoyed with individuals - and then vocalising it. i don't like that kind of mass bullying though, and always have context in my head. they're down near the bottom (although they've had a little run recently) and burton were joint top, even if they were down to ten men. burton were apparently comfortably the better side until the last ten minutes, when blackpool had a bit of a go.
if there's any set of fans who understand taking the rough after a bit of smooth, it's us. blackpool had their dream season in the prem, are at war with their (principal) owners, and had never been to burton in the league before. today sounded like them feeling a bit too sorry for themselves though. i can only remember us bringing "you're not fit to wear the shirt" out at half and full time at moss rose when we were bottom of the league and got humiliated there, and at accrington at half time in the pissing rain, when we were heading out of the league and 3-0 down at half time. "you're not fit to wear the shirt" is your big gun, not a song for every weekend.
i recently subscribed to 'stand' (the stand: against modern football fanzine) for this season. i've read three and it's not as good as i expected. the most recent had a leeds fan talking about them as being the hardest done by and most disaffected supporters in football. i know some -like gazza- sometimes suggest in difficult moments that it would have been better if we had folded and phoenixed. i've never got behind that as i've said before, because once it's not county at edgeley park, it's not what i signed up for and i would cease to travel - i have no civic pride reason to want a stockport team to do well other than that it's on my birth certificate. we've all suffered for our 'entertainment' in the bleak last half dozen years. we're the only side to have played in the championship and league six. i don't think we've had it the worst though - chester, with their dreadful owners, hereford and darlington all take that crown ahead of us as far as i'm concerned (and those three are why i mentioned the phoenix thing because they're all on their way back to varying degrees).
our story, and those of supporters who've had it worse than us, means i find the idea of "you're not fit" and mass bullying individual players a bit mental in the context of a 1-0 defeat away at the joint leaders; even if they were reduced to ten men. i know ian ormson had what was clearly the bullying of an ignorant minority at a local away game (which tend to bring out the ignorant minority), but however piss-poor that was of a section of our support, the context was that we had just sunk to our lowest ever level, got smashed at home in our first game, took an unconvincing point away in our second, lost at home to colwyn f***ing bay, who i was previously unaware boasted a football team, and then in our fourth game at the level, got badly upended at altrincham, leaving us second bottom at the lowest level we've ever played at. i'll never like what went on there, but at least there was context, and other than their entrenched battle against the oystons (which is obviously very significant, but slightly separate from supporting the team on any given matchday), i'm struggling to see blackpool's, when they've been on a bit of a run, but then give their side both barrels when they stumble. some of them seem to have forgotten that they were a division four side not much more than a decade ago...
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 3, 2016 1:20:56 GMT
that was longer than i expected! must be the frustration of the postponement!
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jan 3, 2016 2:40:06 GMT
An excellent read though ARS.
I have to agree about the whole Phoenix club thing. I support county and it is the only thing that really makes me want to come back to Stockport at all.
A new club wouldn't do me. I'd probably end up at St Andrews just so I could be part of an aggressive crowd rather than the pacifists at Villa or the Hawthorns.
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Post by gazz on Jan 3, 2016 6:39:55 GMT
Great post, ars.
Although I've mentioned the'Sliding Doors' scenario a few times in frustration after a particularly awful result, but if push ever came to shove, I really don't think I could get behind any other incarnation of County myself either.
Blackers fans need to look at us the way we look at Hereford etc, it might lend them some much needed perspective.
That is in no way an attempt to dismiss their horrible situation, they just need to realise that it could be a whole lot worse.
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Post by bigfudge on Jan 3, 2016 13:37:31 GMT
Portsmouth prove that no team is too big to have bad seasons!
Great read ARS! With my grandad being a Blackpool fan when he was alive its very sad to see the state they're in!
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Post by ceefer on Feb 24, 2017 19:23:34 GMT
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Feb 25, 2017 0:07:03 GMT
it's good that it's a slap in the face for those bastards, but it's hard to see how anything will change for BFC as a result unfortunately.
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Post by gazz on Feb 25, 2017 12:42:28 GMT
it's good that it's a slap in the face for those b*st*rds, but it's hard to see how anything will change for BFC as a result unfortunately. Agreed, Unfortunately. What the hell are they trying to achieve with that club? Is the land the stadium sits on worth a lot of money? I can only think they're deliberately running the club into the ground so they can build something else on it. |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Feb 25, 2017 19:06:20 GMT
This is small fry compared to the Big One coming in June when Mr Belekon wants his 20%
profits from the Premier League.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Feb 25, 2017 20:39:42 GMT
what will that mean lennie? will they be able to make the club take the hit?
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Post by gazz on Feb 25, 2017 20:45:28 GMT
what will that mean lennie? will they be able to make the club take the hit? Maybe that's what the Oystons want in order to speed up the rot? |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Feb 25, 2017 21:38:44 GMT
No one knows what the intended outcome is and what the owners want.
This Belekon guy won £30m or so back from the Kyrgyzhan Govt in 2014 after 3 years of wrangling. Some Banking Fraud penaties that was overturned.
The supporters trust want him to take over the Club.Don't know whether he wants it though.
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Post by gazz on Feb 25, 2017 21:55:52 GMT
What a mess.  |
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