• ST stealthpapes 23 Sep 2023 · 6:24pm

  Well, sat at Preston Station. That started promising, went bad, went really bad and then fizzled out, probably for the best. Team seemed much more eager to put the ball forwards quickly than the last away games, which did not suit Ballard. Soft penalty, rightly given. Soft header for second. Very soft third, don't stop! Early (soft) fourth put game beyond us.

• RJ Royal_jimmy 23 Sep 2023 · 6:31pm

  Another spanking at Blackpool, really starting to dislike that place. We capitulated after the penalty which was needless to give, we didn't mark anyone for the other 3 goals. Rhodes took his 3rd goal well and showed us how to finish. Our unstoppable away form continues.

• CO CountryRoyal 23 Sep 2023 · 10:34pm

  Well done to those who travelled.

• RJ Royal_jimmy 23 Sep 2023 · 11:28pm

  It was depressing enough

• SO SouthDownsRoyal 23 Sep 2023 · 11:44pm

  Selles out

• RJ Royal_jimmy 24 Sep 2023 · 8:37am

  I think everyone's still in Blackpool and with the stuff there and fans drowning their sorrows after another hammering I'm not surprised. Seriously though we've endured so much pain on the road, if it wasn't for the fact we have a new set of players then scenes like when Selles and the players came over at FT would be a lot more toxic than it was yesterday. If this was Leeds or Millwall there'd be proper uproar. We have to improve and quickly. Even if we change it and put 10 men behind the ball and try to keep clean sheets, a few 0-0s would be an improvement on current form. Boring yes but the longer this goes on more questions… More →

• BL blythspartan 24 Sep 2023 · 9:33am

  Travelling back down today and upon reflection this is going to be the way it is with this young team. We virtually have an U23 team playing in a tough league one. We’re lacking a bit of decent experience in midfield in my opinion. Someone like Hourihane, but ideally a couple of years younger. I don’t see any natural leaders like a Parky or Sidwell. We desperately need someone who can help out the youngsters and I am afraid Hutch isn’t the answer. He has the odd good game, but he’s a liability a lot of the time. I would give Craig a chance, although again he’s very young. Hopefully, we can get enough points to survive and I think… More →

• SN Snowball 24 Sep 2023 · 10:04am

  This, but let's also remember we have now played 3rd BEAT Stevenage, their only league defeat in 9 games 4th Port Vale (our early team and lost by one goal) 6th Lost 2-1 to a very late goal 7th BEAT Bolton, only two league defeats, tipped for promotion 8th Lost 0-1 first game to Peterborough 10th Lost 1-0 to a late goal 14th A hammering, goals-wise* and Cheltenham... * Away to a decent side who have a good record against us. We dominated possession for about twenty minutes but looked toothless. Big difference was they had 6 shots on target and 4 went in. We had four shots on target, none went in, and OG is still our top scorer. We… More →

• PI PieEater 24 Sep 2023 · 10:07am

  +1 we were well in control before they hit us on the break and for some inexplicable reason Hutch dived in when he didn't need to. The second header was well taken but no marking and Button invisible. We just don't seem to get any luck but I thought Blackpool's tactics won it for them, they were 352 but really 3142 and got everyone back behind the ball when we attacked - so we never had a final ball. They attacked the left were Mola was pretty useless and lumped it to their new striker who beat Abbey every time. Trains were a bit of a mess, they seem to cancel every one we wanted to get and we had 30min waits at Blackpool and… More →

• WE WestYorksRoyal 24 Sep 2023 · 10:09am

  Trouble is, our experienced "leaders" aren't up to the task. Yiadom has been one of our serial losers over the Pauno and PInce eras. Hutchinson was poor. I think Dean needs to play to be an experienced head in there, and then Wing is a bit older too.

• SN Snowball 24 Sep 2023 · 10:13am

  I was wondering about Biden. He looked the business up to his concussion. When he came back he had a terrible first half, then seemed OK second half. Not watched the last two games, so dunno, but maybe he is not quite right, bring in Dean (or McIntyre) alongside Abbey for 2-3 games? On the other hand Bidon might be old and has other responsibilities. BINDON!

• MS Mid Sussex Royal 24 Sep 2023 · 10:34am

  They were targeted yesterday along with Mola. Blackpool have a decent manager who's always been pretty spot on with tactics against us...add that to an experienced old pro up front. Agree - bring back Dean (certainly away) and LB needs changing too, I'd go Tmac for now

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