Blackpool fan in peace - today at bloomfield rd

[jimbfc]

Seasider who lives in southcote here, just to say I bumped into an RFC fan at the protest and thanked him for making the effort to come down - lived in edinburgh I think

Very grateful of his support and generally from other football fans. Hope u get your stuff together nxt yr, and I will be up to the mad stad getting a championship fix nxt yr

[Lower West]

What was the purpose of getting the game abandoned though? A point was made with the protest. Will serve little purpose if Blackpool start next season with a points deduction. Could be freefall downwards.

[blueroyals]

I fully support it. Running a club into the ground, prosecuting fans for expressing their anger, having the audacity to claim starting the season with 6 players would work out OK.

Probably the only way Oyston will leave is when the money dries up. Blackpool will get a non-trivial fine from the FA. Assuming these protests continue into next season, it will end up with Blackpool playing behind closed doors, and losing all match-day revenue.

It's a shame the national press don't really care about what's gone on this year.

[Jackson Corner]

I did see the guy wearing the ding shirt on the FL show. We think we have had a crap season think f those poor Blackpool fans.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Oh dear.

What exactly did Owston do wrong, he had his loans returned from Premier league income. Then ran the club much as he always done. On a sensible budget, the fans don't like losing, we are the same. Blackpool overachieved for one season, like us really. Then got found out. Also like us.
Who will we blame if we go down next season?

[jimbfc]

I've heard the "it's their money" argument and it seems quite a sensible point on face value

However, the family have no desire to run the football side of the business, their approach to running the club is one dimensional and has absolutely no desire for the long term stability that a massive cash injection from the PL money should offer...our gulag style training ground which is still the same as it was during the 50's being a key example

The Hudders fans I do feel sorry for in a way but that is collateral damage to what we needed to do yesterday - and I hope this only goes some way to wrestle back the advantage to the fans, in what is becoming (if not become) a financial exercise masquerading as "sports entertainment"

And I think RFC and BFC fans can see elements of that

Cheers for comments - and thanks again for the RFC representation yesterday. Have a good break and Good luck for champ football next year....we're heading to the conference, or lower!

[handbags_harris]

Seasider who lives in southcote here, just to say I bumped into an RFC fan at the protest and thanked him for making the effort to come down - lived in edinburgh I think

Very grateful of his support and generally from other football fans. Hope u get your stuff together nxt yr, and I will be up to the mad stad getting a championship fix nxt yr

Almost certainly our very own Dirk Gently/Svlad Cjelli/Alexander Litvinenko. He lives in Edinburgh now (well, Leith actually) and I know he went to Blackpool yesterday and took in Carlisle v Hartlepool en route home.

Best wishes to Blackpool in their fight. Nothing they can do except continue to cause as much disruption as they peacefully can and hope the Oystons finally get the message.

[Royal Rother]

Oh dear.

What exactly did Owston do wrong, he had his loans returned from Premier league income. Then ran the club much as he always done. On a sensible budget, the fans don't like losing, we are the same. Blackpool overachieved for one season, like us really. Then got found out. Also like us.
Who will we blame if we go down next season?

From The Gurdian late last year:

Meanwhile, away from the field, the Latvian investor Valeri Belokon, who paid £2m for a 20% share in the club in 2006, has been asking the question most supporters have been asking for the best part of a year. Namely, what are the Oyston family doing with the club’s parachute payments from the Premier League, apart from banking them in their own accounts and paying off loans from their own companies?

“Since Blackpool was promoted to the Premier League you have paid yourself more than £11.5m in salaries and £24m in interest-free loans to your various companies, all without my approval,” Belokon writes in an open letter to Karl Oyston and his father Owen. “There is little sign of the parachute payments being spent where they should be, on the team, the stadium and the training ground.”

[TFF]

Seasider who lives in southcote here, just to say I bumped into an RFC fan at the protest and thanked him for making the effort to come down - lived in edinburgh I think

Very grateful of his support and generally from other football fans. Hope u get your stuff together nxt yr, and I will be up to the mad stad getting a championship fix nxt yr

Almost certainly our very own Dirk Gently/Svlad Cjelli/Alexander Litvinenko.

Yep, spotted on FLS

[Winston Smith]

The Hudders fans........that is collateral damage to what we needed to do yesterday

The precise moment you did yourself no favours ^

You could have protested in an endless amount of ways, and even if you wanted it to be on the pitch during the game you could have come off when the ref said he wanted to restart it when your lot had already been on for a long time. But instead you f*cked over opposition fans, said it was needed (when it wasn't) and then dismissed them as 'collateral damage'

I have sympathy for any fans who's owners are not seemingly playing the game, but there are number of them, they protest in better and more effective ways than your lot did, they do it without screwing over fans of other clubs, and they do it without getting a promotion season to the PL and a season in it.

[sandman]

The Hudders fans........that is collateral damage to what we needed to do yesterday

The precise moment you did yourself no favours ^

You could have protested in an endless amount of ways, and even if you wanted it to be on the pitch during the game you could have come off when the ref said he wanted to restart it when your lot had already been on for a long time. But instead you f*cked over opposition fans, said it was needed (when it wasn't) and then dismissed them as 'collateral damage'

I have sympathy for any fans who's owners are not seemingly playing the game, but there are number of them, they protest in better and more effective ways than your lot did, they do it without screwing over fans of other clubs, and they do it without getting a promotion season to the PL and a season in it.

Agreed.

http://www.backhenrystreet.co.uk/thread-25576.html

[Deadlock]

Nasty bunch of oxf*rd on that forum.

[Sutekh]

Disgraceful carry on from Blackpool supporters, perhaps they've got what they deserve as a club at the moment*.

It's not so much the silly "we want the chance to finish above Leeds" argument but the fact that the Huddersfield fans paid good money to travel and watch the game plus those few that would have paid for hotels and B&Bs only to have it ruined after about 45 minutes by a load of pillocks who could easily have made their point after 10/15 minutes and then let the game finish normally.


* They haven't of course but their actions on Saturday make you think that.

[PieEater]

Can you image the carnage if they were playing Cardiff or Leeds, much easier to walk all over little Huddersfield.

[Silver Fox]

The Hudders fans........that is collateral damage to what we needed to do yesterday

The precise moment you did yourself no favours ^

You could have protested in an endless amount of ways, and even if you wanted it to be on the pitch during the game you could have come off when the ref said he wanted to restart it when your lot had already been on for a long time. But instead you f*cked over opposition fans, said it was needed (when it wasn't) and then dismissed them as 'collateral damage'

I have sympathy for any fans who's owners are not seemingly playing the game, but there are number of them, they protest in better and more effective ways than your lot did, they do it without screwing over fans of other clubs, and they do it without getting a promotion season to the PL and a season in it.

'greed, although I did enjoy the bloke on the mobility scooter

[Maguire]

Seasider who lives in southcote here, just to say I bumped into an RFC fan at the protest and thanked him for making the effort to come down - lived in edinburgh I think

Very grateful of his support and generally from other football fans. Hope u get your stuff together nxt yr, and I will be up to the mad stad getting a championship fix nxt yr

Almost certainly our very own Dirk Gently/Svlad Cjelli/Alexander Litvinenko.

Yep, spotted on FLS

CEASE AND DESIST

[Pepe the Horseman]

Shouldn't Huddersfield just be given the points anyway?