| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) 16:59 - Feb 3 with 484 views | GunnsAirkick |
Watched the Football League Show earlier, Blackpool's pitch has to be one of the worse I've seen for a long time. I've seen better Sunday League pitches!
Posh's looked pretty horrendous too but not on the same level. Some of the League One and League Two pitches looked a bit rough (as you'd expect), but none were as bad as Blackpool's. How do they get away with it? I suppose the same argument could be used for our 'snow pitch' against Leicester though. Ours incidentally looked one of the best. |  | | |  |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 18:53 - Feb 3 with 403 views | itfcjoe |
It was rumoured that was one of reasons Ollie left. Their chairman won't invest in club and he took an £11m dividend last season.
Ollie wanted to have a better pitch to play footy on and they'd apparently clashed over it as chairman showed no ambition to go back up/reinvest parachute payments. |  |
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| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 18:56 - Feb 3 with 389 views | Darth_Koont |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 18:53 - Feb 3 by itfcjoe |
It was rumoured that was one of reasons Ollie left. Their chairman won't invest in club and he took an £11m dividend last season.
Ollie wanted to have a better pitch to play footy on and they'd apparently clashed over it as chairman showed no ambition to go back up/reinvest parachute payments. |
Although on the face of it, an owner trying to make money out of a club is a step in the right direction. A profit would signify it's a sustainable and well-run club. |  | | |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:02 - Feb 3 with 373 views | itfcjoe |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 18:56 - Feb 3 by Darth_Koont |
Although on the face of it, an owner trying to make money out of a club is a step in the right direction. A profit would signify it's a sustainable and well-run club. |
Yeah it's a tough balance, but I'd be pretty annoyed if we'd have give down by 1 point and ME took out £11m....
I think their stance on wage structures and strictness is admirable and correct, but backing a manager to get you back up when you've got £16m parachute payment and he just got you to play off final seems strange (business and football wise) | |
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| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:02 - Feb 3 with 372 views | bournemouthblue |
On the subject of pitches, ours doesn't look like the carpet of old. Obviously the weather won't have helped recently. |  |
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| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:26 - Feb 3 with 344 views | Deano69 |
I heard one of their fans on a phone in saying how they were embarrassed about the condition of the pitch and some elements of the ground. |  |
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| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:27 - Feb 3 with 334 views | ericclacton |
It's affected by sea salt. |  | | |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:29 - Feb 3 with 325 views | Mullet |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:26 - Feb 3 by Deano69 |
I heard one of their fans on a phone in saying how they were embarrassed about the condition of the pitch and some elements of the ground. |
I don't think they can help the fact it's in Blackpool to be fair. |  |
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| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:40 - Feb 3 with 303 views | Darth_Koont |
| Blackpool's Pitch (FLS) on 19:02 - Feb 3 by itfcjoe |
Yeah it's a tough balance, but I'd be pretty annoyed if we'd have give down by 1 point and ME took out £11m....
I think their stance on wage structures and strictness is admirable and correct, but backing a manager to get you back up when you've got £16m parachute payment and he just got you to play off final seems strange (business and football wise) |
11 million was an awful lot, I agree. But that's probably covering a number of years.
On a side note, I think we hit the jackpot with someone like Evans - even if we haven't seen the benefit of it on the pitch yet. He's not in it for self-publicity, just his company, and he's not going to throw Russian/Saudi/Malaysian levels of money and expectations at the club. Nor will he look to make too much of a profit while owning a Premiership club that helps promote the rest of his empire.
I get the feeling he wants us to be the ITFC of 2000/01 rather than anything like the current QPR approach. But it'll be very interesting to see how he looks at things if and when we get promoted. | | | |
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