Be careful what you wish for

Good luck to MM

Good luck to him, worked wonders for us with both hands tied behind his back. How different things could have been had Evans sold up a few years earlier.

Hope blackpool fans enjoy watching boring football as micks your man for that.

Tactical dinosaur, but all the other important stuff he had some very good moments.

Consistently able to find cheap talent. Such a shame they all got sold off for a pittance and ended up in the premier league...

He also developed talent, especially the attackers and left back

Hope he does well. I will always remember how he was so determined to sign Mings and develop Cresswell.

They've become bored of the “ beautiful game” then!

An honest manager who is happy to speak the truth and not follow the media script. Sadly the truth doesn't always sit well with people and that caused friction. Did a very good job for us under difficult circumstances, few if any managers could have done what he did for us. Blackpool need a manager to keep them in the championship and Mick will likely do that, but don't expect it to be fun! He'll do what has to be done, good luck to him.

Principled, honest, loyal and respectful he was always very careful to bring characters and character to ITFC : straight down the line he was much liked by all , including youngsters and parents at the training grounds .
Abused and ‘hated ‘ by many ,he actually did a fantastic job with very very little financial support .
If you get into post MM , enjoy and bring experience to a challenging situation .
COYB

He did a wonderful job in stabilising the club in the championship. His remit was to keep us in the division on a shoestring.

If he had the budget that KM has you would have seen a different team.

The football was not great but we were in the championship.

The football is great now but we are stuck in division 3 (league1) and struggling to get out with a massive budget.

Get real and understand MM ‘s remit. He loved it at Ipswich and he was passionate to do a good job.

Time will look favourably on what he achieved. Good luck Mivk.

A great man manager and he will keep them up. Anything longer than a few months and he will do more damage than good.

Whatever people's opinions, he'll keep Blackpool in the championship.

If it wasn't for this man we would have been in league one 5 years earlier. Plus he gave us THAT season. Yep the football isn't great but if your ambitions are simply to maintain championship football and do it on a shoestring budget then this guy has to be your number 1 choice. Does seem to start strong and then tail off at clubs though

For all the good he did, he was a victim of the Evans era. The club had no structure, there was no leadership away from the playing staff, the CEO was an Evans puppet who had no idea what he was doing and didn't manage the manager. And that's why it got so toxic at the end.
He is just what they need, hope he can concentrate on the football and keep them up. However Blackpool in January (or anytime of the year for that matter) will be another challenge.

Good luck Mick. Maybe if a few of the numbskulls on here weren't about and we'd kept you, we'd obviously not be in this godawful league. Now expect Blackpool will be safely in the Championship next season which is more than we can say for sure about us - fingers crossed we will see you then.

His remit for tbe first 6 months was to keep is in the championship.

After that it changed

He'd have kept us in the Championship, but at what cost? Falling attendances and boring football. "A point is a prisoner". Difficult to forgive and forget the home game v bottom of the league Rotherham when he went with 1 man up front and a defensive midfield of Douglas, Skuse and Hyam.

Met Mick down at the training ground few years back a really nice man and i was really desperate for him to succeed. I think managers are like players they have their shelf life and i think Mick's best days are gone as a manager just a shame he hadn't got the financial backing that the club has now.

It was McCarthy who created the happy clappy brigade. He was the pied Piper who convinced the majority to lose all ambition for anything other than the championship and some of that poison lasts until today. Hoofball was terrible but did deliver astonishing results in that first 6 months. Thankfully there is a small but growing number of fans with real ambition to help push the club back to the top flight and in doing so it's highly likely no manager including McKenna will be allowed to deliver failure for as long as McCartney was. Clubs our size change their managers much more regularly than the happy clappy brigade will ever be able to cope with because that's what ambition looks like in MODERN football.

I'll always remember him for boring football and being the talisman for gradual stagnation and running down of our club. ME was ultimately responsible but MM was being paid 800k a year to facilitate a gentle wind down here and he's done nothing since to change my view.
Yes we might be fighting hard to get out of league one now but our fans are full of optimism, the ground is full and we have hope again.
Nothing personal to MM but he will always represent a time when ITFC was circling the drain.

When he arrived at the Club we were in an awful state, looking at relegation. He saved us from that and for the first two or three years did a very good job on a limited budget.

However, things began to fall apart. Whether it was him or Evans or both the Club went from bad to worse. I shall never forget the appalling matches against Lincoln, then non-league, when we were played off the park by a team with a tub of lard up front masquerading as a striker which embarrassed our defenders. People got fed up with watching hoofball and attendances fell, making our financial position worse. The tactics weren't even successful; muhrensleftfoot mentions a match against Rotherham. If memory serves me correctly, we played a defensive line up at home against a weak side and lost 3-0.

Decent manager, underrated, underappreciated, took the flack for others failures.
Wish him nothing but the best - except against us next season.

Nice bloke, dreadful football.

Poor Blackpool.

Why all the thumbs down for critical comments? Yes he was underfunded, but he should have grown a pair and demanded more. His football style was abysmal, he had a massive chip on his shoulder AND told his own supporters to F*** Off at Sparrow road. This last point I would have understood if he'd had not lied about doing it after the match. I am aware he was a part of the Evans era so jinxed from the start, but his belligerence was his downfall (and ours, sadly)

Some very blurred lines on here. He ran the team, not the club!