Ballard and Simms the standout performers of Blackpool’s loan rangers

As the dust continues to settle since Blackpool FC brought their 2020/2021 League 1 season to a close in perhaps one of the most stunning turnarounds in the club's history, thoughts have inevitably turned as to how promotion will affect the squad's makeup in the Championship, which of the players won't make the cut, and…

Blackpool FC: Flattering to deceive or building up a head of steam?

As a lifelong supporter of Blackpool Football Club I benefit from not owning tangerine-tinted spectacles, and am able to critique the squad's performances without resorting to unfounded hyperbole or ignoring what I regard as the reality. I understand that football in the main a game of opinions and is at times highly subjective, but there…

Blackpool FC must seek additional routes to goal for their end of season objectives to be realized

Blackpool Head Coach Neil Critchley was correct with his precis of the frustrating goalless draw against Oxford United, that his side would a few weeks ago have a lost the game they dominated but once more failed to find the killer touch. To consider a draw against the best side Blackpool played last season to…

Blackpool FC must now win games that matter, not just those it is routinely expected to do so

A return to league action for Blackpool after a 18 day absence precipitated by bringing forward the home game with Ipswich Town, a move which did not exactly reap dividends, will not only shake any complacency from the squad's collective system after routine cup victories against Eastbourne Borough and Leeds United's under 21's, but severely…

Calamity James fails to overshadow the many doubts surfacing from Critchley’s poor start to life at Blackpool FC.

It was tacitly assumed from our remote vantage points that the sending off of James Husband after 58 seconds would set the tone of last night's game at Bloomfield Road, as Blackpool took on Charlton Athletic. A backs to the wall rearguard action against presumably emboldened Addicks would surely only be a case of damage…

Blackpool Football Club: Head Coach Critchley must meld together his new squad with a League One-averse methodology

A raft of new signings prior to the slamming shut of the transfer window is not something that fans of Blackpool Football Club have become accustomed. Reared on slim pickings delivered by the previous regime more inclined to go on holiday or at least AWOL when vital squad strengthening was needed, an approach diametrically opposed…

Blackpool Football Club: Faltering start already puts head coach Critchley’s footballing ethos under the microscope

Barely a handful of games into the 2020/21 season Blackpool Football Club head coach Neil Critchley can surely be under no illusion just how difficult it is to navigate a course out of League One. Not only from a personal perspective of being the 41-year old's first full season as the main man at a…

Blackpool Football Club: Backed to the hilt Neil Critchley and the squad of his choosing must now deliver owner Sadler’s vision

Four competitive games into his managerial career at Blackpool Football Club Neil Critchley will have long since defined the very different world of the third-tier professional game from a starkly contrasting hothouse atmosphere within Liverpool's youth set up. The dramatic change from working on Merseyside for the best domestic team in world football to a…

Blackpool FC: Will Armand Gnanduillet prove to others what he believes himself?

The outpouring of grief from many fans of Blackpool Football Club on hearing that 2019/2020 season top scorer Armand Gnanduillet would be leaving the seaside is in many ways a symptom of an age increasingly obsessed with the here and now, with little interest beyond the superficial and in what lies beneath. Statistics can fail…

Have Blackpool Football Club actually benefited from an unprecedented churn of personnel during the January Transfer Window?

Whether or not the now former Blackpool F.C. manager Simon Grayson had remained in situ at Bloomfield Road his January transfer window business warrants critical scrutiny, from which it is arguable that the club have failed to secure the expected commensurate uplift from an unprecedented churn of 25 players. Many have suggested that Grayson should…

Blackpool Football Club: An unprecedented transfer window creates more questions than answers for underfire manager Grayson

The prophecy from Blackpool Football Club manager Simon Grayson that he expected the Bloomfield Road outfit to be the busiest club in England during the thankfully now closed January transfer window appears to have been fulfilled. With 24 players either departing or arriving the 50-year old Yorkshireman has been true to his word. On the…