[ So what are they saying about us? ]
BLACKPOOL v NORWICH
Saturday 27th September 3.00pm
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PRE MATCH
Neil Adams: “We’ve had them (Blackpool) watched quite a lot and the reports we’ve had suggest they are better than those results,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Joe Royle, who has seen them four times I think this season in his various roles, and he said, ‘Look, they have two points, they are down in the relegation zone, but they are better than that.’ Like any team in this division they are more than capable of causing us a problem or two if we let it, as we discovered at Cardiff and for brief spells at Brentford, but we showed when we put our foot to the floor what we are capable of.
“That will be the same on Saturday. We know it will be tough and they will be organised and playing for their first victory but we are playing for three points to stay near the top of the table.”
“I am well aware they are not getting smashed five or six every week,” said Adams. “For me, it doesn’t hold any fears whether you play the top or the bottom. We’re well aware we won’t be going up there and it’ll be a case of, ‘How many are we going to score?’ We’ll have to earn that right and take care of a team fighting for every point in the same manner as us, albeit for different reasons. They got a respectable draw away from home last week and a lot of people have said that they don’t really deserve the results they’ve had.”
v RESULT 1-3
0 pts
LEAGUE POSITION 24/24
POST MATCH
I
don't know if you watched the game today, but I did, and I genuinely
don't think our tactics today were to wear the opposition down and
then attack them in the later stages of the game. We started the
second half the same as the first, and even once we got level I don't
think we really took the initiative until we got the second goal. If
it wasn't for two, quite frankly lucky goals, we could easily be
talking about how we shouldn't be losing to teams at the bottom of
the league.
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Blackpool
raised their game today and made it hard for us, but we stuck to our
game and came through in the end. The own goal was a bit of luck, but
it was luck we forced by having players threatening in the box.
Grabban's second goal wasn't a huge deflection as some have said - it
was a shot on target which IMO would have gone in without the
deflection, which is why he has been credited with the goal.
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Feel
for the Blackpool fans, I really do. If my club had been mismanaged
to the point where Nile Ranger was playing for us, a disgrace to
football in my eyes, then I'd be pretty upset. A moral for what the
evil money of the premier League can do to a club. Worries me
greatly.
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It
did feel like Marriner was giving them the majority of decisions
until the second half when it evened out. but crikey Miller and
Ranger are big units.
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I
hope they stay up, albeit not under the current ownership. How they
can live with themselves 'trousering' £11 mill in salaries and £20
mill diverted into their own businesses before spending a penny on
the squad is outrageous ........... good luck to them anyhows and to
Joe Lewis - hope they do well this season
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A
must win game really with how the last couple of games have gone I'd
say (Cup included). Blackpool have only scored 3 league goals so far
this season, so if there has ever been a chance for our defence to
keep a clean sheet and regain some form/confidence, now is the time.
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This'll
be tight, I expect they'll put 11 behind the ball and try and nick a
1-0.
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Blackpool
appear to be getting their act together now, so will certainly not be
the push over they were a few games ago.
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Blackpool
are ripe for the picking. Wes will want to play well versus his
former club too.
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Blackpool
haven't won a game and they've only scored 3 goals in 8 in the
league.
We're
2nd top and they're 2nd bottom. We have to make that show.
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I'd
be disappointed if we didn't beat these fairly comfortably to be
honest, they look to be becoming adept at keeping solid at the back
but they are still a very poor team overall. We should be dominating
possession and having many more chances than them at least.
With
Blackpool having scored just 3 goals in their first 8 games this is
one where we really can't afford to concede a sloppy early goal
either. If we do concede early again to this bunch then we'd have to
ask start asking some serious questions of our defence.
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Neil Adams: “We’ve had them (Blackpool) watched quite a lot and the reports we’ve had suggest they are better than those results,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Joe Royle, who has seen them four times I think this season in his various roles, and he said, ‘Look, they have two points, they are down in the relegation zone, but they are better than that.’ Like any team in this division they are more than capable of causing us a problem or two if we let it, as we discovered at Cardiff and for brief spells at Brentford, but we showed when we put our foot to the floor what we are capable of.
“That will be the same on Saturday. We know it will be tough and they will be organised and playing for their first victory but we are playing for three points to stay near the top of the table.”
“I am well aware they are not getting smashed five or six every week,” said Adams. “For me, it doesn’t hold any fears whether you play the top or the bottom. We’re well aware we won’t be going up there and it’ll be a case of, ‘How many are we going to score?’ We’ll have to earn that right and take care of a team fighting for every point in the same manner as us, albeit for different reasons. They got a respectable draw away from home last week and a lot of people have said that they don’t really deserve the results they’ve had.”
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