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BLACKPOOL v IPSWICH
Saturday 1st November 3.00 pm
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RESULT 0-2
0 pts
LEAGUE POSITION 24/24
POST-MATCH
Three points from what could have been difficult with a new manager arriving. Ipswich were the better team, Blackpool showed individual flashes but our passing and movement won the day. Good pie and pint afterwards with Blackpool fans - they are good sporting folks.
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It has to be said we'd have looked pretty silly with anything less than a win. Blackpool couldn't beat themselves at the moment.
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Great result but what an atrocious game of football, we did a job but Blackpool were terrible, seems like it's been back to basics with Mick going back into his comfort zone. We'll take what could've been a difficult game but it wasn't a good performance, it's an entertainment business and that certainly wasn't!!
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We needed the win and I was really pleased with the 3 points but tbh I was disgusted with the quality of football from both sides!!
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Mick McCarthy:
“I pointed out to the squad before hand, in our team meeting that we always have, that Blackpool have good players. They have two strikers in (Nile) Ranger and (Ishmael) Miller who are a proper handful, (Nathan) Delfouneso... There are lots of them who have been places. (Joan) Oriol’s a good little footballer. They are no mugs.
There are a lot of players there who have been drawn together at the start of this season and that doesn’t make it easy, but they have some individual talents there and I think that showed at times today.
[Asked if his side had been in a bit of a no-win position, going to a team that they were expected to beat, the Blues boss replied:]
“B******s, there’s no such thing. We’ve just won and got three points. I kind of know what you mean, but who thinks Ipswich are that good that we can just breeze up here and beat Blackpool? Not a chance. We’ve had to really put a shift in there. That has been a hard game.”
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PRE-MATCH
New manager or no new manager we really need a positive result in this one, at the VERY least a point. Blackpool are in disarray and one win in 14 games says it all, they have accrued 6 points and the leading scorer has 2 goals !!!!! Lee Clark is no miracle worker that much I do know.
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If a side like Blackpool arent there for the taking,then i dont know what kind of side will be!
Awful squad and awful manager coming in,who will barely have had a chance to work with the players.
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We've got no chance in this one I'm afraid. Team with new manager and us being on one of our standard poor runs makes for a defeat. We'll have to wait for a home game to finally get a win.
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Stephen Hunt:
“My celebration (a goal celebration a year ago which was primarily aimed at Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston) was just a matter of letting all my emotions out. For them to do what they did to me was disrespectful to a professional footballer. We had agreed a deal before I turned up and I said I would do a two-day medical.
My agent travelled from London to complete the deal and then when he got there the chairman tried to swivel the deal around, just because he wanted to. We walked, mainly out of principle. It was horrendous.
New manager, it’s an absolute nightmare. You’d rather still have the former manager in charge and the chairman moaning, I suppose. The new manager will probably do exactly the same as Ian Holloway did at Millwall last season, clapping the whole ground like a Messiah when he turned up for his first home game in charge and they went on to beat us.
We have to kill all that early on and make sure we don’t concede an early goal. The new manager might not be able to lift the morale but he could lift the performance on a first game basis.
With where they are in the league – they are pretty isolated at the bottom and seven points from safety – they will be thinking this is a must-win game for them.”
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Mick McCarthy:
"Their new manager will have seen the response I got at Birmingham two years ago and I guess he’ll be looking for the same sort of response I got. Let’s hope he doesn’t.
The players you pick for your first game, that gives them a boost. They’ll run around and give that little bit extra. It’s maybe made it that little bit tougher for us.
I’ve been watching the Blackpool games and they’re no mugs by any stretch of the imagination.”
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