A Tangerine Dream? Blackpool v Town

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A Tangerine Dream? Blackpool v Town - theo_luddite - 14-08-2025

Bloomin' 'eck Road
Seasiders Way
Just behind the donkey rides
Between the South and Central Piers
Kick-off 15:00 UK Time
Saturday 16/08/25

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside,
Oh I do like to meet Brucey again.
As the Town fans give him stick,
Hope the score just makes him sick,
Beside the seaside, beside the sea.

Town head to Blackpool for an afternoon match and big sticks of pink candy floss beside the seaside in the warm summer for a change from all those cold wet, windy, winter nights we usually get to play there.

Town are on the crest of a wave with three wins from 3, while Blackpool are on the crest of a slump and dredging sand having lost all 3 of theirs.

Let's hope we make it 4 out of 4 and make Brucey feel a little seasick. Yes, it's the current home of our former head coach who has made a successful career of throwing his toys out of the pram when things don't go his own way, then convincing another owner to give him another well paid job.

Once bitten and all that ....

Blackpool got off to a similarly slow start last season, which led to Brucey getting the Head Coaches job. After 4 league games without a win at the start they turned up at ours in a rearranged game (as we'd been to Walsall to lose in the EFL Cup 2nd round on the original date), to face a Town side that had won 4 of it's first 5 but were now embarking on a run to make it 4 wins and 4 defeats. Brucey meanwhile had Blackpool on one of their best runs of the season and including the 0-2 win at ours, they went on a 4 game winning run to move them from bottom 4 to top 6. It didn't last and Blackpool finished the season just above Town. Their home record included only 7 wins and 11 draws.

On the tellybox

On HTTV for your furrin Town fans (or Blackpools equivalent), plus dodgy interweb feeds everywhere.

Pies and Pees and How to Get There

Plus planned updates for the (cough) "Temporary" East Stand. The one you'll be sat in if you've got a ticket.

These guys as always do it better, far better than I can be bothered with .....

https://footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/league-one/bloomfield-road-blackpool.html

Come back when you've done, I'm not finished yet.

Latest news

It's been advertised for a while but ....

Walk for Denis before the Burton home match.

25 miles from The Etihad or 10 miles from somewhere 15 miles closer are the options to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society in memory of Denis Law.

https://www.htafc.com/news/2025/july/22/walk-for-denis--club-launch-latest-walk4pounds/

Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating

No further injuries from Wednesday night but ....

Mickel Miller will be out for somewhere between 4 and 8 weeks after picking up a hamstring injury against Reading on Saturday.

Antony Evans will be out with a knee injury until late September-mid October, while Rhys Healey and Jacob Chapman suffered knee and ankle injuries respectively in the summer and are yet to appear.

Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame

Marcus McGuane is closing in on making his Terriers debut after returning to training following a groin niggle.

Marcus Harness went off on the opening day against Leyton Orient with a blow to the side but has been back in training since.

Last time out

Town won on penalties against what should have been a much better than us Leicester team on paper, with many players of recent Prima Donna League experience in their squad. However, as we also found, the wounds from being regularly beaten up in the top division can take a long time to heal.

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Blackpool lost at home 0-1 to a Port Vale side coached by another former Town Head Coach, Darren Moore, on Tuesday night. Port Vale landing themselves a visit to Birmingham City in the next round as a result.

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The full EFL Cup Results are below. There was a power cut in Tranmere. Imagine that? Some tea leaf from Scouseland took a Fairy 'Cross the Mairsey and knicked their leccy.

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Last weekends League results One results follow.

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Musical Interlude

Blackpool is of course famous for it's Tower and at the foot of the Tower its famously mahoosive ballroom. If you can't find enough room for your balls in this room there's always the Winter Gardens just a short stroll away, though it's now more of a theatre, bar and restaurant thing. Blackpool going up market? Whatever next?

Strictly speaking, Whistle

long before the BBC rediscovered it as a place for a few scandalous liasons (aka leg-over and chips weekends) between their professional dancers and their erm, "showbiz" partners, Reg Dixon was famous for playing with his magnificent organ as it rose out of the Tower ballroom floor. Holiday makers could whirl with their other half's on the dance floor to their hearts content as he teased the keys, tickled the foot pedals and pulled out all the stops on his huge Wurlitzer. All done with a huge grin on his face.

Reg was a Sheffield lad by all accounts, so he was probably happy to get a paying job that wasn't in a forge or as an announcer at two of their sports grounds. He sold more albums (them 12" diameter plastic things) by a bloke playing with his organ than anyone else in history, long before Only Fans ever became a thing. Though the 12" plastic things they ..... no stop digging Theo, you'll get banned.

If you didn't have another half you could maybe find a wallflower who had wandered in to escape the howling gales and rain blowing in off the Irish Sea that would regularly throw a selection of squid, shrimps, dead haddock, seaweed and impossible to destruct Izal "streamers" that were always on the beach onto the tram tracks on the prom. That Illuminated Rocket tram has regularly skidded past an anticipated stop on it's way to Fleetwood or The Pleasure Beach or been derailed by a stray pile of deck chairs and the odd Corrie Character that have mistooken Blackpool for their Mancunian studios. They should have been put in homes for the bewildered long before their scriptwriters gave them one way train tickets to Blackpool North.

When Reg and his Wurlitzer sank back into the floor late in the afternoon it was time to head back to your "digs" to sample the delights your landlady had served up from the previous evening's dinner and that morning's breakfast left overs. Amazing how often a quiche, beans and chips followed some bloody awful bacon and eggs breakfast that was fried to death. Heaven help you if you were late, though there has always been a chippy on the end of every street for emergency rations, before heading to the original Yates's Wine Lodge that advertised Champagne on Draft. If you weren't back at your digs by 10:00 you'd likely be locked out for the night, even if the pubs closed at 10:30.

Apparently you still are down some streets.

Anyway, enough of the saucy postcard stuff missus, who do we know from the Fylde Peninsular (I nearly spelled that wrong too) that could churn out a tune?

The Hollies will do for a start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ccKonjwYE

They did so many great tunes, I might stick Bus Stop in later, they never did sing about the trams or the loomies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH11CPDXzr4

One of their members, a certain Graham Nash teamed up with some guys called Crosby, Stills and Young. Wonder what happened to them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ohc7kQh5U

Also from these here parts a bloke that met up somewhere with a singer and base player from Newcastle(ish), with a similar surname but preferred to be called Sting and a lunatic drummer called Stuart Copeland. They went on to form The Police. The local lad in question was Andrew James Somers, known professionally as Andy Summers. I was gonna post the Sue Lawley song but went for a Message in a Bottle instead as the Sue Lawley song got cut off halfway through for some reason. Whether she was needed for an edition of Nationwide or Desert Island discs i've no idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki97mpo6Y_Y

Think that's maxed out my vids though god knows if any will actually play on here and I end up just posting the links again.
Not many did.

Bus Stop coming up, I love that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB-h1lvlnGY

I swapped it in case you saw the early version

Famous Former Players

That 3 of their 4 stands are named after Sir Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortenson and Jimmy Armfield says a lot about Blackpool's storied football history. If they named the ground after any one of them it's doubtful any Tangerines fan would argue - unless they're related to the other two. Armfield was a player I got to see play as a young kid, I wasn't really a twinkle in either parents eye when the other two did. Then again Matthews played until he was about 500 years old so I might have seen him play for Stoke without realising it.

Armfield went on to manage Bolton and then got the job of clearing up the mess that Cloughie left behind at Leeds, while Revie went on to a less than stellar career of "match fiddling" for England. While dismantling Revie's old side and still keeping them competitve, his one major final was the "Chumpions of Europe" final when a "bent ref" awarded the game 2-0 to Bayern Munich. Oh, how we laughed at the time.

After four seasons, including an FA Cup Semi and a League Cup Semi in his final season, where they lost 7-3 on aggregate to er, Forest, Leeds gave him the tin tack and replaced him with Jock Stein. The rest as they say at Leeds is a mystery as to how they ever got to be so good in the first place.

Don't mention the Revie Brown Envelopes. I've sort of mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.

Disillusioned with Football Club Management by the way Leeds dealt with his dismissal, Jimmy Armfield became arguably the best co-commentator (or "colour" commentator) that Radio 5 Live or any other UK TV or Radio Sports Programme has ever had in my opinion. They don't talk common sense like him any more.

Tables

Well, right now the Top 6 looks like this

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and the Bottom 6 looks like this

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with a few extra's thrown in for context.

Reading are the only side yet to score a goal. Town and Luton are the only sides yet to concede.

Blackpool started with a 2-3 defeat at home to Stevenage, the first time Stevenage had won at Blackpool, and then got thumped 4-1 at Exeter.

Come back in another 44 games to see how they compare and contrast.

Innies and Outies

Blackpool splashed a bit of cash that they got from Charlton on recruiting Jordan Brown from Orient. They also brought in the error prone Bailey Peacock-Farrell in goal on loan from Brum City. He's already dividing opinion in between the Little Stick of Blackpool Rock stalls and Kiss Me Kwick hat vendors on Blackpool Promenade (and there abouts).

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Apart from the fee from Charlton for Rob Apter, most of the rest left on freebies or at the end of their contracts. That includes a once prolific, but sadly no more, Jordan Rhodes. He's currently still looking for a job, anywhere.

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Who's banging 'em in

Their three League goals so far are as evenly spread as our 5.

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They can't all win

In the top 6, I think you know where we are playing, if not why are you reading this? Barnsley are home to Bolton, Stockport go to Oldham, Luton are at Sadfud, Stevenage are home to Northampton, Donny are home to Wycombe.

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In the bottom 6, Blackpool and Wycombe are already covered, Reading will be looking for goals and points at home to Wimbledon, Plymouth go to Lincoln, Posh are also in Lancashire at Wigan, Mansfield are at Exeter.

We've played 'em before

Nowt in it in the League Head2Head, glad to avoid them in the Cup.

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Next up?

Town are at home to Doncaster on Tuesday and then I finally get to a home match and my seat on Row Z when we play Stevenage at home next Saturday. We have another current Top 6 fixture at Barnsley to end the month.

Which of course means - it's baaaack!

By popular demand, well, Snoots mentioned it once over the Summer, yes The Yorksha League is back.
T'owd cracked tea mug and t'manky wooden spoon are both up for grabs again.

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5 teams is enough to run a competion with.

I won't be starting a Yorksha League thread, just look for updates in match threads whenever I happen to notice a match has been played. Sometimes a couple of weeks earlier than I take any notice of. otherwise just give me a nudge.

Pressers

You might have noticed young Mr. Lee was a tad distracted on Wednesday this week, so his weekly presser was put back a day. In case you were wondering where young Mr. Chicken clucked off to, this weeks presser is courtesy (well, ripped off from to be honest) his We Are Terriers site. He's joined by a Ruffun from Ireland. (Pronounced Rowan apparently).

https://www.weareterriers.com/p/lee-grant-and-sean-roughan-press?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Views from t'tp o't Tower

https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2025/august/12/bruce--have-to-improve-/

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/football/blackpool-fc/blackpool-birmingham-city-5269362

Tangerine Dream?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOa_wqUdm-U

RE: A Tangerine Dream? Blackpool v Town - Lord Snooty - 14-08-2025

Nice one, theo. And nice that our manager has some selection headaches after our A team and our B team both won this week. Smile