Match Day Thread: Blackpool 18th Oct 2025

What does Declan Skura have to do to get a run out in this defence??

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Correct. Bananas that he’s not even had a chance given how bad the others have been.

Dan Rice and the recruitment team have spent a fortune and given us a squad who look like they will do well to avoid relegation.

Duff has his work cut out with all our expensive signings being so clearly below average for Lge1 and the huge squad imbalance.

Dan Rice out!

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We’ve opened them up so many times and then made wrong decisions.

Henderson has been fantastic and is starting to be first name in team sheet.

If we keep going like this I think we should get an equaliser and maybe even a winner

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when you have Grimmer shooting then you know your in trouble

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Two huge chances falling to Grimmer - probably the last person on the pitch you’d want to be anywhere near them - sums up everything about today.

Yep, we’ve done it to death on the centre back options, but we’ve also gone from a midfield that Leahy couldn’t get into, to him now being the without doubt first pick, despite bringing numerous options there.

Attack we’ve had to rely on 3 loanees which says it all too!

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Jesus Christ Jack…

Duff’s half time team talk

They’re sitting out there waiting to give you three points. Don’t you want to take it? Are you man enough to take it?

The players: No.

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Junior coming on terrorizing the opposition and playing better football than any one of these starters in the last few matches personifies the thought process of not losing games instead of trying to win them that we’ve had to endure since February.

How are we not 3-1 up?! Creating plenty of good chances

Come on Lowry and Westy.

I’ll even be happy to read the inevitable “how doesn’t Lowry start” stuff if he does 1 good thing and 20 bad things if it gets us a result!

I still hope Westy can be our man though.

Hmmm, not sure about this. No matter what you need a ball winner in the centre of the park and Leahy does that pretty well. It could also neutralise Henderson.

(Looking forwards to being proved wrong!)

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Leahy has been our best player according to all stats.

Clutching at straws but feels like the games we had under Blooms on our historic losing run.

We’re not scoring today, are we?

If you just pretend to yourself that you’re watching commedia dell’arte then it doesn’t feel as bad.

i predict Duff will use the phrase ‘street smarts’ in his post match interview

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Playing some much better football here, just can’t score.

Too many attacking players on the pitch though which might leave us open to a 2-0 sucker punch

If just one of these chances had gone in, then we would have gone on and won this game.