Gareth’s longevity was to a degree due to the fact that for most of his reign we didn’t have a pot to piss in.
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In his first season, possibly, but surely not at any stage after that.
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Matt Bloomfield is set for talks with Blackpool about the managerial role.
He certainly was not playing fluid attacking football before the purple patch with us.He was also not playing it at Luton ( it was one of the constant criticisms of their fans).
I think you are absolutely correct with reference to Humfreys,Morley and Tayor.For me the turning point was that first match when Morley and Humfreys came on in the second half.It utterly transformed us and it was from this point that our fast flowing football was born.
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And guess where we’re playing this Saturday…
Exactly. Once we’d stayed up at Torquay he never really underperformed across a whole season.
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TL;DR - reaction from Blackpool fans seems to vary from indifferent to broadly positive:
Risk is, if Blackpool get relegated he’s got 2 relegation on his CV within a year, not a good look.
But keep them up and his stake is high, risk and reward.
That’s one hell of a morning / evening drive from Ipswich to Blackpool everyday!
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If he keeps them up they should name their ground after him or something.
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I believe he lives nearer Felixstowe than Ipswich, so that’s a 285 mile trip. via A14, M6 and M55, about 4 and a half hours if no hold ups.
I can’t see that working unless BFC sorted out some local accommodation for a few days a week.
Just been announced that Jack Wilshere’s been appointed.
Seems a very risky appointment to me. Given its Luton, hopefully it all goes tits up.
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I was surprised to discover that Blackpool is in East Lancashire. Someone’s sausage fingers no doubt, given that e and w are adjacent.
Wilshere’s name has been popping up when new managers are sought for a little while now. He is obviously highly regarded. Obvious risk in a first managerial job but they could do on paper a lot worse. Big opportunity for him if he does well.
West Lancashire must therefore be under the Irish Sea then….. And possibly all the better for that.
When you give Bloomfield the job, surely you do it with a long-term plan in mind. He had an awful 12 months in charge here, and it took time to build the squad and get his ideas across.
When Luton fire Bloomfield, you think ‘OK, they were a Premier League Club, surely they’ll want some experience to lift them up the league and get promoted’. To then hire Jack Wilshere who, although it’s his first proper managerial role, you get the feeling is cut from the same cloth as Bloomfield as a long-term plan manager, is insane.
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Be careful with views like that! He was at the top of @Chairboys80’s new manager wish list (when he actually decided to answer one of our questions!)
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Not sure I’d agree with that. There are never any guarantees with any manager. Luton went down the road of bright young thing rather than “one of the same old faces” with Matt and have stuck with the same philosophy.
Unfortunately the minimum expectation last season was to keep them up which he failed to do. I was quite surprised when the chop didn’t come in summer. To survive he had to start well this season. That didn’t happen either.
Obviously keeping them up was not the minimum expectation or he would have been sacked in May.
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