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We've asked for fellow football fans from the FansNetwork to have their say, from their perspective, on our demise and we look forward to their comments on this thread.
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 19:14 - Apr 6 with 4472 views
What can we say?...you were in the Prem not long ago..there seems to be yet another gross mismanagement of revenue by your owners to the detriment of the club and to the benefit of the Oyston family. Blackpool need to stop the rot asap,but I can appreciate the frustrations of the fans who are loathed to see the money they hand over to the club simply going elsewhere.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't!!!
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 19:20 - Apr 6 with 4428 views
I feel sorry for any genuine football fans whose club is in the grip of a dictatorial owner who has no empathy with the fanbase (e.g. you lot, Hull, Cardiff...er.... well maybe not Cardiff).
All I can say is, Swansea Jacks sympathise with you and wish you the best of luck with your struggle. Keep your chins up and remember the lesson from our history; step one is get your club back.
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 19:25 - Apr 6 with 4401 views
You need to stop the rot next year, or it may just keep going until you disappear altogether. That is the stark reality for you guys. Consolidate for a few seasons, then push on to try to get back into the 2nd tier. You need to unite to either back the club 100% or to get rid of the owner. You cannot sit on the fence. I was down the Liberty watching the Welsh Youth Cup final the day you beat Cardiff to get promoted, and a guy in the 500 or so crowd had a radio. There was total confusion on the pitch as the crowd kept erupting everytime you scored, so thanks for that and best wishes for the future, always remember it,s your club, no-one elses.
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 19:30 - Apr 6 with 4384 views
I don't pretend to know that much about the running of the club but from an outsider not paying that much attention it seems your premier league adventure was mishandled financially in some way and this season was a disaster from the start with the lack of players etc. I think you were probably most peoples tip for the drop from the start. A real shame because you were proof that smaller clubs can make it to the top tier. Sadly I think L1 is probably your level. I'm sure Fleetwood can't wait for next season.
Shame to see your relegation, you have been raped from the inside by Karl Oyston.
The only way to stop the freefall will be for him to leave and for your trust to establish a board that truly cares about your club, Oyston clearly doesn't.
Huw Jenkins here at Swansea has previously said he has an open door policy with regards to giving trusts advice, yet has always been amazed that not a single trust has ever taken him up on that offer.
Maybe your could be the 1st?
Good luck for your future, however I cant see any improvement till Oyston is removed and real football fans are in charge, another rocky road for you ahead next season.
Maybe this film will inspire you!
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 19:39 - Apr 6 with 4353 views
got a soft spot for Blackpool, a real football club. All the TV money swilling around and all it has done is ruined the game for so many of us (QPR fan)
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 21:42 - Apr 6 with 4104 views
It is remarkable how a club can be mismanaged in such a way that it can go from a widely loved top-flight outfit to a club where many supporters feel that cannot maintain their loyalty out of their disgust for the club's owners, and all this in a matter of a few years.
Assuming the owners are motivated by money, the hope has to be that the loss of value with this relegation may make the club a more viable target for a new owner. This assumes that the owners will act rationally and history suggests that this may not necessarily happen.
It's a small consolation that there is a fount of goodwill from a host of well-meaning fans for you all. To those Preston 'fans' visiting here and elsewhere to gloat, you are neither dignifying yourselves or your club, and you should remember that things have a habit of changing quickly in this game.
Good luck Seasiders next season. We wish you the speediest of happy outcomes. Things will inevitably improve on the pitch thereafter.
[Post edited 6 Apr 2015 21:51]
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 21:56 - Apr 6 with 4074 views
Things didn't look good in the summer with the stand-off between Oyston and José Riga, with Oyston apparently waiting for to Riga to resign.
It wasn't that long ago that Blackpool were held up as the model of doing things 'in the right way'. With hindsight Oyston has been shown to be so incompetent that it looks like pure luck that Blackpool got to the Premiership on his watch. Everyone is so focused on the overspending at Portsmouth and Leeds that they seem to have overlooked the hit-and-run owners like Oyston who have starved their clubs of the funds necessary to compete. If only we could get these idiots out of the game.
TacticalR (QPR)
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 22:59 - Apr 6 with 4007 views
I feel your pain. If we (QPR) get relegated we could be in a similar position vis-a-vis very few players going into the next season, and therefore an uphill job trying to rebuild a competitive team. Ultimately the owners/senior management are responsible for managing and leading the club and yours seem to be even more inept at it than ours have been over the past several years. There's no shame in being relegated provided that you went down fighting and had a plan that, in the end just wasn't quite as good as the teams above you (e.g. possibly Burnley). But Blackpool's season and situation seems to be turbulent and shambolic.
I hope you get better leadership next season.
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 23:10 - Apr 6 with 3991 views
Really really chuffed that B'pool will be in League 1 with Dale........we are not quite ready for the Championship yet but next season we will have another right good go......glad you are with us!
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 00:12 - Apr 7 with 3959 views
QPR fan here we think we are heading in the same direction as Blackpool and I think a few more clubs will be heading the same way football needs a massive shake up from top to bottom to help clubs be properly run and give the fans more of a say in how the clubs run as the people at the top see it more of a business and are only interested in money
The best ever season for me supporting QPR was the 04 season .... That was league one ;) so enjoy it lads proper fans proper grounds and a nice promotion at the end of it for you guys
Ohhhhhh bobby zamora
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 08:56 - Apr 7 with 3628 views
Good luck Blackpool, no consolation but I too enjoyed League One, life was so simple, and a good promotion season in league one will be better than an also ran season in the championship.
What happened to the Russian who owned you along with the Oystons?
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 11:30 - Apr 7 with 3426 views
Be strange having the likes of Blackpool & Wigan Athletic back in lower league's after such success in the Premier League for both Lancashire sides i feel sorry for Blackpool because of the large sum of money taken out the club because of the Italian guy
good luck for next season
UP THE DALE
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I'd like to echo this. It's agony for true fans when their club gets relegated and/or subsides into chaos. There but for the grace of God and all that... No gloating from me. Hope things pick up and that you come back stronger and better organised.
All the best, R from Afar (QPR fan through thick and mostly thin)
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 16:58 - Apr 7 with 3231 views
Depends. With the right attitude it's only a setback. Wolves have shown how to bounce back. If the owners have decided to let it slide or if you have a civil war or wallow in self pity then dropping further seems likely.
A real shame that your golden chance has been squandered, but I think you were desperately unlucky, I mean 39 points and relegated from the PL is very cruel, and if not, then who knows?
Still, only you guys can decide where it goes now. There really is no point in us giving you sympathy. As Linda Hamilton would maybe have it "Get on your feet Soldier".
There should be a legal requirement for clubs to be seen as part of the local community, and thereby every club having a Supporters Trust in a position of authority.
Hope it pans out for you. Swansea supporter.
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FansNetwork Away Fans thoughts on 20:51 - Apr 7 with 3074 views
Take control of your club, it's easy for me say, by any means necessary, but that is what happenned at Swansea, it just takes some guile and guts, our 'good friends' at Cardiff are heading the same way, they dismiss any suggestion of it. They really don't understand. But believe me, it can't be any worse for you than it is now.
Your a real football club, maybe it's time for action ?