First of all, thank you Cardiff City. Had you not have loaned us Joe Lewis this season then I doubt we'd have got to the 3 points we've reached so far. However, that clause about not allowing him to play against you makes a win at the 11th attempt all the more difficult. Just as Blackpool start to get a performance together which was arguably worthy of three points at Middlesbrough, it's back to square one at Bloomfield Road on Friday night.

Riga must be pulling some of those fine silver/grey locks out. Not only does he have a Chairman ready to give his job to another man, a team that hasn't yet given him a win and a budget you couldn't get a weekly shop at Iceland with, but now the team which he was starting to assemble is falling apart. First, Joe Lewis is unavailable and so in comes Elliot Parrish, then Peter Clarke, who has apparently lost half a stone - and there wasn't much to lose, is only just back in training and Andre Orlandi and Jose Cubero are both doubts after picking up knocks at the Riverside. Whether this game is too soon for Fermose Mendy and Andre Blackman remains to be seen.

Cardiff are still in a state of flux at the moment with caretaker managers Danny Gabbidon and Scott Young in charge whilst Russell Slade waits to take over having left Leyton Orient. The Bluebirds have yet to win away from home with 4 draws and one defeat and so unless this is another draw then one of these sides could break a winless duck. Cardiff will assess defender Matt Connolly (hamstring), but Ravel Morrison could make his first start.

Sky TV and Blackpool haven't been happy bedfellows of late and hopefully we'll finally get some luck in front of the cameras in the same way it did the last time these two teams met. Oh and then there's the small matter of what will happen in the 53rd minute .. maybe more unpredictable than the outcome of the game.

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