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Shameful
at 18:25:26

Curryman - they can line their pockets, sell the silver cutlery, bring their own name into (further) disrepute, skim the cream off the top of the milk and fleece our pockets. The one thing they can't steal or corrupt are our memories. Those perfect Tuesday evenings on a packed Kop with the floodlights lighting up the night sky from miles around. The chants of the fans, the goals scored and celebrated, those frustrating times of"so close yet so far" and those better days of "oh my God yeeeeesssssss!"

That's what we have got for our investment over the years, our very souls satisfied by the team in Tangerine, our hearts filled with emotion, to feel alive! What will the Oystons have, no emotional attachment, no vested interest in results other than a balance sheet. Shark dead eyes watching a game with no hearts in mouths waiting for the final whistle or an ear to the result of another game.

They will never feel the way we have felt or take a simple pleasure in seeing a Blackpool Fc sticker in a car window in some other town, shaking hands with someone in foreign climes sporting an old Blackpool shirt. These are the things we own and they can never take them away or share or remember on a slow cold Sunday afternoon in front of the fire.

What belongs to us will be returned to us, their days of rule are coming to a close and we will rebuild and support because it's our club whatever division it's in and our strength of will and desire to feel the way we once felt will carry us through.

It's always darkest before the dawn, but daylight will creep into the sky again and we will see that it isn't daylight, it will be those floodlights lighting up the sky and our beloved seasiders will once again take to the pitch and lift our souls and fill our hearts once again! COYMP!

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The Folly of Denegrating your fanbase.
at 20:11:13

Most businesses are continually screwing customers over, and trying to squeeze the maximum returns for the least investment. Be it all the self service checkouts in supermarkets so they can employ less staff to service customer checkouts. Banks and mobile phone companies charging you for a hard copy of your statements. We can all choose to change where we shop or bank or get our energy if you are unhappy with the service you receive. We think nothing of choosing to go to lidl or aldi rather than Morrisons or Asda for instance.

Football clubs however are pretty unique in that their customers have put in a great deal of emotional and financial investment over the years. Of course the more successful that club is the more support it will attract, and also greater returns in the form of financial rewards from television revenue.

Every club will have a hard core of support who turn up week in week out even when the good times are hard to find. It's curious therefor that a family who claim to be the great custodians of our fine and proud club should choose to not maximise the returns from increased support and league status and to antagonise the core support to the point where for relatively small outlay, they can increase support and revenue by providing a service that people actually want and would be more than happy to hand over their hard earned on matchday tickets, catering products, merchandising and everything that goes with being a Blackpool FC supporter.

It all smacks of a smash and grab raid, take what you can while you can, stick two fingers up at the loyal customer base and to borrow a term - ride that white charger hard and fast over the horizon. We can only hope that their is a cliff edge and a big drop just over there and all we will find will be a pair of glasses and a floppy old hat then we can all live happily ever after!

Great reading Curryman, many thanks for taking the time to out together that piece, cheers.

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