| The Inevitable Outcome 18:13 - Apr 6 with 1772 views | BFCSupportersTrust |
Since pre-season, when we had eight players contracted to play for the club, through to the end of the season, by which time more than fifty players had started for the first team, this season has had only one possible outcome: relegation to League One.
The current owners have proven incapable of managing their business effectively. They have received the biggest financial windfall in the club's history and have used it to oversee arguably the worst season in the club's history. If they have truly reinvested all the money they received from the Premier League payments back into the club then it is likely that they rank as the worst performing owners of all time. In that alone, they match the team they have managed to cobble together.
The quality of football has been awful, the entertainment value poor and the atmosphere in the ground has largely been restricted to expressions of dissatisfaction and outrage at the antics of the Chairman and his family. At £190, it feels now that we have been hugely overcharged for a product that was certainly not as advertised or could reasonably have been expected.
The Riga Revolution proved to be completely lacking support from the Chairman who clearly either had no idea of the type of person that he was employing or grossly overestimated his own abilities to manage Jose Riga. Whichever of those options it was (and it may possibly have been both) it was just the beginning of a succession of extraordinary errors by the Chairman of the club who consistently made one outrageous mistake after another. The Gazette column, the treatment of various fans' groups, 'textgate', the license plate, the list of gaffes goes on and on.
The owners handling of the clubs fans was just as poor as their management of the football side of the club - undermining and belittling their customers before finally taking legal action against the fans. What the Oystons failed to understand is that the vast majority of those who were attacking them on forums and social media did so in an attempt to protect Blackpool FC - the very job that the Oystons are entrusted to do. The irony of this will, of course, likely be entirely lost on our current 'custodians'.
Even the terrible sense of loss that accompanies a relegation does not exist to the same degree this season. This is not only because it has been a long, slow death, but also because for many of us, we have lost something more than our divisional status: we have lost our connection to the football club - the very thing that makes us fans.
The most damning indictment and the most lasting legacy of the Oyston regime may be the impact that their 'strategies' may have on alienating thousands of fans from the club as well as losing the next generation of youngsters. This was an outcome that was certainly not inevitable and it seems that only by selling the club to owners who put football to the fore, can such a future be avoided. | | | |  |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 18:18 - Apr 6 with 1769 views | WindyMiller |
Probably the best post I've read on this sorry and torrid day. | |
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| The Inevitable Outcome on 18:41 - Apr 6 with 1752 views | camberwell1 |
So....................................WHAT are we going to do about it?
A BST Member
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| The Inevitable Outcome on 18:54 - Apr 6 with 1749 views | chesterbfc |
Well said,  | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 19:05 - Apr 6 with 1743 views | BertandErnie |
I agree with Cambers - whilst putting succinctly and eloquently what has happened this season - there are no answers. We keep hearing about Belokon riding in to town on his white steed carrying an affluent businessman with him but nothing comes of it. The O's will have nothing do with BST and now BSA have taken their ball home.
In all of this, I still truly believe that the majority of 'fans' just want to go and watch their team every week. The dilemma now though is how do they do that but not support this vile family. I think, and if we're all honest here, that no one has the answer because whilst the Oyston family carry on at the club, there is no answer.
What can we do as fans? Sadly just sit back and let everyone, including the owners, have a free hit at our expense. | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 20:11 - Apr 6 with 1714 views | terminallytangerine |
Our knell has knolled but if we believed that was the end of everything we hold dear about our football club we would have to give up on the team now.
It doesn't have to be this way.
We need to rebuild at all levels and washing our hands of the club will not help that process.
The sooner this season ends the better. | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 12:01 - Apr 7 with 1465 views | we_are_Superior |
TT - we will only go forward if lessons are learnt and I just think this family are so pig headed they will always believe they are right. Karl's policy on contract lengths and agent negotiations, whilst admirable, were never going to win the club the best players. Time for a change -time will tell. | |
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| The Inevitable Outcome on 12:20 - Apr 7 with 1460 views | BFCSupportersTrust |
There is a great deal that we as fans can do and that the Supporters Trust is doing e.g.
1) Seeking alternative owners of the club
2) Changing the way the game is governed and the rules concerning ownership and decision making within the game
3) Putting pressure on the owners to depart
4) Changing the law regarding stake holding, articles of association as they are particularly applied to football clubs.
All of these, and more, we are currently engaged in. They all require an enormous amount of work and will take a good deal of time to succeed. However, this is our club, we are determined to take our role of custodians of its present and future seriously. We will work continuously until the aim of our members is achieved, no matter the obstacles. | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 15:11 - Apr 7 with 1432 views | Wizaard |
I see Huw Jenkins of Swansea has not had any trust come to him to see what they've done, despite there being an open invitation.
Is that something BST should be considering? | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 13:50 - Apr 10 with 1324 views | BFCSupportersTrust |
Apologies for the Late reply but that is something we are doing Wiz. | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome (n/t) on 22:01 - Apr 12 with 1202 views | Wizaard |
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| The Inevitable Outcome on 22:01 - Apr 12 with 1200 views | Wizaard |
BST are the way forward, but it won't happen overnight.
Up the Pool | | | |
| The Inevitable Outcome on 12:15 - Apr 13 with 1170 views | TwelveAngryMen |
Good to here that BST
I have always been an advocate of the Swansea model where fan representatives have a very positive influence working alongside the majority owners
TT ( and this isn't a dig ) is there any appetite for BSA to join BST in campaigning for change ? | |
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