A post by Adams_Kebab: It's got to the stage now where KO has even managed to strip the club of that attractive bit of quirkiness we had. In all honesty, most of us knew we were complete tinpot operation during our successful spell in order for the Oystons to cream as much dough as they could off the club, but throughout the past few years we did have that peculiar but cool feel about us.

As much as I think Oyston is Cnut, the fact we got promotion to the Premier League on a shoestring budget certainly made it feel special. We had players washing their own kit, training at the toilet that is Squires Gate. We had those special things though. Togetherness & team spirit. We had players who knew what a tinpot club we were but players that had a desire to make it something special.

We mixed it at the top table of English football, on the pitch we were a "breath of fresh air", whilst off it, we behaved with stale fag breath, p1ssing about with bonus payments for players who had given us everything, not wanting to pay £15 for lasagne, offering the away team cold showers for a few games & offering £45,000 for Bradley Wright Phillips in the January transfer window. It felt like a club though. Deep down you knew what a crook Potter was but it was ours. A bond between manager, players & fans that was almost unbreakable. "We'll only get 10 points"... Will we Hell. What a team. Yes IH made mistakes, but when you sit back and look at what he did with the limits and boundaries infront of him compared to other clubs bosses you can't help but applaud. Manager and club. The perfect fit. Too good for Oyston, that's for certain.

So good in fact, we nearly completed another miracle the following season and bounced back. Again there was something so special about us taking the game to the multi-million spending West Ham at Wembley with our team of our 100% ers, desperate for another bonus payment on a promotion and another crack at the big-time. Attacking free flowing football, all done on a minuscule budget compared with other clubs, but something that had you so proud to be tangerine. A quirkiness that had us to quote a phrase "the envy of the football league"... to some fans of other clubs.

But why? It wasn't to "make a stand against the greed in football". It was all so they could maximise their profits, not the club's, theirs. Just remember, "we can't compete with teams who receive parachute payments, they are unfair". Well credit Karl, we sure are giving them a chance.

As i type this post today, I don't even know what I support anymore? It's just a name at the moment, and that's all we have. We've been stripped off our assets. The club accounts have highlighted pure greed and skulduggery. There's zero connection with any players. Zilch. None. If your a dad buying a top for your lads birthday with a name on? Good luck! Not one of that 9 feels like a Blackpool player, maybe Perkins at a push. The youngster we have coming through who may do, we manage to fcuk completely off by offering him pittance in football terms. Shut the Academy down. It's been rendered pointless if we aren't going to pay the graduates what they deserve. The Manager? Well he's on a sponsored silence. What have we actually got as fans? How the frig are we gonna assemble a squad that can compete in the Championship next season in 4 weeks? Establish a team spirit which is a pre-requisite at our club for the tinpot way we are ran. Loans, 1 year deals & whoopsie aisle panic signings are not the way to do this in such a short space of time.

Oh! That's right. The "Riga Revolution"... Faris Haroun on trial!!

So to sum up. Not only has Karl managed to completely kill the club on the pitch for the past two seasons by his useless and greedy actions off it, we don't have any attraction at all to the all seeing eye... No, "look at the way we play with what we've spent"... No "aren't they an example to all"... No, against all odds backs to the wall, siege mentality... No quirkiness. No bond, for the average fan and the man in tangerine on the pitch or the man in the dugout.

Sadly, it's all because when alls said and done, you always know that it's all been done to line the pockets of the most conniving, lying, deceitful and despicable low-life tw4t that the town of Blackpool has ever had the misfortune to suffer.

4 weeks today, we start. Someone somewhere tell me what is happening at our club isn't pre-meditated organised chaos because that's all I'm seeing. We are in the deep stuff my friends & on the face of it, we aren't getting out with Karl in charge. We're getting trod on.

"I fear for Blackpool's future"...
Words from an ex-player of 6 years, we should all reflect on.

Tinpot but in itself quirky was always our gimmick.

The reality is, it's just tinpot for the benefit of Oyston.

We as fans, can't let this sorry charade continue. BST, BSA, Joe public fan, the name Blackpool FC needs you because right now that's the only thing we have. Just a name.

Sitting back and hoping it will turn out ok, or the plethora of trialists will come good whilst bent over with no Vaseline is no longer acceptable.

Up the Pool.

Oyston out.

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