Optimistic Nut

Takes something to have the worst pair of keepers in the league yet here we are. New keeper top priority this summer.

I'm happy to see what he does with a fresh look to the squad with Ross Wilson alongside him this summer, but no problem whatsoever if the board don't feel that way. I think if he is going to go it'll be in this break though. Pointless keeping him until the summer if we don't see him as the person to oversee the next stage.

They actually played the better football second half as well. I could sort of accept it if they'd just outmuscled us or outran us because we were spent, but they played better than us which is more grating.

Always said he'd built up enough credit for an iffy season but this isn't on .12th in the league man. I'm pig sick of seeing Burn, Murphy, Willock there. Should have been phased out long before now yet we still see them for 30-90 minutes every week. If he's ruthless and starts binning these and we go again in the summer then I'm happy to see how he goes. I know recruitment has been shite this summer but again, I think a bad window is allowed but I'll let that by as we have a new recruitment team in place since then, but seeing the same players who are clearly no longer up to it keep playing (even knocking £20m for Willock in January was it?) is unforgivable to me.

Think he's lost his credit now.

Talbi looks so out of place for them and even he's bang average.

They'll have a 10-15 minute spell where we'll live a bit dangerously but I can see us scoring at least one more..

Very good half. We can't just attack and press for 90 minutes but we've been at them and could have had 3.

Is that not a pen on Burn like?

Is this their tactic? O'Nien long throw? They'll not get a third season.

They're rattled.

O'9 man hahahahaha.

Stunning..

I'd take a Keegan/Owen 2-0 stroll as much as a 5-1 battering today. Nice early goal to calm the nerves, goal before HT to kill it off. Strolled the rest of the match..

In my head pre-season this was going to be a stroll to "3-in-a-row" while they went down for another few years. Fuck them. Still think we win this fairly easily though.

Nice trivia for the Burridge & Armfield link. Their last game together was in May 1971 v Man Utd. Their last top flight game until they came up with us. Blackpool's scorer in a 1-1 draw. Tony Green.

Aye I thought him. Originally I'd put Watson as a go-between for Burridge & Shearer but seen Shearer & Burridge played together at Southampton so Shearer linked 2026 with 1971 which is a decent chunk.

James Milner Alan Shearer & James Milner (Newcastle - 2004) John Burridge & Alan Shearer (Southampton - 1988) Jimmy Armfield & John Burridge (Blackpool - 1971) Stanley Matthews and Jimmy Armfield (Blackpool - 1960)

If you can get from Milner to Stanley Matthews then you're probably flying.

We'd be top 5 with a keeper like that.

Could see Man Utd taking him back. If be happy with that.

Unreal save.

Think I'd be more into Garner than Anderson & Wharton.

That's a class goal.

Is this the guy who was close to tears before the first Carabao Final?