I like Seasider, I hope he sticks around after Saturday. Just seen this beauty

 

I wasn't born in 1953. Not even close. I've never read such a load of shite in all my life. If this bloke is typical of Blackpool fans then they're worse than Tranmere, Bury, Wigan and all of our other petty detractors. I must have forgotten what they were like when we were a division or more above them for 17 consecutive seasons, not playing them once (1993-2010). Earlier in this thread I asked Seasider why we never once heard from he or his chums during all those years. He never answered. So come on then ... where were you?

With no League One, League Two, non-league stuff this weekend there'll probably be a scattering of neutrals attracted to the match on Saturday.

Some questions which hopefully you can answer for our match day thread?

 

1) What do you think the score will be?

3-2 for Bolton

 

2) What Bolton player(s) should we watch out for?

Medo Kamara

 

3) Are you concerned about any Blackpool player(s)

Ince

 

4) There is a lot of talk about Blackpool and Bolton having a one way rivalry. If Bolton don't care, who are your main rivals?

United, Blackburn

 

5) If Blackpool played Man Utd in the FA Cup final, who would you want to win?

Blackpool. I'd want a team of fucking martians to win against that shit.

 

6) Did you attend the match at Bloomfield? If so, how do you rate the portaloos?

No.

 

7) Do you think you will go up?

Lottery. Dunno.

 

Is Dougie Freedman a Bolton legend?

He's made a good start. I wouldn't swap him for Ince, that's for sure.

 

9) Was Blackpool v Bolton in 1953 the greatest ever FA Cup final?

No. That was 1958.

 

10) Do you think Peter Kaye is funny?

Yes.

Have to admit blackpool been the our bogey side over the years.

But I'm confident we will beat them and I think it will b a close game.

We've beaten them comfortably more than they've beaten us over the years to be fair. In the last 30 years we've had trouble beating them at Bloomfield Road but never at home.

Persuaded my Dad to go. Been to about 5 this season after having had a season ticket for many a long year. Reckon around 20000 Bolton fans and about 4000 from Blackpool.

This whole episode with Seasider sums up Bolton's relationship with Blackpool and it doesn't reflect well on them. It ought to be just another of the Lancashire derbies - on a level with PNE and Burnley for instance. However they make it something different. As I've said before its all about them trying to link back to a time when English football took them a bit more seriously. I hope we hammer them on Saturday. We won't of course. We generally make a meal of derby games like this and the fact these matches usually mean more to the Blackpools, Wigans, Burys of this world transmits from fans to players and leads to poorer results than ought to be the case for us. This time it means a lot to us because of the play offs. All 3 recent games v Blackpool have been high scoring, I think this will be the same and I'll go for Bolton 3 Blackpool 2 with a 23,500 gate.

Can't believe I am in a moderation queue and have been warned. Find me one post that warrants such a warning.

 

Dispicable moderating.

Bollocks. Get off.

I wouldnt get to up set with the blackpool key board warriors , deep down they know we have always took the piss at there place.

I was there in 74 even then we took the piss it was only when the police let us leave the ground in pairs

Did blackpool have ago

At burnden they came in the lever end in 74 and got a good kicking.

I think they smashed the painters arns in the 70s when 50 of them came straight of the train and put the windows through .

They never came in big numbers like we did at theres

Where we took 1000s to there place they only ever brought a few hundred in the 70s at our place.

As for the 80s they brought a few thousand in a night game but they never took it to us i remember one of there lads got slashed on the burnden forecourt after the game.

i met a few blackpool lads in greece a few years ago

And they admited bolton was always rough when we played them

I remember the game in 78 and if Blackpool brought 1000 with them it must have been only just. In 85/86 it was an Easter Monday game. I distinctly remember a large proportion of their support shuffling on to the Embankment a good 15 mins after kick off leaving everyone to draw the conclusion they'd rather walk down Manny Road when Bolton fans were in the ground. They brought a good 2500 with them on a night match in 86/87 but I don't remember any trouble.

Did we not play these every year from 1974-1978, then in 1986 (twice, three times if you include a Sherpa Van game), 1988, 1989 in the Sherpa Van and league and then 1992? Did we not also play them in 2010 at the Reebok? By my reckoning that's 10 league games and 2 cup games at Bolton for Blackpool since the Kevin Olsson incident in August 1974. Did they on any of those occasions carry out any of these blood curdling threats?

Our friend Seasider doesn't think much of us. Tart.

 

blah, blah, blah.

i was on the embankment when he scored that,burnden went mental. then we beat sheff wed to stay up. not bad considering we lost a week earlier 7-1 at QPR. The season though was 81/82.

sadly,it was only a temporary stay of execution as we went down the following season

 

was it wayne foster or chris thompson who scored the winner when we beat oldham 3-2 at boundary park ? cracking game but bastard freezing

Yeah, sorry it was 81/2. The season we started so poorly that it felt like we'd be relegated by Xmas. After 11 games, won 2 drawn 0 lost 9. Strangely, one of the wins was a very, very rare league success at the Baseball Ground. Derby has never been a happy hunting ground for Bolton in the league at least.

Anybody remember Chris Thompson's dramatic late goal against Derby in the second last game of the season in 82/3? Set us up for the last game against Sheff Weds, which we also won. Ended up staying up against the odds. One of the main things I remember about that night v Derby was that the Manny Road South terrace being full of bikers, heavy metal types and a scattering of punks with mohicans. The celebration in the terrace after each Bolton goal were absolutely wild.

I'd probably go for Wheater and hope he's not rusty. Don't rate Mills at all and Blackpool are the type of side who'll find him out. Was more convinced with Ream in the Prem than the Championship.

Its always the same with these bell-ends. I am from Bolton, therefore I am a murderer in their eyes. With the exception of a few who will have known or are related to the deceased it's fake grief. In large part this comes down to the fact that they spent 29 years in the lower divisions from 1978 to 2007. Subconsciously they feel the 1974 incident is a connection to a long ago day when English football took Blackpool a bit more seriously. They look up to Bolton. They wish they were more like Bolton. Deep down, they know they're chicken shit. If they stop us getting in to the play offs on Saturday, they'll celebrate wildly - which will emphatically show that they are chicken shit in the Bury category. League One is calling. It's not going to be this year, it might not even be next - but its a magnetic draw on Blackpool and when it does, normal service will have been resumed.

If you'd offered me this scenario before kick off today I'd have taken it. Going to Cardiff and getting draw with depleted ranks and a poor away record is no mean feat. The tinpot tangerine shit will be girding themselves to spoil it for us next week, so it won't be easy.

I bet those bastards will be begging us for one in the summer, I hope we tell them to fuck off.

Yep. Fuck em.

Didn't Cardiff get chased into the sea at Swansea once?

Yep. Subject of hot debate in South Wales ever since. Swansea taunt, Cardiff claim it wasn't their main firm.

Do we need him

Probably, yes. Though the need would be a little less if normal service is ever resumed with Stuart Holden.

Often wonder if history would have worked out different at Burnden had the superstore never been built. The board might have chosen to invest in the old ground rather than move to Horwich. Not sure what impact either way that would have had on life since.

Fuck em.

There's Bury, Wigan, Tranmere etc. However there's something uniquely tin pot about Blackpool.

Blimey how did we cope when then Shopping Mall blocked the corner of the pitch at Burnden Park

You didn't cope at Burnden. You never coped. "Shopping Mall" or pre-"Shopping Mall".

Some of our away followings in the mid to late 70s were incredible the Everton away semi-final was their 12,000 Bolton on Derby 1/4 final was 8,000 but that Blackburn game was incredible Bolton were in the majority on 3 sides of the ground, and a large amount on there main end.

Boxing Day 1978 at Blackpool would have to come in to the equation in any discussion about huge Bolton away followings in the 70s.

People have lost interest this season. Plenty of better things to do in Blackpool on a Saturday afternoon. Remember it's Britain's number one tourist destination. You Bolton people are lucky to be positioned relatively close to it. At least you can say you went on a summer holiday in these tough times.

Are you still here you delusional fuckwit? I look forward to normal service being resumed in future years with Bolton being one or more divisions above Blackpool (as with 1978-1985 or 1993 to 2010). There was silence from Blackpool during each of those years.

Hughie Currant, Dennis Pee Cock...... I'll get my coat.