In all games against Blackpool we have only managed 7 wins from the 36 games with Blackpool winning 12 and 17 ending as a draw, we have scored 39 and conceded 51.
However, in away games at Bloomfield Road we have only managed 1 win in 18 games with Blackpool winning 9 and 8 finishing as a draw, we have scored 14 and conceded 28, a pretty poor record.
Saying that though, we have only lost once in our last 5 visits and only lost 2 of our last 8 visits, the other 6 matches ending as draws. Our only win so far coming in 1979 when Alan Mayes scored the only goal of the game.
Blackpool have (obviously) Yates and Anderson who moved to them in the Summer as ex Town players, Swindon have just Richie Wellens himself as the only ex Blackpool tie in, having played 226 times for them scoring 26 goals in his near 6 year spell there.
Manager Neil Critchley has yet to win a competitve match in charge of Blackpool with 3 draws and 2 defeats from his first 5 games in charge. 3 of those games ending 0-0 with Blackpool scoring only 1 goal and conceding just 3 in the 5 games so far under his head "coach"manship.
Critchleys preview.
Will need to play better than we did last week. Swindon have some injury problems apparently, but Richie W appears to be both a great organiser and motivator of players, and he seems to find the players he needs somehow, despite missing out on players to the likes of us with their smaller budget. As a player he had quality and he had attitude, and he made things happen. He got in the faces of the opposition. I expect a difficult game.
if we score early I think we will easily win!!!
Same team as last week, if Swindon do play football should be plenty of space for our front 3...
I think it will be a tough game, they'll be well organised and on a high after promotion, whilst we're still finding our feet.
My only forecast which I sincerely hope is proved completely wrong is that we won`t score many if any goals,probably one at most although I imagine Yates will be keen to get on the scoresheet against his old oppo`s.
Sticking my neck out here. Blackpool win 3-1, Hamilton scorer on 27 mins. Yes swindon beat Rochdale 3-1 but having watched the highlights rochdale were very poor.
I think we need someone to neutralise Jack Payne in their midfield.
We are at home, we have a good midfield, maybe we should let them try to neutralise us rather than limit our own flow?
Blackpool 0-0 Swindon in front of a crowd of 1,066, including the disliked Rob Hartley.
I will go with....
Kovar
Caddis Odimayo Fryers Hunt
Grant M Smith
J Smith DJ Payne
T Smith
Fryer
Grounds
Haines
Iandolo
Curran
Pitman
Hope