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https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/anthony-grant.6750/

Some interesting comments there!

Sensible comments all round so far on that thread - clearly we got the short straw with the idiot posting on here.

Grant was immense last season, don’t get me wrong, but he hasn’t pulled up any trees at League 1 level for a long time so I can see why their fans are slightly underwhelmed. Hopefully a case of Wellens getting the best out of a player and Blackpool being stuck with an aging high earner for a couple of years. Wishful thinking I know ;)

Who's this massive bulb on twitter?

https://twitter.com/PeapleChris/status/1287395953205542914?s=20

#JerkyMcKneejerk

An Arsenal fan...

You'd think we won't be signing any more players the way some are going on.

Same old thing every season for as long as in remember, tiresome to read.

The squad currently is far stronger than it was 6 weeks before start of last season

A transfer being leaked as a result of a now-deleted Instagram Live video would be peak modern football, wouldn't it?

Breaking boundaries.

Can't remember where I saw it now, but I quite liked the rumour at the weekend that Football Phil was having a medical at Blackpool ...

Best departure from Swindon in years if it happens, good luck to him, he has several international caps for boring people.

Understand from Nixon that Blackpool are considering an offer for the Rolex clock. This so all the Swindon players will feel at home in the ground. Also give Keish something to aim at :pint:

I saw Chris Kamara hit the clock from a penalty in a friendly back in 79/80 vs Roda JC Kerkrade.

We were attacking the Town End at the time (that part is untrue but the other part happened!).

Blackpool manager keen on Benda. Unofficial advisor, Owen Oyston suggests "it's not usually what I go for".

Oof.

Hearing the Cheltenham Massive is due to be announced as Official Never Happy With Anything At Blackpool Contingent, and will convert to being a closet Fleetwood fan. He is due to start posting about how shit Yates is and where's all the Stanley Matthews money gone imminently.

Thing is about Blackpudlians is they are the Irish who couldn't swim.

Their still bitter after we bought Dave Hockaday :pint:

It's not all about the players, we have a proven manager who can make things work and get that team mentality. I think we'll probably take a bit more interest in Blackpool this season and how things go for them, good or bad  :)
Like others have said, some of their fans are sounding similar to some Bradford fans last season.

I'm still bitter they took Dave Bamber from us!

PS. 'They're' its 'They're'!

Go three streets behind the Golden Mile and it's fucking awful.

On my visits to Blackpool, after an unhealthy chip barm I enjoy going on poverty safari to laugh at the locals.

Who's us?

Bamber went from us to Watford. Then had spells at Stoke and Hull before ending up back at Blackpool...a bit of a stretch to say they took him from us!

Go three streets behind the Golden Mile and it's fucking awful.

This.

Yep

Never been to Blackpool but everyone I talk to say it’s awful. If it didn’t have a beach, what else would it have apparently. Closest I’ve been is Morecambe which is the place that time forgot. *Shudders*

People always say how bad Swindon is but there are definitely worse places and every place has rough areas.

The town though has needed a lot of rejuvenation for many years.

Swindon and Blackpool are both shitholes to be fair.

TBF the "shithole" tag can be levied at almost every large town or city in the UK. Every one has good and bad areas, Swindon certainly no worse than many many others.

You have to think Northerners will soon fall out of love with the Tories when they see up close what they really think of them.

Blackpool will have a pike in the number of its deprived townsfolk.

 Blackpool had been the only place I'd seen a bird pull down her drawers and have a piss in the street, up until about 4 years ago when I saw similar in Prospect Hill.... tbf the Swindon lass, did position herself over the gutter, whereas the Blackpool lass didn't bother. I guess it's a difference in class.

‘Drawers’. Only a bit more advanced than bloomers!

There is something slightly intoxicating about a piss scented minge

I went on a stag do in the late 90s, can't remember much about it. Coming out of a strip club, half cut at 4 in the afternoon was a bit surreal. Can remember being in a chippy at 3am, local in front ordered fish, chips, mushy peas, curry sauce and gravy. Then asked for it to be wrapped  :D

Didn't they make you finish your shift on stage that day? :D

you don't need to go any streets back from the "Golden Mile" to find a run down town in Blackpool.  It makes Bridge St look positively sparkling in comparison.  That said, you feel very little guilt should you later throw up on said mile.

It has a storm sewer outlet, big one, on the beach that gets uncovered during low tide.

I did meet my wife there though, classy.  Had some good times in that place, which have all involved being very drunk.  I struggle to see how families make the trip, but they do - I'm told a couple of the facilities are quite good.

I still like the team a bit, playing in Orange does it I think.  One of the few teams I've watched live without Swindon being involved.

When I was living in Edinburgh we went for a weekend in Blackpool which included taking in the 2-2 draw (I think) at a rain soaked bloomfield road - I think Igoe may have got Wellens sent off which left the locals irate.

Anyway, we stayed at probably the cheapest B&B I've ever stayed at, I think it was £13 per night. The shower was somewhat 'interesting' in that you had to put a 10 pence piece into a machine to get the water to run. Weirdly the machine was located outside the bathroom door and my mate only realised that the 10 pence only lasted a few minutes. Of course he had a head full of shampoo and had to scramble out into the hall to put the 10p into the machine to get the water to finish the shower.

We did think the owners, Dave and Eddie were possibly perverts but they seemed pleasant enough if very camp.

I like Blackpool a lot. Its seaside resort heritage is fantastic and hugely significant. We had some great research trips and conferences there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englands-Seaside-Resorts-Allan-Brodie/dp/1905624654

Funny Girls is worth a visit too.

Did anyone go on the free transport to the Football League HQ when it was in Lytham St Anne's in 1990 to protest about the demotion?

Apparently those posh towns are where the Donkey Lashers to do their robbin'.

I think a lot of families stay at nearby Marton Mere (it a nice site for a traditional UK getaway) and then just head into Blackpool for a few hours. The usual stuff - stroll along the beach, go up the tower (which when I last went, they had a glass floor installed), get fish n chips, buy a stick of rock, go to Ripley's BION, and possibly Pleasure Beach as well.

To purposely stay within the town proper though would be like staying in most coastal towns. It mirrors what PV said, in that most small to medium towns across the UK have their bad and good parts. Most bad parts are generally closest to the centre of a town.

I would also say, that the opposite does mirror across the country too. Go a little bit outside of a town and it tends to get nicer and the bonus of usually a bit more countryside (or at least more accessible). It's kind of why a lot of people who work in Manc love living near one of the towns to the east. Plenty of commutable options and the Peak District/Lower Pennines are on the doorstep. I'm sure we can replicate that with most places around the country.

I have only gone to Blackpool once in my life on a day trip. I really enjoyed it, great fish and chips as well. Typical old English holiday resort.

I had my one and only trip to Blackpool the weekend of my 13th birthday, a mini-holiday with my old man. He bought me new shoes, I got ill and spewed all over them. Probably the highlight of the weekend.

Another Blackpool one-time-only.

Circa '92: Day trip from Catterick. It rained.

Mum bought me a velcro ball catching game, which were all the rage back then. I lost it in an arcade shortly afterwards.

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/o0EAAOSwLKhcQF0O/s-l300.jpg)

We parked near Bloomfield Road (we left during a game). It was not busy.

Blackpool have just loaned Ryan Hardie to Plymouth for the season. Northern club loaning a striker to a southern club in the same division. What could go wrong?

I'm also a one-timer. Went there for what turned out to be a 3-2 defeat in September 1970.  A topsy-turvy game with Don Rogers scoring two penalties but Blackpool (with Jimmy Armfield and Gordon Milne in their side) 'stole' a winner late on. We went to a 'typical' Blackpool pub on the front afterwards, which was a 'jolly' place full of loud, sweary, pissed-up northern types. The men weren't much better.

Twice here.

Once to see the illuminations in ‘94

Once to watch a 0-0 draw where Rory Fallon took a free kick, right hand corner of the box, left footed. Hit the roof of the stand, the left side stand. Amazingly awful.


http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20060104

Went for the McMahon promotion clinching draw.

Went again with my young son. Some fucker broke into my car in the hotel car park.

To say Blackpool is a classic English seaside resort is like saying Swindon is hot on the museum scene.  It's rank, and it's gotten a lot worse over the past 30 years, trust me.  The oddity is that popping up North on the coastline finds better "seaside resorts" on the tram line itself.  Blackpool got sucked into the late night party town approach in the 90's (like Bridge St I compared it to).  When nightclubs fell out of fashion it had fuck all left than to offer a sort of concentrated Wetherspoons approach.  I know very few places as classless as Blacpool, but I still like it.

I wish the team well.

I'm sure when we went to Blackpool there was a nightclub with a revolving dance floor. I'm sure I didn't dream this, but possibly I could have done.

Edit - it was this place;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_Blackpool

*Got. Talking of class, I know it's an increasing trend, but don't lose your British English.  ;)

I've never been.

Sounds like a good craic.

Look, since finding out the use of z in words was actually the original and proper use of English, I;ve been devastated.  Time to just accept that languages are not static animals, they live a breathe and find new life through change.

I have a degree in linguistics. I know. In fact, as with many American forms it looks like "gotten" is closer to the original Germanic root which distinguishes the preterite from the past participle (bit, bitten / took, taken). Knowing all that doesn't preclude personal prejudice.

The differences all make much more sense when you allow for the fact that American English is stuck closer to the original 17th century English forms and usage which it derived from when it split from proper English. Put simply, we have evolved, the Americans have failed to do so.

See, be as clever as you like, you can't beat your prejudices.

:) Some of the above may have been tongue in cheek.

Mine wasn't. Even a distinguished grammarian I know allows for personal prejudice as a social counterweight to linguistic normalisation. None of us are neutral observers.
:whoosh:

The use of the word gotten seems to be increasingly more common and the phrase "can I get..." and the use of the word stand rather than witness box is a particular source of irritation for me.

See, for me the redundancy in "increasingly more" and "equally as" get my goat.

As someone on here almost said the other day, personal prejudices are like arseholes.  ;)

That's fair comment. I should spend more time carefully crafting and constructing my posts.

You're far from alone in that respect.  :D

Understand the others but what's so bad about "can I get"?

As in "can I get a Reeeeeee-winddd".

Surely it is a matter of etiquette rather than grammar? If you're referring to "may I have" as being the appropriator, being rather anal I would actually say the more proper would be "I/one would like" and if answering for others "<<ins. person>> would like".

Yet none of the above are really that bad, unless you have a position within the Monarchy to uphold. The ones that trump them all, would be "I want" or the even more demanding "give me", although I've never really heard either of them used in a restaurant ordering context. If so, most people whether practising RP or just a regular human, nearly always end their sentence in this scenario with "please."

It implies you're asking to be allowed to go and fetch the item yourself, rather than have the person you are asking do so (which is what you actually asking). e.g. "Can I have a coffee?" = "Would you please get me a coffee?" vs "Can I get a coffee?" = "Is it OK if I leap over the counter and get my own coffee?"

Not that it matters much, so long as both parties are clear as to the meaning. It's really just a shift in usage. But it's mildly irritating

My problem with the use of "can I get" is that I am mildly irritated by the increasing use of American english.

The trouble is, you fucking have to do so on here  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

You've gotten a hella problem there my G. Fix up*. Look sharp.  :soapy tit wank:




*Fix up is actually Canadian. I believe

Anyways and anywho are two that bug me!

Always thought it was "Anyhoo" but isn't that more a Scots/Irish originator? But I feel ya brother  :D

I quite like "since" as a more common Americanism, yet that too is closely linked to older English. We tend to use the longer "seeing as"; e;g

"Would you like to go to the mall? Since you have nothing else to do?!"
to
"You wanna go down shops? Seein as you are doin fuk all?"

The only bit I'd change is "mall". That fucks me off.  Precinct kinda irks me that way too. Just call it the fucking shops, a shopping centre or just "town".

Jesus these guys are bitter.

https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/looks-like-grant-might-not-be-happening.6834/

In fairness they’re no worse than how a few on here have been after Yates and Keshi went to them.

It's more the fact they've made a separate thread to say "Grant: It's not happening". They already have an Anthony Grant thread.

On here we would have covered a brief history of time, Town's title not won on merit, my off topic rants, maybe something about Doyle, a shit joke and maybe the finer detail of whether a contract announced was 2 years, already two years with one to go, or two years ending in two days. All in the same fred.

These tangerines fans might be organised as fuck but they aren't very efficient. Do better  :D

Seems like standard bleating from disgruntled football forum members

“there’s” !!!

You missed the bit about how the Tories ruined the seaside resorts of the UK.

I knew there was something. Fanks!  :)

Are those examples of tautology?

It reminds me of someone having a half-pint in the south-west of England which would "help kick-start" the hospitality sector of the economy.

Nice post Bamboon and it probably is Anyhoo as I've never seen it written but either way it sounds shite. As for Malls you're right they should just call it shops!

Moved away from bamboo stalking?

I'm more of a buffoon really. Tbh, I've been all over this forum this afternoon/evening like a cheap suit but that's how it is sometimes.

Talking of buffoon. I only recently realised that buffoonism is a thing. I mean, it seems obvious that it should be, since buffoonery and buffoonish do exist but I always thought buffoonism was one of those made up "-ism" types. Would that legally make me a buffoonist (I'm leaving myself open here, for someone to say 'no, it makes you a cunt') or is that a made up term? Certainly not a bassoonist. Very talented, they are.

Nahh, I heard him taking a Polaroid of me from 20ft away, earlier on. Likely it is pinned with the other 749 images in the shrine. 
:pint:

Time will tell as to whether their recruitment policy pays dividends or not - they’re guessing it will, we’re guessing it won’t.

Obviously they have got some financial clout but I’d love to know why hoovering up potentially good players from a league below is seen as better than signing up the better players from L1 or potential from the Championship. I doubt the cost would be hugely different.

They’re right, though. The 2 games next season will be tasty - only hope fans are allowed.

What if you don’t rate him?

Any spare tickets going for game at Blackpool on Saturday?

Only if you wear a mask

OK. Meet me outside Funny Girls at noon on Saturday for ticket swap