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Rumour Bowyers Gone

stuff the payout to keep quiet. spill the beans on the whole damn lot. how many ( decent ) managers have we lost in our lifetime
 
From the Sportman:

Ian Holloway has been linked with a sensational return to former club Blackpool following the shock exit of manager Gary Bowyer who left the League One club just one game into the new season.
Bowyer announced his surprise departure early on Monday night, just 48 hours after the club’s opening day goalless draw with League One opponents Wycombe. Terry McPhillips has been placed in charge of the Seasiders on a caretaker capacity and also features in the betting for the permanent position at 6/1.
However, it’s Holloway who has been installed as the early favourite to succeed Bowyer, which is sure to get tongues wagging at Bloomfield Road.
Holloway managed Blackpool between 2009 and 2012 during which he became the first boss to lead the club into the Premier League, something he then described as the best achievement in his life.
Holloway left the club to take charge of Crystal Palace, then Millwall and most recently QPR, with whom he left in May - with Steve McClaren coming over in the opposite direction - meaning he’s currently unemployed. However, whether a return is likely under the current regime is open to debate.
Another interesting name in the frame is the ex Ipswich Town gaffer Mick McCarthy, who is looking for a way back into management having left The Tractor Boys back in April. Keith Curle, Darren Ferguson and Paul Heckingbottom also feature in the betting at this early stage in proceedings.
 
Either a new owner is about to take over and wants his own man in or Bowyer has been tapped up or he has read the tea leaves and forsees Oyston hanging on.
 
The early odds, according to Bet Victor, are:
Ian Holloway - 5/1
Terry McPhillips - 6/1


Keith Curle - 8/1
Mick McCarthy - 8/1
Darren Ferguson - 10/1
Paul Heckingbottom - 12/1


David Hopkin - 12/1
Dave Jones - 14/1
Stuart McCall - 14/1
Robbie Neilson - 14/1
Billy Davies - 16/1


Dougie Freedman - 16/1
Paul Ince - 16/1
Harry Kewell - 16/1
Russell Slade - 16/1
Michael Appleton - 20/1
Gary Caldwell - 20/1
Lee Clark - 20/1
Owen Coyle - 20/1
Kevin Nolan - 20/1
Paul Scholes - 20/1
Robbie Stockdale - 20/1
Craig Bellamy 25/1
Steve Coterill - 25/1
Danny Cowley- 25/1
Gary Johnson - 25/1
Brian McDermott - 25/1
Gary Megson - 25/1
Dean Saunders - 25/1
Craig Shakespeare - 25/1
Gordon Strachan - 25/1
David Unsworth - 25/1
Mark Warburton - 25/1
 
Sad news indeed, he has surpassed all expectations since he arrived and all considered he is the best manager for a long time. Some fool will take the job, with the usual poor terms.
 
Controversial former Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston has taken to Twitter to react to the news of Gary Bowyer's surprise resignation.

Oyston was chairman of the club when Bowyer, who today decided to step down from the job, was first appointed as manager back in June 2016. He was eventually sacked in the role by his father Owen in January of this year. He tweeted: "What a shambles. Hard to see a way forward that ends well, thanks Gary." Pool fans will no doubt find amusement in the comment given the shambolic nature of the club started during his tenure as chairman.
 
No amusement just anger.
Bourneymouth start their 4th season at the top.table in a ground that holds just over 10k.


It could,and should have been oh so different.

Oyston Out
 
Surely now is the time for all mushrooms to admit they have been wrong in their financial support for the monster that owns the club and at last join the NAPM movement.
 
Bournemouth spent a net £30m on transfers this summer. Speculate to accumulate - something the Os would not do. They just wanted to asset strip for their own greed.
There is a great opinion article by Scrafton in the Gazette on the situation. Mentions some staff not being paid
 
For the past two seasons, amid ongoing off-the-pitch chaos, Blackpool FC has given the impression to outsiders that is a normal football club. Well, as normal as you can be when the vast majority of your supporters don’t attend home games.
But the man who was responsible for maintaining that facade has now gone and, just one game and five days into the new season, the club has once again plummeted into further turmoil and disgrace.
Of course there is only one man we can blame for all this and that’s Owen Oyston (although the football authorities need to have a long, hard look at themselves, too).
How Gary Bowyer managed to work for such a despised individual, roundly acknowledged to be the worst football owner in Britain, and deliver such spectacular results in the process is simply befounding. Can you blame Bowyer for taking this decision? Absolutely not. I’m only surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
Bowyer performed miracles in his two seasons at the club But that’s just how Bowyer works. He did it during his first job at Blackburn Rovers but that was nothing compared to what he had to endure at Bloomfield Road.
During his two years on the Fylde coast, Bowyer somehow managed to drown out all the nonsense that continues to mire the club into the ground to this day to concentrate on 11 players kicking the ball around a pitch. Given the dignity and class he forever carried himself with, half of the time you wouldn’t even notice the club was involved in an unprecedented High Court case which left the owner with a debt of more than £30m.
Bowyer’s achievements at Blackpool should never be underestimated. Upon arriving in June 2016, his first mission was to stabilise a club that had just endured back-to-back relegations in the midst of fan protests both in and outside of the stadium. But, somehow, he managed to go one better, taking the Seasiders to Wembley to continue the club’s proud play-off history with that win against Exeter City - thus masterminding a return to the third tier at the first attempt. You wouldn’t think that could be bettered but somehow Bowyer managed it. Despite the sales of Brad Potts and Bright Osayi-Samuel, despite the High Court judgement in November 2017, despite the football club being put up for sale, despite all the talk of investors and loans, despite the departures of Karl and Sam Oyston, as well as Alex Cowdy, Bowyer managed a top-half finish in League One.
This, let’s remember, was with a team who had been expected to get relegated at the start of the season. The Seasiders finished the season with the spine of a team that could, with the right investment and additions, challenge for the top six in League One. Instead, through no fault of his own, Bowyer was left to overhaul his squad once again as he watched on as players departed: left, right and centre. Kyle Vassell, the club’s top scorer for the last two seasons, joined Clark Robertson in joining Rotherham United. Both, incidentally, are players who have a lot to thank Bowyer for. Colin Daniel and Kelvin Mellor also decided to opt for pastures new. Meanwhile the loanees that proved so important last season, the likes of Joe Lumley, Sean Longstaff and Viv Solomon-Otabor, returned to their parent clubs with no return ever looking likely. Essentially, an exciting, young squad with a blend of the right experience was shredded in a matter of weeks.
As usual, Bowyer didn’t complain. In fact, he seemed to relish the challenge of putting together another squad capable of competing in League One. But this time it was a challenge that was beyond even him.
Of course the situation wasn’t helped by certain other factors at the club, namely the farce that is Squires Gate training ground. The pitches there are, quite frankly, a disgrace and are considered unusable for the foreseeable future. No wonder when there’s no running water. The squad have instead been training in Preston, the home of Blackpool’s biggest rivals. That’s bad enough as it is, but it’s much worse when you consider Bowyer was initially paying for the training pitches out of his own pocket. He was eventually reimbursed by the club, something fellow club staff haven’t been so lucky with. Bowyer has cut a severely frustrated figure in recent weeks, and who can blame him? I’m not surprised that he has left, I just thought he might have waited until Thursday’s transfer deadline. Clearly, he had reached the end of his tether. Did the recent speculation regarding Curtis Tilt have any part to play? It’s difficult to say, only Bowyer can answer that one. To me, it appeared as though he was begrudgingly prepared to lose Tilt - given the fee was right - as it seemed like the only way he would be able to strengthen his squad. Pool are badly lacking at least two attacking reinforcements. Without them they’re likely to struggle. Ironically it appears Oyston - the man who still owes £25m to Valeri Belokon - is intent on keeping Tilt at the club. You would have thought he would have cashed in at the first attempt. Like many, I was looking forward to seeing Bowyer given proper backing: be that financially under new owners and support from the packed stadium. Unfortunately, like so many before him, he didn’t get it. Despite that, he still managed to perform miracles on a weekly, nay, daily basis.
So here’s to you Gary Bowyer. Thanks for all you have done for Blackpool Football Club, and best wishes for whatever you decide to do in future. No doubt you will prove a success once again. And thanks for always proving so affable and accommodating with the media. You deserve a normal football club for your next job, and I’ve no doubt you’ll have plenty of offers. Where this mess of a club goes from here is anyone’s guess.
 
I'm now glad I live in Oz. Nobody here has even heard of Blackpool FC so nobody can take the piss out of me for following what has become an absolute farce of a club.
Close the club and let's all bugger off home. That includes you Prem 1!

Sad, sad times...
 
I have bought a season ticket ,but out of respect for Gary I will not be at Saturday’s match.I hope we have a new Owner for our second home match.
 
According to Twitter it looks like GB went to the EFL to get clarification on ownership and future and was told politely to do one