Post by QPR Report on Dec 29, 2009 13:34:40 GMT
To see Sousa AND Holloway both doing so well this season in OUR Championship....Yes Holloway is definitely one of the reasons, I have my differences with Gianni Paladini
Football League
HAPPY OLLIE-DAYS
Posted on: 28.12.2009
These are happy days for Blackpool Manager Ian Holloway and his team, who to the surprise of many are flying high in the Coca-Cola Championship - and could fly even higher, says the ever-effervescent 'Ollie'.
The Seasiders were among the favourites for relegation when Holloway, appointed in May, led them into the campaign after they had struggled for much of last term before ending with a five-game unbeaten run that saw them finish 16th in the table.
But after Boxing Day's 2-0 win at Derby County they are just two points below the Play-Off berths, with a game in hand on sixth-placed Swansea City, as they prepare to face Sheffield Wednesday in a match that will take their season to its half-way mark.
And in the second half of the campaign, reckons Holloway, the Seasiders could make a concerted bid to reach the top flight for the first time in four decades after spending most of that period in the bottom two divisions of the Football League.
The Manager said: "Hopefully the mind-set's changing. When I first came here they were (thinking), 'we've done well to be in this division;' but I'm trying to get them to believe they can get into the other division.
"We're not little Blackpool, we're big Blackpool. This club has got some magnificent history - (Stanley) Matthews, (Stan) Mortensen - and hopefully now people will remember (Charlie) Adam, (David) Vaughan and (Brett) Ormerod."
Whether Adam, Vaughan and Ormerod will go down in Blackpool folklore as have Matthews and Mortensen, only time will tell. It's unlikely, most people would say - but most would also say the Seasiders are unlikely candidates for the Premiership.
Holloway acknowledges that 'unlikely' tag. "It's like we're on a party," he said. "I'll get a bonus if we stay up, whereas everybody else in this division thinks they should get promoted - football's gone crazy!
"I'm enjoying myself, enjoying being in work, enjoying the way my team are working for each other and the way we're playing. I'll have a mince pie and a little glass of wine (to celebrate beating Derby), but then it's on to the Sheffield Wednesday game.
"They got a good point against Newcastle (on Boxing Day) so Monday's going to be a hard game for us. What a tough division this is - we've got an awful long way to go before we can have even half a look at what we're doing and where we're going."
www.football-league.co.uk/championship/news/happy-ollie-days-20091228_2248204_1916435
Football League
HAPPY OLLIE-DAYS
Posted on: 28.12.2009
These are happy days for Blackpool Manager Ian Holloway and his team, who to the surprise of many are flying high in the Coca-Cola Championship - and could fly even higher, says the ever-effervescent 'Ollie'.
The Seasiders were among the favourites for relegation when Holloway, appointed in May, led them into the campaign after they had struggled for much of last term before ending with a five-game unbeaten run that saw them finish 16th in the table.
But after Boxing Day's 2-0 win at Derby County they are just two points below the Play-Off berths, with a game in hand on sixth-placed Swansea City, as they prepare to face Sheffield Wednesday in a match that will take their season to its half-way mark.
And in the second half of the campaign, reckons Holloway, the Seasiders could make a concerted bid to reach the top flight for the first time in four decades after spending most of that period in the bottom two divisions of the Football League.
The Manager said: "Hopefully the mind-set's changing. When I first came here they were (thinking), 'we've done well to be in this division;' but I'm trying to get them to believe they can get into the other division.
"We're not little Blackpool, we're big Blackpool. This club has got some magnificent history - (Stanley) Matthews, (Stan) Mortensen - and hopefully now people will remember (Charlie) Adam, (David) Vaughan and (Brett) Ormerod."
Whether Adam, Vaughan and Ormerod will go down in Blackpool folklore as have Matthews and Mortensen, only time will tell. It's unlikely, most people would say - but most would also say the Seasiders are unlikely candidates for the Premiership.
Holloway acknowledges that 'unlikely' tag. "It's like we're on a party," he said. "I'll get a bonus if we stay up, whereas everybody else in this division thinks they should get promoted - football's gone crazy!
"I'm enjoying myself, enjoying being in work, enjoying the way my team are working for each other and the way we're playing. I'll have a mince pie and a little glass of wine (to celebrate beating Derby), but then it's on to the Sheffield Wednesday game.
"They got a good point against Newcastle (on Boxing Day) so Monday's going to be a hard game for us. What a tough division this is - we've got an awful long way to go before we can have even half a look at what we're doing and where we're going."
www.football-league.co.uk/championship/news/happy-ollie-days-20091228_2248204_1916435