Ollie: Blackpool can't go on like this

On the day Blackpool opened a new south stand at Bloomfield Road bearing the name of club legend and former England captain Jimmy Armfield, it was the relegation-threatened visitors who took control of the Championship game, establishing a 2-0 interval lead through Nick Carle and Darren Ambrose.But midfielder Charlie Adam struck shortly after the restart to haul Blackpool back into contention and first-half substitute Ben Burgess salvaged a point for the play-off-chasing Seasiders.Holloway said: "In the first half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second half we were like Real Madrid. We can't go on like that."One minute I was pulling pints and collecting subs, the next was on a luxury coach."At full time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell who can't quite get the mutt out of the hole and they deserved that."Some of those boys who I started with didn't put a shift in for Blackpool, but some of the lads who I had put on the bench always put a shift in for the team."I put Ben Burgess on the bench as he had been ill for the last two days and I wanted to preserve him but in the end I had to bring him on in the first half."Palace manager Paul Hart hailed his side's first-half performance but admitted it was all downhill after Adam pulled one back for the hosts one minute after the break."It was certainly a game of two halves," said Hart."I thought we were good value for the first half and the second half they put us under an awful lot of pressure."Conceding so quickly was obviously a blow but it was always going to be a struggle for us after that."Adam's goal was a powerful effort from the edge of the area set up by the perseverance of Billy Clarke, who dispossessed Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni.Speroni was then able to keep Blackpool at bay until one minute from time when Burgess managed to tap home from close range at the second attempt.And the Argentinian goalkeeper still had more to do as he denied substitute Brett Ormerod and Gary Taylor-Fletcher in stoppage time.Hart praised Speroni's contribution and reiterated his belief the Eagles can avoid relegation."Our keeper's fantastic, he's got to be one of the best outside the Premiership," the manager added."We've got something like 19 players in our squad and we have to just get on with it."We're hopeful about staying up, after all no-one said it was going to be easy but we have to keep on hanging on in there."We said to them at half time 'keep going and doing what you've been doing and whatever you do don't concede too early'."

Source: Team_Talk