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His Mum likes my tweets of his goals, which is sweet.

Give him a rousing send-off next week!

Its been great watching robbie ,and we all will wish him well ,unfortunately we will have fans saying palios get your checkbook out and sign him ,no way blackpool will let an asset like him go below 7figures, just hope he doesnt go wrxm🙈

Wherever he goes for me he will be the player that did most to secure our league place . His pace and energy lifted others and one can only wish the best for the future wherever that is

Hawkes’ training sessions next season will consist of watching repeats of Apter in action….

That Aaron Nemane goal for Notts County at Walsall yesterday ( Notts 2nd goal ) was excellent, and very reminiscent of a typical Apter goal...Would be nice if we could get a player of similar ilk to come in for Robbie..That won't be easy though..

'Next season without him will likely be very different' ... Why? Unless you have a crystal ball no one yet knows who will be arriving at PP. We may have a better player or two. I do agree though that we should thank him with a resounding send off next Saturday

Agree with that Sparky but I feel the most pertinent thing is that this season would have been very different without him

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Agree with that Sparky but I feel the most pertinent thing is that this season would have been very different without him

I think that says it all. If there is a T.E.A.M then they shouldn’t have to depend on one individual for inspiration.

It doesn't negate the T.E.A.M. idea just because we have one player so much better than the others.

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It doesn't negate the T.E.A.M. idea just because we have one player so much better than the others.

We will see - when he is no longer in the team. Have a look at the goal stats of the other ‘strikers’

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It doesn't negate the T.E.A.M. idea just because we have one player so much better than the others.

We will see - when he is no longer in the team. Have a look at the goal stats of the other ‘strikers’

I'm not denying he's by far our best player, I'm just saying the team ethic is still important.

If Apter goes which is highly likely…. ….I have
Totally Enjoyed Apter’s Masterclass ..( TEAM )…This season 👏👏👏

Two Scotland U21 appearances for Rob Apter this week. A bit of discussion as to how Tranmere’s style suited him but some L2 games inevitably become long ball type football.

Apter called up for Scotland U21 Blackpool Gazette

Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

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Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

just about everyone is linked to them not long ago they were linked to the stunning 🤣 signing of Jamie vardy


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Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

just about everyone is linked to them not long ago they were linked to the stunning 🤣 signing of Jamie vardy

Think Apter is a bit more realistic

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Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

just about everyone is linked to them not long ago they were linked to the stunning 🤣 signing of Jamie vardy

Think Apter is a bit more realistic

they were linked to bringing Gareth Bale out of retirement only a few months back..

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Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

just about everyone is linked to them not long ago they were linked to the stunning 🤣 signing of Jamie vardy

Think Apter is a bit more realistic

they were linked to bringing Gareth Bale out of retirement only a few months back..

mentioned today again so it’s going to happen 🤣 good luck to them it’ll all come crashing down soon

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Twitter rumours linking him strongly with a permanent move to Wrexham.

just about everyone is linked to them not long ago they were linked to the stunning 🤣 signing of Jamie vardy

Think Apter is a bit more realistic

me waking up with 2 legs is more realistic 🤣

Against Swindon away he was eclipsed by the performance of Myrie-Williams, and Blackpool won't let him go to a League 1 rival

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Rumour updates enquires submitted by Wrexham, Carlisle and us but looks like will be staying at Blackpool with a view to 1st team action , guess our only hope is he doesnt play and we get him in January



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Rumour updates enquires submitted by Wrexham, Carlisle and us but looks like will be staying at Blackpool with a view to 1st team action , guess our only hope is he doesnt play and we get him in January

Fingers crossed BR

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Little point in clinging to any hope of a return here. His time here helped him and it helped us. His career has moved on and he almost certainly has better options

Apter is as likely to return to Rovers as Rishi Sunak is to be the next Prime Minister.

Just out of curiosity I wonder what price tag Blackpool would put on Apter if they were to sell him ..?

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Apter is as likely to return to Rovers as Rishi Sunak is to be the next Prime Minister.

Just wondering if he’s got Sky now, to watch next season’s footie.



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Little point in clinging to any hope of a return here. His time here helped him and it helped us. His career has moved on and he almost certainly has better options

I think we would have been relegated without him

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Apter is as likely to return to Rovers as Rishi Sunak is to be the next Prime Minister.

Just wondering if he’s got Sky now, to watch next season’s footie.

dodgy stick probably,🙈

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Apter is as likely to return to Rovers as Rishi Sunak is to be the next Prime Minister.

Just wondering if he’s got Sky now, to watch next season’s footie.

😁😁😁

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Just out of curiosity I wonder what price tag Blackpool would put on Apter if they were to sell him ..?

Saw something the other week that valued him at £150k but that was prior to his award, its got to be north of £400k i would think and if a decent prem club came in possibly couple of mil

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Just out of curiosity I wonder what price tag Blackpool would put on Apter if they were to sell him ..?

Saw something the other week that valued him at £150k but that was prior to his award, its got to be north of £400k i would think and if a decent prem club came in possibly couple of mil

Not quite sure he’s Premier League quality yet. I agree a value of around £400k would be about right.
Contentious I know but should Palios push the boat out and try and buy him ?
Giving Blackpool a 60/70 % sell on fee .
Ambitious I accept but are we a Club with ambition’s or just another mediocre lower mid table 2nd division club !!!

I looked up ‘footballer transfer inflation’ since 1992. Based on that, a player of equivalent scoring prowess as Aldridge would technically cost £6,500,000 (£250,000 1992). However, let’s face it , it is likely to be at least four times that, nowadays with no guarantee they would be as prolific as Aldridge.

A tad depressing. Based on Apter’s contribution last season, I think £1M would be a ‘steal’ but worth the investment if he helped the team to league one.

Unfortunately, I think Tranmere will have to carry on depending on players not wanted by other clubs. I can’t see Nigel bringing in a marquee signing. It will have to be a ‘whole greater than sum of the parts’ TEAM.

And that means having to accept that players some don’t rate will be part of the squad. Living within financial means.

Apter will be very much part of Blackpools plans I suspect and sounds like hes been told that, as someone said it was good to have him for a season. Hopefully Hawkes can refind his form he scored a few last season from the bench

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Apter will be very much part of Blackpools plans I suspect and sounds like hes been told that, as someone said it was good to have him for a season. Hopefully Hawkes can refind his form he scored a few last season from the bench

It would help if he gets a run of games. Hard to be consistent when hardly ever played for full games or just used as a late sub. Hopefully, Nigel will get the best out of him. I suspect part of his problem was demotivation.

Unless we get unreal investment Apter is out of our range but the 400k instead be diverted to an adequate similar player with cash to spend wisely

It would be foolhardy for us to splash £400k on any player and we would have to match the best potential wage that player might receive elsewhere.

The skill at our level of resource is unearthing potential talent and creating the right blend of players. Ambition is fine, but splashing cash is just gambling and risking future viability.

Most L2 clubs have recruited more players than us thus far, but hopefully we have deals ready to go so that pre -season does serve to knit the squad, and we do not end up, as last year, playing catch up after the first 10 games

400k on a player would be financial stupidity for a club of our size.

It's like when a small club makes the premier League, blows all it's cash and gets relegated, the bills don't go away. If we have 400k it needs to be invested into the future sustainability of the club.

Things go wrong, remember the last time we spent 400k on a player? Let me remind you, Tommy coyne. Played about 10 games for us before horrible events took hold, we had the money then, we don't now.

Simply a club of our size spending that amount of money, plus wages is too big a risk

I wouldn’t want the club to risk it’s financial security ..We wouldn’t want to do a Bury…But the club managed to raise the funds for revamping of the sponsors lounges and the new pitch etc which cost in the region of £2m.
I’m not saying these shouldn’t have been done because obviously they were needed..
My point is if we can raise £2m for stadium development we should be able to raise at least the same amount on player recruitment..
We’ve got a first class playing surface that would grace any Championship club .
Unfortunately without serious player investment we will never get to see Championship football played on it ..

as I mentioned when someone said Crawley Town was worse than Tranmere for attendances but 'they were doing ok'. the owners invested £5.5M in February and look what happened.it's how effectively the money is used. they will start to reap the financial benefit of being in league one.

unfortunately the Palios' don't have access to that sort of money, so yes , it has to be accepted that players like Hawkes and Dennis are part of the team and we should be encouraging them.

hopefully, with Nigel at the helm for a full pre-season we may see an improved contribution from them.and we still don't know who else is coming in.

£400K for Tommy Coyne is equivalent to at least £1,6M today. no chance of that.

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as I mentioned when someone said Crawley Town was worse than Tranmere for attendances but 'they were doing ok'. the owners invested £5.5M in February and look what happened.it's how effectively the money is used. they will start to reap the financial benefit of being in league one.
unfortunately the Palios' don't have access to that sort of money, so yes , it has to be accepted that players like Hawkes and Dennis are part of the team and we should be encouraging them.

hopefully, with Nigel at the helm for a full pre-season we may see an improved contribution from them.and we still don't know who else is coming in
£400K for Tommy Coyne is equivalent to at least £1,6M today. no chance of that.

I’m with you ..I wonder if Crawley invested the money into a new pitch or players , and that’s my point really.

Hawkes is huge potential, its simply a matter of confidence: having players selected over him effects him more than most. Lets give him a regular 1st team spot next season and watch him go...

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You could be right Crazy but in the end any players place in the team can only be justified by performance. This is a big season for Hawkes. He is past the stage of being an emerging talent and I cannot see him being here this time next year unless he improves

He is on the bench for Blackpool today..

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He is on the bench for Blackpool today..

He’s not going to like that..
He’s now just a squad player at Blackpool..
Not sure when the transfer window closes but we should go all out and sign him..
His presence was missed today !!

It certainly was but I would be surprised if we could get him and it would leave us with a lot of wide players

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It certainly was but I would be surprised if we could get him and it would leave us with a lot of wide players

See he came on after 83 minutes after they went 2-1 down..
Probably wouldn’t have come on if the game was still 1-1..
There manager plays a very rigid 3-5-2 system which doesn’t set up for Apter ..
He’s an old fashioned out and out winger which suited our 4-4-2..
He’ll soon get fed up bench warming for a poor league one team.
We missed him today let’s hope he missed us as much playing in a team that acknowledges his strengths and plays to them ..

we did miss his trickery
Our forwards and midfielders struggled against a very good side today, and we can thank our robust defence for the 0-0

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I think Patrick may be able to play the role but 20 minutes a game won’t prove that. Maybe he will start next game. To be honest though , this T E A M mantra needs to work . There shouldn’t be a dependency on one individual. Nigel did admit that things need to improve in chance creativity and conversion, although he insisted the team can score a lot of goals after the friendlies had been completed. Hard to judge - proper competitive games will demonstrate how good the forward / midfield are.

Maybe it was me but it looked like Davies began to play as a forward at times!

Anyway, early days and the makeshift defence did well, as did all the players in playing their defensive part to cut out chances and harass the opposition.

Notts are still a good passing team and I think they will do well because they seem to have cut out the defensive frailties of last season.

It will be interesting to see if Apter remains at Blackpool come the end of Aug. Seen a lot of discussions on about Hamilton being the RWB in the formation they play, their fans confused why Apter not in there. Think we’d all agree that this wouldn’t get the best out of Apter. They also just signed Embleton so I’d imagine he goes into the Attacking Mid position. One thing for sure, after a full season in L2 he needs to be playing week in/week out to continue his development. Otherwise it’s unfulfilled or just stalls his progression.

On Crawley though, wow, promotion team ripped up and lost their best players from it, 7 new debutants yesterday and beating a Top 10 team first game is impressive. They continue to deceive.

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It will be interesting to see if Apter remains at Blackpool come the end of Aug. Seen a lot of discussions on about Hamilton being the RWB in the formation they play, their fans confused why Apter not in there. Think we’d all agree that this wouldn’t get the best out of Apter. They also just signed Embleton so I’d imagine he goes into the Attacking Mid position. One thing for sure, after a full season in L2 he needs to be playing week in/week out to continue his development. Otherwise it’s unfulfilled or just stalls his progression.
On Crawley though, wow, promotion team ripped up and lost their best players from it, 7 new debutants yesterday and beating a Top 10 team first game is impressive. They continue to deceive.

They do have ‘money to burn’ which helps to bring in good quality players.

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It will be interesting to see if Apter remains at Blackpool come the end of Aug. Seen a lot of discussions on about Hamilton being the RWB in the formation they play, their fans confused why Apter not in there. Think we’d all agree that this wouldn’t get the best out of Apter. They also just signed Embleton so I’d imagine he goes into the Attacking Mid position. One thing for sure, after a full season in L2 he needs to be playing week in/week out to continue his development. Otherwise it’s unfulfilled or just stalls his progression.
On Crawley though, wow, promotion team ripped up and lost their best players from it, 7 new debutants yesterday and beating a Top 10 team first game is impressive. They continue to deceive.

They do have ‘money to burn’ which helps to bring in good quality players.

i see that all 4 teams that got promoted from L2 last season all won on the opening weekend of fixtures.

Crawley have done it different u der Lindsey since the initial takeover, was listening to Lindsey back in May and how he come in and got rid of bad apples and big earners like Telford & Nadesan.

He’s done it on a fraction of the price the other 3 promoted teams have spent on fees and wages, mostly recruiting from non league for modest fees and having success with loans. He sold Kelly, Lolos and Orsi this summer having only signed them last summer. Kelly was a free from Rochdale, I’m hoping Nigel pulls one out the bag with Davison, Orsi was signed after poor goal returns and people laughing.

Even this summer, none of their signings jump out. They replaced Orsi with Hepburn Murphy, who scored on the weekend. Will look out for them this season, a great example of a manager who knows how he wants to play and what players to make it happen. If they stay up that would be a huge achievement, ripping up squads in consecutive years and getting success with a small budget.

[they must be doing something with the £5M investment they received last February or so? Maybe just using it wisely. On top of seemingly implementing that T E A M approach 🤓

They certainly improved post-financial-injection

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Apter might get a game tonight with it being the Carabao and not a league game.

He played the full 90 mins in Blackpools impressive 4-0 win away at Burton tonight..He didn't get on the scoresheet but he contributed with 2 assists.

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He played the full 90 mins in Blackpools impressive 4-0 win away at Burton tonight..He didn't get on the scoresheet but he contributed with 2 assists.

The win was against ten men for almost the whole game. 11th minute sending off)

Blackpool have sacked their manager., i wonder if Apter will fit in with the plans of their new manager whoever that may be...?

PS. just out of interest, yesterday it was mentioned on the TRFC rezzies thread that Everton have a young player on their books, Matt Apter..Does anyone know if he is related to Rob?



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Blackpool have sacked their manager., i wonder if Apter will fit in with the plans of their new manager whoever that may be...?
PS. just out of interest, yesterday it was mentioned on the TRFC rezzies thread that Everton have a young player on their books, Matt Apter..Does anyone know if he is related to Rob?

Not a surprise with Critchley, their fans have been unhappy with him for a while it seemed. Seeing Ryan Lowe heavily linked already.

Ref Matt Apter, yes it’s his little brother mate. Friends who are toffees say he is a attacking mid, similar to Lewis Warrington I’ve heard.

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Blackpool have sacked their manager., i wonder if Apter will fit in with the plans of their new manager whoever that may be...?
PS. just out of interest, yesterday it was mentioned on the TRFC rezzies thread that Everton have a young player on their books, Matt Apter..Does anyone know if he is related to Rob?

Not a surprise with Critchley, their fans have been unhappy with him for a while it seemed. Seeing Ryan Lowe heavily linked already.

Ref Matt Apter, yes it’s his little brother mate. Friends who are toffees say he is a attacking mid, similar to Lewis Warrington I’ve heard.

cheers

Not in the team or on the bench today for Blackpool's game away to Cambridge. Possibly injured?

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Not in the team or on the bench today for Blackpool's game away to Cambridge. Possibly injured?

he is on the bench, he has just come on in the 86th min...quite a game there, its currently 4-4...can Apter find a late winner?

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Not in the team or on the bench today for Blackpool's game away to Cambridge. Possibly injured?

he is on the bench, he has just come on in the 86th min...quite a game there, its currently 4-4...can Apter find a late winner?

Thanks HKR. I looked at their team sheet and he's not mentioned. Perhaps he's their secret weapon!!

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Not in the team or on the bench today for Blackpool's game away to Cambridge. Possibly injured?

he is on the bench, he has just come on in the 86th min...quite a game there, its currently 4-4...can Apter find a late winner?

and Blackpool are bottom....

I know I sound like a dog with a bone but bench warming for team that will likely be relegated this season will not do his development any favours..
He’s a player that needs to be playing week in week out ..Which is what he would have playing for us..
Let’s see what happens come Friday night .

Steve Bruce new boss at Blackpool.

I dunno who is better Bruce or Critchley
Makes you glad you have NA

i know he has gone and we can't keep looking back but he has got on the scoresheet this afternoon with Blackpool currently 2-0 up..Blackpool marching up the table..is this just a case of that new manager bounce or will Bruce end up being a great appointment for the Seasiders?

Well considering he used to manage Newcastle, he has experience of managing a club near to vast expanses of sand, I doubt it was an interview requirement, but if he makes the players do a Stan Matthews and regularly jog on the beach it might help.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Apter donated £500 to Bamber Bridge who are struggling financially to survive the season.

An old mate of mine from HK that now lives back in the UK in his hometown of Bristol went to the Bristol Rovers v Blackpool game last night..i asked him to give me a report on how Apter played..said that he didn't see a lot of the ball but had some nice touches..he said Bristol Rovers were awful, defended poorly and no shots on target..a bit like us then!!!



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Blackpool like us are struggling this season and are my tip for relegation..
When Critchley was manager early season he favoured a 3-5-2 which doesn’t suit Apter and consequently struggled to get into the first team ..
Critchley has gone on the back of there poor start .
Bruce has taken over and despite an initial good run of results there form has dipped again ..
When Apter was with us he became our go to player and Atkins set up the team and formation around him .Which isn’t happening at Blackpool.
Our results when Apter played and didn’t play speak for themselves.
We need him back and should be the first signing we make if the takeover happens..!!!

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Blackpool like us are struggling this season and are my tip for relegation..
When Critchley was manager early season he favoured a 3-5-2 which doesn’t suit Apter and consequently struggled to get into the first team ..
Critchley has gone on the back of there poor start .
Bruce has taken over and despite an initial good run of results there form has dipped again ..
When Apter was with us he became our go to player and Atkins set up the team and formation around him .Which isn’t happening at Blackpool.
Our results when Apter played and didn’t play speak for themselves.
We need him back and should be the first signing we make if the takeover happens..!!!

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