A Crewe win is needed if Blackpool are to have any chance of saying up.
That (a Crewe win against Fleetwood) would be irrelevant though if we can’t win at Peterborough.
Anything but a Pools win tomorrow and we’ll definitely be playing in League 2 next season, which we’re odds-on to see happen anyway!
Jim McAlister has admitted the Blackpool players are ‘feeling low’ following the four-nil defeat against Wigan a week ago but is hopeful we’ll do what we have to and get help from Crewe too, telling the Blackpool Gazette.
‘We have to hope folk do us favours now, that`s all we can do. We shouldn`t be at the point where we need favours from other teams. We should have been keeping it in our own hands. We have one game to go. We need to go into the game on Sunday trying to win it, then it`s a case of hoping someone does us a favour. The boys are down – if you aren`t down after last weekend you shouldn`t be in football.’
Looking back to that second half collapse at Bloomfield Road the midfielder admitted how ‘unacceptable’ it was, adding.
‘The reaction in the dressing room was very down. You can`t play as well as we did in the first half and come in at 0-0 – we had to be going in ahead. Then in the second half you can`t go from one extreme to another like we did. It`s just not acceptable.’
A lack of goals has proven so costly for us this season, with McAlister and Neil McDonald both aware of plenty of chances being created with the frustration being that too few have been taken.
Should Peterborough score against us, either to take the lead or peg us back how we react will be import, he finished by saying we must do that and also need to ‘give ourselves a chance’ with this something we’ve not managed enough this term.
‘When you do concede a goal you have to see out the next five or 10 minutes. When a side gets a boost like scoring a goal, they are always going to come at you and have a decent spell. You have to work hard and play your way back into the game. Too many times this season we`ve not even given ourselves a chance to do that.’
