***Sonny Carey signs a three year deal***

blackpool72 said:

I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter 

Agree 100%

oohaahmortimer said:

Every Sonny I’ve known,  as in my kids associated with through school or footy have been right little cnuts 

Agreed. The two Sonny's I know of were pretty hardcore.

RonnieMoore said:

blackpool72 said:

I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter 

Docherty will be captain next season … 

I admire your steadfastness, Ronnie. Once you take a liking to someone, like Docherty and Berry, you remain loyal.
On the other hand, once you have got it in for someone, like TC or Dobson, you keep on sniping every chance.
I would hate to be your enemy.

oohaahmortimer said:

Every Sonny I’ve known,  as in my kids associated with through school or footy have been right little cnuts 

Wouldn't have called this one that ... to his face.

fenaddick said:

Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey

https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html

Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.

https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q

NabySarr said:

cantersaddick said:

jimmymelrose said:

The Red Robin said:

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

cantersaddick said:

Southbank said:

That's our 8, now we need a 10

I think the other way around fella.

Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.

Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season. 

They’re not talking about literal squad numbers. 

But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?

Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid. 

In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.

Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsense

You are all so confused. 2 is right back, 3 is left back, 4 is right half, 5 is centre half, 6 is left half, 7 is right winger, 8 is inside right, 9 is centre forward, 10 is inside left and 11 is left winger.

Haven't been on here since Friday and genuinely delighted to see that it's all arguing about calling players by numbers and whether that's dumb. It is! But everything is! Descriptions of players by position, number, talking about rigid formations is all reductive and stupid anyway because the game is more complex than it ever was. Thierry Small was a 2 for us. But also a 7. But also both and neither. Was Campbell our 11 or our 10 given he was our main creative threat and the likes of Berry and Anderson were more traditional 8s at the same time as Docherty. Coventry was our 4 or our 6 depending on how old you are and how European you are. If you're arguing about whether a player is a 4 or an 8 then congratulations on losing your mind. Players aren't constrained by these simplistic descriptions. They get assigned them for ease but it's all meaningless, like everything.

carly burn said:

Scoham said:

fenaddick said:

Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey

https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html

Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.

https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q

Brilliant read that. We may have found ourselves a little Gem.

Lettuce hope we have, Cos he could add much needed goals and dribbling ability to our midfield.

Scoham said:

fenaddick said:

Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey

https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html

Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.

https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q

Great read, sounds like he could work well with the likes of coventry, allowing him to find those so called “pockets of space”.

Stu_of_Kunming said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

jimmymelrose said:

The Red Robin said:

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

cantersaddick said:

Southbank said:

That's our 8, now we need a 10

I think the other way around fella.

Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.

Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season. 

They’re not talking about literal squad numbers. 

But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?

It always was, "he's a forward, he's midfield, he's a winger, he's a centre half".
Simple.

Very simple, which is why terminology has evolved along with the game.

Stuart Balmer used to be our number 1.

Dippenhall said:

NabySarr said:

cantersaddick said:

jimmymelrose said:

The Red Robin said:

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

cantersaddick said:

Southbank said:

That's our 8, now we need a 10

I think the other way around fella.

Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.

Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season. 

They’re not talking about literal squad numbers. 

But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?

Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid. 

In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.

Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsense

You are all so confused. 2 is right back, 3 is left back, 4 is right half, 5 is centre half, 6 is left half, 7 is right winger, 8 is inside right, 9 is centre forward, 10 is inside left and 11 is left winger.

What’s complicated except no 3 or no 2 might be a second no 5, so no 4 or no 6 might play where no 2 and no 3 play so 8 and 10 might have to fill in somewhere else and 7 and 11 might be up and down taking over where 4 and 6 leave spaces, Then we get no 33 come on as sub!

WTF do numbers mean any more - haven’t got a scooby doo.

cblock said:

1 Charlie Wright  2Bob Curtis 3 Phil Warman 4 Alan Campbell 5Paul Went 6 Peter Reeves 7 Harry Gregory  8 Ray Tracey 9 Gordon Ridick? 10 Graham Moore 11 Keith Peacock

9 Matt Tees

3 Brian Kinsey

Brilliant read, it weirdly seems like he was their Albie Morgan, a player that was always nearly their and you could clearly see there was something, I really hope he comes and smashes it here