SINGING A WINNING TUNE

WE finally managed to score AND win a friendly on Monday after five games of firing blanks.

And it just so happens that it was against our Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers. Although, I must admit it wasn't quite their first team.

It was such a surprise when Gary Taylor-Fletcher chipped Paul Robinson to open the scoring after five minutes, the gaffer turned to the bench and said: "Its been so long that I don't even know how to celebrate."

Maybe we are just better when we are the underdogs. After that 4-2 win Matt Gilks said we woudn't need to worry about a relegation battle anymore and should instead look to the play-offs. The rest of us won't be getting so carried away.

The gaffer signed his 10th, 11th and 12th players of the summer in Mo Camara, David Vaughan and Rob Edwards this week. Good news is that they are all quality players and the boss is going to have one hell of a selection headache on his hands.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that we were so short of players that there were only eight of us training but this week we had our first 11-a-side match with subs.

IT'S always good to start the season with a win, it's just a shame we didn't on Saturday.

We lost 1-0 against Bristol City, who scored a great goal in the last minute. We played really well and created a lot of chances against a team that were just 90 minutes from the Premier League last season.

The lads are a bit angry in the changing room but we will take plenty of positives from the game.

WITH all the new faces, pre-match entertainment is going to be pretty interesting.

Most clubs have one person in charge of the music which generally means if you don't like hip hop then you're going to suffer. The difference at Blackpool is that we all get to choose one track from a playlist that Claus 'DJ death metal' Jorgenson compiles.

It was a strange feeling last season getting pumped up for the game with your favourite 50 Cent track, only for it to be followed by Kaspars Gorkss' selection 'I Saw The sign' from Ace of Base.

When I was at Hull City Stuart Elliott - who is a born-again Christian - would walk out the room or complain if there was any swearing in a song. But if the rest of the boys are singing and dancing along, it's going to stay on.

So far this season we've endured Ross Lloyd's pick of 'Wild Boys' by Duran Duran and my choice of 'Poison' by Alice Cooper. Opposition players will be scared or, most likely, confused walking past our changing room.