Blackpool first-team coach Stephen Dobbie reflects on his first impressions of life at Bloomfield Road during his playing career.
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00:00Obviously I got the phone call that Ian Holloway wanted to sign me and my wife at the time she was six days
00:07overdue pregnant
00:08so it was sort of
00:10pack the bags
00:12Plot every hospital on the way from Swansea to Blackpool, which you can imagine was a lot in case our waters broke
00:19so the first first
00:22Sort of site of Blackpool was a rainy night driving to the front of the the prom
00:28To stay in a hotel
00:30But knowing that I'm only 15 minutes away for a hospital. So that was the first
00:35My first feeling of Blackpool. We had a dog in the hotel room. So
00:40And try to manage I think we played Saturday. Jack was born on this Sunday
00:46Morning, and then we had another game on the Tuesday
00:49West Brom at home if I remember rightly
00:52So it was a hectic time the first the first week that we were at the seaside