Blackpool will still have belief that they can potentially gate crash the top six in League One before the end of the campaign if they can sustain their recent consistent form.

Neil Critchley’s side have been on an impressive run of form in League One of late and that has given them an outside chance of catching some of the teams above them. The Tangerines also have some games in hand on some of the sides directly above them in the table and that offers the chance for them to potentially make up some of the ground.

However, it is still an outside chance of the play-offs, and they could miss out on the top six and have to build again for League One in the summer. That will be a crucial summer for the club with Critchley needing to be backed to build on what has been achieved over recent weeks and months on the field.

It will be important that Blackpool also look to keep hold of a number of their influential performers who might be attracting the attentions of other clubs in the summer. Where they to stay in League One then that could leave them potentially vulnerable to losing some of their star men.

There could therefore be one or two departures from Bloomfield Road in the summer, but can you remember some of these less memorable former players.

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One player who Blackpool fans might have forgotten represented the club for a brief spell is winger Adam Henshall who spent a short period on loan with the Tangerines in 2015 from Ipswich Town.

Henshall arrived at Bloomfield Road having made just five appearances for Ipswich during the 2014/15 campaign, and the Tractor Boys made the decision for him to go out on loan and get some regular game time. However, he would only manage two appearances before an injury saw him return to Portman Road early.

The winger went on to sign for Kilmarnock in Scotland, but he endured another difficult spell there managing just a handful of games. Since then he has been something of a journeyman taking in spells in the lower leagues with the likes of Braintree Town, Nuneaton Town and Darlington.

He is now with Swindon Supermarine who he signed for last summer.

Another very forgettable player to have spent a short time with the Tangerines is defender James Hurst, who joined on loan from West Brom back in the summer of 2011.

Hurst made the move to Blackpool on loan in the summer of 2011 for the campaign, but there was a clause in the deal that meant that West Brom could recall him at any stage they wanted to. The defender did not make an impact at Bloomfield Road and managed to make just two appearances up until October.

On 21st October Portsmouth made the decision to recall him from his loan spell and he instead went out on loans to both Shrewsbury Town and Chesterfield before the end of the 2011/12 campaign. After spells with Birmingham City and again with Shrewsbury he finally left West Brom in 2014.

He has since gone on to play for the likes of Wrexham, Torquay United and Northampton Town and is currently playing for Buxton.

One player who struggled to really impress during a permanent spell with the Tangerines was Alberto Noguera with the midfielder having failed to make an impact at Blackpool in his short spell.

Noguera signed for Blackpool in the summer of 2012 on a two-year deal, but the midfielder was only able to make one appearance for the club which came from the bench during a 6-0 win against Ipswich Town. The 31-year-old failed to ever build on that and was far down the pecking order during the rest of the 2012/13 campaign.

The midfielder was released by Blackpool during the summer of 2013 after his contract was terminated and he went on to sign for Azerbaijan side FC Baku. He has since gone on to spend time with the likes of Lorca, Numancia and he his now with Indian side FC Goa.

Another loanee who did not really make much of a positive impact during his time at Bloomfield Road was midfielder Simon Walton, who spent a short spell with the club at the end of the 2008/09 campaign.

Walton was brought in from Plymouth Argyle in March 2009 on a loan deal until the end of the campaign, and he made his debut for the club off the bench in the 1-0 win away at local rivals Preston North End. That though was as good as it got for the midfielder who did not feature again before the end of the campaign.

The midfielder spent time on loan with Sheffield United and Crewe Alexandra in the following campaign before he eventually left Plymouth. He has subsequently played for the likes of Hartlepool United, Stevenage and Crawley Town and he is now on the books of non-league side Havant & Waterlooville.

Correia is another player on this list who had a permanent spell with the Tangerines that was not very much of a success with him arriving at the club in 2017.

The forward arrived for an undisclosed fee from Radcliffe Borough after firing in 11 goals in 22 appearances in the 2016/17 campaign and it was hoped he could make an impact for Blackpool and make the sizeable step up. He did not feature until playing in an EFL Trophy defeat against Shrewsbury Town in January 2018.

That was to be his one and only appearance for the club and the decision was made for him to leave after loan spells with Guiseley and York City in non-league. He went on to sign for Barrow and is currently playing for Welsh side Bala Town who he joined in the summer.

The latest player who some may have forgotten played for Blackpool is forward Saër Sène, who spent a brief period with the Tangerines in the second half of the 2014/15 season.

The forward had spent two-years with New York Red Bulls in the MLS after he had fired in 17 goals in 59 games for New England Revolution between 2012 and 2014. However, Sène did not replicate that form with New York Red Bulls and he was eventually allowed to leave the club in January 2015 on a free transfer.

Blackpool made the decision to give him a chance to impress in English football offering him a deal until the end of the campaign. However, the striker could make the most of that chance and made just one appearance at Bloomfield Road. He was unsurprisingly allowed to leave the club at the end of the 2014/15 season.

Sène has since had spells in Germany, Bulgaria and Morocco, but he has never been prolific for any of the clubs he has represented in that time.

One player on this list who has gone on to have a decent career despite his limited impact at Bloomfield Road is Sone Aluko. The attacker has been a very useful player in the Championship for a number of years now and he has been an impressive performer in some promotion-winning sides.

Blackpool fans might have forgotten that the attacker did spent a short period with the club on loan from Birmingham City, after signing on an emergency loan in August 2008. Aluko made just one appearance during that short time coming off the bench in a 1-0 defeat against Bristol City.

He signed for Aberdeen the following summer and went on to make 82 appearances for the club in which he scored seven goals. That earned him a move to Rangers and he scored an impressive tally of 12 goals in 21 appearances in the 2011/12 campaign at Ibrox.

Hull City then snapped him up and he helped the Tigers earn promotion to the Premier League in 2013 and he has since helped Fulham also earn promotion to the top-flight in 2018. Aluko is currently involved in another promotion battle with Reading this campaign.

Some fans might also not remember that goalkeeper Michael Theo spent a single season with the club in 2002/03, with the Australian having not managed to make much of an impression at Bloomfield Road.

The keeper has spent the majority of his career in his native country outside of an unsuccessful spell with Norwich City where he made just one appearance in a 7-1 defeat to Colchester United. Blackpool though were the first English team to take a chance on him and brought him to the club in 2002 after scouting him.

However, he managed to make just two appearances that campaign with injuries limiting his impact for the club. Theo returned to Australia the following summer with South Melbourne and he has since gone on to play for Melbourne Victory, Norwich and Brisbane Roar and is still playing at the age of 40 with semi-professional outfit Nunawading City.

Blackpool fans can also be forgiven for having forgotten the short spell that forward Márkó Futács had with the club on loan from Leicester City back in the 2012/13 campaign.

The forward has had a well-traveled career that has seen him have spells in France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey and Croatia. However, he also spent two years in English football firstly with Portsmouth in the 2011/12 campaign and then with Leicester the following season.

After not making much of an impact at Leicester he was sent out on loan to Blackpool for a month in March 2013. During that time he made four goalless appearances and then returned to his parent club before leaving permanently that summer for Hungarian outfit Diósgyőr.

Futács is currently still playing in Hungary with Zalaegerszeg TE.

Another player on this list that will likely not have lived too long in the memory of Blackpool fans is midfielder Gerardo Bruna, who arrived at Bloomfield Road following his exit from Liverpool in the summer of 2011.

Having come through the ranks at Anfield there would have been hope the midfielder would have been something of a coup for the Tangerines. However, despite signing a two-year deal he was unable to ever fully convince over his qualities and spent most of his time well down the pecking order.

Bruna did make four appearances in total for Blackpool, but he was in the end unsurprisingly allowed to leave the club on a free transfer in the summer of 2013. Spanish side Huesca picked him up that summer and he has since gone on to have spells with Tranmere Rovers, Accrington Stanley and Derry City.

Another player who some might have forgotten spent a brief period with Blackpool on loan is winger Michael Jacobs, who has enjoyed a decent career in English football with some successful spells at the likes of Wolves and Wigan Athletic.

Rewind to March 2015 and Blackpool were looking to try and survive in the Championship after what had been a very difficult campaign. Jacobs had fallen down the pecking order at Wolves and so the Tangerines brought him in on a temporary deal. The winger managed to score once in five appearances but was then recalled by his parent club for the end-of-season run-in.

Jacobs has since gone on to have a largely successful five-year spell with Wigan who he helped earn promotion from League One in 2018, and he scored 32 goals in 176 appearances for the Latics. He made the switch to Portsmouth in the summer.