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'What's important' - Blackpool boss outlines good and bad from League One opener draw Blackpool’s League One campaign started with a 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers at Bloomfield Road. Blackpool boss Ian Evatt believes clear improvement at Bloomfield Road was already on display during the opening weekend of the League One season. The Seasiders came from behind to draw 1-1 with Wycombe Wanderers on the Fylde Coast on Saturday afternoon. Finley Munroe marked his debut in Tangerine with a goal off the bench to cancel out Fred Onyedinma’s early opener for the visitors. While Evatt admits there’s plenty still to work on, he was pleased by the way his side reacted to going behind, and how it contrasted some of their woes from last season. “There was a lot to like about that,” he said. “There was a lot of good work in that game - we had an awful lot of control, but functional control. We have to be intelligent to understand when teams are in a block, we can’t get there quickly because we’re ready to deal with that. “We have to be a little bit sharper with our sideways passing to get them jumping out of slots, and then provoke the space they leave behind. “At times we did that well, and at times we didn’t. The idea was correct, and that’s what’s important for me - the process and the performance was there. “My role is to make sure the club and the fanbase can see us improving on last season, and for me that’s already an improvement. “At the end of last season we were resilient and tough, but we had to build that, but there were times where we went a goal behind and lost our marbles, and the whole stadium would’ve lacked energy and we would’ve conceded again. “Today, we stayed in control. We stayed dominant and patient, and we got the deserved equaliser. In my view, we should’ve had a penalty in the first half, and the Blocko (Tom Bloxham) one at the end is very close to being onside. “We didn’t quite have the rub of the green, but I was delighted with our process.”