Michael Appleton hopes Tom Ince and Alex Baptiste will stay at Blackpool

Blackpool boss Michael Appleton hopes Tom Ince and Alex Baptiste will stay at the club after starting in the 1-1 FA Cup third round draw with Fulham on Saturday.

In hat

Appleton admitted he would have taken a replay before kick-off. "It was their strongest side, so I am pleased to come away and still be in the hat and have the chance to bring them down to the Bloomfield Road cabbage patch," he said. "It is as bad a surface I have even seen in the league. I don't think Fulham will be comfortable or enjoy playing there. "We have to make sure we put on a performance because they are still quality." Blackpool's goal, finished emphatically by Sylvestre, demonstrated their own quality but it was completely upstaged by Karagounis' wonder strike. "It took a fantastic goal to get them back into the game," Appleton said. "I asked the players to enjoy their defending because we knew that they would be doing a lot today. "But they did well and didn't panic when Fulham started putting balls into the box and we put our bodies on the line."