MIDAS man Stephen Purches' 'goal-den' touch helped Cherries banish their Bloomfield blues and clinch their first-back-to-back away wins for over a year.

Sean O'Driscoll's side bounced back from a 1-0 half-time deficit as two goals in as many minutes from Purches and Karl Broadhurst just after the break saw Cherries pick up their first league win at Blackpool for 16 years.

Astonishingly Cherries have won on each of the nine occasions Purches has found the target since he opened his goals account against Stoke City in February 2002. And the modest 23-year-old admitted he had a sneaky feeling victory was on the cards again after he had fired in the equaliser at Bloomfield Road.

Purches said: "It is funny how things go but that is just the way it is at the moment and obviously I am loving it!

"I think all the boys realised. Carl Fletcher said as soon as it went in he thought we would go on and win. I don't know if me scoring does give us a bit of a psychological edge but it seems to be working at the moment.

"And until it doesn't it is always going to be in our heads that we can go on and win the game."

The 2-1 win saw Cherries record consecutive away wins for the first time since September last year following their celebrated 1-0 defeat of Wrexham a fortnight ago.

And having also found the net at the Racecourse Ground, Purches believes Cherries were worthy claimants of all three points against Steve McMahon's Seasiders.

Purches added: "I hit this one better than my goal at Wrexham and I think the keeper must have thought it was going wide because it bent in at the last minute. But if you don't shoot, you don't score.

"Playing in midfield I obviously get more of a chance to shoot and I enjoy getting forward and shooting. And at the moment they are going in for me.

"We have played better and Blackpool made it hard for us but in the second-half we showed a bit what we are about."