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- Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
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Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Thomason captain then? Can’t have done much for santos confidence? Sometimes it's just worth taking Santos out of the firing line. Captaincy doesn't help him avoid pressure. It’s a decision that should have been made this summer. Reactive, not proactive now. I like Thommo a lot. Easily my favourite...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Thomason captain then? Can’t have done much for santos confidence? Sometimes it's just worth taking Santos out of the firing line. Captaincy doesn't help him avoid pressure. It’s a decision that should have been made this summer. Reactive, not proactive now. I like Thommo a lot. Easily my favourite...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Depending how one defines such a nebulous term, the percentage of "successful" managers is probably broadly similar to what it ever was. Like politics, it's a career that usually ends in failure: quite reasonable to define Rioch's post-Bolton career as such, and he'd been fired from his two previou...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Big Sam weighs in. I suspect this has become a significant issue for Evatt now. When greats of the club are openly criticising him in public over his one note style then well it’s bad news. https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24599547.ex-bolton-wanderers-boss-sam-allardyce-ian-evatt-style/ Aye he...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Big Sam weighs in. I suspect this has become a significant issue for Evatt now. When greats of the club are openly criticising him in public over his one note style then well it’s bad news. https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24599547.ex-bolton-wanderers-boss-sam-allardyce-ian-evatt-style/ Aye he...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Big Sam weighs in. I suspect this has become a significant issue for Evatt now. When greats of the club are openly criticising him in public over his one note style then well it’s bad news.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/2 ... att-style/
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/2 ... att-style/
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
I’m clearly no fan of Evatt but I don’t agree with a board giving a manager ‘x’ number of games. It makes no sense. Surely it has to be a decision against target. Arbitrary numbers of games just create a mess. 5 wins followed by 5 defeats for example. Do you reset the clock? Managers imho have to be...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
3-0 Bolton, our poor form since NYD has been down to Craddock's coaching, should never have appointed him in the first place - just watch us go now ! Will you accept that if it's true? No because it’s absolute bollocks just like Evatt pretending he’s some hero today when in reality he’s Phil Neal M...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
3-0 Bolton, our poor form since NYD has been down to Craddock's coaching, should never have appointed him in the first place - just watch us go now ! Will you accept that if it's true? No because it’s absolute bollocks just like Evatt pretending he’s some hero today when in reality he’s Phil Neal M...
- Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
3-0 Bolton, our poor form since NYD has been down to Craddock's coaching, should never have appointed him in the first place - just watch us go now ! Will you accept that if it's true? No because it’s absolute bollocks just like Evatt pretending he’s some hero today when in reality he’s Phil Neal M...
- Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: The ianevattable sacking
- Replies: 318
- Views: 8981
Re: The ianevattable sacking
So Thomason has basically confirmed all the things I’ve been saying over the last two years. We have mental weakness running through the club like a stick of rock. We are trying to play a style of football we are not capable of playing and winning with consistently enough to go up. It didn’t take mu...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Options for the next manager
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2148
Re: Options for the next manager
This is a question for anyone who watches more than I do (everyone). When Schon first played, I forget the game, but I saw a lot of favourable noises on here. Now, it seems like he's awful. My question is... Did they buy a decent player who showed what he can do in the first game, then got told to ...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
feck me. Pratleys and Spearings. Yeah players who got us out of this league. But the key is their character. When going was tough Pratley came into the side and bullied Fleetwood. Ultimately ended up with us going up, we have nobody remotely capable of anything like that. You can’t get out of this ...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:49 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24589951.bolton-wanderers-stars-too-kind-says-george-thomason/ Thomason says it’s all too nice and kind and soft in the dressing room. Now plenty have been saying this for a long time. It was obvious from the outside. It’s too relaxed there aren’t the strong lea...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
There's a few who get the heart pumping a bit quicker - in a good way. A crunching tackle or great defensive play gets the crowd going just as much as a tricky winger - Rico has done that on occasion, Forino did so on a couple of occasions in the first half. In midfield, when Tomo or (vs Huddersfie...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Anyone answer the question - especially regular attendees, which player in this squad gets you off your seat? Who excites?
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
Fair, but I think some do forget, and seem to think that Getting It Up The Pitch helps the entertainment. It happened on Saturday - boos when the ball went back to Baxter ("Get it forward!"), quickly seguing into more boos when he did so and their centre-back briefly stopped sucking on his cigar to...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
I mean, if we lose this one he’s definitely gone, right? There's a bit of a problem once you're on this bus. The final destination keeps changing and additinal stops get added on the way. I think despite some people thinking the Club should have just gone L2, 1 year, L1, 1 year, most folks recognis...
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2194
Re: Between the lines. Home to Reading, Sat 21st Sept/ 3'oclock.
I mean, if we lose this one he’s definitely gone, right? No he's Mr Teflon, he'll go when he's ready & on his terms and no one on the board has the stones to stand up to him or disagree with him. He's now basically said twice in 3-4 months that he needs time to think about whether he can be arsed c...
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: The ianevattable sacking
- Replies: 318
- Views: 8981
Re: The ianevattable sacking
Evatt has let his staff take the can for his failings. In short it’s detestable. Until he goes nothing good is happening at this club. Simple as that and a few wins or back room reshuffles won’t fix it. That's fine, but he's not going; so they need to walk the narrow path available. I only care abo...