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by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Replies: 161
Views: 4436

Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Sun May 19, 2024 7:33 pm
nicholaldo wrote:
Sun May 19, 2024 6:49 pm
I'd be surprised if there's a wholesale change in personnel.
I’d be amazed if there isn’t. If we go into next season with Evatt and a similar squad it’s going to be incredibly grim. I could see it being bottom half.
Yep. Same team, same manager, lose 1r places in the league?!?!?!!
by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

Ok. Sorry, you win. You're right. Obviously. I admit it now, The players all got together before the game and agreed to sabotage it by not even trying. They just couldn't be arsed... Cos they thought it might be funny. Jesus wept..... No. They are just too casual, not determined enough. You don’t w...
by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 30
Views: 826

Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?

Stay for me. With the caveat that anything other than automatic promotion sees him gone. Do you think firmly that target will be met? Because it’s a bit pointless if not. And if you believe he will achieve that next season then the caveat is unnecessary. It's not pointless, it's very valid. Do you ...
by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

Ok. Sorry, you win.

You're right. Obviously.

I admit it now, The players all got together before the game and agreed to sabotage it by not even trying. They just couldn't be arsed...

Cos they thought it might be funny.

Jesus wept.....
by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 6:01 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

They are shithouses. And I can’t honestly come to any other conclusion. They will no doubt go elsewhere and not care one bit. Fans can’t. We are stuck here. And we deserve a hell of a lot better than this group and their ‘efforts’. One could argue - if they were so inclined - that given the. Level ...
by dave the minion
Sun May 19, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

Yep. You're obviously right (as always). Professional sportsmen in the biggest games of their careers - with the prospect of promotion on TV and with no doubt chunky promotion bonuses and/or pay rises riding on it - really would turn up and just not try. There's just no other possible conclusion.......
by dave the minion
Sat May 18, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

The failings today are systemic. They are Evatts. He’s had three seasons to build and the problems remain. To get out of this division playing like we are needs considerably better players than we have. You can’t do it. We need a manager who is actually successful - knows what it takes to win and w...
by dave the minion
Sat May 18, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

The failings today are systemic. They are Evatts. He’s had three seasons to build and the problems remain. To get out of this division playing like we are needs considerably better players than we have. You can’t do it. We need a manager who is actually successful - knows what it takes to win and w...
by dave the minion
Sat May 18, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

To be fair, on that showing whoever went up is getting spanked from pillar to post on the championship.

Never mind. We regroup and go again
.

Next season it'll be reet. We'll shit em
by dave the minion
Sat May 18, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

Aye, have a cracking day everyone, whether there in person or watching remotely. Remember, let's make sure we all enjoy it, regardless of the result (albeit it's obviously far easier to enjoy it if we win!!). I'm not able to go as away for the weekend, but will be there in spirit and watching from t...
by dave the minion
Wed May 15, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

Ultimately you can have all the great aways you like but seasons need the success at the end of them to be one you will remember in years to come. Simply not true. Maybe you need success on Saturday to glean a semblance of joy from this season, but I will have enjoyed it regardless, for all the rea...
by dave the minion
Sat May 11, 2024 10:54 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Replies: 161
Views: 4436

Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread

I liked Peter K but I'm not sure he's "upper Champo" material. At the risk of sounding slightly provocative, do any of us seriously think that IF we get promotion, we are going to be trading in the " upper championship" market ?!!?! Surely IF we ply our trade next year in the championship, then we ...
by dave the minion
Sat May 11, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Replies: 161
Views: 4436

Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread

The aim, if we go up, is the Premier League. Sweet Jesus! Don't go.whiispering that too loudly - IF we get through the play offs, for some, anything short of play offs again in our 1st season up will be deemed an abject failure and nothing less than IE, Sharon & the board being hung drawn & quarter...
by dave the minion
Thu May 09, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 390
Views: 14983

Re: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs TBC. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm

if you drag in the 2 before the last 6, its even worse as they also won them both 4-0......
(although if you bring in another few games, they were well beaten 5-0 by a certain team.....)

Don't worry though. i'll be reet. We'll shit 'em....
by dave the minion
Wed May 08, 2024 11:20 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock
Replies: 274
Views: 5476

Re: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock

If they can't, it's pretty legitimate to wonder how they'd cope a division higher and/or wonder whether they can get us there in the first place. Contrary to my evergreen optimism and positivity, I sadly think I know the answer to how we might cope a division higher :cry: (doesn't stop me wanting u...
by dave the minion
Wed May 08, 2024 10:22 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock
Replies: 274
Views: 5476

Re: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock

There's little merit in pointing out there's two teams. That's how football works. We know there's two teams, can we just stop the other one scoring 3 quite as often? COYWM. Don't disagree, but people are always quick to point to their own deficiencies without thinking about why those deficiencies ...
by dave the minion
Wed May 08, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock
Replies: 274
Views: 5476

Re: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock

.... it's not just the guys with "D" in their job title that need to defend. I'd argue it is exactly just the guys with "D" in their job title that need to defend - the Defenders, miDfielders and forwarDs......** ** couldn't fit a D into wing-backs/full-backs unfortunately (unless we call them wiDe...
by dave the minion
Wed May 08, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock
Replies: 274
Views: 5476

Re: Up Winter Hill Bah't hat. Home to Barnsley, Tues 7th May 8-0 clock

And Maghoma can’t just drift off and stop because he doesn’t fancy tracking back. I agree with this completely. The guy is a hell of a talent and the only player in our team who can unlock defences like he does with his twisting and turning and incisive passes, but on many occasions I see him meand...