Watford Away 09/08/2014 - Match Thread

[Puskas]

'Life is so much better spent sat in your pants on the coach'

Rolf Harris.

Five pounds please.

Ah. It was meant to say "couch". I blame predictive text. Or Freudian slips.

Take your pick.

[Andy Waller]

'Life is so much better spent sat in your pants on the coach'

Rolf Harris.

Five pounds please.

Ah. It was meant to say "couch". I blame predictive text. Or Freudian slips.

Take your pick.

Unless he was thinking of a school trip?

[Andy Waller]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Thanks.

[thebish]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Thanks.

why don't you start us off?

[HMX]

'Life is so much better spent sat in your pants on the coach'

Rolf Harris.

Five pounds please.

Ah. It was meant to say "couch". I blame predictive text. Or Freudian slips.

Take your pick.

Unless he was thinking of a school trip?

Or BWFC organised transport.

Nah...

[Andy Waller]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Thanks.

why don't you start us off?

He's forever injured, hardly contributes, is defensively cack and very rarely scores.

I'd much sooner have Danns.

[thebish]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Thanks.

why don't you start us off?

He's forever injured, hardly contributes, is defensively cack and very rarely scores.

I'd much sooner have Danns.

fortunately we have both! happy days

[Andy Waller]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Thanks.

why don't you start us off?

He's forever injured, hardly contributes, is defensively cack and very rarely scores.

I'd much sooner have Danns.

fortunately we have both! happy days

But I just want Neil...

I'm holding my breath until i get my own way...

[thebish]

But I just want Neil...

I'm holding my breath until i get my own way...

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Last season: the highest pass-completion rate (86%) of any Bolton player to play more than 45 minutes over the season. Not bad for someone usually played at No.10.

[Andy Waller]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Last season: the highest pass-completion rate (86%) of any Bolton player to play more than 45 minutes over the season. Not bad for someone usually played at No.10.

One goal in 18...

Plus two whole assists!!

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

[thebish]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Last season: the highest pass-completion rate (86%) of any Bolton player to play more than 45 minutes over the season. Not bad for someone usually played at No.10.

One goal in 18...

Plus two whole assists!!

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

if you give a toss about assists - then you should also give something of a toss about the person who assists the assistor...

[Andy Waller]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Last season: the highest pass-completion rate (86%) of any Bolton player to play more than 45 minutes over the season. Not bad for someone usually played at No.10.

One goal in 18...

Plus two whole assists!!

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

if you give a toss about assists - then you should also give something of a toss about the person who assists the assistor...

What's his sister got to so with anything??

[Harry Genshaw]

Don't think I can recall a start of a season where I've felt this pessimistic about our prospects. I can only imagine fans of Blackpool, Birmingham and Leeds are feeling something similar.

Here's to us doing it in the proper Bolton way. When the odds are seemingly stacked against us we surprise everyone. Cmon you white men

[Bruce Rioja]

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

Well, me for one. It absolutely pisses me off how often we needlessly concede possession through sloppy passing. I don't ever see the other side give us the ball as often or as easily as we give it to them.

[Bijou Bob]

This will be the third time I've watched a season opener away from home with Our Kid. First was an epic hammering of Leicester, a performance that will possibly never be surpassed for sheer unbelievableness (That one's for you Bobo) whilst the second was at Fulham, a match played at QPR which saw us go one nil up after a fifth minute penalty, only for us to then surrender and get completely paggered.

Saturday could go either way. I'm predicting nil nil.

[Andy Waller]

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

Well, me for one. It absolutely pisses me off how often we needlessly concede possession through sloppy passing. I don't ever see the other side give us the ball as often or as easily as we give it to them.

But of his 86% complete passes (however many that may be) only 2 resulted in goals.

Doesn't that stand to reason that a lot of the balls played were safe, non progressive passes?

I know he's not going to score/assist every time he gets the ball but overall he doesn't contribute enough.

Take for instance Danns, In just over double the games, 6 goals, and 6 assists.

That's a hell of a lot better, i don't care what his pass completion rate was, he still had a better scoring and assist ratio which ultimately wins games.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Can we all please look at what mark Davies actually gives us and not at what he's got potential to give us?

Last season: the highest pass-completion rate (86%) of any Bolton player to play more than 45 minutes over the season. Not bad for someone usually played at No.10.

One goal in 18...

Plus two whole assists!!

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

Presumably his team-mates.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

Well, me for one. It absolutely pisses me off how often we needlessly concede possession through sloppy passing. I don't ever see the other side give us the ball as often or as easily as we give it to them.

But of his 86% complete passes (however many that may be) only 2 resulted in goals. Doesn't that stand to reason that a lot of the balls played were safe, non progressive passes?

Sounds more like an assumption.

You asked what he brings. At least one provable thing he brings is better ball retention than anybody else at the club. Of course centre-backs can top that list by popping it sideways to each other all day, but that's clearly not what Mark Davies does. It's been noted by several on here that he's the most likely to "make something happen" (and other phrases) around the box; I simply added the fact that he passes better than anyone at the club. If you don't agree, that's fair enough, but "not giving a toss about pass completion" is worryingly close to delighting in ignorance, and something you might want to remind yourself of next time a clod hoofs it into touch.

[bobo the clown]

Who gives a toss about pass completion rate??

The way to answer that Andy is to ask you the opposite question :

Do you care when a player cock's up a pass ? If you do .... and I assume you do ... then you surely appreciate when someone doesn't tend to do that.