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by Worthy4England
Sat May 25, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Other Footy
Topic: Tonight's Football
Replies: 6336
Views: 679632

Re: Tonight's Football

Looking at my unreads (unreds?) And people out and about, they've already managed to reach "insufferable bastards" level...
by Worthy4England
Sat May 25, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Other Footy
Topic: Tonight's Football
Replies: 6336
Views: 679632

Re: Tonight's Football

Clearly we have it wrong. Pep's trying to emulate Ian.
by Worthy4England
Sat May 25, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Replies: 15
Views: 216

Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public

Hm. Well, just cast your minds back to when you were 16 years old. Me, I wasn't making too much sense back then. I'm almost 85 now and still don't have an answer; at 16 I thought those you voted for were supposed to be able to provide it. Took me quite a while to, realise it was all a Punch and Jud...
by Worthy4England
Sat May 25, 2024 1:56 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Replies: 15
Views: 216

Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public

Oh, I forgot...: Starmer thinks sixteen year olds are the answer to our problems...Well, I suppose that's one way to get your voting numbers up....Cor,,, :shock: If you can be working at 16 (I was 17 coz I didn't go to Uni until later). You're paying taxes. You pay tax, you should be entitled to sa...
by Worthy4England
Sat May 25, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: General Banter
Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Replies: 15
Views: 216

Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public

It'll probably get worse. Time is the enemy. Everything we built in our era is either falling down or in need of expensive maintenance and the very thought of it has the investors running to get their money out; that's why so many M and S and co etc type shops are empty. Bolton is a shining example...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Replies: 15
Views: 216

Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public

I suspect TD, the larger reason shops are closing is because they're not competitve vs lower cost internet clothes. I mean, some of the internet stores close, because they can't remain competitive so what chance when you have rent, rates, utilities etc?
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

I think most of us would have got pretty close on the "released" list. In about January! (JDB's extension terms notwithstanding, he was only the second most talked about three letter acronym beginning with "J" for the most part)
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Our formation
Replies: 20
Views: 442

Re: Our formation

That shows in microcosm, Sheehan's disappearance. Every time (in the clip). Their 9 has done a very good job, but Sheehan looking to adapt to it doesn't really happen. Edit: It would also be a brave man, to suggest Santos should have been doing "something brave" with it as Evatt said in post-match,...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Our formation
Replies: 20
Views: 442

Re: Our formation

That shows in microcosm, Sheehan's disappearance. Every time (in the clip). Their 9 has done a very good job, but Sheehan looking to adapt to it doesn't really happen. Edit: It would also be a brave man, to suggest Santos should have been doing "something brave" with it as Evatt said in post-match, ...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 1:07 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

Yeah agree mate - that quote applies to pretty much any sport. Lost of non-believers might view cricket at batting and bowling, but it's often won or lost by single moments fielding. I think what some of us slightly more critical posters were saying, was, for example in the case of Reading, for exam...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: General Banter
Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Replies: 15
Views: 216

Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public

Here we go, ruin early summer (if it ever gets started) Sod the election bring on the revolution. When we said people were getting hoodwinked and bamboozled, we were told that was a serious underestimation about their intelligence and how could we possible dare to suggest they didn't know what they...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

Gotta say mate, (knowing it's a bit of a bugbear for you), I don't think there's a great message around a new pitch for most, no matter how well you spin it. :-) It's nothing to do with the pitch. It's simply that there's a need for a sign of commitment and you don't want it to look like a vote of ...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

^^ Worse mate, they only have to be better than Ian's Citeh...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Other Footy
Topic: Tonight's Football
Replies: 6336
Views: 679632

Re: Tonight's Football

Yeah - that's part of the problem for me. There are still poor overall 2-0 wins in this system. 2 pretty unequal teams, 2 great team moves to score 2 great goals, but fannying about for 70 minutes of the game, isn't a great watch. I haven't seen enough good in the system to make me go "that's what I...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 11:38 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

Gotta say mate, (knowing it's a bit of a bugbear for you), I don't think there's a great message around a new pitch for most, no matter how well you spin it. :-) There's also the dimension that fans were tapped to the tune of £4.5m last year, which already caused some consternation, when budget was ...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

^^ There's only a few anonymous internet forummers wanting him to stay and the board say nowt (if you're judging on an equitable basis) :-) Ghost suggests they'd have probably spotted some discontent through their media team, but I do agree, to make some sort of statement would be not unadjacent to ...
by Worthy4England
Fri May 24, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Our formation
Replies: 20
Views: 442

Re: Our formation

I think when you play for overloads (vs my man will beat your man 1 on 1) there are a number of potential derensive / transition type problems, not all of which get solved by screening. If the team is actively putting 8/9/10 their goal side of us, which we've seen teams do, then it's maybe mitigated...
by Worthy4England
Thu May 23, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Rising in Wembley's Glow: A Bolton Wanderers Tale - Bolton vs Oxford. 18th May 2024, 4.15pm
Replies: 506
Views: 18607

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

I think my favourite aspect of the Gareth Ainsworth suggestion is that one of the complaints about Evatt is he can't adapt his football. In terms of adaptability to different habitats Ian Evatt is a footballing triffid vs the hoofball Orchid that is Gareth Ainsworth. Splice 'um, job sorted :D We've...
by Worthy4England
Thu May 23, 2024 2:00 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Replies: 319
Views: 5967

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

^^ It is possible we'vd not heard from Shaz/Ian/Board, because it's not occurred to them that it's even a thing...
by Worthy4England
Thu May 23, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Our formation
Replies: 20
Views: 442

Re: Our formation

Yeah brilliant thread worthy. I don’t think this is purely the system. As in 352 vs 433 or whatever. Those are just numbers. It’s the system combined with how we play. Sheffield United under Wilder sort of did the 352 thing best for a while with wide centre halves stepping out and under lapping the...