The abandonment of the 3-5-2 formation already, is worrying. Evatt looks like he's scrabbling around hoping to stumble on a winning formula without us being remotely close to getting the basics right yet. In his defence he started with a 4 at Barrow and shifted to a 3, so it's not alien to him. Fai...

The abandonment of the 3-5-2 formation already, is worrying. Evatt looks like he's scrabbling around hoping to stumble on a winning formula without us being remotely close to getting the basics right yet.

I just don't see any positives. We're creating nowt up top, hopeless in possession and utterly appalling at the back. A few more weeks of that and we'd have to rip it all up and start again.

At least the pianist for the sock shop advert showed a bit of urgency

Our defending on corners is the worst I've ever seen from a professional side. Correct me if I'm wrong here, and I apologise if I've missed it, but we're not actually meant to be zonal marking here are we? It's like we're not sure what we're supposed to be. For a minute we look like a side trying t...

Delfounso and Hickman have been the bright spots. Santos, Comley and Crawford have been bloody awful. Our defending on corners is the worst I've ever seen from a professional side.

The Oysters? I never knew that.
Better this weekend but I can't see a clam like defence yet. Pearl's before swine. Oysters ahead of Trotters. 2-1 loss. Doyle gets off the mark.

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Barrow's poor start last season is a glimmer of hope, sounds like it clicked all of a sudden and they went on a brilliant run.

I think that's the hope many of us are hanging onto. It is hard though, to imagine that group yesterday going on a long unbeaten run.

How long did Keith Hill get before everyone jumped down his throat? It's pathetic. We're a beaten beast that needs to repair it's wounds before it can go on the attack. Give it time. I agree entirely with your sentiment, and what's happened to Sarcevic is out of order but let's not reinvent history...

We've not hired another Dougie Freedman have we?

Feckin awful. Santos, Jones, Comley and Gordon introduced new levels of shiteness

"I think this is the worst I've ever seen"

Every year I say this. Its opening day FFS!

Haven't had my ifollow code yet. Have emailed the to let office with absolutely no expectation of acknowledgement, like the other times I've emailed the useless feck*. Had to mail them for mine. It came through a couple of hours later. WELL BULLY FOR YOU!! No fecking use though. I can't get on as I...

Lazy, cowardly play so far. It felt that way, didnt it? The experienced players and White, looking to be positive and move forward. Santos, Jones, Comley and Gordon treating the ball like a hot potato and looking sideways or to hoof it, just so long as they're not in possession. Greenidge should ha...

Haven't had my ifollow code yet. Have emailed the to let office with absolutely no expectation of acknowledgement, like the other times I've emailed the useless feck*. Had to mail them for mine. It came through a couple of hours later. WELL BULLY FOR YOU!! No fecking use though. I can't get on as I...

We've totally surrendered the initiative by our awful use of the ball. Some players not taking responsibility and little zip or movement when we're in possession. Must do better

Wing backs and centre halfs playing us into trouble with some woeful distribution

The nearer this gets the less optimistic I am.

1-2 loss.

How good was Mikael Mandron? Or did our back 3 make him look extra special? He certainly looked more Championship level on that performance and the kind of money ball signing we ought to aspire to. Defensively we were awful but that was as much a collective thing, as well as the 3 centre backs all s...

Aye, tough choices for Evatt. Play the older, experienced lads to improve their match sharpness or rest them to conserve energy for when it matters. I went to the game last year against City u21s where Crawford got his season ending injury in the last minute. It ain't worth it. I expect a mix and ma...

Way infections are rising here hard to see our ground opening at all next month..... Bizarre to think that but for the council, we'd have been out of lockdown last week. If Bolton has gone from the 2nd lowest borough in Greater Manchester to the highest in the country for infection rates inside a w...