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by BWFC_Insane
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:23 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Race to the tape: 2024's League One promotion campaign
Replies: 255
Views: 13522

Re: Race to the tape: 2024's League One promotion campaign

Great result if and only if we can take advantage. Given recent results, I have serious doubts. Obviously hoping I will be proven spectacularly wrong this time next week. It’s certainly a huge boost. We’ve hit the fabled international break rest we’ve been talking about for so long and had the mass...
by BWFC_Insane
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Financiers, investors and white knights: What next for FV?
Replies: 14
Views: 1064

Re: Financiers, investors and white knights: What next for FV?

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24201330.bolton-wanderers-ceo-clubs-funding-plans-future/ Interesting interview where Hart admits that ‘breaking even’ financially is impossible for Bolton Wanderers to be competitive in league one. Let’s hope the Swiss investors stay interested. They can talk a...
by BWFC_Insane
Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: The Nostradamus file....
Replies: 59
Views: 2549

Re: The Nostradamus file....

Obviously has leadership skills and experience over Forrester, but I think Jones has been poor, excluding an okay second half against Barnsley(?) when he went to RWB. Lacks the game of dynamism that he had last season and I think he's become wasteful in possession and bit sloppy in his defending. I...
by BWFC_Insane
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: The Nostradamus file....
Replies: 59
Views: 2549

Re: The Nostradamus file....

boltonboris wrote:
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:14 pm
I'd be putting Forrester in over Jones anyway to be fair. Regardless of travel.
I think Evatt trusts jones and sees him as key. I suspect he won’t do that until we are mathematically out of it.
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

I saw no reason as to why we can't overturn a 4pt deficit on Derby to be honest. They'll drop more points than we will in the run-in. There. I said it If we were 4 points clear now I’d certainly not consider we were up so it’s very possible. I do think we would have to win 6 maybe 7 and that’s the ...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

Let’s try this another way. Derby recognising that we are a good football side decided they would have to perform a rearguard action get numbers back and try and hurt us on set pieces. They ended up restricting the shots we had on target to the same they managed. So they did the job they set out to ...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:52 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

I've no doubt that we had more possession & a better XG than the opposition in all of the last 8 away games - however we have won only 1. Yes 1 win out of the last 8 away games - its ok though as we have process & performance. When your proxy metrics aren’t predicting performance then you have to q...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

I’m not the manager. The thing is you say ‘we don’t just ignore it’ yet the same words are uttered game after game ‘if we keep up that level of performance we will be fine’…it doesn’t suggest we are trying to examine the reasons we keep not being fine. We just think that if we keep performing somet...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

Derby and Portsmouth have horrendous injury lists. So we aren’t alone there. No, but you're looking for a solution that we've arguably already got. The intangibles probably come down to character. People who when it really matters stand up to be counted. And teams that do the same. When you need so...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

I'm glad we're performance and process driven. That's how you get results. Played well, didn't win. Annoying, but sometimes that's how it goes. He's the best manager we've had since Sam for me. Close with Parky, but true. I'm enjoying the ride. Process and performance is fine but there is more to w...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

The problem is not that we focus on process and performance for me it’s that it isn’t working. Our form is not good . So maybe we should be looking at results and questioning them and be driven somewhat by that. If the insistence is ‘well we just trust the process’ it’s not worked. Not sure what yo...
by BWFC_Insane
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

I'm glad we're performance and process driven. That's how you get results. Played well, didn't win. Annoying, but sometimes that's how it goes. He's the best manager we've had since Sam for me. Close with Parky, but true. I'm enjoying the ride. Process and performance is fine but there is more to w...
by BWFC_Insane
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Other Footy
Topic: Tonight's Football
Replies: 6300
Views: 593253

Re: Tonight's Football

Cracking game of football. Liverpool only themselves to blame. Should have killed the game off but tried showboating with just one goal leads. Nunez - shouldn’t be paid for his part in firstly completely failing to pass a simple ball on the break that would have killed the game off and then playing ...
by BWFC_Insane
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bare Bones....
Replies: 640
Views: 76137

Re: Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bare Bones....

Ramsay cost Liverpool £6million quid… the only game I’ve seen him in he looked like an attacking rwb, was bemoaning him not being on the bench as an option, then I got bored. I don’t think he is injured. What I’ve seen of him and it’s not much here, but he didn’t look ready to me. We are asking way...
by BWFC_Insane
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

Yeah once we went behind there was no chance we would equalise - not even a sniff where we created a scramble or a moment of panic. We had a couple of corners, long throws and it’s then you need your man mountain captain to do what he never does - fight to get on the end of one and cause some panic...
by BWFC_Insane
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

https://twitter.com/portercarl1/status/1769258113683632208 Home team manager celebrating with his keeper like that. Warne clearly seeing something most our fans can't. Their keeper has made one outstanding save. A decent save off thomasson. Of course he’s going to be happy with him. But they got th...
by BWFC_Insane
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

https://twitter.com/portercarl1/status/1769258113683632208 Home team manager celebrating with his keeper like that. Warne clearly seeing something most our fans can't. Their keeper has made one outstanding save. A decent save off thomasson. Of course he’s going to be happy with him. But they got th...
by BWFC_Insane
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Race to the tape: 2024's League One promotion campaign
Replies: 255
Views: 13522

Re: Race to the tape: 2024's League One promotion campaign

When I look at Derby, and indeed a lot of sides this season….I think we are massively underperforming. For me we have the best squad in the league. There are issues but everyone else has them too. Pompey a whole team missing today through injury. I don’t think Evatt is bad or even necessarily actual...
by BWFC_Insane
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

Evatt ‘we are process and performance driven not results driven.’ Yeah that’s the problem. Maybe they will award us the process and performance trophy at the end of the season. Does it come with an extra promotion place? 🤣 We'll be able to put it in the trophy cabinet next to the PPDA Cup. 9 points...
by BWFC_Insane
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:09 pm
Forum: The Trotters
Topic: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.
Replies: 338
Views: 6481

Re: Not exactly a Derby. Away to The Rams, Sat 16th March 3-0'clock.

Evatt ‘we are process and performance driven not results driven.’

Yeah that’s the problem. Maybe they will award us the process and performance trophy at the end of the season. Does it come with an extra promotion place?