Pre-season 2025
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Re: Pre-season 2025
We banned bookies at the stadium! It doea feel inconsistent.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:25 pmOh it's a cesspit, Musk is a dangerous freak, and it encourages wrong'uns to band together.BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:17 pmI see from other places that on that platform the ‘in built’ AI response is now suggesting we give a second holocaust a try.
Truly truly do not understand how why any self respecting business has any presence on that thing at all.
However, it allows Bolton Wanderers to directly contact a follower-base of 255,000. Any business, trying to sell tickets and merchandise and what the hell ever else, would need a very strong reason to abandon that target-market database.
Whether you or I agree with that ethically is a different thing, but surely you must understand it.

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I mean isn’t that how fascism or extremist movements have thrived historically? A lot of ‘well I mean these people are our customers we can’t do a lot about it’?Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:25 pmOh it's a cesspit, Musk is a dangerous freak, and it encourages wrong'uns to band together.BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:17 pmI see from other places that on that platform the ‘in built’ AI response is now suggesting we give a second holocaust a try.
Truly truly do not understand how why any self respecting business has any presence on that thing at all.
However, it allows Bolton Wanderers to directly contact a follower-base of 255,000. Any business, trying to sell tickets and merchandise and what the hell ever else, would need a very strong reason to abandon that target-market database.
Whether you or I agree with that ethically is a different thing, but surely you must understand it.
I know what you are saying but I’d rather hope we are (I mean society, business broadly here) better than that now but seemingly not.
If they moved elsewhere then surely the fans would follow and those that wouldn’t - maybe we’d be better off without them!
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Yeah, all that. I just know that at FFT we worked really hard to get our following to six figures and it was a key business target. I can imagine our sales team and CEO would do their nut if we just turned it off. And we weren't even selling anything directly (bar some subscriptions).BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:33 pmI mean isn’t that how fascism or extremist movements have thrived historically? A lot of ‘well I mean these people are our customers we can’t do a lot about it’?
I know what you are saying but I’d rather hope we are (I mean society, business broadly here) better than that now but seemingly not.
If they moved elsewhere then surely the fans would follow and those that wouldn’t - maybe we’d be better off without them!
You might be right about follower migration but I doubt it would be in the same numbers. You might be right about the ethical quality of those who didn't switch, but idiots buy bucket hats too.
Meanwhile, I see the prime minister who was happy to weigh in on a rapper's gobshittery at a festival is now making no effort to leave a platform whose much-pushed AI is promoting Hitler. I'm sure there's a reason for that, but I'm glad I don't have to make these decisions now.
Anyway, to get the convo back on topic, here's the gaffer failing to get it in the bin. (Is a YouTube embed morally OK?)
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Cogz is in great nick, eh? You can see why he barely misses a game.
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Re: Pre-season 2025
5pm social drop is a chat with Randall. No obvious teaser.
https://x.com/OfficialBWFC/status/1942977044134101015
https://x.com/OfficialBWFC/status/1942977044134101015
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Ilesy at training: "No pics, for obvious reasons, but im witnessing set pieces in a training session. Been a while... "
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Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:48 amIlesy at training: "No pics, for obvious reasons, but im witnessing set pieces in a training session. Been a while... "
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I hope they're both "how to deal with theirs," alongside what to do with ours! The secrecy serms to point latter, not former.
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Re: Pre-season 2025
Sorry, Twitter embed playing up.
Worthy - word from Marbella seems to be that there is indeed a lot of defensive work going on.
Worthy - word from Marbella seems to be that there is indeed a lot of defensive work going on.
Re: Pre-season 2025
Looks like today’s match is going to be streamed live on the Orlando Pirate’s YouTube channel.
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Re: Pre-season 2025
KO 10am (UK time). They seem to have a new head coach and several new signings.
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Re: Pre-season 2025
Thanks for the heads up!
Without further research, I presumed we were playing the Orlando from Florida, USA
No – they're from Soweto, South Africa.
Without further research, I presumed we were playing the Orlando from Florida, USA

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Re: Pre-season 2025
Nixon is linking us to a Swansea keeper. I’m not paying the sub to find out which one. Any guesses?
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Some saying that its Nathan Broome - apparently he's in Marbella with the squad.BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:09 amNixon is linking us to a Swansea keeper. I’m not paying the sub to find out which one. Any guesses?
Never heard of the lad.
Re: Pre-season 2025
There is a trialist on the bench, so could be him.
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Bertie Wooster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:16 amSome saying that its Nathan Broome - apparently he's in Marbella with the squad.BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:09 amNixon is linking us to a Swansea keeper. I’m not paying the sub to find out which one. Any guesses?
Never heard of the lad.
I thought he was a sweeper?

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Re: Pre-season 2025
Looks like 4-2-3-1 to me.
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Re: Pre-season 2025
TonyDomingos wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:37 amBertie Wooster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:16 amSome saying that its Nathan Broome - apparently he's in Marbella with the squad.BWFC_Insane wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:09 amNixon is linking us to a Swansea keeper. I’m not paying the sub to find out which one. Any guesses?
Never heard of the lad.
I thought he was a sweeper?![]()

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Re: Pre-season 2025
Thierry Gale isn't in the squad.
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