Biggest game of the season - Brighton @ Home

[bobo the clown]

DOMED !!

C'mon guys. Pessimism. We need cynicism and negativity ... and we need it quick.

ffs.

[TKIZ!]

Tickets arrived today, we're DDOOOMMMEEEDDDD

[officer_dibble]

We'll shit em. Reckon we're gonna get 6 wins on the bounce.

[Dartisan]

It could well prove to be the biggest game of the season, but to put a pessimistic hat on I think the last 2 weeks of April might remain the deciders regarding any slim play-off hopes regardless of this result:

Leicester v Bolton Tue 16 Apr
Bolton v Middlesbrough Sat 20 Apr
Cardiff v Bolton Sat 27 Apr

[seattle_wanderer]

First game in a while for me, and I'm travelling 4000 miles just to see it (well perhaps for some other stuff too).
I reckon 2-1, with Stu Holden coming off the bench and scoring the match winner...

[Jakerbeef]

With those kind of fixtures capping things off, I think our participation in the playoff hunt will be entirely dependent on how long we keep this winning run going.

Having said that I do believe that on a good day we're a match for anyone in this league, home or away.

[Seamus' good leg]

First game in a while for me, and I'm travelling 4000 miles just to see it (well perhaps for some other stuff too).
I reckon 2-1, with Stu Holden coming off the bench and scoring the match winner...

Welcome back to the UK SW. How long since your last win?
..and more importantly, why no picture of your licence plate anymore?
See you @ the w/e.

[LeverEnd]

First game in a while for me, and I'm travelling 4000 miles just to see it (well perhaps for some other stuff too).
I reckon 2-1, with Stu Holden coming off the bench and scoring the match winner...

Always diplomatic to pretend to be interested in seeing family and friends when home for a Wanderers game. Your secret is safe with us.

[Montreal Wanderer]

can you make the location of said meeting a boat?

In Taunton? Taunton is very much inland, dry and boatless. Domed.

It's got a canal. It's also home to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

You're just picking on me now

Worse, its name is Anglo-Saxon for 'Town on the River Tone' - must be lots of boats.

[Montreal Wanderer]

First game in a while for me, and I'm travelling 4000 miles just to see it (well perhaps for some other stuff too).
I reckon 2-1, with Stu Holden coming off the bench and scoring the match winner...

Live and learn! I thought coming from Seattle on the West coast would be a lot more than 4000 miles (in fact it is only a few hundred more). Miami on the East coast (about 2700 miles from Seattle) is about the same distance from Bolton as Seattle. Popping over the Pole sure saves distance.

[jonnybwfc]

It could well prove to be the biggest game of the season, but to put a pessimistic hat on I think the last 2 weeks of April might remain the deciders regarding any slim play-off hopes regardless of this result:

Leicester v Bolton Tue 16 Apr
Bolton v Middlesbrough Sat 20 Apr
Cardiff v Bolton Sat 27 Apr

Hopefully, Cardiff are already promoted by that time, and play the U15's ... we'd still struggle mind.

[bobo the clown]

Live and learn!

I thought coming from Seattle on the West coast would be a lot more than 4000 miles (in fact it is only a few hundred more). Miami on the East coast (about 2700 miles from Seattle) is about the same distance from Bolton as Seattle. Popping over the Pole sure saves distance.

It's a lot colder though.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

The excited (and, conversely, the bored) may be pleased to know the BBC's Predictor thing still exists. See if you can rig the results to get not just Bolton relegated but Mighty Mick's Ipswich into the play-offs.

[si2008]

The excited (and, conversely, the bored) may be pleased to know the BBC's Predictor thing still exists. See if you can rig the results to get not just Bolton relegated but Mighty Mick's Ipswich into the play-offs.

I GOT US PROMOTED AS CHAMPIONS and Blackburn relegated

[Jez]

It could well prove to be the biggest game of the season, but to put a pessimistic hat on I think the last 2 weeks of April might remain the deciders regarding any slim play-off hopes regardless of this result:

Leicester v Bolton Tue 16 Apr
Bolton v Middlesbrough Sat 20 Apr
Cardiff v Bolton Sat 27 Apr

Hopefully, Cardiff are already promoted by that time, and play the U15's ... we'd still struggle mind.

beat them at ours

[leopold]

Don't see this as a must win. You'll be fine with a tie, and not even lost without a result. However, those stats for Bristol v. Brighton are correct zero shots, so could be there for the taking. Managing fatigue over the next two months will be the biggest trick for all teams. Bolton had a lot of good players come back from injury at the right time. It should at least be an exciting finish if nothing else.

[boltonboris]

We need the win to reduce the deficit

[Montreal Wanderer]

We need the win to reduce the deficit

Indeed, it's over 100 million now.

[DJBlu]

Reckon we might be playing cardiff for 2nd place?



Only joking.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

The excited (and, conversely, the bored) may be pleased to know the BBC's Predictor thing still exists. See if you can rig the results to get not just Bolton relegated but Mighty Mick's Ipswich into the play-offs.

I GOT US PROMOTED AS CHAMPIONS and Blackburn relegated

I got a bit bored and had a little experiment: Ipswich win every game 9-0, Bolton lose every game 9-0, every other game is won 9-0 by the team who's lowest in the table. (I didn't say it had to make sense.)

In this bizarre fantasy world, Bolton fall into the drop zone the week after Easter - fickle, is football - and Ipswich's inexorable rise up the league sees them into the play-offs a week later. Because the teams below them are usually also losing, Cardiff stay top until the third-last weekend of the season - but just when all seems lost, they face hapless Bolton.

Brighton and Palace soon fall out of the play-offs but Leicester sit tight. Barnsley surprise themselves by tiptoeing into the top six with a game left but are kept out by a last-day loss at Huddersfield, replaced by Hull (who beat Cardiff).

By late April, Leeds somehow manage to freefall into the drop zone, presumably by only playing teams below them (and mighty Ipswich); Peterborough claw clear but then lose to Sheffield Wednesday, a result that also relegates Bolton with two games to spare. In history's tensest relegation battle, eight teams go into the last day with a chance of relegation. Birmingham, second-bottom at kick-off, beat Blackburn to relegate Rovers – but Peterborough's win at mid-table Palace means Birmingham go down anyway.

Despite a collapse remarkable even by their standards, Cardiff are champions by a point from Leicester, who manage to stay a point clear of Ipswich – but the Tractor Boys beat Hull in the Play-Off Final. Mick McCarthy is given the freedom of Suffolk but politely refuses – "There's nothing to see, no 'ills nor nowt" – while Bolton make history by becoming the first team to replace their manager with a postcode.