Biggest club in the North East: Sunderland Replay

[jimbo]

It's cos Stu's back innit. Playoffs here we come!

[norm the jedi]

Upset of the night....

Dougie is this your best result as Bolton manager...? well I've only been here 12 games [you feckin balm pot!]

[wanderers_on_tour]

It's cos Stu's back innit. Playoffs here we come!

2 game win streak for Stu, can we make him player manager??

[jimbo]

It's cos Stu's back innit. Playoffs here we come!

2 game win streak for Stu, can we make him player manager??

Back to back clean sheets in those games as well, both away from home.

[bobo the clown]

Holden showing a bit of rustiness by giving the ball away a couple of times

Useless feck.

[LeverEnd]

Holden showing a bit of rustiness by giving the ball away a couple of times

Useless feck.

Yeah, sell him! Get Reo-Coker back instead. he's a free agent again now. And I'm sure he's made it clear he's prem quality so we'll be lucky to have him.

[William the White]

How nice... fantastic night at the opera... mobs off... switch on at the end... 2-0 to the Whites... Fantastic night just turned into perfect one...

I'm a bit happy...

[Worthy4England]

How nice... fantastic night at the opera... mobs off... switch on at the end... 2-0 to the Whites... Fantastic night just turned into perfect one...

I'm a bit happy...

On the principle of "stop being so bloody happy", I'll draw you're attention to who we have next round. Your favourite Prem team, and out bogyest of all bogy's.

Thank me later.

[bobo the clown]

A great performance and result.

Nice to play Everton and get a reward after such a disappointing third round draw against such a sh*te pointless non-entity team from the ar*e end of the country.

MASSIVE .... 17,505 attendees don't you know.

[William the White]

How nice... fantastic night at the opera... mobs off... switch on at the end... 2-0 to the Whites... Fantastic night just turned into perfect one...

I'm a bit happy...

On the principle of "stop being so bloody happy", I'll draw you're attention to who we have next round. Your favourite Prem team, and out bogyest of all bogy's.

Thank me later.

Yeah... those bastards have it coming to them...

[Worthy4England]

How nice... fantastic night at the opera... mobs off... switch on at the end... 2-0 to the Whites... Fantastic night just turned into perfect one...

I'm a bit happy...

On the principle of "stop being so bloody happy", I'll draw you're attention to who we have next round. Your favourite Prem team, and out bogyest of all bogy's.

Thank me later.

Yeah... those bastards have it coming to them...

There is a cheery spin on this, whilst our league record against them is lamentable, our FA Cup record is pretty good (lost one in ten).

Last time we lost to them in the FA Cup was 26 Feb 1908.

Since then we won in 1935, 1953 in the semi-final and 1994 (a 3-2 win at Goodison in a replay, after a 1-1 at Burnden)

On that basis, we'll sh*t 'em.

[TANGODANCER]

Had a peruse of the match reports from various media sources. Game described amazingly differently between the regular dailies and the local Makem versions, Northern Echo etc:

A controversial penalty---A clear cut penalty
Sunderland dominated the first half---apart from the first fifteen minutes, Sunderland offered nothing....etc etc.

Amazing how views differ in honest journalism.

[2399]

Me Mum Called to tell me Bolton had Won 2-0

[Leyther_Matt]

Just got home from the game, absolutely terrific performance. Some of our passing play was a joy to watch which certainly backs up the theory that you get a lot less time on the ball in the Championship.

Alonso immense AGAIN and Lonergan deserves a chance in the league now, safe as houses at the back.

Despite our lack of numbers it was a bloody brilliant atmosphere in our end as well.

That win was for Nat.

[mrkint]

Chungy's warming up...

[SonsOfThunder]

Korean news outlets reporting on the match: "청이는 몸을 풀고있다"
















Translation: "Chungy is warming up."

[FaninOz]

Quite a shock when I got up this morning to find that -

we scored 2 goals and kept a clean sheet,

Sordell starts and scores 2,

Holden is back,

We won away to a Premiership team, (well they are until May), and

No complaints from fans about our players or manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now if only we could do something similar in the Championship we could start to revive the season, but that's just wishful thinking right ???

Perhaps the players are starting to show that they have what it takes afterall, .................

[boltonboris]

Great stuff. Congrats to all involved.. It sounded a very accomplished performance and against an almost full strength Sunderland side, it was pretty comfortable by all accounts.

Pleased with the clean sheet. Welcome bonus and especially pleased that Sordell managed to notch a couple more to his growing tally.. 4 starts, 4 goals?

Most pleasing of all though, was that Sunderland were heavily reliant on set pieces and yet, despite them having players with expert delivery, we stood up to it.

I'd carry on with Lonergen at Palace. Not sure Bogdan has done too much wrong, but he just doesn't really inspire confidence for me. I'd keep Sordell in too. And Vela.

[Armchair Wanderer]

It sounds like we played really well kept it tight early on then started to attack in the second half. This is what we try to do most games, right? My genuine question about the game is... what was different in this game than other recent games? 1) More space against Prem opposition, 2) the players we had on the pitch, 3) very bad opposition, or 4) something else... or all of the above

[leyther95]

The big test now is to back it up against Palace. Im going to make the trip down looking forward to Dougie returning to Selhurst Park. Please play the same back 4 and give Sordell and Lonergan a start. COYWM