The "Nothing to see here"Transfer thread

[ohjimmyjimmy]

and blue stripes on the arms.

[BWFC_Insane]

Dougie was just asked about Rhodes on that twitter "AskDougie" thing....

Answer....

"Being an ex-forward I admire Jordan as a player. At the moment he's a Blackburn player".

Using the first name, being cagey but with a big implied wink with the use of "at the moment".

Has he been getting lessons off Arry?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Dougie was just asked about Rhodes on that twitter "AskDougie" thing....

Answer....

"Being an ex-forward I admire Jordan as a player. At the moment he's a Blackburn player".

Using the first name, being cagey but with a big implied wink with the use of "at the moment".

Has he been getting lessons off Arry?

More to the point. Have any gates been erected recently?

[boltonboris]

Rhodes may well be in his sights ... who knows ... but I'd prefer to see Dawson fixed in the cross-hairs first.

Don't agree.. I'd rather have the guaranteed goals, personally. I do think Wheater will be absolutely fine this season.

I'd like both, but I wouldn't chalk off the potential of signing Rhodes so we could get Dawson in.

[boltonboris]

I've just seen Dougie driving round Media City with his window open

[BWFC_Insane]

Oh and the upshot of all the Rhodes talk is that it is very embarrassing for the Bolton News.

Having stated that the club were "categorically denying it" and stood by that, Iles in his own "webchat" has had to concede that Dougie clearly isn't denying it.

Did anyone notice the BN article this morning that had quotes that essentially say very little, but certainly don't deny interest or an impending bid, was slanted towards Dougie dismissing the rumours? Headline of something like "Freedman discusses FICTION of Rhodes rumours" yeah but the quotes were nothing like that.

Reckon the Bolton News are embarrassed that their sources are clearly shite and that Nixon has all their exclusives on twitter two days before they even know the stories themselves.

Edit: And Iles has said this in response to a question about future targets......" I might be old fashioned, but I really think that kind of thing should go in a newspaper, or at least a paper's website, not Twitter.
I absolutely don't claim to know everything and often find myself chasing stuff at this time of the year just the same as you guys.
But what I write in the paper reflects the information that is being passed to me at the point of writing. It can change, and often does. It's my job to try and keep on top of that because I have two or three pages of Bolton Wanderers stuff to write six days a week. And that's not always easy!
Nobody knows everything going on at a football club and the longer I work around them, the more I realise that includes people at the actual club too.
But I can promise that the paper works very, very hard to produce an entertaining and informative product - football or otherwise. "

Definitely getting snarky.

[boltonboris]

Totally agree. I think when we were in the Premier League, the BN could accept that they wouldn't be getting a whole lot out of the club because of the media attention the Premier creates.

They are probably bitter as fvck now that the club haven't gone crawling over to Neil Bonnar with their tails between their legs.

The best bit about that article was the thinly veiled swipe at the fans for believing Nixon over him..

[BWFC_Insane]

Totally agree. I think when we were in the Premier League, the BN could accept that they wouldn't be getting a whole lot out of the club because of the media attention the Premier creates.

They are probably bitter as fvck now that the club haven't gone crawling over to Neil Bonnar with their tails between their legs.

The best bit about that article was the thinly veiled swipe at the fans for believing Nixon over him..

The Bolton News have always been a poor with their coverage of Wanderers.

Compare them to other local papers and they are quite a way behind with information and the quality of the stories isn't great.

Many local journalists do release a lot of info on twitter as well.

[Armchair Wanderer]

It seems to me like Iles is scared of giving opinions about anything. You can see why he might be: either he doesn't have any or he doesn't want to offend his readership... or offend the club so they'll say even less to him. All that leaves us with are press releases and interviews with the same players over and over.

[irie Cee Bee]

Totally agree. I think when we were in the Premier League, the BN could accept that they wouldn't be getting a whole lot out of the club because of the media attention the Premier creates.

They are probably bitter as fvck now that the club haven't gone crawling over to Neil Bonnar with their tails between their legs.

The best bit about that article was the thinly veiled swipe at the fans for believing Nixon over him..

The Bolton News have always been a poor with their coverage of Wanderers.

Compare them to other local papers and they are quite a way behind with information and the quality of the stories isn't great.

Many local journalists do release a lot of info on twitter as well.

For someone living in Jamaica, its my best source for information, apart from this forum, and I look forward to reading it every morning. I think its good to be honest.

[Tombwfc]

I don't know at what point we all became bored enough to start picking sides between BWFC-related journalists.

To be fair to Iles, it's usually left to him to flesh out Nixon's rumours. Presumably he went down to Euxton and got those quotes about Rhodes.

[thebish]

I don't know at what point we all became bored enough to start picking sides between BWFC-related journalists.

To be fair to Iles, it's usually left to him to flesh out Nixon's rumours. Presumably it was him who went down to Euxton and got those quotes about Rhodes.

it's basically a BWFCi mission....

[thebish]

Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer has insisted Scotland striker Jordan Rhodes will not leave the club following reported interest from Bolton.

Rovers spent £8m to sign the 23-year-old from Huddersfield and he scored 28 goals in all competitions during his first season at Ewood Park.

Bowyer told BBC Radio Lancashire: "I'll keep on having to say it until the end of August - he's not for sale.

"I've spoken to Jordan and he's more than happy here."

hmmmmmm...... coded confirmation that he's ours! the window closes 11pm on 2nd September.....

[BWFC_Insane]

I don't know at what point we all became bored enough to start picking sides between BWFC-related journalists.

To be fair to Iles, it's usually left to him to flesh out Nixon's rumours. Presumably it was him who went down to Euxton and got those quotes about Rhodes.

it's basically a BWFCi mission....

No mission. I'm quite interested into how the local paper have been pushed out to the periphery.

Perhaps they were always there but we didn't notice before the days of twitter, sky sports news and 24 hour live information.

I think Iles is ok and does a decent enough job. I don't think the BN's coverage is that great, but I guess they struggle to make ends meet nowadays.

But it just seems like a long time since the BN was a must read every day for the latest gossip........

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Again, maybe I have lower standards but I found Marc Iles's webchat an interesting read, after the fact. He's spent two hours answering a fair few questions to the best of his knowledge (or ability, as hampered by the usual bounds of journalistic tact) and that's to be applauded.

I remember when, in these summer months, you'd hear frig-all from one week to the next. After the last game of the season was rounded up, you'd get a released list at the start of June, and unless we actually signed someone the next you'd see of BWFC was Julian Darby & Co. in cricket whites at a charity game just before pre-season training started. Now we have daily, almost hourly updates, and obviously a lot of that is going to be speculation or ITK willy-waggling. If it annoys you, there are other things to do.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Perhaps they were always there but we didn't notice before the days of twitter, sky sports news and 24 hour live information speculation.

Fixed that for you. There is very little news on 24 hour live news/sports...

[TANGODANCER]

But it just seems like a long time since the BN was a must read every day for the latest gossip........

Probably because it's a town newspaper, of which football is just a part, competing against the internet football Twitterati.

[ChrisC]

Jermaine Beckford ‏@RealJBeckford3m
Im a bolton man #bwfc

[mrkint]

is that actually beckford though? looks like a fake account.

[ChrisC]

is that actually beckford though? looks like a fake account.

Looks real to me