Bolton vs Aston vanilla (The official match thread)

[wanderers_on_tour]

This season ive come to the belief that owen is a great coach, but just isnt cut out to be a manager. This is where I finally give up on him and it hurts. Every week i think 'well he has to change tactics now'...yet nothing.

[BWFC_Insane]

Not playing Muamba the most basic of decisions and it's just ridiculous.

Playing Tuncay on the wing....

Coyle is a c*nt. End of.

[Turkish Trotter]

This season ive come to the belief that owen is a great coach, but just isnt cut out to be a manager. This is where I finally give up on him and it hurts. Every week i think 'well he has to change tactics now'...yet nothing.

What this season has led you to the belief that he is a great coach??? Nothing that i have seen endorses that !!!

[wanderers_on_tour]

Pre injuries to Holden/Lee Owen was doing a fine job. Unfortunately he STILL hasnt adapted to their abscences and its hurting the club

[Whookam]

Pre injuries to Holden/Lee Owen was doing a fine job. Unfortunately he STILL hasnt adapted to their abscences and its hurting the club

There was me thinking Lee played at the end of last season.

[Peter Thompson]

Fcuking shambolic yet again....apart from 15 mins at the start of the 2nd half, we had no midfield whatsover, it was almost a 4-2-4 kamikaze formation - a premiership central midfield of M Davies & Pratley WTF !! - Coyle is absolutely clueless and so out far out of his depth, 2-1 flatters us, it could have been at least 4-0 at HT

What's that now 17 defeats out of the last 20 games - how on earth can Eddie Davies & Gartside allow this to continue, its a disgrace if they don't sack Coyle tonight. I hate to say it but we played better under Megson, we were still shit but we at least showed fight and passion, this lot are passionless, softarse bottlers the fecking lot of them - worst Bolton side ever at the Reebok

I'm waiting for the equally inept and out of his depth Gartside to come out and still say that there is nothing to worry out....and if this £7M to get rid of Coyle is true, and I don't believe it for one minute - who the hell agreed to it, Gartside....?

[Tombwfc]

That figure can't be right, surely? If we stuck him on gardening leave for the remainder of his contract (7 months or so?) how would we get to paying him £7mil?

[jimbo_bwfc]

I can't work that out either. Unless we've written into his contract him some sort of severance pay guarentee?

Or maybe 7m covers his entire backroom.

Either way, if there is a grain of truth to it, it probably explains why we're 100m in the hole.

[CrazyHorse]

Fcuking shambolic

nuf said.

How can it be £7mil to get shut of the inept tosser? He's got six months or so left on his contract; presumably so do all his mates and there's no way we're paying them £14mil a year. Not a chance.

[a1]

if they sacked him , and the new manager had no money at all to spend, he (the new dude) would keep us up.

coz he'd line the team up better than the drunk bastards doing it now.

[officer_dibble]

Is it his feck* useless staffs compo as well?

got to go

and it may already be too late to save us

[a1]

mark hughes (former wales manager , played for chelsea , manchester united , possibly a few more.. used to manage blackburn too) or bust !!

[CrazyHorse]

Is it his feck useless staffs compo as well?

got to go

and it may already be too late to save us

Course it's too late to save us. It was too late months ago.

[Gail Platz]

I've had enough now. I've been in the "it'll be reet" brigade all season, as on paper I've always thought teams like Villa and Everton were half decent. However, after watching both of those teams, along with all of the others we've lost to, the likes of Norwich and Swansea, it's simply not fecking good enough.

Villa were piss poor today, and they were rightly singing "How shit must you be, we're winning away". Everton weren't much better the other week. Both teams were there for the taking and we've been completely bossed and outplayed by them.

Any other manager would have gone at this rate. It's saying something when I see Megson's reign now significantly better than Coyle's and I couldn't stand that ginger tosspot.

My ratings:

Jussi: 6 - I feel sorry for him, he still pulls out the stops but has an absolute sack of shit in front of him.
Boyata: 2 - He's shit, I didn't rate him at City, and he's no good here. Crap signing.
Knight: 0 - fecking wanker I fecking hate this prick feck off out of our club you fecking disgrace.
Cahill: 3 - Just get gone in the summer mate, we won't blame you.
Robinson: 0 - Useless pile of garbage
Tuncay: 2 - Did nothing
Eagles: 1 - Another one of his many shit performances
M Davies: 4 - Not total shit but definitely not good either
Pratley: 1 - What is the point of this person? He is the most pointless player of all time. What does he do?
Klasnic: 4 - No good but he scored so that gained him a few points

K Davies: Minus1000000 - His 'performances' this season are easily the worst I have ever seen from any player in a Bolton shirt, ever. He is a completely shocking player that offers absolute jack shit to the team. He did some ballet dance when the ball went near him today and I didn't know what to do other than put my head in my hands.

[TKIZ!]

mark hughes (former wales manager , played for chelsea , manchester united , possibly a few more.. used to manage blackburn too) or bust !!

Never, ever going to happen. He left Fulham because they had no money for transfers. So why on Earth would he come to Bolton where we have exactly the sum of feck all as well?

I'd just ask Coyle, no beg Coyle to grow a pair and realise that the 442 formation he has us playing has been sussed out. Each team now play an extra man and control midfield making it bloody hard to chase the game.

[Gail Platz]

mark hughes (former wales manager , played for chelsea , manchester united , possibly a few more.. used to manage blackburn too) or bust !!

Never, ever going to happen. He left Fulham because they had no money for transfers. So why on Earth would he come to Bolton where we have exactly the sum of feck all as well?

I'd just ask Coyle, no beg Coyle to grow a pair and realise that the 442 formation he has us playing has been sussed out. Each team now play an extra man and control midfield making it bloody hard to chase the game.

I don't think it has anything to do with being sussed out, I just think it's because every one of our outfield players couldn't give a shit. No matter what formation we play, if the players don't put in the effort which they aren't doing, then we've no chance.

[bobo the clown]

It may just be me, but what on God's green Earth does Coyle see in Pratley that makes him give him a shirt, let alone a start ?

Is OC the only person who fails to see that Kevin Davies is a spent force ? That Muamba is needed in that midfield ... ESPECIALLY given that NRC wasn't available !!

Tuncay's position is deep-lying striker, just off the forward(s). Wing is pointless for him. The poor sod ran around like mad, but had NO idea what he was doing out there. Kakuta is obviously being returned to Chelsea in 2012, so why bother with him at this stage. Robbo, bless his socks, is just useless due to his lack of pace. Jussi has reverted to big-boot 100% of the time. Boyata found more claret shirts than white ones. I could go on .. & probably will.

I sympathise about the awful injury list but today on the radio, post match, he said due to the injuries he's playing people who otherwise wouldn't be getting games !! Way to go on the motivational stuff Owen.

He also said that football is football & he does his best but if something thinks someone else could do the job better then he'd go & 'no hard feelings'. Honestly, this was said. Alnost like he'd given up.

I see NO possibility of him turning this around. Gartside's "he's safe, coz we can't afford to pay him off" remark is the worst vote-of-confidence I've ever heard.

We're in the shite & I expect fight and effort if nothing else. We aren't even seeing that.

[TKIZ!]

I think Bobo, Coyle took a gamble on Pratley like he took a gamble on Holden. Only Holden gamble worked and Pratley is sh**e

[Gail Platz]

I think Bobo, Coyle took a gamble on Pratley like he took a gamble on Holden. Only Holden gamble worked and Pratley is sh**e

If anyone watched Swansea last season when he played for them he was as bad for them as he is for us. I couldn't believe it when we were linked to signing him, I really hoped we wouldn't get him but unfortunately we did. He turned out exactly how I expected, absolute garbage.

[TKIZ!]

I think Bobo, Coyle took a gamble on Pratley like he took a gamble on Holden. Only Holden gamble worked and Pratley is sh**e

If anyone watched Swansea last season when he played for them he was as bad for them as he is for us. I couldn't believe it when we were linked to signing him, I really hoped we wouldn't get him but unfortunately we did. He turned out exactly how I expected, absolute garbage.

Agreed but then Mark Davies doesn't seem to have progressed as much as I thought either.