Bolton v Forest thread

[Bruce Rioja]

First the queue at the ticket office to pick up my pre-bought tickets - wtf was all that about and why can't I print 'em at home anymore.

Yeah, this is annoying.
Tried myself last night, the print at home delivery option has just disappeared off the form.
That place can't get anything right - I presume Coyle has got his sister in law or something in to run the show.

I'm not pissing about prematch tomorrow picking them up either when I could be having a pint so now I'm going to have to go there Friday afternoon on my way home from work and sort it.

Ticketmaster, Gartside and Coyle Out.

Walking from CNR to the Bok, WtW and I were commenting on how fewer people there were milling about and how little traffic there was. Obviously that's because everyone was queuing outside the ticket office .Deary me. What a fecking shambles. There must have been plenty that missed the start of the game due to it.

[thebish]

looks like it's unlikely sanchez will be signed in time to start this one...

[Worthy4England]

looks like it's unlikely sanchez will be signed in time to start this one...

We're giving Veloso a run out instead.

[Worthy4England]

First the queue at the ticket office to pick up my pre-bought tickets - wtf was all that about and why can't I print 'em at home anymore.

Yeah, this is annoying.
Tried myself last night, the print at home delivery option has just disappeared off the form.
That place can't get anything right - I presume Coyle has got his sister in law or something in to run the show.

I'm not pissing about prematch tomorrow picking them up either when I could be having a pint so now I'm going to have to go there Friday afternoon on my way home from work and sort it.

Ticketmaster, Gartside and Coyle Out.

Walking from CNR to the Bok, WtW and I were commenting on how fewer people there were milling about and how little traffic there was. Obviously that's because everyone was queuing outside the ticket office .Deary me. What a fecking shambles. There must have been plenty that missed the start of the game due to it.

I was 10 mins late for Barcelona freakin B - because they're shut up shop right on KO...

Mr Angry has written to them to find out what is going on.

Will keep you posted if I get a reply before Chrimbo.

[Armchair Wanderer]

Cost-cutting? Making it harder to buy merchandise and get into the ground is really going to save money. Genius!

[Barr Hill]

Cost-cutting? Making it harder to buy merchandise and get into the ground is really going to save money. Genius!

The match day programme - another cost cutting exercise. The have reduced the size by 20% but still charging £3.00.
Cheaper paper and smaller print (too small for my eyes). Must remember to bring my reading specs on Friday!!!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Help required!
Bolton v Forest was one of my favourite games as a boy. I remember us winning 4-3 at Burnden under Rioch in 1993. Lee scored 2, Thompson and Patterson the others (golden era!).
I can't for the life of me remember how the goals went in though. Were we winning throughout? Were they scrappy goals? Works of art? I don't want to clog this Forest thread up with old memories (albeit Forest-related) so feel free to PM me any info. I can do a summary post with your insights later!
Or - if you think it's of interest, feel free to post for all. Not sure of the board etiquette on this one - it's sort of related!

It was played on a Sunday and we had Jules Darby at CB marking Stan Collymore
I stand to be corrected but as I recall they led twice
(That'll be me digging the DVD out later then!)

Yep, iirc we scored the winner late on to make it 4-3.
Was a super game, as you say Collymore destroyed us at times.....

Was talking about this game this very morning with a Tricky Trees fan of my acquaintance. I was there, and although annoyingly I can't remember too much about the ebb and flow of the game, I've scoured the internet for prompters...

Sunday 2 September 1993, the recently-promoted Wanderers attempting to re-establish themselves in a second tier littered with giants like Grimsby, Oxford, Tranmere and Southend; Forest trying to find their feet in the Endsleigh League Division One after 16 top-flight seasons, with Frank Clark replacing Brian Clough.

We were both in lower mid-table with eight points from six games but they were the stronger bets for promotion – rightly, as it turned out: they'd end up going up as runners-up, and would finish third in the top flight the following season. Fancy that. We, meanwhile, had a(nother) FA Cup run to go on... In fact, the previous midweek we'd drawn 1-1 in the home leg of League Cup tie with top-flight Sheffield Wednesday, whose stripes were deemed to clash with our white; they borrowed our yellow kit, so we got to see Chris Waddle in a Bolton top. And Carlton Palmer, but life's not all cherries.

With Wednesday having been preceded by visits from Leicester in the league and Sunderland in an Anglo-Italian qualifier attended by just over three thousand, this was our fourth successive home game in 13 days – and despite Sky coverage a reasonable 10,578 attended (only a thousand down on the Wednesday game, which was 500 down on Leicester).

Having been barracked for months two seasons before in the fag-end of Phil Neal's reign, Julian Darby was back in the good books after a resurgence under Rioch, notably including the vital winner against Stoke that took us into the automatic promotion slot. Ever willing for his home team, Darby had volunteered to fill in at centre-back to help out, and as I recall had managed well in the previous game/s.

However, he hadn't faced Stan Collymore, who ran him ragged that sunny Sunday afternoon; all pace, power and potential, and yet to become the complete c*nt destiny decreed, Collymore was one of the best young English strikers around and scored two goals while poor Jules looked on from somewhere in the centre circle. At least one of those goals was in the second half at the Embankment end; Forest's other goal came from David Phillips (no, me either).

In the first nine games of the season, only McGinlay (6) and Coyle (5) had got on the scoresheet, but the midfielders were starting to get involved. Zico Kelly had scored a penalty against Wednesday and against Forest they all piled in: our first three goals (shit, that's a weird phrase these days) were scored by Didsy Lee (2) and Gizmo Patterson. But we needed a hero, and it was Alan Thompson. Late in the second half, the summer signing from Newcastle, who'd been misguidedly delighted to find we'd "invented a song" for him ("T - O - TOM - TOMO - Tommo"), cut in from the left wing and diagonally dashed toward goal. The keeper came out, as keepers do, and Tommo did something only a one-footed left-footer would do: hit it with the outside of his left boot, curling past the keeper's left hand then swerving back into the far side. Those of us up the top of the Paddock saw it from behind in all its beautiful parabola, and I'm here to tell you it was gorgeous. We held on, we won, we went above Forest.... and we lost our next three games.

[boltonboris]

looks like it's unlikely sanchez will be signed in time to start this one...

Speaking of which.. I was sticking a bet on, on Tuesday night..

Sanchez was 20/1 for first scorer!!!!

Just for comparison: Ream, Knight, Mears and Mills (who ACTUALLY play for us) were longer odds!

[Lennon'sEleven]

Thanks for the help guys! B Rioja and BWFCInsane get a special thanks in a blog I wrote elsewhere (you might be able to guess where, but I won't cross link from here. Bad form). DSB, I wrote it before you chipped in, but thanks too! It was one of my all time favourite games, despite my sketchy memory.

[Athers]

Apparently Forest were very good against Huddersfield, so sounds like this will be more of a test than Derby...

[boltonboris]

Didn't they draw with Huddersfield though? Hopefully that means they're a bit profligate

[officer_dibble]

Is anyone else like me andfucking clurless as to who is supposed to be good/shit ? beauty of the league i suppose but I.couldnt tell you which sides were fancied to do well or owt

[Bruce Rioja]

Thanks for the help guys! B Rioja and BWFCInsane get a special thanks in a blog I wrote elsewhere (you might be able to guess where, but I won't cross link from here. Bad form). DSB, I wrote it before you chipped in, but thanks too! It was one of my all time favourite games, despite my sketchy memory.

That's incredibly kind of you. Nice site btw.

[Athers]

Didn't they draw with Huddersfield though? Hopefully that means they're a bit profligate

Is what I heard yep

[Andy Waller]

Didn't they draw with Huddersfield though? Hopefully that means they're a bit profligate

They should try a Rennie for that. And not the Uriah type.

[TANGODANCER]

Didn't they draw with Huddersfield though? Hopefully that means they're a bit profligate

Is what I heard yep

For what it's worth, I read the match report. They drew because Huddersfield got a very late penalty (put in by new wonderboy Henderson). Apparently they also hit a post and McGugan and Blackstock seem useful up front.

[boltonboris]

That McGugan scores some absolute pearlers. Not seen that much, but he's got a hell of a strike, he's quick and he's tricky.

I can't wait!

[Leyther_Matt]

(That'll be me digging the DVD out later then!)

Get it uploaded to YouTube. Huge lack of anything BWFC on there between 1993 and 2001. Can't even find any footage of the PNE play off final on there.

[a1]

Is anyone else like me andfucking clurless as to who is supposed to be good/shit ? beauty of the league i suppose but I.couldnt tell you which sides were fancied to do well or owt

we should be hammering everybody.

you're welcome.

[P.O.S.]

Help required!
Bolton v Forest was one of my favourite games as a boy. I remember us winning 4-3 at Burnden under Rioch in 1993. Lee scored 2, Thompson and Patterson the others (golden era!).
I can't for the life of me remember how the goals went in though. Were we winning throughout? Were they scrappy goals? Works of art? I don't want to clog this Forest thread up with old memories (albeit Forest-related) so feel free to PM me any info. I can do a summary post with your insights later!
Or - if you think it's of interest, feel free to post for all. Not sure of the board etiquette on this one - it's sort of related!

It was played on a Sunday and we had Jules Darby at CB marking Stan Collymore
I stand to be corrected but as I recall they led twice
(That'll be me digging the DVD out later then!)

Yep, iirc we scored the winner late on to make it 4-3.
Was a super game, as you say Collymore destroyed us at times.....

Was talking about this game this very morning with a Tricky Trees fan of my acquaintance. I was there, and although annoyingly I can't remember too much about the ebb and flow of the game, I've scoured the internet for prompters...

Sunday 2 September 1993, the recently-promoted Wanderers attempting to re-establish themselves in a second tier littered with giants like Grimsby, Oxford, Tranmere and Southend; Forest trying to find their feet in the Endsleigh League Division One after 16 top-flight seasons, with Frank Clark replacing Brian Clough.

We were both in lower mid-table with eight points from six games but they were the stronger bets for promotion – rightly, as it turned out: they'd end up going up as runners-up, and would finish third in the top flight the following season. Fancy that. We, meanwhile, had a(nother) FA Cup run to go on... In fact, the previous midweek we'd drawn 1-1 in the home leg of League Cup tie with top-flight Sheffield Wednesday, whose stripes were deemed to clash with our white; they borrowed our yellow kit, so we got to see Chris Waddle in a Bolton top. And Carlton Palmer, but life's not all cherries.

With Wednesday having been preceded by visits from Leicester in the league and Sunderland in an Anglo-Italian qualifier attended by just over three thousand, this was our fourth successive home game in 13 days – and despite Sky coverage a reasonable 10,578 attended (only a thousand down on the Wednesday game, which was 500 down on Leicester).

Having been barracked for months two seasons before in the fag-end of Phil Neal's reign, Julian Darby was back in the good books after a resurgence under Rioch, notably including the vital winner against Stoke that took us into the automatic promotion slot. Ever willing for his home team, Darby had volunteered to fill in at centre-back to help out, and as I recall had managed well in the previous game/s.

However, he hadn't faced Stan Collymore, who ran him ragged that sunny Sunday afternoon; all pace, power and potential, and yet to become the complete c*nt destiny decreed, Collymore was one of the best young English strikers around and scored two goals while poor Jules looked on from somewhere in the centre circle. At least one of those goals was in the second half at the Embankment end; Forest's other goal came from David Phillips (no, me either).

In the first nine games of the season, only McGinlay (6) and Coyle (5) had got on the scoresheet, but the midfielders were starting to get involved. Zico Kelly had scored a penalty against Wednesday and against Forest they all piled in: our first three goals (shit, that's a weird phrase these days) were scored by Didsy Lee (2) and Gizmo Patterson. But we needed a hero, and it was Alan Thompson. Late in the second half, the summer signing from Newcastle, who'd been misguidedly delighted to find we'd "invented a song" for him ("T - O - TOM - TOMO - Tommo"), cut in from the left wing and diagonally dashed toward goal. The keeper came out, as keepers do, and Tommo did something only a one-footed left-footer would do: hit it with the outside of his left boot, curling past the keeper's left hand then swerving back into the far side. Those of us up the top of the Paddock saw it from behind in all its beautiful parabola, and I'm here to tell you it was gorgeous. We held on, we won, we went above Forest.... and we lost our next three games.

Im certain extended highlights of that 4-3 are on Youtube, cant link you to it though because of my work's draconian internet privacy laws!