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I didn't think one of the sites most argumentative clowns would be missed 😄 Very kind of you anyway @miamiwhite, if not a bit fucking dramatic 😉 For those that didn't know, the wee one came home early October. 149 days in hospital in total, 100 of them in intensive care. Born at just over 800 grams, he battled through pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, blood transfusions and 2 trips to surgery. A proper little warrior (insert a bwfc legend's name here). Just hunkering down a bit for the winter and keeping our circle small. His lungs took a battering and he's really vulnerable to readmission if he catches something. He's on home oxygen whilst they grow stronger and we're getting lots of walks and time outside which helps us both. Not sure what the future will bring. But he's smiling away and even started laughing yesterday, so we can't ask for much more than that. Other than a nice pint of Guinness & three points tomorrow. A belated Merry Christmas fellas.

Made life hard for ourselves yet again by not putting the game to bed much earlier. Seemed to coast through the 2nd half for the most part without the same level of intent. Most important thing is 3 points which I’ll take what I won’t take is a player in a white shirt being cheered off the pitch. Going to do fuck all for Randall and his clearly already brittle confidence and if you were part of it your a fucking muppet

Well she has made it till Christmas and is seeming to improve. The Vet has been brilliant, well worth the £££ s ! Have a good one everyone.

Fuckin ell one bad run of form and now we want the owners out. Are you forgetting the contanst incline up until last season? Do promotion, 5th then 3rd not mean anything? How about a bit of loyalty to those who put their money where their mouths were and pulled the club out of oblivion? They can't get everything right. They far from get everything wrong. Talk about hysterical fucking nonsense 🤦‍♂️

Just hope SS head doesn't go like Evatts did and he starts falling out with every cunt. We are a really hard club to manage. Massive fanbase in a league we shouldn't be in with high expectations and shit loads of pressure. He needs to keep cool and remember this is a marathon and not a sprint. Everything doesn't need fixing all in one go, game to game, despite what us fans protest. Keep calm. Stick to the plan and just get the pissing basics right.

I have just had a message off London and he assures everyone that all is well, he logged out over Christmas and has been unable to log back in (could Zico or another Mod help with this please). LW also would like to thank Miami for showing some concern

Of anyone can explain the logic of the 44th minute subs I would be grateful just seemed like it was desperate action of a man with no idea what else to do. No way Sheehan deserves that treatment

Bad decision taking off Sheehan after 43 wasn’t playing badly and embarrassing to treat him like that. Thats how you lose players.

Everyone's been moaning all week about how shit everyone is and how the system doesn't work and we will struggle to make top 6. Manager reacts to some dross performances and shows the shower of shite players that nobody is safe and changes is system and he's still wrong. All before a ball is kicked. TSL was a liability all week now it's wrong he's dropped. Inverted wingers and lone striker doesn't work. Now he's changed it's still wrong. Bloke can't win.

It was his lesser known brother, Jesse Llingard

Never in a million years. We have some utter dicks watching us. Didn't do much wrong today the lad. He might not look the part but fuck me he doesn't deserve half the grief he gets.

If that's watching paint dry someone send me the number for Dulex paints. I want to order 200 litres.

Like many, when we had our last game at Burnden I helped myself to some memrobelia being seat from the Burnden Stand. It’s sat in my parents garage for the last 28 years and they had a clear out this year. They made me this bar stool with the seat, absolute delighted with it.

The team just looks like it had no chemistry at all. Playing passes the other wasn't expecting, over hitting it, looking worried and way too passive. Looked like a first pre season game. Schumacher has only had 1 window and deserves time, but he's slowly becoming an excuse merchant. Blaming this on fatigue and having a tight schedule. What about the rest of the division? He brought up the pitch at the Doncaster game for being a factor. You would have thought with our big squad, playing against much smaller clubs with much smaller budgets in a short space of time, coming to our place on our nice big pitch, yet what have we done against them? Mansfield made no subs in their game before us, beaten us, Barnsley & Bradford in less than a week. Northampton today had so many injuries. We hardly have any injuries at all and a squad twice as big. 5 points against Rotherham, Mansfield, Doncaster and Northampton, 3 of them at home? Absolutely no excuse at all. And I don't think it's just, "let's get some incomings in this month". I hope it makes a difference, but how do we know this? I don't even think Burstow & Dalby deserves the blame as much as they get. What chances do they get? Burstow did well today but what service is he getting? Our crosses and play in the final 3rd is dreadful and it's no wonder why our goals have dried up. Worrying times.

Did I say we'd improved? Personally I prefer Schumacher's approach but objectively the results are similar. But the last man got YEARS of serving up the same shite that consistently failed whilst spending millions, Schumacher at least deserves a full season and a couple of windows to build a squad before we draw too many conclusions.

Count stepovers

Guys and girls. Call out for a fellow White London Wanderer hasn't been on here for 12 days. We all know his little one wasn't well 😢 Praying all is OK with him and his little one, if anyone has his number, please give him a call to make sure all is OK🙏 Thank you from us all 👍

Thought Randell had one of his better games for us today and did some good passes think he lacks a bit of confidence but would come good if the crowd got off his back his effort was no worse than anyone else there isn't one player in our side that does not give the ball away or a bad cross more than once in a game

Bit of downtime on a slow Sunday afternoon. Posts taken from https://www.exeweb.com/forums/threads/bolton-v-ecfc-match-day-thread-13-12-25.66034/ PREMATCH KICK OFF You’d think that, but Bolton have barely had a shot despite all their possession

Yes, 2 minutes from half time to treat a senior, respected pro like that, I lost a bit of respect for SS there and I bet I'm not the only one. Sheehan of all players, comes across as being in the Kieron Lee class of good pro's, course he can have a bad game. For the sake of a couple of minutes, you'd have a word at H-T and explain the formation change etc.

Nobody should be happy with league one and the last people on this planet who will be happy is the owners. They've gambled fortunes on getting this club back up. Ask Micheal James if he's happy he jizzed his kids inheritance on some shitty car parks to save the club or any of the other investors that cover our insane losses if they are happy. Nobody is fucking happy, it's shit, we are in terrible form and manager seems to be losing his shit. The last thing anyone needs now is a knee jerk big bollocks pile of hysteria. It's a bad run of form. We have January to sort it. And the manager most of all needs to keep his shit together. And that's my biggest worry of all. He lost his head today. That Kiplin poem springs to mind. Get some lads in and get some out and change the bloody system. Bollocks about the owners is just utter rubbish. They've backed us to the hilt.

That greasy haired racist fuck stick thinks he's running some kind of proper supporters club. It's an absolute cesspit of utter cunts and know it all amateur accountants and tacticians. I'd love to send @Cheesein there like our very own Jason Bourne and call shit loads of the cunts out.

Pity - he was doing a brilliant job

Imaging mutilating a babies body because of some fairytale bollocks in a book.

Farage is funded by billionaires with vested interests in ensuring our whole financial system, in particular the markets remain unregulated. He is a fucking grifter who is million more times concerned about lining his own pockets than he is about education and the NHS. He dances to the tune of his paymasters. The fact he has a sniff of the top job shows how fucking shit Cameron, May, Boris, Truss, Sunak and now Starmer have been. And with the other options being Badenoch, Funny Ed and a hypnotist who think he can make women’s tits bigger shows nothing good is happening soon.

Seeing that young Utd player get a 2nd yellow for throwing the ball down and then crying has cheered me right up. Little cunt.

There’s no room for a range of views anymore. People who can see the good and bad in both the left and the right. Either you’re left, or you’re right. It’s fucking pathetic the amount of people who are now making utter shitshows of themselves because they don’t want to admit they’re wrong occasionally. They’ll back a dogshit opinion to the absolute death to try and save face. Get tae fuck

JDC started in 5 of our first 6 wins this season He was doing alright I thought

To be fair to SS, in the first half we overcame part of our problem of being poor in either box.......we didnt go in theirs!..... I really dont like writing players off but Nats statue is more mobile and has better awareness than Dalby. Doncaster are a poor team yet had players who showed a damn sight more appetite and desire than ours do and our in game management is woeful. Any decent whipped ball into out box causes mayhem every week yet we insist on floating nothing balls into a box to a striker who has zero nous and where no midfielders are making supporting runs. We would be more of a threat if SKD and Kevin Nolan made a comeback. And for my final rant, why is it virtually everytime we get a throw in near the opponents penalty area does it end up with passes andback at our goalies feet?

SS really does need to hit on his best team and stick with it, with minimum changes. Were ending up with a different line up every game and it really showed today.

Apart from the fact that he's still not got himself to complete 1 game a week never mind 2 in 3 days? It was, but now he's shit apparently Yes, TSL needs to deal with the cross and not get involved in trying to move the striker first. Dalby, Conway, Duberry & Burstow should all have done better with their efforts on goal. We didn't lose because of tactics, approach, substitutions, the ref etc last night. We lost due to a rookie keeper error and woeful finishing.

I’ll have to watch again. At first watch it looked to me like the CB who is most culpable is Toal not Johnston, looks like he was out jumped ? That said TSL should be taking full responsibility. I’m with @Johnnyrotten on the Johnston debate - can’t believe we’re lambasting him for giving a corner away! Because that’s essentially what we are saying - it was, IMO, his only notable mistake yesterday. He’s not perfect - a few little concerns, but probably far less concerns than most L1 defenders. I think he’s been one of our best players this season.

Sheehan poor? Each to there own, but dont know what else he could have done tonight. He was the heart beat of the team first half, great shot which Dalby should have followed up but great defending as well, defence splitting pass to put in conway who also should have scored, then great run later on to set up Burstow.

WOW....what a day....what an occasion!! Boby, I couldn't believe you saw me taking the pic so far away 🤣 Roll on Sydney!!!

Duberry I felt had probably his worst game for us today until the winner, yet the match was just another indication of why he's so important to play the whole game. He can be quiet for 90 minutes, but in extra time how many points has he won us now? Sheehan got the 2 goals but just look at him pressing their centre half in the build up for the winner. He's been labelled a soft touch in the past, but he's a real fighter along with his ability to dictate and dominate matches. Special mention to Dalby, gave us another dimension when he came on and had their centre halves struggling. As for the main taking point, Randell. I personally don't think he's good enough and hasn't delivered in the nearly 12 months he's been here now and for the 1.2 million we spent on him. I do think as fans we love a scapegoat and there's a lot of fans out of there hoping he does something wrong to prove their points. But also, there's some out there giving him extra praise, just because his performance may have been better than performances in the past. But being honest, when his previous games have been say a 3 or 4/10 and today he might have been a 5 or 6/10, I personally don't think that's a thing to praise. Nevertheless, whether you praise or criticise him, one thing that is completely detrimental and wrong, is celebrating his departure after he has quite obviously put in effort in front of 24,000 "supporters" for the shirt of the club we all support. He might not be good enough, which is a belief I personally hold onto at the moment. But responding like that? How can that support him to do better next time he puts on the shirt? Or next time there's a key pressured moment in the game, that he has the confidence to do what it takes without having us supporters in the back of his mind? Confidence is huge in football and it's our job as supporters to help provide that as much as we can. Today, we completely shot down the confidence of our very own player who may very well be in the managers plans whether we like it or not. Think some need to take a look at themselves.

Merry Christmas to all, spend this precious time with your family. You don't have to even like them, but they're what have made to what you are. You'll miss them when they're gone. I know I do.

Will collect mother tomorrow and take her to my brother’s in Bolton for Xmas dinner and enjoy being able to spend yet another Xmas day with her. At 88 I realise there’s not that many left. Mrs will be at her sister’s for Thai and a Sri Lankan curry that I made for them Boxing Day will be absolute hell. My worst day of the year. Every year without fail. Buffet. SiL will turn up at 2, slug a load of wine and scream at top volume. FiL will be loud and belligerent and bore everyone to death about The Massives. Step-daughters will turn up with cuntybollock boyfriends that I absolutely fucking despise and then to put the fucking top hat on it the SiL’s friends will turn up so we’ll have even more screeching pissed bellends pissing me off. Me and the grandkids will disappear and watch TV. None of my family bother turning up any more. I’ll get caned for being a miserable cunt and will loudly agree as per every year

"Oh Mister Darcy" she gasped. "I see from the light that Papa's mausoleum is finally finished. A fitting resting place for a great man do you not think?". "Aye love, but there's just a few things to add". "What, like his favourite flowers such as the rose he carefully cultivated - Red Indian . It won such honours at the Chelsea Flower Festival. Do you remember?" "Aye, that was the time I got arrested on the Fulham Road for being drunk and disorderly in charge of a suffragette. It was only thanks to your lawyer uncle that I got off with 20 hours community service in St.Jimmy's refuge for downtrodden scullery maids". "Yes, and if I recall correctly, you went back to court to ask it to be increased to 4 months". "Well, one always has to act upon one's conscience". "Or maybe", she opined wearily, "the collar of his late lamented best friend of a Labrador, Darkie" "Aye, poor Darkie, it was a sad day when I had to put him down." "But Mister Darcy, all he had was a thorn in his foot". "You can't be too careful chuck; one word - rabies. It did for your sister after I scuttled her by that badger set. Never again I vowed after that. Put me right off my stroke when she started convulsing". "Anyhow, I was thinking more like a dartboard and minibar to be honest". "Oh Mr Darcy" she gasped "Fruiting poppies, how romantic. A shower, a cascade that is inextricably indicative of our love eternal. I'm so thrilled". "Fruiting opium poppies, love. Opium! This time next year we'll have the laudanum trade between here and Garstang in our pockets. We can finally buy your mother that glass eye she so desperately wants" "Well that WAS your fault Mister Darcy" she glared accusingly (and somewhat ironically). "Aye but to be fair I had to practice rat shooting somewhere; you were always on at me about how infested that outdoor bog by the summerhouse is. I wasn't to know she was on it at the time." "And it has to be said, for the record, that half a bottle of your father's Glen Hoddle single malt more than played its part". "Oh Mister Darcy" she gasped "I'm so happy you accept the hand of a low born gypsy girl and have absorbed our culture, our language and codes. We live an honorable and simple life - come and see my caravan. My beloved Dej - or should I say my Mama in English - has decked it out in floral tribute for the 3 day wedding feast, with music and dancing! Families from around the country have travelled far and wide and this will go down in folklore as a marriage that transcends boundaries and breaks down barriers. We will cement a new era of peace and understanding, ridding ourselves of prejudice and vile stereotypes". "And of course" she blushed timidly, with a smile teetering between first time apprehension and a lustful, loving thrill for the powerful unknown that was utterly beyond the comprehension of that which her sheltered life had thus far given her "it is where we will finally consummate our beloved union". "Aye love, but when does the robbing start? I know for a fact the back door of the vestry at St Jude's is unlocked this time of night as the verger gives Mrs Watson from the Townswomen's Guild a good seeing to at her place every Thursday. Plus that roof is leaded. Why do you think I brought them ladders?" "Oh Mr Darcy" she quivered "Midnight on a moonlit Tuesday evening, with us just us two - and only the faintest breeze wafting in the chilled night air for company. A subliminal whisper enhanced, now and then, by far away cries. Hark to them! Owls or foxes no doubt, as if some ancient battle from times gone by is being played out in the temporal aether. Oh how romantic!" "Aye love, Mansfield after a hard fought midweek away win - you can't beat it! It'll be kicking off down town, that's what you can hear." " Well that's as maybe" she said, composing herself, "but I'm intrigued by that magnificent erection. Can you explain it?" "It'll be them new fangled Viagra pills you got from the apothecary, Dr Dose. Knew they'd come in handy soon enough." "But Mister Darcy" she blushed with just a hint of contritional guilt "I have to confess that I was convinced you asked me to get his patented laxative pills, Niagara ? You know, the ones we use to, shall I say, clear the horses out? As the good doctor's famous slogan says on the bottle, 'guaranteed to shift a ton of hay....in half a day!' " "Fucking hell love, wait here while go behind them stones. Rip us a bit of that dress off for bog roll; there's enough of it, and after all, your arse can't be that big." "Mind you, thinking about it," he shouted, as sprinting and reflecting for just a moment in his understandable haste, "I also said that about your cousin - and remember how that ended up!" "Don't let the club stagecoach special go without us" he then uttered urgently as he hastened to "inspect" the ancient monument, his voice getting fainter in the ever colder night air. "I don't want to spend the night in Mansfield with the shits." "Again"

Will be a dark day when I take notice of anything said on that cesspit hole of the the Internet. That Racist, greasy haired, self important, leaflet delivering nonce and his gaggle of arse licking lemmings can fuck right off and fuck right off some more. The guy thinks he's running some kind of supporters club and is some all seeing eye and voice for the fans. He's fucking not and neither are any whoppers that post and engage with reactionary and hysterical bullshit on a daily basis.

Yeah and I know it's cliche and sometimes falls on deaf ears but as fans we really gotta get behind the team. And I'm not speaking about when we are winning and it's all rosey. There's going to be times, even at home when somebody makes a mistake, we're losing and then you can hear everybody grumbling, moaning and putting pressure on our own players ie "GET IT FORWARD" shouts in the 30th minute. Teddy's our number 1 goalkeeper and got player of the month. Makes one mistake and I see loads of comments questioning if he's the right man and or that he's not good enough. Just unbelievably fickle. Schumacher has shown, even in his first few games last season that he's not like Evatt. We don't usually go behind, heads drop and then look hopeless at bringing a goal back or just end up getting battered (Swindon aside), although we are going to lose games of football, it happens. He's shown he can change the majority of games with his substitutions just like on Saturday. Even before the equaliser the team came out 2nd half bang up for it, we were playing with such pace and intensity. I don't get the same feeling as I did under Evatt where we looked hopeless. Look what happened at Huddersfield. Probably the best support we've seen from our amazing away fans who didn't stop singing all 2nd half and gave the players extra energy to turn 0 points into 3. I genuinely believe that we can look back at that game at the end of the season as a turning point. And that all happened when the positivity from the fans was being well heard. We have the biggest support in the league, gotta make the likes of Mansfield, Stevenage, Burton etc or whoever when they come to our place feel that they are under immense pressure from 20,000 home fans. And that goes the same for the horrible referees in this league too. They are unreliable and have zero bottle about them. If/when we put pressure on them they are more likely to fold in our favour. The referee on Saturday finally realised he had cards in his pockets especially after us fans were pressuring him more. I guess like they say, we are in it together.

I honestly think he's had one too many kick offs with the players and they've thrown the towel in on him. Same as last season when he lost his mind with them and it all went to shit. They aren't tracking back, they aren't pressing, they're not being brave on the ball, continually finding the safe option, no movement, nobody in space etc They're not interested

It’s just confidence for me. We’re not playing in some drastically different formation from a month or two ago, we’re just playing really conservatively, slowly, on the back foot. When our first thought is backwards, or we take 3 extra touches to make sure we keep the ball then the system breaks - the opposition get set defensively and it’s very hard to break them down. Even the best struggle to do it, never mind a 3rd tier team. We need something in off an arse, we need a decent signing, we need a big win in front of a sold out away end at Wigan. Something that gives the players that confidence back to play fast, on the front foot and take a few risks. As long as we see the automatic reaction of a full back to be to turn back to the centre back, who then passes to the other and sprints 15 yards towards our own goal, to get the ball back 30 yards closer to our own goal than we started then nothing will change. Fingers crossed it happens today and we can take some confidence into next weekend.

So poor that today. Limp, weak, no intent, no drive or desire to score. A touch too many, poor decision making and absolutely wank final ball. Not a shot on goal, fuck all created, slow passing and not a through ball in sight. We look a million miles away from the clinical outfits that have turned up to the Reebok in seasons past and smashed and grabbed us and gone on to win promotion. Zero killer instinct and even less desire to make something happen. We are absolutely miles off it. There's a bloody lot to fix.

The Pink Test Come on England!!

Get yourself a beer pal. You need one.

Got too love the Aussies.😅 Loads of Bolton fans here. We were at the traffic crossing yesterday and an Aussie/British family stood next to us. The young lad, about 9, kept staring at my son’s Bolton badges. The father apologised and explained that the lad’s grandfather used to play for us and loved all things BWFC. Who? I asked. Garry Jones he said! Well he couldn’t have met a bigger fan than me and I spent 20 minutes talking to them about his career and how I met him at the Reebok in a box just two weeks before he died. I’m not sure who got more out of the conversation. I suspect it was me. Garry’s son moved here years ago and the lad was born here.

Also, only 6 games across all 3 leagues were won by more than one goal today. Plenty of fans across the country will be saying that they wish they’d killed the game off earlier, we’re hardly the only ones. There will be loads of eyes on our result today from Cardiff, Bradford, Stockport etc. fans who’s reaction will be “for fuck sake, Bolton just always find a way to win at home”. I’ll take that

Johnston the best player on the pitch by a mile. He misplaced a pass after about 75 minutes and I swear it was the first time all day, and he won every challenge, tackle, header, block he went in for.

Its the sqaud that will see us over the line. It's that which killed us in years gone by. The year we blew it, we attacked the abyss of the season, those dark horrible shit winter months, with Bod and Collins up front and no fucker else. Pissing about with your Kachungas, CMGs and the likes trying to get promotion. This time is different. We can now grind results out of fuck all, play shite and win and more importantly lose a man or replace a man and it not be the end of the world. We are right in the thick of the season and so far we are handling it better than we ever have.