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Anyway. Back to mental health, etc and away from Friday Night Fight Club Said it before on here, even though I started this thread, I’ve never suffered any mental health issues myself. Never get anxious, never feel the black dog hanging over me, I’m one of the lucky ones Two weeks ago today I woke at 2am with the most severe pains below my rib cage and I was in agony. How the fuck I got through that Friday I don’t know. Saturday morning was just as bad. Anyway, via 111 I was admitted to Royal Oldham with what turned out to be 5 gallstones and a severe gallbladder infection. Put on the urgent pathway, operated on and kept in til last Friday. Today finally saw all the staples taken out and the drain removed and the blood test finally confirmed that the infection had gone But here’s the rub. It’s really clobbered me. In my 62 years on this earth I’d never spent one single night in hospital. I was born at home so wasn’t even in as a baby. I’m indestructible. I’ve broken a number of bones mountain biking but it's been hey-ho strap me up and send me home. I’ve come home unable to do anything but sit and watch TV and do frigging jigsaws. All of a sudden I feel vulnerable. Every follow-up appointment I’ve been to I’ve had the various medics do the classic sucking air through their teeth and saying just how much trouble I was actually in. It’s really odd when life gives you a really big smack in the face. Apparently I’ve become quite introverted and quiet and far less of an annoying cunt and I don’t like it. For the first time in my life I feel that summat’s not right with me. My “couldn’t give a shit” attitude has gone I’m banned from flying anywhere for 12 weeks, signed off from work for another week, am only allowed to drive short distances, and can only sit here and vegitate. Social interactions have gone to virtually zero. I’m climbing the fucking walls Anyway. Lessons learned. We are not indestructible. Don’t ignore severe pain. If I had done I would undoubtedly have gone into sepsis as my gallbladder was on the point of “bursting”. The NHS is ace. Reach out if you need help. Vent when you need to

Without Ritchie on the bench, we lose that.

Never ceases to amaze me this place. As much as we all bicker and spend days on end waffling shite to eachother I know we've all got eachothers backs. The support from folk on here has been unbelievable and can't thank you all enough. Lads I've never even met sticking a few bob in. Honestly from the bottom of my heart I thank you all. Not just donations but support as well. You are unbelievable people.

Most orange men don’t like the pope to be fair …

'Content creators', vox pop merchants, live vloggers wandering around, auditors etc etc Get in the fucking sea.

Dalby really puts in some effort to get in the box for the winner. 4 Plymouth players between him and goal here.

Big shout out to the fans who travelled there today, never stopped singing all second half and were a massive lift after the idiots sending off. Well done guys. 👍

Are we sure they aren't now using the Epstein scandal to distract from the Iran debacle, which was to distract from the Epstein scandal?

At the moment ACD got injured we were already 8 points behind 2nd and it was a genuine topic of conversation on here that we might be better without him. I think as a 20-year-old, playing his first proper season of football, the break might prove to be a bit of a blessing. He looked fresh and re-energised last night in a way he might not have done if he was playing his 45th game of the season.

We're at a crossroads and have been for a while now. It feels that when we lose a game, it's the end of promotion, manager isn't good enough, inquest on every player begins. We win like on Friday, we can even chase Cardiff still and we're going to get promoted and everyone is amazing. End of the day, most likely, it's going to the wire and hopefully at the least, going to be decided at Wembley. This season has been far from perfect, we're all mostly in agreement on the areas we need to improve upon. And nobody will know them areas more than the management team who I'm sure would have an even better chance next season regardless if we go up or not. Even more so considering we've changed virtually an entire squad in just one season and it's Schuey's first full season in charge, which he has improved us greatly. But my point is, is that we have what we have right now and regardless of the faults, this squad can go and get promoted. In virtually all of the top 6 matches we have competed very well. Something we have seriously lacked in recent years. I'm more confident that we are having a tough end of the season and with play offs still to solidify. Promotion hinges more on the mentality on the squad rather than the quality. If the players go into the play offs off the back of a tough run in where they need to up the intensity and get results against our play off opponents, then we will hopefully be more than ready for whoever we are to face. We've improved our away form throughout the season and we will have over 25,000+ waiting for whoever we have to face at home. Stockport were hanging on at the end of the game today. As much as we can be a pessimistic bunch, the other teams around us will not fancy playing us. Forget Oxford in 2024, time to be confident. COYWM.

Lovely feet from young Ritchie in the box by the way. Won a big header when the Cardiff player went down. Well done to him, glimpses of what he might be capable of - hopefully the start of a long and successful Bolton career. Imagine his family and friends are absolutely bouncing, stuff of dreams turning out for your boyhood club at 18.

We didn't bottle anything. They're a good team and have been in the top 5 pretty much all season. Sure folk forget we are actually playing an opposition. They are our level and we are theirs hence our league positions. Draw was probably the right result but we had more than enough intent and possession to win 10 games, especially after the subs. Two soft wank goal conceded too, but that's just us in general isn't it. It was a proper game of football between two proper play off standard teams. Apter can fuck off forever mind. And so can Toal and his sideways slow ponderous passing.

For me, Sheehan plays every game he personally claims to be fit enough to play. He was immense in that second half yesterday, doing the work people don't think he can do. He blocked, pressed, tackled, covered the defence when needed and still tried to get us moving forward including one proper lung-busting effort to get down the wing. I don't get the stick he gets on here and social media in general.

Well what a day! A purely magic BWFC away day. Some great posts on here today, it’s a cracking read. Well we showed some bollocks there. And from players who’ve been questioned in times of adversity.. Sheehan, Tutu, Johnston. Plymouth fans were very impressed with Forino that 2nd half. And I’ll hold my hands up, my comments about hoping we’ll see Harrington for Bonham at some point, look very silly after today’s performance. He was fantastic. A great away following, it’s great to be rewarded with a well earned, well deserved 3 points against an in-form team. Love Bolton me

Wanderers spent close to £3.75m on players including John McAtee, Szabi Schon, Joel Randall, Jordi Osei-Tutu and Klaidi Lolos Absolutely fucking criminal those signings. Up there with the abyss of Coyle/Freedman era on throwing money down the drain. Terrible recruitment. Good job weve got good investors. Those kind of signings can bankrupt a club.

At least he's moved on from kids

Depends what you're judging your improvement on? Last season was a shit show. SS had to change the whole system, mantra and introduce a full new attacking line up as well as midfield and goalkeeper. We've improved dramatically from last season and we are in same league position as we were the season before. Nobody on earth could account for the season Lincoln have had. The loans have declined? ACD set the league on fire. Blackett-Taylor would've been not far behind. Forss got injured. Nobody can account for losing both ACD and Blackett-Taylor in the same season. Burstow was phenomenal for a period. Had a bit of slump in form then got injured. Kenny has been just fine. Cissoko hit and miss. Of the signings Dalby has been brilliant, EE a stalwart in the midfield, Gale I'm not his biggest fan but he's had a decent contribution at times. Simons after a bright start probably been a let down. In all I'd say it's been a pretty decent return from the recruitment team. Some work, some don't. But to say nothing has improved from what Evatt left behind is for the birds. For me, he's halfway through his project. We must address the Toal and GJ situation and the goalkeeping situation. It's not all good, it's not all bad. We are in danger of the season fizzling out unless we pick up some form, which over the course of the season we generally have. We just haven't been able to string a mega convincing run together like Cardiff and Lincoln. But it is what it is. It's a shit, industrial division and a war of attrition. Lincoln have nailed it, Cardiff have the quality. We are top of the shop of the next batch with a team littered with loans and players Nobody else wants and get injured every week. Yesterday was our first loss in 14 matches. It's not pretty sure, but fuck me it's nowhere near as bad folk think. Have a look at the chasing pack and the rest of league 1. It's utter indifferent turd, just like us.

That seems bonkers! I’d snap your hand off now if someone said you can take playing Spurs next season!! 🤷‍♂️

Josh Sheehan could play in the Championship.

Yesterday, SS was everything IE failed to be towards the end of his reign. Flexible, pragmatic, adaptable, willing to sacrifice the ball to get a result, but doing it while keeping us with some attacking threat with 10 men. And doing all that without crying about how unlucky we were to have the omissions we had. He deserves a lot of credit for that victory yesterday.

Incredible result. It is not often you see your team do something like that and what a tone-setter for the remainder of the season. It is also the type of performance that bodes well for the drama of the play offs. Agree with everything everybody is saying and there is a little historical thing to add. We talk a lot about places at which we perennially struggle - Blackpool and Rotherham always featuring. But since a win at Home Park in 1976 every time we have played there we have lost. What a dramatic way to end that little jinx. Onwards and upwards. Sick and tired of hearing Stockport fans blethering on about how they have never lost at Bolton since the move from Burnden. Hope we right that wrong on Monday. Suspect we need one or two of those absent today to return and help the cause.

If you lose against the marooned bottom of the table side while chasing promotion the mood afterwards is going to be sour - players, fans, everyone associated. On top of that we know that the number 1 aim of getting up automatically is gone. But 24-48 hours of this and then we have to draw a line. Everyone. We are going to be in a play off scrap with a clutch of sides in form as equally unconvincing as ours. We need to get the play off place secured and than it is all up for grabs. We will not take advantage of the chance that remains open to us if we dwell and allow the mood to fester. The last twice we got promoted through the play offs there were days towards the end of the regular season that were dreadful. I recall a miserable 3-1 defeat at Oldham and 1-0 defeat at Tranmere in the year we beat Reading at Wembley (94/5). Not to mention a grim 1-1 home draw to an already relegated Burnley. Under Big Sam (2000/01, win v Preston at Cardiff) we went a good part of that Spring unable to get a win over the line in a home fixture. That included blowing one or two solid winning positions. None of this matters if we get in the play offs and get to the Championship. And those things have less chance of happening if we all wallow and maintain a low mood. By all means be angry and sulk for a bit yet. I will join you. But it cannot go on...as a fanbase we need to look forward to the crucial seven or eight weeks ahead and do what we can to create the right atmosphere in the 90 minutes.

Absolutely baffles me that we have so many fans who don't appreciate how good Sheehan is.

They all went back home after Brexit.

I hate to mention this….but…..did nt the ref do well to play the advantage for the first goal ? Could easily have blown when Tutu was fouled.

Jim White House

Firstly, check your geography. Hungary isn't bordered by Russia. Plenty of others are, and yet don't support Russia. It is a choice made by Hungary (its leadership) in large part because of a reliance on cheap oil from Russia. As a member of the EU, their officials have been sending up to date details of decisions and policies to Putin's lot, effectively as agents. How the fuck a country that has been attacked, raped and starved by Russia (USSR) more than once, wanting its independence and not to be attacked can be described as having a populist approach is frankly ridiculous. So what if "the little comedian" spoke Russian initially- if he can learn the language, and can see the importance of it, then anyone there can. Irrespective of whether he was initially elected as a protest vote, he had proved himself masterful on the international stage and domestically too. The only one that doesn't want to see it for what it is, is you.

Interesting the level of variation in opinion on how people have seen that result / performance. I’m somewhere in the middle of the range I think. First half was pretty even but I thought we edged it and deserved to be leading - brilliant finish by Kenny. I didn’t think there was much of a threat from them (Forino dealt with Wooton really well all game) but they did have the freedom of the left hand side when they attacked because Apter was fucking woeful and Tutu didn’t know whether to stick or twist (also not painting him in the best light) - annoyingly with 30 seconds to go it happened one too many times. I was watching the linesman and he very nearly stuck his flag up - I think he was checking with the ref as to whether the player that went up for the header touched it (Wooton I think) and so assume the ref ultimately decided it was a goal as the liner was ready to flag. Second half we started terribly. Never came out (as usual) and that goal was fucking laughable. Absolute Sunday league stuff. Conway is no left back, it started from him being out of position AGAIN but to be fair the rest of them were just as shit. Once we rode the next 10 minutes out, got our heads back on and made the changes then there was only one team that fancied it - we were all over them (especially once we scored). Our 2nd was clearly lucky in the finish, but the move was class. Rodrigues as a level above and is going to be a massive part of how well we do for the rest of the season. Even little things like the pass into Dalby being to his left foot which meant the defender couldn’t get to it - little bits of class that make a difference. I like Dempsey but when RR came on there’s just a different level of creativity and quality. It’s brilliant when we’re chasing a game because you then have both him and Sheehan in centre mid that can make something happen rather than just Sheehan (making it harder for the opposition). Sheehan had a weird game - played well but his long passing which is usually a strong point was off all game. So many times there was acres to hit in behind and he missed it all. ACD being back is massive. He was trying way too hard and actually didn’t play too well, but just the lift he gives, the energy and the willingness to get on the ball at every possible moment is brilliant - let’s hope he stays fit for the rest of the season. As for Stockport. Definitely tidy, definitely one of the stronger teams in the league and Norwood is a very classy player. But, I thought we were the better team and they were clinging on for the last 20 minutes. I still don’t want to get them in the play offs but if we did then I’d still back us to beat them. 4 points through Easter is a really good total all considered. Play off spot solidified, positives to take but as always with Bolton, plenty to wind us up too.

He really hasn't

Unexpectedly exciting this! Popped into a pub in Florence for one to catch some of it and ended up on a session now. Turns out this is still here, 8 years after I first left it.

Warren, Big Dave, Irwin, Sharples-Ahmed and Ritchie have all been mentioned 😂 Inwood, Hutchinson - let’s have em all back and starting 🤣 Joking aside, other than the obvious reasons, I was gutted over Mcatee’s sending off, as it pretty much put paid to Ritchie getting on. We’ve known Toby from the day he was born! Me and missus are good friends with his mum and dad (Great lad and family). We’d predicted pre-game that with both Mcatee and Rodrigues unlikely to see out 90 mins, there’s a good chance a change in that number 10 role would have meant him coming on. Cant wait to see him get his chance in a league game.

Happy Every Cunt Thinks They Are An Accountancy Expert Day.

The world would be a far better and happier place without social media. It's turned some what used to be sound folk into hate riddled crackpots.

He was similarly abhorrent when Senator John McCain died. Another Purple Heart winner, he was a pilot shot down and held at the notorious 'Hanoi Hilton' where he spent 5.5 years, regularly being tortured and nearly dying of dysentery. In the 1990s McCain was instrumental in bringing the US and Vietnam back into contact together and towards reconciliation. A man held and tortured for 5.5 years. Trump called McCain a 'loser' for being taken POW, and said he preferred his heroes to 'never get caught'. This from a man who managed to avoid the draft four times. Trump is a horrible cunt. And anyone who defends him is defending a horrible cunt. He's not a 'disrupter' or any other nonsense moniker the excusers give him. He is simply just a horrible cunt. That's it.

Told him, if his leg comes off before my race Im gonna run with it like the Olympic Torch.

Remember the time when Trump had a go at Zelenskyy for gambling with World War 3.

Watching the goals back yesterday, that was something I noticed in particular. 10 men, one apiece, it would have been easy not to bust a gut and see if Burstow would just hold it up. But no, he just went for it. There is definitely a bit of an understanding now with Kenny/Burstow putting crosses in knowing the main man will be there or thereabouts. SS said on interview that he felt we had to keep two up top as we wouldn't withstand an onslaught for all that time. It worked for sure.

Another episode in one of the strangest seasons I can remember. We genuinely have found every available way to win (and not win). Also a pretty good summation of the L1 playoff picture with teams competing to shoot themselves in the foot. I thought McAtee was unlucky to a point, but it's comically stupid to look back at a player and then totally miss the ball and catch them in the face with your arm. Having been given that advantage, they then helpfully play volleyball in their own box under no pressure before going one further and kicking one in for us. For our part we let them back into the game far too easily and then both Forino and (I think) GJ could've had soft headers punished. Although in fairness we kept them for ever having a sustained period of pressure and looked dangerous enough on the break. The upshot of it all is probably the best win of the season. And definitely still the feeling that somehow this will all end with a ridiculous win at Wembley.

What a result that is, what a performance that is, and I’m massively jealous because I can only imagine what an away that is! First half was alright, it was all going ok as an away game against a good team until McAtee had a brain fart. For the record, I don’t think it was a red card, his arm is relatively by his side and I think @gonzo said it but their fella didn’t jump so took one in the face and made the most of it. However, rather than watching the ball and challenging for the header, the shithouse runs away from it, looking backwards for more than a split second and jumps straight into the defender without ever looking back at the flight of the ball. He gave the ref a decision, was it soft, yes, was it completely uncalled for and basically shitting out of just a straight challenge for a header, yes. Add to that he’d had a poor first half and it’s just another example of why he can clear off in the summer. Second half was brilliant. Great from SS - switch to the back 5 and bypass the midfield, then have to bring a right back into midfield, then spot that was getting overrun so switch back to a back 4 and put Max into a 3 man midfield. It reminded me of his early days, reacting in match and really affecting the game. We won with a midfield of Sheehan, Christie and Conway for the last 15 mins! Great performances all over the place (Tutu and Bonham rightly called out already) - I’d also give GJ a lot of credit, I thought he was at his best today. Dalby grafted, Burstow made an impact and Kenny ran the channels well. It was a proper collective effort and managed to keep them to very few clear cut chances when a man down. With the way other results were going, I thought we were in for a shocking day when we went down to 10 and would be really looking over our shoulder come 5pm. As it is, I think that pretty much does it (there’s going to be mad rush for 6th), and is a huge confidence boost as well after a ropey few games. Up the whites, and well done all that travelled down - 2 top away days down that way this season, gutted I’ve not been able to do one of them!

Well that's not true

Maybe the board should just let zog1 run the club from top to bottom, chairman/finance/manager, we'd be in the prem in 2 seasons he can even write the theme tune and sing the theme tune

I really hope Spurs go down. As arrogant and entitled a fanbase as you will find and with very little basis for it. A Spurs fan of my acquaintance was questioning the other day whether "the ninth richest club in the world" with "a billion pound stadium" should be allowed to exit the Premier League. That sealed the deal for me. Get them relegated.

Why would he want our cowards involved, with their bags of Lego and cap guns? Starmer won’t have dead soldiers on his conscience. Neither will Trump to be fair, he couldn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.

Just catching up with this thread. Hope everyone can get a brew and calm down a bit this morning 😂 We were undeniably fucking guff yesterday, no two ways about it, and that simply isn't good enough if your going to wear that famous shirt, but talk of things not being right with problems in the dressing room seem OTT to me. It's only a couple of weeks since folk were pointing out how "together" they all looked when that 3rd goal went in against Wycombe with bench cam. Truth is, theyre human. They'd have been dead inside if they didn't get giddy as fuck then, and they weren't wrong to look pissed of with themselves yesterday. I should think they were rightly embarrassed of themselves. We've been a bit shit for weeks, this unbeaten run masked that with draws and late winners. Improvements definitely needed, but im not sure we should be getting out the rope and stool just yet.

Your a prick

A proper side, one with aims of promotion put in performances week in week out against top middle or bottom of the table, in any ground, in any conditions and on any pitch. Carpet, beach, wide, narrow it doesn’t matter. It’s the mindset, application and attitude that wins out in the end. we hoped this lot would show us they had more than the previous mob. Turns out they’re exactly the same

Absolutely gutted I can't go now, this was a weekend I was really looking forward to, my last 2 trips to Plymouth have been brilliant, I was told today to take things very easy for the next few weeks, in hospital today for immunotherapy infusion which should have taken 2-3 hours, after 5 hours they abandoned it because my blood pressure was dangerously high, 230/140, I now look forward to my PET scan next week to see if Mr C has returned. Aint old age brilliant!!!! Live your life folks because it really is short COYWM

Cost to UK Taxpayer for attacking Iran - £0.00 Number of dead British soldiers - 0 Hectalitres of piss boiled - millions Dull, but, you know.