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Cheers guys, I had a triple heart bypass in Northern General on Tuesday so I’m just recovering and listening to Saturdays fare which helped enormously. A bit sore but they’ve been brilliant in the hospital. Not something I’d recommend and means I won’t be getting across for a month or two but hopefully fit for the play offs if we need them but after yesterday I still haven’t given up on catching Cardiff. Anyway thanks again for your wishes, I know I’m often a pain on here but I really do love the banter and views.

She absolutely loved it. And unexpectedly she asked if "we're" winning? She was fascinated with Lofty, so that cost £20 in the club shop after the game, she was completely worn out after it

A massive thank you to one and all for the best wishes,very much appreciated indeed. Will pop a more detailed post later regarding what happened that day and the warning signs to look out for in case anyone else experiences it, and hopefully could be of assistance in getting the vital care needed asap. Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart and hope you're all keeping well and spouting utter shite ☺

Yesterday the lives of the family and those close to Chris changed forever, as he passed away on holiday in Marrakesh. Some might have known him as@CSW on here, he posted occasionally. He had the odd foray away with the Anthill Mob too. He was my best BWFC mate and I travelled the country with him watching the whites. We ran our lads football team at Moss Bank for 10 years Going to the game won’t quite be the same again. RIP pal

Bit of a tale about Today which I think is well worth relaying.. my old man’s bday on NYD which was a milestone birthday for him so decided to take him in to the LoV today. A couple of weeks ago off the cuff I decided to email Sharon (or what I assumed was her email address) explaining he was a lifelong ST holder etc etc and anything she could do / any time spent with him would make his day. A couple of weeks went by with nothing. Eventually this week received an email from someone else at the club stating Sharon had received and read the email and to arrange a meet with her this afternoon. so took the old man down to reception at 2:30 to meet the girl who emailed me as requested. Took us up to the chairman’s suite and we were stood outside for a while him still unsure as to what the hell was going on. Eventually Sharon comes out and apologises as she “couldn’t get away from sir Alex” and welcomed us both as though she’d known us for years. Bit of a chat ensued and he’s bowled over that she’s made the effort. He then apologises and says we have to make our way back round to the LoV to see the KO. Instantly she says No! “ I’ll find you seats in the exec box with me” shouts her laccy over and pretty much says they’re friends of mine, find them some seats to watch the match in the box. At HT come in to the chairman’s suite and we will have a brew. So ended up spending the whole game in her (distant) company, made us feel so welcome. Had more than enough time for us. it may have meant nothing to her in the grand scheme of things but will last my old man a lifetime. The woman is absolute class from top to bottom and I can’t imagine our club in better, more thoughtful or considerate hands.

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.

Thanks for the messages gents. What a journey for you @Spider. You must really appreciate those simple moments with her even more. All I want is to see the wee guy playing with his cousins and family with a smile on his face. Just spent the nicest 3 hours by his incubator after not being able to see him yesterday. He’s settled today & making good progess. It’s a bloody rollercoaster though & we’re in the ‘extremely premature’ category with him born at 24 weeks & 5 days. He’s a little warrior though. Hand hugs with his Dad this morning, if you can make out his tiny hand. & how fckn brilliant is the NHS 💙

After, shall we say, rather challenging couple of weeks in my home life that today meant absolutely everything. And I mean everything. Makes me realise why we all do what we do, putting ourselves through the wringer of life for that simple bit of escapism. That goal goes in, life is good, bad stuff is forgotten, and leaping about with my dad, wife and kids is just the world honestly. I fucking love it. The boys will enjoy bowling into school on Monday morning that's for sure. Up the fucking murderers.

Might be an idea to let's just watch a football match without all this attention seeking bumcbuffery.

Here goes. And @Johnnyrotten can fill in any gaps or correct me. Phil Mason did a 30 min speech about the bondholders money. In a nutshell, it’s been spent on players, upgrading hospitality, installation of the LED stuff in ground and improving the ‘connectivity motorway’ (stopping tech breaking basically). Most impressive of this was the hospitality with over 1,200 people most match days now in this, and it generates well over £1 million for club per year. They’re part of a scheme that links clubs across Europe. We’re looking to work with clubs of similar revenue to us and find out what they do to increase that. Niah Sharzad was really clear that they’re striving to make the the club sustainable, so not completely reliant on investors. Only way to do this is to find more ways of making money. They’ve got a good link up with Ajax and met them recently. Looking at their youth set up and how it can be replicated at Bolton. They didn’t give much detail but sounds like a long term thing. This doesn’t mean we’ll be getting their players. But we can use their ideas and knowledge. Phil Mason spoke really well. So passionate about the club. Niah Sharzad much more corporate but still impressive. Both were full of praise for Sharon. Couldn’t speak highly enough of her enthusiasm and desire to do good. She’s involved regularly with them and they talk daily. Phil Mason took time to thank Ian Evatt. Felt genuine. Club was on its arse a few years ago, and his work has brought us back to where we are. He said it’s been an ‘interesting’ week and the club were working to make a swift appointment. Club has financial plans next season regardless of division. BUT they were both clear that promotion remains the aim this season. If still in League One, we’re fine, but they didn’t say how much investment would be coming in. Said Julian Darby is excited beyond belief about today but also very anxious and nervous. Got the impression he’d be leading things of the 3. Spoke about him being a ball boy, player, Bolton lad, etc and what a proud moment it is. And he’s right. Ju Ju Ju Darby will never forget today. There wasn’t much football talk because there couldn’t be. As I mentioned, in a private conversation, I was told the incident last weekend pretty much sealed Evatts ending. Would rather not say more than that. And was also told in the same conversation the Swiss investors are keen to invest much more heavily should we get to the Championship. John McGinlay rounded things off with a little 5 min speech. Love how much he loves the club. He described the 4-0 Wembley day as one of his proudest in football, seeing all his family there celebrating together. All in all a good, informative evening. Club is in a sound place and really good people running it. Just gutted I didn’t win the 10 Pink Floyd platinum vinyls signed by Nick Mason. I might have missed some bits so will post more if stuff pops into my head.

Many thanks again to you all, truly appreciate the kind words ♥ On the day in question, I went to work feeling fine. Stayed like that until about 10am when my head was absolutely pounding, at first I thought it was a tension headache or migraine, but it gradually got worse. I carried on working until about 11am when I started dropping tools as my grip had gone. By 11-15, the pain in the head was horrendous then I quickly lost feeling in my feet, my arm started with pain, and I was clinging onto the doors of the van. Directly facing where I was working in Cheetham Hill, the housing were having a HSE meeting, one came outside, saw me struggling and in severe pain but said later he thought I was pissed. By 11-30, I remember thinking to myself, I'm in serious trouble here. Tried ringing a work colleague but couldn't even speak. Luckily, we'd spoke earlier and he came flying round. We both didn't know what it was though, initially thinking blood or sugar levels. I tried speaking to my partner on her lunch break,,but was just talking broken biscuits My main manager was called and on arrival he instantly said "get him to hospital, he's having a stroke" Was taken to North Manchester General, who then blueliighted me to Fairfield. They did many tests and pumped me with all sorts, saying By 5pm if it was nipped in the bud then my speech would return. Thank God By that time it did, though after the initial meds wore off, I was stuttering for weeks, my partner lovingly christened me Arkwright ☺ For weeks after, I was regularly overwhelmed when going into Tesco for example, couldn't remember bank details, NI number, etc, took ages doing a simple text, and underwent Cardio Event Monitoring and had other scans. Thankfully all came back clear So guys and girls, take it easy please and always seek help when you're in difficulty, the first few hours were vital. Mine was classed as a TIA but my work colleague's mum had one recently and wouldn't go to hospital, poor old girl still hasn't recovered her speech yet. Thank you again one and all Si x

Morecambe away in Covid. Celebrations outside the hotel after winning promotion. Last min goals all over the gaff. Crewe, Morecambe to name but a few. Accy semi final Plymouth final Barnsley play offs Beating Blackpool at home twice A promotion, 2 top 6 finishes and some big dismantling of teams along the way. 25k home crowds, every away game selling out in minutes. He bought the buzz back in watching Bolton and secured a new generation of fans that'll be here forever. Don't let Oxford, the big game capitulations and this season blight the memory too much folks, it hasn't been all bad. It just ran stale and he ran out of ideas. Thanks for the memories and good luck. (Not too much if its over this way like ) Onwards and upwards. Let's get back together 💙⚪️💪

Right I'm putting this on here because one of our own WWs posters has done a brilliant good turn and I reckon he won't want to talk about it - in a DJ Smashey and Nicey style. Yesterday, he took an old fella (who is pretty much a stranger to him) along to the match. The bloke he took along is a lifetime wanderer but hasn't been able to go to the game for many years, because of his and his wife's ill health. So our mystery poster brought him along, and even took him in the players bar afterwards. I've seen a picture of the old bloke in question and he looked absolutely over the moon. Fantastic stuff and take a bow @royal white 👍👍 And another example of how even though we bicker and argue on here all the time. Fundamentally, I think we're all good people on here.

All the analysis and data aside, I just don't get how the board can seriously be sat thinking anything else but that change needs to happen. And if they think that Evatt can be the one to change things around then they themselves are also incompetent at their jobs. Sharon comes from a good place and I do agree with managers being allowed to have time. But in football you have to make proactive decisions or get left behind. Circumstances slightly different yes, but Evatt had been in charge a year longer than Kieran McKenna had when he came into the job at Ipswich when we were both competing in League One(we finished above them in our first season back in League One). On Saturday Ipswich beat Tottenham away in the Premier League where we got beaten 5-0 by Stockport County in League One And Ipswich are not just an anomaly. Des Buckingham at Oxford, only managed in India and Australia before managing in England properly, he exposed Evatts style for the whole world to see at Wembley and in that video. John Mousinho at Pompey another one. All those managers just as young and inexperienced as Evatt have all had less time than him and got their clubs out of this league. And look now, there's another 2 coaches sitting in the top 2 of League 1, way above us and just as young and as inexperienced as Evatt, Matt Bloomfield and Chris Davies. Evatt is playing the same formation and style since we played Ipswich last in League 1, they're in the Prem and we're still playing the same style. My biggest gripe with Evatt is we don't ever appear to LEARN and ADAPT. As fans we don't need any more signs of a manager that has reached the end of his limits. And we certainly don't need more excuses. He's already blamed the players, fans, illnesses, a mysterious dark cloud since Wembley, opposition players for winding him up and getting a 3 match ban, and it's only November! We've all had enough.

For all those tonight saying it’s delaying the inevitable - fuck off. Not because you might be wrong. But for coming on here thinking you need to make a point to people who are pointing out some positive aspects of the game. I think you must be insecure to have to keep making your point, or misguided that people don’t see this game for what it was. We know this result doesn’t tell us much about what will happen next. But we are allowed to say that Dempsey played well, it’s good to get 2 strikers scoring goals, it’s good to see the 2nd half come back and see the players playing for each other and the manager. Glad I went. Another ground ticked off and a win watching the Wanderers which is never a bad thing.

So pleased and proud for Toby and his family. They are Bolton through and through. I know his dad really well. He posted on here during the European days. If you’re lurking pal - congratulations! 👏👏 Had a few messages off him. He’s still in shock and disbelief that his lad has scored for Bolton Wanderers.

Don’t normally post personal stuff. Yesterday was a tough day taking my mum & dad to various hospital appointments. Life eh. Didn’t get a ticket as didn’t know what time we’d be done. Got back home knackered about 7pm and settled into watch the match. Isn’t footy amazing. 3 hours later I’m bouncing around the living room without a care in the world, with the missus thinking I’ve finally lost it. Phone rings and it’s my mum and dad buzzing about the match. Great boost for them. Thoroughly deserved win. Superb performance after the first 15-20 mins. Well done Dalby with the quick restart for the win. Well done the travelling fans - gutted I wasn’t there. Buzzing taking the dog for his nighttime walk. Buzzing waking up this morning. Amazing the impact footy can have given the sh!t we all have to wade through in life. COYWM. Let’s do this.

Sure it's that Mandela effect in full flow here that we all seem to be OK with this. It's a fucking travesty and complete shitshow. He's our most prolific striker by a country mile, has been absolutely brilliant for us, scored over 20 in back to back seasons. And we've just let him go for peanuts to bloody Huddersfield. Fucking shambles.

One of the many (but possibly the best) examples of how much we’ve changed over summer. Sat there absolutely buzzing that the robust and dynamic whites seem to be exactly that. Random things that put a massive smile on my face, in no particular order: - TSL falling to the ground when catching a ball / hanging on the cross bar when they put one miles over. He’s got massive confidence - yet to see him save a shot but it did just remind me of Trafford. - TSL playing 3 of the best passes I’ve seen us play in years. 1st half, left foot (which I think is his wrong foot) out to ACD; 2nd half (best of them all), ball coming across his body and he zinged one again to ACD on the right touch line, right into his stride; 3rd to set up the 2nd goal. - Simons smashing players, not wanting to show injury, and his shaved head. There was a moment in the first half where we got a free kick near the half way line, their player held the ball whilst he walked backwards, Sheehan stood with his arms out as if to plead for the naughty man to give it back to us, Simons just comes steaming in behind him to demand it and the lad threw it to him straight away. - Burstow winning headers and us having lads around him. Also just general hold up play - 1st half he had one launched up to him near the West Stand defenders all over him, he took it down, held 2 off, waited for ACD to get round him and played it to him. Seems simple but we’ve not been able to do that for years. - 2 fast wingers and our willingness to just play a high early ball over their full backs and watch them shit themselves. Pace in the team seems like such a luxury (Randall is also deceptively quick!) - A few occasions where a big block, or a big tackle on their winger which resulted in a goal kick was celebrated by a few of them almost like a goal. - Toal. Just looks confident, on the ball and defensively. Might be the captaincy, might be the new set up with an actual midfield in front of him (and it’s only 1 game) but he seemed like his old self. - Corners - we actual look slightly imposing in the box finally. - We don’t run off the pitch at half time to prove how fit we are, instead we’re still chasing down in the 90th minute. Obviously always glass half full after a win, but there are just so many little signs that we’re a different beast this year and it’ll be exciting to watch!

We get an equaliser in injury time , a centre forward who has not really performed since he got here rather than celebrating he gets the ball to get the game restarted quickly. Great attitude.

Really hope it works out for him.

As pointed out by others, the supporters have been entirely supportive for a number of years now. Despite the shit show end of last season , they've been right behind the team and manager. Fans were still willing to forgive Evatts previous embarrassments against Wigan 3rd time around, even singing his name at kick off with 24,000 in attendance for a 3rd tier game. All to be served with a steaming pile of shit, no heart, no effort and tactically beaten again with the manager adding another to the growing list of big game failures. Average crowds of 22,000 this season, record season ticket sales. Even recently had 2000 away at Mansfield on New Year's Day. 2000 sold out away at Rotherham in the snow at a 12:30 KO. All to be let down yet and yet again. The fans are the least problem with the club right now. We've shown support throughout this season and fans have had enough seeing no change in action. The fans are the very heartbeat of the club, the custodians and the customers that long outlast any player or manager. And telling some of your customers to "fuck off" is firstly unprofessional in any walk of life from anybody in a managerial position and secondly is a sign of somebody who mentally cannot cope with the pressure.

@Wanderlust do you find when you go on Wrexham's board they all start posting in Welsh?

Like when we went up from league 2, we needed tried and tested players from that specific division/level to deal with the task in hand. Doyle and Sarcs etc. We need exactly the same in this division. Fuck potential, fuck long term planning and wage structures, fuck getting players who might be able to do a job in the championship. We are in league 1 and need to get out of this stinking shit cunt division. Right here right now is all that matters

My name is Ianus Maximus Passbackius, commander of Bolton of the north, general of sidewise legions, loyal servant to the true chairwoman Sharonus Brittanus. Father to clueless team, husband to a betrayed wife. And I will have my possession based football. In this game or the next.

Don't worry, he's not injured.. Just a little anecdote from yesterday Mason Burstow has moved onto my street - I'm putting the recycling out yesterday and he's stood outside my house with his dog and his missus. As my 9yr old lad was stood by me, he's going "Dad look it's Burstow" so I shout "Nathan, sorry to bother you, please can I get a quick photo of you with my son" So he says, Course, no problem - Really friendly and happy to oblige, Spoke briefly to my son and we got the pic. I said "cheers Nathan, appreciate that mate - Good luck on Saturday" Got in the house and my son says "Dad, he's called Mason, not Nathan!" FFS I felt like a right prick!!!

Yesterday was a belter & a statement win. Lowe’s 1st half tactics were woeful. The guy on the tannoy put the cherry on the cake. ‘Today’s attendance is 25k. Thankyou to 3.5k Wigan fans who were here earlier’ 😂

🤍💙 Video courtesy of @Steejay VID-20250711-WA0126.mp4

Not posted on here for a while, as my son is in the u18s. Just to let you know Jules has been absolutely brilliant with these lads for last few years. They're a talented bunch, but Jules has brought them all on. He's ultra positive ultra professional and they all think he's amazing and they'd all run through a brick wall for him. Proper legend.

A red card, fuck knows how many yellows, seven goals, twelve minutes of injury time, at least two changes of formation, a quadruple substitution, a 90+9 winner, shithousing cunts on the floor crying at full-time Bolton fucking Wanderers

Well I was fucking dreading today. Thought it would be a morgue and the place full of negativity. Seems it was all left on social media bar the absolute cock end that bought a banner in NSL. It seemed all those mongos peddling bullshit on social media were the ones that stayed away, thank fuck they did. Atmosphere was bang on the players were bang up to prove a point and actually scoring in our usual blood and thunder first 10/15 makes all the difference. Playing an actual midfield makes all the difference too and we can safely say we can say goodbye to the silly 3 up tip 5 at the back malarkey we've been trying. Nice one for trying something new Ian, but burn that fucking memo. Fair play to players and manager fronting it out today, was ace at the end when they came over. Said it all week, we are better together. Fuck division and making the place toxic. Fuck all the shit stirring hysterical pricks on that Racist Nonces Facebook group. The manager will get either himself sacked or turn this around, we just need to keep turning up every week and supporting them. Might have been papering over cracks but it's better than leaving them wide open. Onwards and Upwards.

I don't want to go. My kids won't want to go either. But I'll be there and so will my kids. You enjoy your day watching Soccer Saturday 👍 We are Bolton Wanderers fans not bloody Ian Evatt fans and we will all be here a lot longer than any manager or set players. Just when I thought we had our core support back on track, this week have reminded me what a bunch of fickle, dramatic and faux outraged set of soft arses we have amongst our fanbase. It's actually embarrassing and exactly what I've been fearing all summer. Nobody wants whats going on, everyone probably thinks it's time for change. The results are terrible and the performances worse. But is boycotting or waving bedsheets about the way out of it? Or we better cracking on and supporting our club through thick and thin, digging deep and keeping our heads held high knowing we did all we could? Our fans have been absolutely superb over Evatts tenure. Let's not spoil it now.

I had a great Bolton moment this morning. My 10yr old grandson moved to Australia 4 yrs ago and all his mates wear City, United, Liverpool, Arsenal kits. He WhatsApp'd me this morning...

Sam Dalby. The man was possessed today, one of the best striker performances I’ve seen for us in ages. Hold up play, link up play, winning duels, getting us up the pitch, threat from set pieces/crosses & even having the awareness to set up McAtee when he was on a hat trick. Brilliant.

yeah I'm bored and tinkering

Absolutely Last season, you could count on the fingers of one hand of a clumsy partially sighted lumberjack the players who would give 100%. GT was one of them. Every fucking game. He'll be missed for that alone. If we'd had 11 with his attitude we'd have pissed the league Good luck to the lad.

After all that, 14 months of stress, anxiety, therapy and probably a couple of bouts of depression too I got good news on Thursday. As I said above, you might not have realised it but your inputs definitely had a baring on the decision to get the test done. I actually referred back to this thread every couple of months to reassure myself I was making the right decision. Time to start living again rather than just existing. Thank you everyone.

Sadly, you’re probably right. Personally I don’t give a shit. My now 20yr old ‘child’ who was born as my daughter wants to live their life as a male and they’re happier now than they’ve ever been. His happiness is far more important to me.

Just got back. Dreadful game between two dreadful teams at a dreadful stadium in a dreadful town. And it couldn’t be any fucking sweeter!

To be fair he didn't even want to meet his own kid nevermind anyone else's.

Only watching a team like ours can create absolute limbs and carnage with 99th minute goal against ten men Crawley fucking Town in division 3 No different from winning at Old Trafford or scoring at The Allianz Arena. It was just the same. That's what is watching our team is all about. We fucking love it 💙💙

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

I think there should be some mention of the Grade A shithousery by the WSL faithful when we were under the pump at the death. Barnsley rush the spare ball to their long throw specialist, he’s winding up to hurl another bomb into our area …..and just at the optimum moment….right over the players head….the original ball is returned to the pitch 😃. (Well played that man!) Thwarted long throw man then goes into full on, jumping up and down purple faced rant at the crowd. 😂 In return he gets very loud snidey laughter from the whole section and a sea of flicked v’s. I bloody love Bolton me! 👍

Good luck to the lad. Always gave his all unlike some of the shithouses last season. Don't understand the grief he gets.

Evening all little birdie tells me you're missing me and appears some are So thought I would say hello quickly over 3 years it's been and still cheese is lying and has the audacity to say others have issues 😂 Dear me anyway all good here chaps

Echoing sentiments above, cant express how emotional that all felt yesterday. FV, the current squad and Ian Evatt must have gone to bed last night thinking fuck me what a club this is. My dad said to my lads coming out that we've always been a family club and it couldn't be truer. We have always seemed to made a connection with players hence they always want to come back and speak about us warmly. (Bar the odd few ) On the back of nearly losing our club and the horrendous KA years, yesterday was the cherry on the top, and just makes you realise just how much we all had to lose. After a difficult few weeks it was great to put a smile on the old fellas face as well x