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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

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 💙

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Ah right! You mean playing them!? 😂 Thats the 2nd time in the last 20 mins I’ve misinterpreted someone’s post! Im pissed. Think I’ll vacate. Excuse being not only the whites win but my lad is home from hospital after being there for 6 weeks! Come on you whites! How good would it be if we go up this season 👏

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! 👍

Away fans deserved that. Incredible support.

YOU FUCKING BEAUTIES. GET TO FUCK ALL THOSE WHO WROTE US OFF AFTER 7 MINUTES, YOU COWARDLY CUNTS

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

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.

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

Rarely post much about my real world. But just spent afternoon visiting brother in law who is marking off the days in a hospice. Him and my missus hardly spoke in last couple of years due to a silly arguement. Daresay there are people in here with family rows going on. Get them sorted as nothing is a bad as seeing a brother and sister in floods of tears over the ‘lost time’. Fucking horrible.

Mrs Fogarty has been signed off from everyone after her stroke. She's almost 100% back to normal. The next pysio slot the've got for her is in 6/8 weeks andthe physio reckons all being well she won't need it. Thanks for everyones best wishes. They made a difference when things were looking bleak.

A poor Christmas, the Peterborough debacle and an overreaction after Port Vale didn’t warrant SS getting the boot. Getting 7/9 iffy points and beating Wigan doesn’t mean we’re going up. Read a lot, but not been posting on here for a while, personal things mainly, but after Northampton I felt my thoughts would have just ended up being inflammatory, as I disagreed with the large majority and I thought some of the drama queens and Uefa A coaches were well wide of the mark. Then there was Peterborough. What a shit-show that was. I didn’t know whether I was starting to turn… I started to agree with some of the negative analysis and comments. The defence that day was a shambles, keeper worries, same issues not scoring enough, I hated that dragging off of Sheehan and Gale… But still some overboard shit about Sharon/FV, SS and the players. That said it was nothing compared to some of the drivel and click-bait extremities I was reading on Twatter/Facemither It seemed the whole fanbase became embossed in a cloud of negativity where amateurs were being listened to as if they were philosophers or esteemed scholars of the game SS out posts and polls Tailspins about what a mess the club is in. It felt like everybody was trying to outdo each other on what the tactical solution should be. The transfer thread is/was a case of realism and sense going out of the window. The screechers reaction v Port Vale was fucking hilarious! 😂 People crying out for change, he makes it in a game we don’t care about and gets a farcical and disproportionate amount of grief. Maybe they’d have preferred him gambling and experimenting at Wigan, rather than testing it and utilising it effectively it for that game. And then those first half comments in the Wigan thread fuck me. What a bunch of surrenderers you negative in-game posters are. Then the Wigan euphoria - that’s why we do it. Left my son’s hospital bed, so that release was quite emotional. Fucking loved it 👏 Don’t get me wrong I was as frustrated as anyone and really pissed off with that run of games over Christmas/New Year, even more so Peterborough. After Christmas I still felt we weren’t far away. Relative to the rest of the division, our defence wasn’t an issue then and isn’t now, despite every defender receiving criticism. I couldn’t believe some of the grief not only our standard players were getting, but also our best players this season and of course the manager (almost everybody who was posting thought they knew better than him)* Some of the criticism and discussion was fair. But crikey, some of the suggestions for what he should have done, (definitely, definitively, steadfastly, without doubt should have done) the different tactics/formation he should be adopting, who should be playing and where players should be playing, was a case of expert fan overload. One of the best things posted was that SS was told he had to play attractive (not winning) football in his interview! He’s Just like Evatt eh, not willing to adapt and change approach/formation 😉 Some posters totally absorbed in their own pontificating- something they excel in when things are going bad - they love it on here when things are going badly. Not so prominent on here when the manager and players are doing ok. Long way to go though. today was a tough watch, we need to do more to sustain a promotion charge. There will be more bumps in the road, it’s far from perfect. I just hope a bit of a balanced perspective will be applied the next time we play poorly and draw/lose a game or two. Anyway I’m back to fight the good fight and keep them doom-mongers and UEFA A coaches on their toes 😂 COYFWM 👏👏

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

For the older posters And now you'd better belieeeeeve us.............The Whites Are Going Up 👏

He does seem like a genuinely nice lad though

Us winning at Man City all those years ago, after they hit the woodwork a million times, and then Richard Dunne literally handing us a penalty was a smash and grab. Tonight wasn't a smash and grab. We just scored our goals late in the game. We deserved the win.

We can all argue about semantics and individual players all day long but that result yesterday should as a dawn of reality to everyone involved at the club. That for a club like us, or who we think we are, is as bad as it gets. This isn't a flash in the visit to the bottom league result, a Scarborough type where you look back and think Jesus what the hell were we doing there. This result is one of the worse as this wasn't some form of giant killing. We were beaten away at Burton as equals. Bonafide division 3 also-rans loaded with division 3 players without a win away all season. We are lightyears from the club we think we should be. As the years tick by the recruitment becomes harder and harder. If we don't wake up soon, we are going to be stuck down here for a very long time. Gates or no gates.

Can’t believe the panic and overreaction. We absolutely annihilated them for 65-70 mins. Someone has already said it but it was like a cup game with leagues between the teams. Their fans cheered a weak shot on target in about the 60th minute because it was the first time they got near our goal. Obviously it’s frustrating, and it’s 2 important points thrown away, but anyone that’s watched that and doesn’t just think that once this all clicks and with 1 or 2 more additions we’ll be right up there is watching something different to me. You’d do well to convince me there’s a better midfield 2 in the league, and it’s the first time they played together. The wingers scared the shit out of them, they didn’t just double up, they had 3 on them. To be fair to them, their full backs and the centre mids covering did a good job - most league 1 full backs are going to be ripped a new one. Burstow impresses me more and more. He’s got a lot to his game and now has 2 in 4 - it’s no guarantee that Dalby is our first choice striker for me. The game did change around the subs, but for me, if Taylor was fit then we don’t lose the game. Conway played well but was on his arse from about 70 mins. They put on that no.4 who doubled up with their right winger and Conway didn’t know what to do / didn’t have the legs to do anything about it. If we had another option for left back then I don’t think we’d have been in as much trouble. Massively annoying, but all the signs are there that this is going to be a hell of a team in this league when it all slots together, I’m convinced of it.

First outing for our new flag today

Decent set of results, my arse All of the top six have won!

He came into my shop with that photo for framing. Told him he was my first Bolton idol and when he came back to collect it, he brought loads of photos from his days at Burnden and spent 1/2 hour talking about them. When your boyhood hero is everything you thought they were.😊 Just called down to Burnden Asda to take this photo. It’s part of a larger one but it was partly obscured with a plant rack. Taken against United in 1963 and the position of the photo is almost exactly where the action took place. You can see why he was called ‘The Leap’ RIP WYN.

Ah I’ve had the best day with him today mate. Sang him his first rendition of ‘walking down the Manny road’ & he’s just been very responsive & alert with his big bright eyes. Been really rocky of late after he was hit hard with pneumonia & sepsis. But today feels like he’s coming out the other side 🤞🤞 even if it’s still a fragile time. The Mrs has been pumping away the golden drops every few hours, so hats off to her. Edit: that last sentence sounds dodgy as, but as a nurse you’ll know what I mean 😄

I'm not a fan of what I'm about to say because it's used unnecessarily at times. But Oldham is a proper northern club. Good to see them back in the league. Chuffed for 'em.

^ Gammon outrage is always fucking hilarious. 😂