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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

Thanks for all the support folks. From the bottom of my heart, thankyou all so much. The best and hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

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.

FFS. This isn't Behind The Stands. Most folk come on here to read bullshit rumours and conjecture, with the odd bit of accurate stuff thrown in. It's boring as fuck reading your personal squabbles.

Monday was my partners uncles funeral. A really good bloke, given a great send off by his family. We spent a lot of time checking our phones. Because we were waiting an update. And we got one ! I became a grandad for the first time. Really was ‘one in one out.’ A few off here have met by step lad Josh. He is now a dad !

I'm so happy. So fucking happy. I love this football club and everything it's given me. Enjoy tonight people, go to bed smiling. Come on you white men.

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.

Don't go buying tickets just yet. We might be in trouble with the FA! Lofty spotted at Bradford's training ground 😁

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've just won promotion using a gaggle of players nobody else wanted, littered with injury plagued loanees and players that were cast as cart horses, one trick ponies and generally weak as piss. All with making a profit on players last summer. I'd say our recruitment team has worked just fine and if you're spending your day questioning them the week after we've just been promoted then I would seriously think about your mindset and suggest you're an absolute stark raving lunatic with fuck all else to do.

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.

It's a weird one for me. Hate him more now he's gone. Spent a lot of time defending him through blind loyalty and the fact he very nearly got us over the line. The contrast between Oxford and yesterday and the in game management is world's apart. That's how you win a football match. Assess, adapt and conquer. Don't just try and do plan A better. That management yesterday won us the game. The system change, the full back switch, going 2 up top just at the right time was perfect. All he's done all season is try and find answers to problems, game by game. Some didn't work, a lot did. He hit it perfect yesterday. I hope he lies on a sunbed for the next 3 weeks with a big smile on his face. Up the scouser.

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

Up until now, ive left you to Zico Now that youve decided to start with somebody as inoffensive as @RoadRunnerFan its up a level Stop being a cock, or its curtains Wways doesnt need you as much as you need Wways Think on, cos therell be no more softly softly warnings Enjoy your evening

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’ 😂

Is the exact opposite of what we should do .

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

Went exactly as I thought. Topless manc fart knockers singing Bolton get battered, going home in tears. No more lower league nonsense for me. Schuey is the fucking boy

I fucking love that Campo is still a Wanderer.

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

Fuck me, some definitive views on MC for a lad who's just completed his first season at L1 level and only his second in the league. Started the season really well - most were raving about it on here and elsewhere - and faded in the latter stages. Our internet coaching experts have now determined he's been found out or doesn't have what it takes. Alternative view - he's a young lad (first team experience-wise) in his breakthrough season who was played more out of necessity than he would have done normally. He'll now be going into his first pre-season with the expectation of competing for a first team place week in week out. Let's give the lad a chance ffs.

Bolton get battered everywhere they go. We fuckin don't though do we? Fuck you Blackpool, Stockport and Wigan. Bunch of nomark fucking prick cunts.

And there's me thinking that 'pensions are not a benefit' would be the most ridiculous thing I'd read today. Never had anything given to you? Your generation were able to buy property on 3x an average salary. Today it's nearer 9x. You had the state building houses left right and centre, while today, the only properties being built are skyscrapers for Russian and Saudi nationals to "invest in" and never visit. Your generation were able to buy their council houses for a song, and sell them at ballooned profit. Your generation enjoyed free higher education, while today the average student debt is around £50k. You might say, "I didn't need a degree, I went to the University of Life". Yep, because with unionised workforces actually manufacturing things in this country before Thatcher's axe, your generation enjoyed good jobs, for life, just by scraping a couple of O Levels. Today, any job paying above pot washing or glass collecting (and having done both, I am not knocking either) expects further qualifications to even get past the first sift. I wouldn't dispute that you have worked hard for what you have, but your suggestion that those younger than you have a "sheltered life" is plain fucking ignorant. The ability to check your own privilege is seemingly a concept beyond so many of your age group. With such a closed world view, I'm really not surprised you and so many myopic others within your privileged, selfish generation are falling for Farage's lies. Have a lovely day, and enjoy the match later.

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

Congratulations on promotion. Most Wrexham fans were hoping you stuff those Stockport scruffs, and you did. 👏 As a rough guide we spent around £30-35 million last summer and just missed out on the play-offs. We suffered a very slow start and it took a while for the team to find its feet. Understandable with so many new players - we signed 13 I'm sure you don't need me telling you this but the Championship is a big step up and we got found out many a time, especially at home. I know you have far more Championship experience than us by the way so don't take this as me trying to teach you to suck eggs. I loved last season, loads of great stadiums, some belting away days, good football, no VAR, an FA cup run.

Just have to say what a day that was personal Wembley hoodoo of mine broken. The first time I’ve actually seen them win there since 89. So many times I’ve witnessed us on the wrong side of the result, down, dejected whilst the other end of that ground is bouncing in celebration. Yesterday to finally witness a positive result was unbelievable. Standing at the front of the middle tier watching the players, staff and fans together, happy and in joyous celebration, I’m not ashamed to admit I shed a tear. To then leave the ground and feel everyone just as elated and a sea of white walking down Wembley way was a very long overdue feeling. What a club. Bolton wanderers, my first and longest love credit to Schuey and the players, throughout the season he’s been calm and calculated. Never too excited when things were going well and never too down when they weren’t. Laser focus on the one aim and he’s delivered it. Back to where we belong as a minimum and away from those tin pot fuckers down the road and up the coast whose seasons we have just made even worse

Tutu was unbelievable today

They all stepped up to the plate but Bonham, Tutu, Forino, and Johnston take a big fucking bow

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

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!