Eddie

We’ve also reached the peak for ticket sales at this level (season tickets slightly down on last). They will continue to reduce for every further season we’re in this league now

I’m absolutely done with the shower of shit… But I still genuinely think we’ll win the league next season 😂 The required optimistic mind of a Bolton fan.

I didn’t mean to start a question on GT’s ability to be fair. I’m not his biggest fan but do think he’s been our best player in the last 2 games and his attitude (still flying around in the 92nd minute yesterday when others were stood around waiting for the whistle to blow) is commendable. My point was more broad but @Tonge moor green jacket just happened to mention GT. Given our struggle to make space this summer, and the general agreement that we need plenty of new faces, would you keep any if a half decent bid came in (GT was also the only recent one for which that was the case). I think I’d happily let any of them go if it meant more space and money for SS’s recruits, possibly other than Morley. Suppose it’s a roundabout way of answering the same question and I’ve even bored myself. Get Bonnie and Lily back

Bonnie and Lily gone home?

He’s likely to be one of the few we’d be able to get some cash for. How much and who to, who knows, but based on recent history he’s one of our more valuable assets. With that in mind, and let’s say a similar offer to last time came in, would you still keep? I wouldn’t mind him as a back up centre mid, but given the likely struggle to free up enough spaces / add some cash to the coffers, I’d be listening to offers should we get any (and that goes for all of them).

We’re clearly not going to be able to get rid of all the ones we want to but I think it’s been shown with out of contract players and loans you end up with about 8/9 going. If you add to that 1 or 2 that clubs would genuinely want to take off our hands, and 1 or 2 that would go out on loan if we’re clear with them that they’re not in SS’s plans then I think you could probably easily get to 10-12 spaces in the squad. The important bit from there is that those coming in are improving the starting 11. JDC might not be going anywhere but we bring in a first choice RB that JDC plays second fiddle too (and is a perfectly competent back up for injuries / lack of form etc.). Same with Sheehan, GT and Dempsey. They’re all good options to have in a squad, but they’re relegated from being your first choice to being your back up options. We’ve absolutely 100% got to use the places we’ll be freeing up to improve the 1st 11. I suppose the real challenge will be where you’re already over indexed in a position from contracted players (ie the 3x no.10s which he highlights) - if you really don’t like any of them then you’re in trouble.

I was thinking this before. I’ve got nothing to back it up that Randall is the right player for that spot, but if he’s going to work then it’ll be in the centre of that 3 behind the striker. In my mind it’s something like Big bastard keeper New bastard - Forino/Forrester - Big bastard - new bastard Morley - Big Angry Bastard Fast bastard - Randall - Collins Big bastard

I’d love one! Not even with the idea that they play every minute of every game, just to give us a good option to play that way. I want Jordan Hugill in the summer, that 20 mins that he had against us for Rotherham the other week showed me exactly what I want from one of our 4 striking options next season!

Play off hotel was cancelled at 4.30pm, the bunch of wankers. How we were level at half time was a mystery, that first 30 minutes genuinely looked like we’d had an illness through the team the night before and we had to play a combination of kids and half fit pros. I know we’ve got some injuries but it was embarrassing how poor we were. We then managed to get ourselves back in it by some miracle, you’d think that would see us come out bang up for it in the second half but once again we were just weak as piss and looked like a team fighting for relegation. Let’s be honest, it was just another example of all the issues we know this squad / team has. Nothing is surprising now, we’re well versed in it all, it’s just frustrating to see it all happen once again. That 3rd goal summed it up for me. Poor defending down the left, Cogley then gets back in position and actually does well to win the ball back, he then misplaces a 3 yard pass and tees their lad up for the cross, we don’t get out to it with any kind of urgency so it’s a piece of piss for him to put a good ball in, Johnston gets beat in the air by an old school centre forward who knows this league well. We’re complaining it’s a foul and we’ve been hard done by but it’s just part of being in league one, it’s weak, sometimes you don’t get them cause refs are shit, but don’t get yourself in that position in the first place, don’t get bullied, and if you do have a bit of intelligence to make a fucking meal of it, other players should be round the ref, make it hard for him not to rule it out. Instead we just fucking sulked and felt sorry for ourselves whilst Collins is off pissing himself at how easy it was to bully our centre half. More than anything we need to fill this team / squad with pace, power, height, physicality and leadership. It seems to be accepted that this squad has ‘talent’ (I’m not sure, I think we’re full of very average footballers), but without the above we will continue to be a league one football team. Thankfully it’s clear that SS knows exactly that. No chance I’m watching any more of us now. Season is done. Golf course awaits and I’ll start taking notice when I see that we start shipping out some of the shit bastards in the summer. What a shit shit season (other than finally beating Wigan). Here‘s to winning the league next season with a team of giants!

I’m giving him the benefit of being surrounded by a L2 defence and midfield.

There’s only Forino of this back line that you’d want to see starting next season

Maybe, but it’s another example of him being weak as piss.

Big Dave’s hold up play in the left corner just before our goal is everything we’re missing. Jones is the worst player on the pitch

Big Dave up top. Says it all when it’s the most excitement I could have for today’s game

Last chance saloon. Optimism is back, albeit weaker by the game. Must win and we need snookers. Lincoln 1 - 2 Bolton Same back 7. Schon (if fit), Dempsey and Collins behind Big Dave. Big Dave to score one and win a penalty because they can’t deal with him - Collins to convert. Reading and Orient to lose and draw between them. The hope remains.

He’s right up there in the pissing me off stakes (as @ianofcleveleys nicely defines it), don’t get me wrong. In fact, he’s as bad as McAtee. My point was more that in the back of my mind I know that Collins can be brilliant at this level and can be the difference. I’ve seen nothing from McAtee that suggests that’s the case, it’s just people hoping at the moment.

Collins has also shown what he can do, so we know how good he can be which cuts him a bit of slack. McAtee has done absolutely nothing since he’s been here. So he’s just shit as far as I’m concerned.

And you’d still see bigger fannys when you got off the bus

Bit harsh. One was set piece which ended up with the wrong player marking a giant and the 2nd was just a classic breakaway in the last minute when we were throwing everything forward.

Certainly feels like it’s going to be the most interesting summer for a long time, especially if @thebells is right with the idea that SS will be backed financially (no reason to doubt you). It’s going to be transfer window in which literally any one of the squad could leave and we’re going to see a completely different type of player come in than we’ve seen for ages. I’m predicting now that there will be some serious enthusiasm come the first game of next season as we smash Huddersfield at their place in the sun with SS having added some big, fast bastards and plenty of character to the team.

Not sure where you sit but that’s nothing like the experience I’ve had at the game this year. Get to the front of the WSU. Admittedly not the best atmosphere but it’s a great view of the game and most are pretty level headed around us. Definitely no screaming abuse and I’ve yet to see a baseball bat!

First half I thought was a tale of 2 halves… of our team. The back 4 looked good, Forino won everything, Johnston was solid, even Murphy looked decent enough and we looked solid an in no great danger. GT had his best half in a long time (and actually his best game in a long time) and I thought Matete looked pretty good too. He carries the ball well, is agile and gets round the pitch but he struggled moving it forwards because of the other half of our team. He’s getting a bit of unfair stick for me based on his lack of options. The front 4 were utter shite. They offered absolutely nothing. Dempsey gets a pass because he’s just coming back from a long injury and puts the effort in. But Lolos, Collins, Tutu and then the worst of the lot McAtee were absolutely fucking woeful. It’s hard for a midfield to look good when they’re your options to try and get it forward. Second half we regressed, but I still maintain that going backwards we looked good and all our issues were going forward. I think it was mickbrown that said about the hatred for McAtee. I’ve got it too, I haven’t despised a player like this for a while. It’s not the fact he’s completely fucking shit, which he is, he really offers fuck all, but whilst offering nothing he prances round the pitch like he should be in the Prem - his attitude is terrible and along with how shit he is makes him very hard to like. Collins is rapidly becoming easy to dislike as well. He’s either Premier League or Pub League and it’s been far too much of the latter recently - he’s also shown previously that he’ll put loads of graft in (despite being one of the biggest fannys in the team) but he’s not even doing that now. He needs a rocket up his arse or he can fuck off with McAtee. We’ve seen how good he can be, and I’d love to see us get that version back in a proper functioning team, but his end to this season is really leaving a sour taste. Finally - Big Dave. 17!!? Surely someone’s read that wrong, he’s fucking massive! I was thinking he’d be at least 20 and even then I thought he’d done well to get in that shape by that age. So glad to hear SS’s words about him, he’s bang on. Big Dave showed more in 20 minutes than McAtee has done all season. He wasn’t just massive, he used his body well, he pinned their centre back, took the ball in, laid it off and won a free kick in doing so - I haven’t seen one of our strikers do that all season. Add to that that he seems rapid and floored their right back, whilst also having a right go at their big centre back, he’ll do for me. Possibly my favourite Bolton player that we currently have 🤣. Loved to hear SS say that he might start him on Monday - he probably won’t but fuck it, give him a go, he will absolutely be no worse than what McAtee will offer. Season’s gone (but I’m still not cancelling the play off weekend hotel just yet).

Top level stubbornness this Mounts 😂. To still be dying on this hill when it’s even clearer this season than it already was last is some going. Fair play

They sound great. Only we could find an Eastern European who happens to be less of a bastard than our other English fairies

It’s not hugely imbalanced and over-indexed on soft bastards prancing round with socks round their ankles is it? If so, he can stay where he is thanks.