Tyler Durden

He'll be wearing 27 apparently. All the stops are being pulled out - 2 other prem clubs have attempted to hijack the deal

Just heard from a very realiable friend having a business lunch at De Veres. Chung-Yong is there now signing a 3 year deal worth ?10k a week, ?5k win-bonus. Apparently there's one more clause left to sort out and he'll sign before 7pm tonight

Never professed that I was. 'something you've heard' or the opinions of over a dozen professional football coaches?.....

How often were you at Euxton? Evans, Megson, Wrigley, etc were there everyday, they didn't agree with you.

Gartside doesn't own the club, Eddie Davies does. Gartside would more than likely remain as chairman no matter who owned it. All the "can't say anything bad about Sam" and people forgret Gartside is just as much the reason we're a stable Premiership club who've had 2 UEFA Cup tours, if not more. Carry on though eh

The u18s/19s had a game that saturday morning. Megson felt it would be best for them to play 90 mins than sit on their arses in London all day.

Like slapping God in the face for giving a beautiful gift

Transfer window only just opened as others have said He's trying to change something that has been engrained in the club for several years, it will not happen over one summer. It will be a gradual process - if you want the immediate switch then I give you Sammy Lee's summer as exhibit A.

Is he in the same league as Kaka, Messi, etc etc...... no he isnt. Is he a better ball-playing attacking midfielder than anything we have now?........ Yes He ain't a marquee signing, he'd be a good solid signing who wouldn't break the bank or bring a c*nt's ego.

Have you not heard the "always look on the shite side of life" rule?

My Mrs and her Dad are season ticket holders at Massive. They both think Fernandes is decent enough, but needs a run of games to develop.

not bidding for him shows a complete lack of ambition from Gartside and Davies. Get rid before it's too late

I like it, better than the current one

Something else for defenders to look at..... hence Davies scoring as many as he has.

Am I the only one who's spotted that his "3 point plan"............ has 4 points in it?

Definately don't agree with "the board doesn't have any ambition". They had to appoint a manager to keep the team up as that was the only concern last season. They did. We survived. They will have demanded progress on last season - and in their opinion there has been.... evidenced by the quicker accumilation of points. The club clearly have ambition, backing the manager in recruiting a new backroom staff and recruiting a younger player-base and investing in the new academy facilities. They have ambition, they are just sensible enough to know that we will never challenge the top 4, and that any success that will come our way has to be as a result of careful long-term planning. This includes getting rid of dead-wood on the playing staff and slashing the wage bill... which have been done. The core of the squad is good, with a few choice signings it will be better. Progress. Megson's job was to bring stability back and build the foundations for the next manager to come into a strong, stable club and take it that step on. Rome wasn't built in a day. And Rome is a shiteload better than Bolton.

I'll be there but will be going with folk from work Come on GMP!

Thinnest, yes. Least talented... no. Newcastle are the prime example of what happens when a new manager tries to build a squad without getting rid of the dead-wood first, 51 pro's they have. Doing them good isn't it. He's stripping it down to a core, and will improve on it when he can. It's called "LONG TERM PLANNING" with SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES ---- that would be staying in the premiership and thereby securing the future of the club. Fuck it, I'm off out.

Really don't understand the hatred that spills out towards the man. Anything positive is inspite of him, any negative because of him and no-one else. The "he goes on about keeping us up when we were bottom" bollocks - he fcuking should do, it was a big achievement and without it we'd be in the shoes of Charlton/Southampton/Norwich right now. Why is it that every non-Bolton fan can't understand the shit he gets? He makes mistakes - name me a manager that never makes a wrong selection, or a wrong subsitution.

Then why did he bring M Davies on to change it? Which worked. Why did he bring on Riga?

No, we've got more points than at least 3 teams below us. That's how football works. United will win the league because they have more points than 19 below them. Over a season, teams finish where they deserve to be. No it wouldn't, fans are fans. Sure, the JCL's may drift away, and may well come back with a new manager, but the core 18,000 BWFC have got in every division will always be there. His remit was to save us when he arrived. He did so. His remit for this season was to improve on last season and build the base for improvement again. He has done that. Is he the longterm answer, no I don't think so. But he's kept us up twice, this year above much bigger clubs and with a younger side. We've tried to play more passing football than anytime under Allardyce, sometimes it's come off, others it hasn't. Takes time to build a side, more than 18 months definately, and he's had to build while making sure there's enough there to keep us up. The next manager will reap the benefits of the foundations he's laying.

First half was crap. Re Muamba, yes a few passes went astray but he put in 2 fantastic tackles that prevented goals or great chances... that's his main job in this side. Credit to Megson for the halftime change, looked much better with M Davies in the middle of the pitch. Muamba looked much better too, with him being able to just sit and do his job. Elmander looks shattered in terms of confidence, not surprising given the flak he gets for making a mistake. He had a great run at xmas-ish, and I'm sure the goals will come, he just needs that one to kick start. Also think he looks better playing off Kev Davies, rather than on his own. Will come good next year. Drogba had a dogshit first season don't forget, and Elmander won't be the last to do so. Overall, easily could've lost it in the first half, but easily could've won it in the second. Great save last min by their keeper, Rob Styles blowing up anytime we breathed near the keeper. M Davies and Riga both had good chances at the end too. Not great, not bad. Point keeps us up and we've got a good solid base to build on over the summer.

Both went to a better team with 1 man upfront and played not-to-lose too. Mugs

Are you on glue?

Why?