paulhanley

Trouble is we need two of each really so we have back ups of that type when one gets injured.

Good interview. He sees what we see and does not wear the Evatt blinkers. Change this summer, change next season. We are going to be toughening up at last.

Big changes required this summer and as dismal as these last three results have been I am looking forward to our first post Evatt/Markham transfer window. The only thing you can say about losing six in eight is that Wigan away was not one of them.

Was that the one when Nat dropped a load of senior players and fielded the kids and we won out of the blue?

If you are saying we have got no cunts but we need double the amount of cunts to cover when a cunt gets injured or suspended then I would agree. Summer 2025 needs to be the summer when cuntishness returns to the BWFC squad.

I was rooting for Justin Rose but when the likes of McIlroy and DeChambeau get on the charge he just doesn't have that extra gear. Surely McIlroy won't blow this again.

The scary thing is we need to tighten the defence as well. Look at the goals conceded column. We really are some way off were we need to be in every department.

When Rioch came to Bolton in 1992 we won three of our first give games then drew 1 and lost 5 of the next six. A very similar thing happened when Big Sam arrived in 1999. It is very early days and SS has his first transfer window upcoming. I would bet good money that he thinks the same as us in terms of the flaws we have been seeing week in and out for a considerable period now. I had lost patience with Evatt. I have loads of it for SS. He has one hell of a job on unpicking the mess Evatt left and he needs to turn us from flat track bullies in to a far meaner machine. I think he will do it.

This has been the case for years now. No physicality, no pace, no on-pitch leadership. Basic stuff. I think SS knows this. The change has to be root and branch and I suspect we will open to reasonable bids for a good few of those under contract.

For those slagging off SS, you are barking up the wrong tree. We can only even get in to the foothills of judging the guy after he has had a transfer window. He has been dealt a talented but very one-dimensional squad. I think he is cut from a very different cloth to Evatt and we will start seeing that from the soon in to next season. None of that is consolation to the 3000 who turned out today and watched a lame performance from the current squad. There are one or two on run-down period in there. They know they are going.

In the 1990s it was rare to see more than five new signings in a summer and it was often less than that. Nowadays it is common to see anything between 7 and 10. Or more. Turnover is quicker. Change is quicker.

For those who are old enough to remember the sequence of events in the early 1990s at BWFC, we must hope that this is the equivalent of the end of 91/2 with 92/3 to follow. I do think SS is going to toughen this lot up a lot. Soft as shit.

Pie men scrawping their way to safety point by point. If (as seems more likely than not) we stay down its on again v them next year. One swallow does not make a summer. A chance to double the cunts.

Probably best to say they were all within a 15 mile radius of each other than to use that dreadful phrase.

I think it was the rags, Bolton, Bury, Wigan that season.