paulhanley
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We had all those April and May conversations about SS and co not having much leeway for change due to so few being out of contract. They are trying to cut through all that by wheeling and dealing. As I've said before, this is revolution not evolution. We had all become tired of the lack of backbone, physique and power in our squad. It's being tackled. Expect a few others to be moved on as well.
Buckle up for a busy few weeks folks.
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Probably been posted before but here goes: 1979/80 and a relegation doomed Bolton give high flying Ipswich led by Bobby Robson a real game but lose 1-0.
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Collins is a good footballer but if we are to address the well known balance issue in our squad then its not just a case of getting more physique, pace and strength in. Its also a case of reducing the numbers of diminutive, skillful, mercurial types. If MK have offered top dollar and our intention is to use that cash to buy in another one or two to aid that rebalancing, so be it.
Tough thing to do as a football fan but its best to avoid the temptation to assess things signing by signing and sale by sale. The full picture is some way from emerging and its clearly going to be a dynamic summer with a lot of wheeling and dealing.
If there's a genuine concern it is that such is likely to be the turnover that it'll be a good few months before the squad gels. But we can't have it all ways.
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I would not be losing any centre backs: Toal, Taylor, Johnston, Forrester, Forino. Three of those can also play full back. Enough depth in case he wants to play three in the centre - especially given it seems Simons can play there as well.
Iles has been hinting at more incomings next week. This does now look like a very big change of personnel incoming and a fresh start. It will be as interesting to see who leaves.
Everyone is right to be pointing out how we have finally signed some physicality. I would say remaining new signings need the same. We are so lacking in that aspect that even with the new lads we would be vulnerable if injuries struck. Bloody Evatt!
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I like the look of this signing. You might ask why Hull have got rid but it seems like they are one of those clubs who need/want players off the books. He did well at Wycombe in side who looked really good towards the end of last season. He is a good age and it seems he is the type who puts his foot in and brings some physique and height. Most of all he is the type Evatt and Markham would never have considered.
Iles reckons he can play cb as well.
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Collins is one of the last ones I would be selling but if we are willing to do it (and provided we get more than we paid) there is an element of this that is quite exciting. It shows that the current owners/Fergal Sharkey/SS are planning revolution not evolution. Given the shambolic end to the season and the utterly feather-light/lopsided squad bequeathed by Evatt, who can argue?
The downside is that revolution will take a long time to bed down and probably affect our chances of promotion next year.
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3 hours ago, gonzo said:
In true Blackpool style of old they are too busy signing clogger centre halves who are a bit past their best. Giving them very long contracts in the process.
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I am encouraged by the list of other clubs in for him. Not all of those scouts/recruitment types can be wrong.
As I have said before I dont think we can get by with just one striker who has physique and aerial ability. Its still fresh in the mind how lame we used to look when Madine was unfit.
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35 minutes ago, Farrelli said:
Dear god.
You really aren't comfortable with people having opinions that differ from yours are you. Anything that doesn't follow Guardianista thought patterns and you are in shock that such people could ever exist.
There's a new phrase. It came originally from an anti-woke Labour peer called Lord Glasman. He describes the "lanyard classes". Essentially preening elitists who grab hold of any and every opportunity to parade their moral superiority to the grubby masses. Those folk are rife inside the public sector I'm afraid.
Maybe Lord Glasman's thoughts will take hold within the Labour party and it will genuinely become a party that properly represents working people again. Maybe other parties will follow suit. Be quite some turnaround if it did. And folk with your wokey view of the world would be left high and dry.
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34 minutes ago, Farrelli said:
I think you are being unrealistic. Councils are cutting back as they are skint. They don’t need another thing to control. Police can’t deal with present crime levels without adding another.
Councils might be at least a little less skint if they focused entirely on the services they were created to statutorily provide rather than on "diversity and inclusion" and similar wokery. The sooner they realise that they serve the people and not the other way around the more their budgets will become focused on what they're supposed to be focused on.
And before you get all uppity I work in local government and form my opinions first hand.
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10 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:
A good friend of mine and a fellow poster on here. 👍
Well he couldn't wish for a nicer place to live....
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A BWFC flag spotted with "Adderbury" across the middle. That's a beautiful little village with 4 pubs about 3 miles south of where I live in Banbury. Wanderers fans everywhere!
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15 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:
I've almost seen a bigger home crowd at Wigan
I wouldn't quite go that far.
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4 hours ago, Arrested development said:
I'm kind of in on to the Dalby signing now. 6 ft 3, holds the ball up well. Can play on his own or with a partner. Free transfer with reasonable wages. Ticks the boxes. He does need service to score though. Good balls in to the box. I think it depends on the wide players we sign as to whether he's a success.
There is goals in this team with Mcatee and Collins and potentially Dalby. Mcatee and Collins will both suit playing off him too. People can slag off Mcatee till they are blue in the face but he got double figures without really hitting top form. Colilns is a 15 goal plus league 1 forward.
Wingers next please fergal. Wingers and some proper centre Halfs. Annoys me that Blackpool got that Horsfall from Stockport. Fucking good league 1 defender him. On a free too.
I have no idea just how good Dalby is and its difficult to translate his Dundee Utd performances in to our league. However the type of player he is provides an insight in to what SS and co have in mind.
I'm wary of his goalscoring record at Wrexham but there are very likely to be reasons for that. SKD's goalscoring ratio per appearance was hardly stellar but what a good un he was in the role was used him in. I can remember looking at Lukas Jutkiewicz's goals per game stat when we got him on loan in 2014 - didn't look good. Again he was great for us played in a specific role that suited him.
Let's sign him, then let's give him a chance.
One thing is for sure though if we are opting for a style of play that needs a Dalby type we need another similar in the squad or else the whole thing falls down when SD is injured/suspended etc.
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Blackpool have made a couple of signings today, both big centre-backs. On one level quite impressed, on another not so much. Horsfall from Stockport and Michael Ihiekwe from Sheff Weds are both the types we lack. If we'd sign them though I'd have mixed feelings about whether they represent progress.
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4 hours ago, yardbones said:
Saw this posted on another site. Average gates for 1956/57. Ours was under 25k in a season where we finished 9th in the top flight.
Good to see us higher than Burnley, PNE, Blackpool, Blackburn etc.
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Dalby strikes me as a player around whom we'd have to play a very particular style. I don't think SS would be expecting lots of goals from him but he'd be expecting more goals from Collins/McAtee etc as a result of his presence. Thing is if that's the style we want we'd need another like him if he's not available or the whole system doesn't work.
Anyway, enough theorising. Let's sign him first!
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50 minutes ago, Clarence Carter said:
“As we walked towards the ground an hour before kick-off, there was unusual congestion,” described one of those fans, Pete Molyneux. “We soon realised several hundred Bolton fans, instead of going through the turnstiles or into the pubs, were walking round trying to spot any United fans. We were in it before we realised how sinister it was. Luckily, no colours were on show among us but anyone with a hint of red and white got sneering verbal abuse or a slap round the head, or both. The scene was ugly. Very ugly.”
An article about it from their side:
https://archive.ph/xefbeFrom their side we don't really register until we're in the same division. Then they know derby day will be an event and they know of the history/intense dislike on our side. That piece is not completely devoid of the usual hardwired conceit that is evident among the infestation that's their support base but less so than usual.
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Oldham v Southend today in the National League final. Probably favour Oldham but will regret that if they win as no doubt we'll draw them in the League Cup or Sherpa Van and they'll do for us.
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6 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:
Did some declutterring this week and coincidentally came across these😊
Finished work at lunchtime as we always did the last day before Christmas. Kicked out of the pub at 3, I wandered around town wondering if the match would be on as there was some doubt. Met a Bobby friend of mine in the town hall square and he said they had been told it would go ahead. Brilliant night.
We were well and truly back!
Magic. Those old boys being Gowling, Dunne and Morgan.
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7 hours ago, batton carrier said:
This is why my uncle hates them. He got me into bolton. He told me these tales and many more. He would say we are Bolton effing Wanderers (he wouldn't swear in front of his nephew) busby used to send buses to burnden to take the fans who couldn't get in to watch man u instead. I don't know if this is true but I have no reason to doubt him
The buses bit is true because when Jimmy Armfield became Bolton manager he put a stop to it. They actually used to park coaches on the Burnden forecourt to pick up rags fans. Armfield said no more.
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7 minutes ago, tomski said:
Warned you @paulhanley😂
All a bit odd!
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Yes that's a fair parallel. Let's hope there's some Walker/McGinlay type replacements to follow !