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Owen Coyle's poor management not helped by lots of bad luck.
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I'll be there next season - got the season ticket already.
Might go to some away games.
Not sure I'll be wiiling us back into the Premier League in a hurry though. Too many problems to be sorted, on & off the field.
Agreed on all points.
Saturday will still be Saturday. Bolton Wanderers will still be Bolton Wanderers.
They are in my blood.
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no no no no no. it was ALL SEASON. chance after chance after chance after chance after chance, and they took none. they are LOSERS, have been since coyle took over.
Yes, you are right. A 38 game season leaves teams in the place they deserve to be.
Just saying that even after all the debacles, fiascos and poor management decisions - we still had it in our own grasp as late as last week.
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As we all suspected, it was last week's debacle that really f*cked it up for us.
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... over the last 35 years. Have I missed any?
Currently got exactly the same unique brand of anxiety that only these types of days can bring.
76/7 Bolton 0 Wolves 1. A draw would have meant promotion to Div 1.
81/2 Bolton 3 Sheff W 1. A win meant we stayed in Div 2 when Cardiff lost a re-arranged game three days later.
82/3 Charlton 4 Bolton 1. A win would have kept us in Div 2 - but ten years in Div 3 followed.
86/7 Gillingham 1 Bolton. Defeat meant we were condemned to the relegation play off, which we lost to end up in Div 4.
87/8 Wrexham 0 Bolton 1. The very famous return from Div 4.
90/1 Bolton 1 Chester 0. A win - but we needed Grimsby to draw or lose and they won. Play off debacle v Tranmere awaited.
92/3 Bolton 1 Preston 0 - the long awaited escape from Div 3.
97/8 Chelsea 2 Bolton 0 - Everton's win condemned us to a bitter Prem relegation.
02/3 Bolton 2 Middlesbrough 1 - Premier survival secured despite West Ham's late surge.
07/8 Chelsea 1 Bolton 1 - a draw preserves Prem status although goal difference was in Bolton's favour if they'd lost.
.... play off finals are obviously similar experiences but I've restricted this to the last day of the normal season.
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When I read the posts above is does strike home how unlucky we have been in terms of fanbase erosion and alternatives for the flaky football fan.
Yes, we always had an arrogant monster on our immediate southern borders but now we have two.
There was never a football league side on our western border ... then the Pie Men got Dave Whelan and they're punching so far above their weight that its laughable.
Same thing happened to the north ... Blackburn! OK Venkys are destroying it all now but they were nothing before Jack Walker.
.... good old reliable Bury to the east, they'll always be shit.
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More of a gradual process than an exact moment.
The shambles at Wembley v Stoke.
The spineless performances against Blackburn and Blackpool away late last season.
... and then Sunderland at home this season when he chased a game that we were competitive in at 0-0 and ended up losing. A story that has repeated several times since.
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Magical day.
Not the only pitch invasion that season though.
Anybody remember the charge on to the pitch from the away end at Scunthorpe after the Ref gave Scunny a late equaliser via a dodgy pen? Police horses had to intervene.
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Tranmere when we drew 2-2 at the end of the season we won the league under Todd (96/7)
Preston in 92 when we were 2-0 down and came back late to draw 2-2. Very hard to keep myself under wraps in those circs.
Blackpool away in 85, a 1-1 draw with thousands of Wanderers fans present. First time we'd played them since the 70s.
Blackburn away in 99 when we lost 3-1
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Just unbelievable.
Wheater would have been a key man in our defence next year whatever the division.
No sooner do we get this year's bad luck out of the way than next year's starts.
Knight out of contract, Boyata to return to City, Ricketts out of contract.
So we go in to the summer with only one fit central defender certain to be on the books - Ream.
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if my memory serves me right,isn't it 34 years since bolton,blackburn,blackpool and burnley played in the same division ? and didn't we start the season with a 1-0 win at burnley,then our last away was the promotion night at ewood,both in front of 20,000+. good omens for next season if the worst happens then
Yep ..... that was 77/78. We won 5 of the six derbies and went up. The only one we lost was Burnley at home over New Year. That season was the last time we'd won at Blackpool and until this season the last time we'd doubled Blackburn.
2000/01 saw Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley ... and Preston all in the same division.
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Does anybody seriously think Wigan will lose against Wolves on the last day of the season?
Wigan will win tonight in any case.
Blackburn v Burnley back on next season with Bolton and Blackpool quite possibly in the same division as well.
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The closest comparison in terms of what lies ahead on Sunday is Sheff Weds at home on May 8, 1982. We had to win our last game and hope somebody else (Cardiff in this case) would fuck up. We won, they lost in a game re-arranged for the midweek after the official end of the season, we stayed in Division 2.
Shame that game isn't available on DVD so that the constant abuse heaped on Wednesday's winger Terry Curran by the Manny Road terrace could be heard!
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For what its worth, I'd say Bolton is in South East Lancashire. But that's not the point. The point is that never in my life have I heard of Bolton V Wigan being referred to as the South Lancashire Derby nor do I know many Bolton fans who regard it as one of our biggest local games.
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Bolton 1 WBA 1
QPR 3 Stoke 1
Villa 0 Tottenham 2
Blackburn 1 Wigan 2
.... but then we'll win at Stoke 1-2 , QPR will lose at Man City.
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Was sent this link to a page on Wikipedia by a Burnley supporting mate who had looked up "East Lancashire" derby on Google but tripped over this at the same time.
So Bolton v Wigan is supposedly called "The South Lancashire Derby" and Bolton and Wigan fans consider the other to be one of their main rivals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Lancashire_derby
News to me.
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Been on that site and it looks like the majority want to fuck QPR up more than they want to fuck Bolton.
One even says that with Southampton, Reading and probably WHU coming up the league needs a few under performers to be the whipping boys. I think he wants us to stay just to be Stoke's 6 points.
Given that they've not won at Bolton since 1990 I don't know how any Stoke fan can see us as a gimme double in the same way that we always used to view West Ham.
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We don't usually start selling season tickets until the previous season has ended so I'd say 4000 for a team that isn't even sure of staying up isn't a bad effort.
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Mike Ingham of Five Live is one of the least of the culprits when it comes to talking about the self important w*nkers who populate football journalism.
However last night he said something that annoyed me a lot.
He said that Hogdson will start at a disadvantage because the media will not cut him the slack that they would have cut Redknapp.
Well, that's easy. Does the media want England to do well? Fine, so cut him some slack and cut out the usual process of undermining every England manager and hindering the national side's chances of success.
I know a lack of technique among English players is a major issue (!) but the media's "attack dog" approach to England helps nobody.
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I think if we get 38 points we will stay up. It might even be that we get six of those in the frenzy of the last two games of the season.
That's the best slant I can put on this.
At the moment I'm pretty dispirted and fearing the worst.
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We've not beaten Arsenal away since the late 50s or early 60s in the league. (we had the FA Cup win under Rioch).
We've not beaten Bury away since 1929 in the league. In one way I'd love us to sort that one but in another I'd be happy if we never had to play at Gigg Lane again.
I also don't recall us winning at Notts County in my time of watching Bolton.
The one that irritates me is that we've not beaten Blackpool at Bloomfield Road since 77/78 season in a Boxing Day match when we had at least half the 25000 gate there. Neil Whatmore (who it was a pleasure to see on the pitch doing the half time draw yesterday) scored. We've had six attempts in the league since then (three draws, three defeats and other cup defeats). We did go there and draw after extra time in the Sherpa Van Northern Final in 89 to get to Wembley. At least that one felt like a win!
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Just spotted that the Baggies are at home,i thought the game was at Deadwood - so i've changed my mind,home win or a draw.
I just think WBA will be getting in to the mindset that one win and they're safe .. and the sooner the better. Reckon they'll galvanise and beat Roverrrrrs on Saturday.
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Theyll have to be proper shit in last weeks
Villa have a difficult run of fixtures before we play them on April 24 including Liverpool (A), United (A) and Sunderland (H) - the return of Martin O'Neill. Their manager is not well liked and it should be remembered that he's the guy who oversaw Birmingham dropping like a stone in to the bottom three late last season.
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I'd say if we get 38 we'll stay up.
Wigan's have a really tough April, Blackburn's run in slightly easier than Wigan's, QPR's awful.
Significant that QPR and Blackburn have very tough last day fixtures (City and Chelsea), whereas Wigan play Wolves at home. Second last day of the season is Blackburn v Wigan which will be a real shitfest. God knows what result we'll be wanting from that one!
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In a horrible way we played a role in United's downfall. Our game finished, QPR started celebrating while their game was still going on, City got the winner.