paulhanley
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Huddersfield (H) D1-1
Doncaster (H) W3-1
Wigan (A) L2-1 (sorry, I hate writing that)
Charlton (H) W1-0
Barnsley (A) D1-1
Leicester (A) L2-1
Actually ... given the current comparison between our home form and away form my predictions are completely illogical! In fact our away form is light years ahead of this time last year.
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Frankie not doing too well these days......what a lot of folk tend to forget was not only did his goal send us up....it also relegated the six fingered ones....remember watching Granada Reports the night after he battered the red shite...Bob Greaves was made to sing..."There's only one Franky Worthy" .....brilliant days !!
Nah ... it was Blackpool who went down that season, not Blackburn.
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He's right.
I have to admit that, while I don't sit through the match complaining at the top of my voice, I probably don't offer much by way of encouragement either. If every one person ups his or her game the atmosphere can only get better. It'll be even more important after Xmas with four home Lancs derby matches between Jan and May.
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Brilliant result. Two away clean sheets on the trot, as many away wins as defeats and only one less than we got the whole of last season.
Boro away next is an unpredictable fixture with them having a new manager - but then Huddersfield, Doncaster, Charlton are the three home games in December. Let's also hope we can keep up this form for when we go to pie-land in three weeks time.
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i'll never forget that fella to my dying day. he was near the metal arch closest to the embankment,leading to the bar/exit. he had a cup of bovril in his hands. he just simply walked down the steps then turned and said ''come on you munich bastards''.......threw the cup over them then launched into the twats. plenty of bolton joined in. Bolton definitely came out on top in that incident. pretty sure they moved the reds after into the embankment after that brawl
I honestly don't remember how long they were there. I was about nine or ten at the time. Wish I'd been ten years older!! They were still present when Whatmore scored because I remember the abuse pouring down from the seats
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paul,i was in the manny road north that day. certainly were loads of DMBs in there. seem to remember some excellent fisticuffs. one bolton fella,dressed in a full length black leather was taking on allcomers especially underneath. he silenced a fair few of them,good lad
Glad I wasn't imagining it, thanks. Clear recollections of that day.
Sunny - Neil Whatmore scored a thundering goal for us at the Lever End and the Bolton fans in the last row of the Manny Road seats above the DMBs in the terrace below were dishing out some stick, then it all went wrong. Remember walking up Manny Road at the end and all you could hear from the United fans locked on the Embankment was "hark now hear, United sing, the Bolton ran away".
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My memory of the Easter game is of loads of DMBs in the Manny Road North Paddock, for at least part of the game. However I've been shouted at on here for saying that on a previous occasion.
Too young to remember 74/5, but remember both of the late 70s games. The 78/9 one, when we won 3-0 just before Xmas, seemed to be far more low key in terms of the support United brought.
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Bury rename Gigg Lane the JD Stadium.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24911458
JD for Just Dismal
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I am a big Freedman fan. I think he is exactly the man to manage the transition we'll go through when we get more deadwood off the books and operate on a smaller budget once the parachute payment halves next season.
If we go on a dramatic surge in to the play offs and get promoted through them, great. It'll be another strategy altogether - but one step at a time and lets see what he can do in January. In the meantime lets win a few more games and get to Jan in decent shape.
If there's one curiosity about Freedman it is that there seems to be something about his style of play that players clearly take some time getting used to. As he's said himself it is based on the archetypal Italian style with lots of possession, wearing the opposition down and trying to keep it tight at the back. Maybe this doesn't translate across to English based players with the same immediacty as, say, Big Sam's very British style or Coyle's very, very simple 4-4-2. If that's the reason behind our slow start this year and slowish start during his first few months last season, that's food for thought for him for future times at Bolton.
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I think Moritz starting could be absolutely perfect for Beckford, that could be a quality combo. Beckford should be aiming at hitting 20 goals this season. Give him the service and he will score
We've all seen the kind of service Beckford needs. He's the type of striker that thrives in the grey area between offside and onside and needs the ball on the floor. At last our midfield has also begun to work that out!
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you're about my age - remember greaves getting shit when he had mcdonagh throwing it to the full backs?
I remember McDonagh starting to throw it out as part of what felt like the fad of the day in the early 1980s.
Distribution from the goalkeeper seems to be a recurring issue through the years. Jussi's kicking left a lot to be desired, Bogdan's isn't great and I noticed yesterday (again) that Lonergan's left footedness makes him very predictable.
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or the first games of last season when with supposedly better players, playing in the style some seem to want, we just weren't good enough
Teams are rarely good enough to be endlessly cavalier. The only exception in my time watching Bolton would be Colin Todd's side of 1996/7. He then tried to replicate it in later Championship seasons with lesser teams and failed. It took the pragmatism of Allardyce to turn us around. Freedman is pragmatic like Allardyce - but with a more continental style of play. I'd also have to say Freedman probably lacks Allardyce's man-management and motivational skills but then that's no criticism of DF. Sam has always been absolutely exceptional in those areas, ask many of his former players in his Bolton days.
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You really can't win with some folk on here, we loss some of you moan, we draw some of you moan and then we win and you still fucking moan, bringing on another defender was only done to protect what we had, the amount of games this season we've been in a winning postion only to throw it away. We did actually score the 3rd with an extra defender on the pitch, i don't like it but it worked so for all you fucking so called WW "experts" shut the fuck up and give them a fucking break
I agree with this. It's not pretty, but we are seven unbeaten and making progress in baby steps rather than big strides. I'd much rather this than what we had in the first nine games of the season.
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Wigan Memories
in Terrace Talk
I have to say my chief memory of Wigan fans in matches at Burnden in the mid 80s was a number of old people stood on their half empty section of the Embankment occasionally breaking in to an imaginative chant of "Wigan, Wigan, Wigan, Wigan .... Wigan, Wigan, Wigan"