paulhanley
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Am I the only one sick of hearing about 'promising talent', we need footballers ffs not the next Pele. Our problem is now and not in 2-3yrs time when these 'promising talent' youngsters may or may not pay off.
IS NRC still a free agent?
I agree. Been hearing this since the 70s when I started supporting Bolton. Then and in to the early 80s talent did come through. There's been occasional good uns since (Nolan, Stubbs) but not much else. If a talented generation does come through, we'd best hope we're not in such a mess that we have to sell quickly (a la 80-83).
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I think its too early to judge the signings but yesterday was totally dismal.
For us to waltz in to a game like this like it was going to be easy is absolutely unforgivable. It would have been even without the Coyle factor adding extra spice.
Today I feel like I felt after capitulations against the likes of Bury, Wigan and Blackpool in years gone by. Its not good enough and he's on thin ice with me now, having previously been a supporter of his.
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Sorry, feel really down after this.
Them being up for it because of the circumstances is absolutely no excuse.
Spineless.
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1-2. They score first. Dingles in heaven.
Two very late goals for us by Chungy and Keith Andrews.
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Anybody know how many we've ended up selling?
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The club seemed better at dealing with and preventing injuries in Big Sam's day.
However, the club seemed better at dealing with and preventing injuries than most club's during Big Sam's day.
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When Wigan start to fall (which they inevitably will at some point), it will be a steep descent.
Whelan is not immortal.
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Romeu would be a fantastic addition. I hope they can sort that one. Must be doubtful.
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Certainly I think the midfielder would be a loan deal pending the returns of Holden and Muamba. One or two others likely to be loans as well. We might have to wait until August for these while Prem teams sort their squads out.
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In my opinion we still need four more players
* Another goalkeeper to replace Jussi as the man for the bench.
* Another versatile defender. We look thin at full back: Mears is never fit and Riley is unproven at RB, Ricketts is great at LB but also our fourth CB and I don't trust Alonso at all.
* Another central midfielder: Who knows when or if Muamba will be back and Holden not back til October. Mark Davies may not stay.
* Another striker: If we're playing two up front having only three strikers is one short, unless he intends playing one of the wingers there in an emergency.
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Blackburn 3 Bolton 1, first day of 76/7 season. Noel Brotherston tore us apart.
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So the Bury hordes would have to go to hating Celtic (even though they wouldn't be playing them). As opposed to w*nking themsleves silly over grainy footage of the last time they played Bolton.
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I was actually only 8 when the 77/78 match was played. Remember very well sitting in the Cricket Field Stand - which was pretty much as it is to this day. Don't remember if that was the designated away end that day.
I remember 82/3 better. Don't recall any specific details of trouble but do remember being distinctly aware of it. The comment above about lots of younger players is only partly right, we had Mick Doyle, Paul Jones, Peter Reid and the newly signed Ian Moores in the side that day. That memory about fans wearing smart gear sticks in my mind as well, as does the fact that it was a really warm day - typical first day of season stuff.
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Been thinking about this other young centre back, reckon its Mariappa?
Is it no Kyle MacFadzean off Crawley?
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.... anybody else remember the previous times?
First day of 77/78 in the season Ian Greaves got us promoted - Burnley 0 Bolton 1, Roy Greaves winner.
First day of 82/3 in the season both clubs got relegated to the third and Jim McDonagh scored against them in the return fixture at Burnden - Burnley 0 Bolton 0, loads of trouble around the ground.
First day of 2000/01 - Bolton side missing lots of good players suspended following Barry Knight's card-fest at Ipswich in the play offs the year before. Bolton 1 Burnley 1. Frandsen (pen) with our goal.
Was at all three. Good memories.
Not only did not did the dingles not win any of those ... they've not actually beaten us in any league game since November 1987. Nine games in total. Bring it on - I hope we leather the bastards.
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There's competition with Scarborough and Darlington from that period in the "it couldn't get any worse" stakes.Newport 2 Bolton 1 in the ankle deep mud just before we got relegated to Div 4Bolton 1 Chester 2 in the Freight Rover the same season - we all hoped we were going to Wembley again.Wolves 4 Bolton 0 in Div 4. Loads of trouble and a really shit performance.
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I was there in the Manny Road north stand.
The comment made above about Sam and his half-hearted performance and general lack of fitness is right.
I remember a similar performance from Sam the same season in a pathetic August 1-4 home defeat to Bury, the first time we'd played them since about 1968.
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the todd team was improved the summer we got promoted
it got about the same number of points coyles team got
the league is probably tougher now
i reckon coyles team would beat todds team
it'd be close, but to suggest 'pissed on' is pushing it
The weakness in Todd's team was defence. Give me Blake and McGinlay any day though!
If you tried to make an XI out of Todd's side of that year and this current side, who would you choose out of Frandsen and Holden?
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Last weekend they reckoned we'd sold "more than 6000".
Wonder how many we'll end up with?
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I'm glad. With our injury record in the past 12 months, if we'd had somebody involved they'd have been sure to have come back with a knee ligament prob or broken leg.
Let the other Championship sides suffer from having one or two of their best players a bit knackered.
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Life tends to work in cycles. A period of bad luck followed by a period of good luck. Bring it on.
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This is a quote from Jim McDonagh in today's Bolton News. Reckon this sums up how it came to be that we had so many good young uns in the early to mid 80s but still struggled. Our finances meant we kept selling and pushing too many younger players in to the first XI all at the same time rather than phasing in the changes. Same thing continued with Steve Thompson and Warren Joyce further in to the 80s. The latter Thommo was a really good player in his later 20s but just had too much responsibility put his way between about 83 and 87.
Jim McDonagh on Chris Thompson
?I can see Chris now, in his kit. He was a lively lad, always a threat on the right and looked like he was going to do really well in the game. Then we had that decline and weren?t winning as many games as we should have done and he seemed to suffer from that. If he?d have been in a better side I?m sure he would have blossomed.
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Chris Thompson's time at Bolton wasn't a great era for the club but pre-dated the really, really bad times and there are some good memories of him and those times on here.
I'd also forgotten that after he left for Blackburn he came to a presentation night for the Bolton Boys Federation team I played for in 1984 and gave us our end of season awards.
Who Could Do Better Than Oc?
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Billy Davies is the best shout I've heard so far.