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paulhanley

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  1. Had a good look at all the names in the frame and had a chance to think a bit now the work day is done. 

    Schumacher has done nothing wrong in his managerial career. Nobody seems to make it stick at Stoke and he'd won as many games as he'd lost in the ridiculously short spell he was afforded. 

    As things stand he's my no 1 choice. I reserve the right to change my mind half a dozen times between now and breakfast tomorrow though 🙂

  2. Just now, Tonge moor green jacket said:

    Daft thing is, we're still well within a play off shout. If the new man can put out a modicum of consistency, then we've every chance of getting in them, and then who knows.

    A free shot if you like, no one will be too worried if we didn't make it, given the start.

    The new man then has time to assess in the summer and build accordingly.

    Aye, you're right. It's just if by some miracle we got to the Championship with this squad I don't think we'd have enough time to evolve it to be ready for that level. It'd take a miracle worker.

  3. I appreciate people's warnings about Schumacher although I'd been warm to that idea initially. I think Wycombe are in for him too. 

    Gary O'Neil would be of interest. 

    If Tony Mowbray hadn't got a new job recently I'd have been keen on him 

    Ryan Lowe and Leam Richardson's stars have fallen a little bit of late. 

    Let's get someone in with a bit of experience under their belt this time. As a decently sized club with a good fanbase and an upward journey beckoning, we are surely entitled to that privilege. 

    I know people tend to scoff at Big Sam but if the club want a short-term caretaker while it considers its options I think he'd be perfect and he'd enjoy it. I also think he'd be up for a longer-term director of football style role and we clearly need someone with a footballing brain on that board. The amount of time its taken them to pot Evatt shows that! 

  4. First time I've managed to get on here since seeing the news this morning. 

    What a blessed relief. I can start properly supporting the club again now. 

    We're at Ground Zero in some ways but that squad has talent in it even if it has no balance and has not been managed with any pragmatism. Short term the players just need someone to build their confidence and keep it simple for them. 

    We're not going up this year and we'd have been bombed out of the Championship if we'd beaten Oxford at Wembley. We need to focus on building a squad with lot of capabilities now, under the stewardship of a management team who are able to adapt and think laterally. It's all about hitting the ground running for 2025/26 season.

     

  5. Not much to make me smile linked to my footballing affiliations just now but the ongoing circus at United definitely does. Long may it continue and long may their grotesque support base suffer. 

    The rags and Tottenham were definitely the two big clubs to slip in to the second tier in the 70s (although Villa did so too early in the decade). Could it happen again? Nah, too much dross at the bottom. But Postecoglu in particular seems to be giving it a good try. There are elements of the Evatts about him.

  6. 1 minute ago, Whitesince63 said:

    The problem with that 69 is that we’ll be on the fringe of promotion for the whole season if we stick with Evatt. If we seriously want it this year the board have to act now because there’s still more than enough time for a new manager, a new voice and a new system to make the play offs with this squad. Of course Sharon may have already conceded we won’t make it this year looking at some of the fixtures coming up so she probably concludes that financially it’s best to stick with what she’s got and give Evatt every chance. She holds the purse strings so she makes the choices. Wrong ones for me but they’re hers to make whatever we think.

    In Spring we've got Stockport (h), Wigan (a), Blackpool (a). I don't see results in any of those given how spineless we are. That'll take toxicity up even further. That's when the axe is likeliest to fall. 

  7. Compare the way of managing injuries and fitness under Sam's time to this current shambles. Chalk and cheese - and Sam's time was 20 years ago, there'll have been advances since then. There's just no excuses. 

    Of course it doesn't help when we keep signing players who have a clear injury ridden track record. 

    Anyway, Santos. Not mentally strong enough or consistently good enough for the Championship. If he was there'd have been clubs in for him. Like in so many other areas it is time for the club to move on from this "project" and its components.

  8. 9 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

    Haha tickled me that as it’s so true

    Manny Road were fucking brutal at times 

    The hapless bloke on the microphone at half-time used to cop it a lot. Brutal, Boltonian humour. 

  9. Wheeling and dealing is fine when one and two years in to a job. When you're five years in and you're selling players you bought and lauded - that's when the change a club really needs is the manger.

  10. Getting £750K for a 29 year old striker we paid £300K for three years ago is financially decent work. 

    Unless he's thinking CMG will actually stay fit and can play up top (or that Lolos can play there) we need a replacement. That's the fear. What on earth will he spend on next and how will he fit that person in to his system.

    To use the modern day footballing parlance, this is a "project" that I long stopped believing in.

  11. 6 minutes ago, gonzo said:

    Won't be saying that when they beat us in the play off final in the last minute with a 347 pass move finished off by their star striker Kachunga followed by him running to our end waving his cock around singing Bolton get battered 

    They still wouldn't forgive him given his track record with the murderers. 

  12. 7 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:

    This is an odd one, can't get much game time at Charlton.  But O'Rourke is more ITK than most.

     

    No doubt we'd turn him in to bloody Terry Thomas. 

  13. 20 minutes ago, Cheese said:

    It really is a fucking disgrace that Tamworth don't get a replay at Tottenham.

    Yep. 

    I understand the fixture congestion angle. However, they should have retained replays in the first three rounds or at the very least for the first and third given their significance as stages at which new tiers in the pyramid are introduced to the competition.

  14. I notice his big pal Rob Edwards got potted at Luton recently. All amidst their fans being hugely frustrated as to  why he was doing the same thing over and over again and somehow expecting different results.

    Albert Einstein meets Ian Evatt and his management buddies. 

     

  15. 2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

    Absolutely.  Exactly why it's so baffling that nowt changes.

    Going to turn into resentment and anger.

     

    It turned in to that for me after the epoch making disgraces v Stockport and Wigan. These powder-puff surrenders are not Bolton Wanderers Football Club is about. 

  16. 2 hours ago, Dimron said:

    I assume you won't be buying a Season Ticket for 25/26... that's the only thing that they will take notice of 

    Indeed so.

    Maybe it's the incredible support they've had that gives the board a false impression of how much latitude they've got. FV saved us and they've (to a large extent correctly) had kid glove treatment from the fanbase for much longer than any of their predecessors in the boadroom.  But they've now run out of road. They just don't yet realise it.

    As a result of this head in the sand approach they are going to see an escalation of a side to the BWFC fan base they've not yet experienced but which all of us know is there. It's going to be a bitter pill for them and its their own fault.

    Home truths need speaking now - in whatever form.

    Evatt out.

  17. 1 minute ago, kent_white said:

    1) Defend your box well.

    2) Put the ball into dangerous areas. 

    That's all Rotherham have done today. Fair fucking play to them!

     

    Yep. Football kept simple. 

    Everyone can see what/who the problem is at this football club. Everyone except those inside the groupthink bubble in the boardroom. As such they are also deeply culpable. 

    Dark days like today are what we need to get rid of him. We should not have to be put through this as fans when we can all see the patently obvious. Our board need a long hard look at themselves. 

    I hate having to say stuff like this. I hate Saturdays being the non-event that they are just now. But we know what we're on about and the board just don't. They can't otherwise this clown would not still be in a job. What other conclusion is there to draw?

     

  18. 5 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

    I wouldn't have put Pollock above Henry in the hardman pecking order?  Pollock could be a bit of a loose cannon in a Joey Barton type of way but he wasn't one of them players the opposition were afraid to foul surely, Henry seemed harder to me.  

    A modern version of what we're missing, whether they are hard men or just can look after themselves physically, is Cameron Branagan.  Always seemed a shame he went to Oxford (not exactly a dream move) when he's from Salford and came through at Liverpool.  If he ever wants to return to the NW hope he comes here.

    Yes you don't have to be a midfield hard-man in the old Tommy Hutchinson/Graeme Souness/Steve McMahon mold to have the ability to put your foot in. You only have to think back to Per Frandsen - skilfull and athletic but wasn't without the ability to tackle. You need a decent amount of that in the make-up of a midfield.

  19. Might be a good player. I should be excited about pinching one of the better players from a team in the same division.

    Question is, is Evatt going to drown him in tactics and coach all the individuality out of him? I am at "peak cynicism" with Evatt and thus am conflicted between wanting BWFC to do well and wanting a fresh start in the manager's seat. I don't think the former is possible without the latter. 

     

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