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Ah, the traditional pre Wigan injury has occurred. Things as per script Hard not to be fatalistic. Seen it all before.
Anybody know if they've got any injuries? I don't want to sully myself with looking first hand.
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1 hour ago, batton carrier said:
For once all the usual suspects that live around me are surprisingly quiet about this fixture. It really is their cup final. No one connected with our great club from the tea lady to the newest of fans should see this fixture as just another in the calendar. They fucking hate us and their scrote of a manager is under pressure, a result against us will help lift that. He is an ex player and knows what it means to that skidmark clubs fans. He will have em bang up for this .
They always are. I wish someone would show Evatt your post. Although surely to god the penny is dropping with him now.
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21 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:
As others have said, it's all about the start and the attitude. A few niggly early fouls, get in the refs ear and win your personal battles. Start like we did last time, where we appeared shocked that they weren't going to sit back and watch our pretty football, and we'll lose.
I reckon 1 goal will win it.
Suspect you're right if there's a winner. But the scoreline I predict likeliest are 0-0 or 1-1.
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I see they are performing their party piece. Shit performance before they play us, no doubt an even worse one on the game after. In between they'll come and play like Real Madrid on steroids against us. Maybe for once we'll be ready for it. Maybe.
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No bookings/suspensions for the showdown with the pie-men next weekend. Focus on that now.
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Yesterday's result continues the very odd trend of neither of these two sides being able to win away fixtures against each other. I was aware of it but looked it up for confirmation. It's really stark.
https://www.11v11.com/teams/bolton-wanderers/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Blackpool/
They've not won at Bolton since Spring 1986 (1-3 to Blackpool at Burnden): Since then in the league we've W 6 D 5 L 0
We've not won at Gloomfield Road since Xmas 1977 (0-2 Whatmore, Worthington) : Since then we've W 0 D6 L 5
The clubs didn't play each other between 1977/78 and 1985/6 due to us being in higher divisions throughout.
You can add a few cup fixtures to those tallies in which neither side has rustled up an away win either!
What makes it all the more remarkable is that away wins have been very close on many occasions. In the past 10/15 years alone Blackpool have blown 0-2 leads at ours twice and there was a game in which Eidur (mark 2) scored a 96th minute equaliser for us. Those with longer memories will remember us more than once losing late traumatically at Blackpool having gone one up.
It's all the more odd because derbies are usually the fixtures in which home advantage counts a bit less.
Ball's in our court now to puncture this jinx when we go there in the New Year.
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I can't abide Evatt, I'm fed up with the club.
But on a day like today the game is an entity in itself, a derby with history and a needle all of its own.
Fuck the Blackpool. That's 38 years unbeaten at home against them still intact. I hope they cry salt tears all the way home in the rain and wind. Cunts.
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My main interest in this is that its in the midweek before the pie-shaggers at home. We've got this, they've got Chesterfield away.
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The weather is going to have a big impact on this game, lots of rain around but more significantly pretty high winds. Hopefully our powder puff fancy dans can adapt because Blackpool will
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2 hours ago, gonzo said:
There's are struggling to find any recognised strikers.
Major injury crisis going on.
Didn't realise we'd only given them 2,800 btw.
They all went crackers now they are struggling to sell all them.
I will believe all this injury crisis stuff when I see it. Like an old warship throwing out chaff to distract the enemy.
Blackpool and their fans are a comedy outfit - but they will be bang up for it against us more than against any other side in the division. How can we trust our lot to respond on the evidence of the last few years?
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I obviously hope we hammer this shower of shit but it's hard to have any confidence after the cowardly and dismal non-performance at Stockport.
Worth keeping an eye on the weather forecast: Strong winds, snow and rain all seem to be in the mix although obviously very early days for precise forecasts.
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Flat track bullies.
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11 minutes ago, Hoppy said:
I remember playing Cardiff away in our promotion year It was my turn to drive so no drink, my mate is well out of it we got outside the ground early, my mate fell over drunk, Ian Greaves came over and looked at him "is he one of ours" he said yes I replied "come on then I will help you pick him up, we need all the support we can get today" and he helped me getting him through the turnstiles!
I can hear him saying that with his Lancashire accent. Good man.
.. if we'd won that game that famous night at Blackburn would have been one of celebration from minute one rather than minute 90.
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58 minutes ago, Hoppy said:
As Ian Greaves said if you want entertainment go to the cinema if you want promotion I will do it my way sometimes you have to be solid at the back and do what you have to do to get promoted. when you get better players you get more entertainment. The system IE plays is not fit for this division some PREM teams/players struggle with this and make mistakes we need to get back to basics and get out of this division
It was "If you want entertainment go to the Palladium" actually but a great quote to remember from a wise football man.
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2 hours ago, Eddie said:
You can add 2 losses to Tranmere to that as well. 3-0 at home being one of them (which I’d managed to blank from my memory!)
In fact, if you exclude the football league trophy and just look at those where there is a genuine rivalry that the players would feel it - Wigan, Blackpool, Stockport, Tranmere
W1, D1, L9
Then there’s those that have a bit on it but not in the same category - Oldham, Carlisle, Accrington
W4, D0, L4
Then there’s Fleetwood which although geographically in a similar place to a few, there’s absolutely no needle whatsoever
W5, D0, L1
I’d love to have gone up last season and get to play Blackburn, Preston, Burnley, and then the likes of Sheff Weds, Sheff Utd, Stoke etc., but actually we’d likely have just been turned over by each of them and had a shite time because we can’t deal with a big occasion.
Truly pathetic and shameful from BWFC. Letting the fans and the town down.
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13 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:
Sobering…
Yes sobering. But the word that springs more readily to mind is disgusting.
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Pick as many kids as the competition allows.
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I admire all of those of you who have progressed to the stage of being able to analyse squad depth and DNA.
I'm still at the stage of being stunned and disgusted by a scoreline of Stockport 5 Bolton 0 - heaped on other recent similar embarrassments.
A line has to be drawn now. If we want to talk about DNA, this type of abysmal and cowardly surrender is not the DNA of Bolton Wanderers.
As our flimsy ship was being capsized once more by neighbours yesterday, we picked up not one single booking. That speaks volumes to me. They couldn't give a shit and don't deserve the hugely impressive support they are getting from the people of the town.
Stockport, Wigan, Blackpool and the like do give a shit. We are marked in red on their fixture list from the day they're published in June. That's why they "do" us every time. Attitude. Blackpool are in poor form just now but they'll battle like hell when they come up against us in a fortnight.
A line has to be drawn.
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On 05/11/2024 at 22:53, Lt. Aldo Raine said:
I'm putting myself up to be shot at but I think this is the year the wheel turns
Do you still think the same thing?
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Imagine our forebears seeing in to the future and reading scorelines like today's coming to pass. They'd think it was a sick joke. This is what has been served up in recent years.
Bolton 0 Wigan 4; Bolton 0 Wigan 4; Bolton 0 Accrington 1, Stockport 5 Bolton 3; Stockport 5 Bolton 0; Blackpool 4 Bolton 1.
... to which from the very slightly more distant past you can add: Bolton 1 Rochdale 3, Accrington 7 Bolton 1; Wigan 5 Bolton 2.
We get saccharine words about understanding what derbies mean to fans and how we need to rectify our poor record in them. Actions speak louder than words. They are a million miles away from understanding.
Just had my Dad on the phone, 81 years old and seen a lot more than me: "Today has to be as poor a result as there's been in the club's whole history".
We can't go on like this. "It's only one game" some will say - but the results in these games sum up eloquently what is wrong at the club and why we can't get out of League 1. No guts, no willingness to scrap and battle, no nous.
Blackpool at home next....
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Up there with the biggest disgraces in the club's 147 years and certainly in my time. And by Christ there's been some competition in recent years.
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I've said it all so often before. I've known us go through bad years in derby fixtures, usually because we're just not as good as the teams in the same division. This has now been going on throughout Evatt's time at the club and it is the best indication of all of utter gutlessness.
This is another indelible stain on the club's history - in the same category as the Wigan disgraces. All concerned should hang their heads in shame at their complete failure to represent Bolton Wanderers with any kind of pride or passion. It kills the fans. They have no idea.
It has got to stop. Now.
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13 minutes ago, Cheese said:
Obama was perfect for the time. He's an outstanding orator, and his election came after 2 terms of Bush Jr, a global financial crash, and a decade of boots on the ground in the Middle East.
It's definitely not just about the quality of the person and their track record. They just re-elected Trump.
Aye but Trump was up against Harris. That's what's called Hobson's Choice. As I said - 345 million people and they can't find one decent candidate for an election never mind two.
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24 minutes ago, Cheese said:
I'd put money on Gavin Newsom standing for the Democrats in 4 years. Doubt they'll put up a female or non-white candidate again in any of our lifetimes.
Possibly Newsom but I don't think colour and gender comes in to it. Obama won two terms. Its the quality of the person and (if going for a second term) the track record.
People in the US just didn't feel better off than four years ago. That's always going to spell big trouble for an incumbent.
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A lot of words from Evatt today. Heard it all before and it means fuck all until they beat these turds
He did say one thing that's spot on. Regardless of how the game is going/if we go a goal down/if its goalless and Wigan are frustrating us - the fans have to stick with it in this game and keep up a strong atmosphere. Hard thing to do given the collective frustrations with the way things go sometimes but on Saturday it has got to be done. The pie men thrive on doubt and discord.