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No scoreline predictions from me. I am sure many will predict 1-1 given our recent form.
I will however observe that we have not had a penalty in the league as yet and we have not scored a very early goal.
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4 hours ago, gonzo said:
If you're 20 years of age, crowd sizes apart, you can possibly see their point.
Would a 20 year old Bournemouth fan think they're bigger than us? Some might I suppose.
If you are a 20 year old wearing pie-stained Lonsdales whose only escapism from the malaise of Wiganesque despond is when this match comes around then I suppose you build your own myths and legends.
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4 hours ago, woolli said:
Proper confident of a win these lot on Latics Speyk, it really is time to get an home win against them, im sure we are capable, lets do it!
In recent times it has us being over-confident and paying the price.
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1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
The very essence of what has gone wrong.
Just like Brexit, it isn't a left-right issue.
Just had to look at voting patterns, and listen to people to understand that.
Thrust too many, too quickly, into "red wall" areas and they will inevitably react.
But they're all far right, racist thugs as we know.
Chickens are coming home to roost now.
Everyone who disagrees with them is a far-right fascist. It is the same old three card trick. The Soviets used it just the same. If you disagree with someone, don't debate them, declare their views unacceptable by whatever means suits you that day, make them persona non grata, shut them down before anyone else gets big ideas.
Thing is its been seen through now. People are no longer scared of it and they will call it out.
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Paul Embery. A man of the left who very much has the number of the wokery. Hitting the nail on the head yet once more.
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Unlike Blackpool this is a fixture in the more normal derby template were home/away advantage seems not to count for as much. We are all too aware of our recent appalling home record against this shower of shit. Even though we have only recorded the one win, our away form against them is much more stable. They can no longer claim an unbeaten 10 year record against us overall - but they still claim not to have lost at ours for that length of time. It needs putting to rights.
They are going to be a handful. Not the best side in the division but decent enough and always massively up for it in this fixture. We have to match that before we talk about anything else and we need to avoiding swanning in to this game like its any other.
I worry about us going a goal down - but if that happens I hope we as fans keep behind the team.
At the very least here is hoping the tame surrenders of the Evatt era are a thing of the past.
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19 minutes ago, Steejay said:
Paul, do you really think that I want to open that link? 😩
Not advisable. But its existence tells you everything you need to know about these.
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Maybe they should put this up on the dressing room noticeboard. Still the best part of two weeks to go and already they are ramping it up. For the pie men this is the equivalent of England v Scotland for the jocks. From the 80s onwards England wised up and started matching the Jocks for being geared up for the game. We need to do the same. And let us face it is in the home fixture where the worst embarrassments have come over the last five or six years.
Wigan Athletic FC - Gallery | Derby Day Delight at Bolton Wanderers throughout the years
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On 07/09/2025 at 18:55, auckland_bwfc said:
Smashing these hillbillys.
3-0
Easy.
Calm down.
Worst thing we can do is waltz in to this fixture with that outlook. Been our worst enemy down the years v these.
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I noticed these cunts are playing their League Cup game after our game with them rather than before (both midweeks were set aside). You can bet that is by design rather than chance.
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5 minutes ago, Dimron said:
Would some sort of coalition be the way forward?
If it is a coalition of those already within the political class in this country I do not think so.
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2 minutes ago, Dimron said:
I've said it before, there will be no Lochinvar character or party riding over the horizon to lead us to a promised land.
The gene pool with which to form a government is too small with our present system, even with such a big majority Starmer is struggling to find talent in his MP base.
Look at his record so far: Angela Raynor, Rushanara Ali, Andrew Gwynne, Tulip Sidiq, Louise Haigh... all gone in disgrace
Tories and Reform wont be much better, needs root and branch restructuring
One thing I have been saying for a while now is that this current generation of UK politicians is shocking. And I have to say - it is on the whole my own generation, folk either side of 50. We are ill served by woeful political leaders of all stripes. They have no gravitas, little integrity and nothing new to offer. They are soundbite people who have dug this economic hole we are now in because they have not had the wit to do anything about it.
The result is that it comes as absolutely no surprise when a woman who claims to profoundly believe in socialism fiddles her own taxes.
Layer on top of that the people are sick and tired of both of the main parties and the absolute disconnect with the elitist one-eyed wokery that riddles our public institutions/local government/civil service and you can see why people are in despair.
Our forebears did things better. They were more cerebral and on the whole more trustworthy, responsible and upright.
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These have been tough opposition for every side they have played this season. We just need to get any kind of win and build a little league momentum.
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6 minutes ago, Eavesy said:
Best right back debut since Joe Riley …
Now chief scout over in pie city.
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1 minute ago, bwfc87 said:
Will the ban be for this competition or league aswell?
That is the question that came to my mind. If it is FA Cup or League Cup the ban counts across competitions - but I am much less sure in the EFL Trophy. Certainly in previous years I am pretty sure the ban has been in that one competition
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Come on then, those with knowledge of our youth set up. What is the low-down on Oliver Smith?
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You look at the summer window of 2024 now and it really was a massive backward step on top of blowing promotion v Oxford at Wembley.
Lolos, Southwood, Schon and Arfield gone already. Tutu injured (again), McAtee has not had the impact we hoped and Forino is decent on his day but not commanding a place in the first XI week in and out.
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Omens...
Last time our summer signings included Dutch and Finnish representation was 94/5 and we got promoted that season. We had accumulated seven points from our first six games that year as well.
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15 hours ago, Wanderlust said:
What? He’s been backed to the hilt and signed 12 so far plus two more incoming - 14 in total I.e. a team plus spares.
if you’re saying that the problem is the players he inherited- players who have got us close to promotion in recent years by the way - then you have to ask WTF has he been buying and why hasn’t he used that money to get upgrades in the positions you think he should have?
You are either saying his recruitment has been crap or his judgement has been crap. Which is it?
Im saying there is only so much you can do in one transfer window. He has not yet been able to address the defence to any great degree.
Stop trying to put words in my mouth and calm down.
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20 minutes ago, Farnywhite said:
Going to take the next window to sort evatts back line out and get them shipped out it’s our Achilles heal this season
You may be right. We've not seen much of Richard Taylor yet and he may help. Conway is doing well. We also have better holding midfielders. However..our central defenders are reasonable League 1 standard and no better.
..........there's only so much SS can do in one transfer window.
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6 minutes ago, gonzo said:
That bit was the most frustrating.
Two 6ft+ lads bowling about upfront yet we were still trying to cut inside with no overlapping from the full backs.
As good as easy ACD is he's so easy to stop. You know he's turning inside every single time and they just overload him, so simple.
I hope the draw at least gives you some leeway in fending off the benighted orange locals. Another year slips by without nailing the Bloomfield jinx though. Not sure we'll have many better chances than yesterday. Let's hope we keep up our own long unbeaten home run against them later in the season.
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Football is full of examples of managers who didn't experience immediate success when arriving at a club but built a new team that hit a groove and led to real success. Two examples from my earlier days of watching the game: Ferguson at the filth and Howard Kendall at Everton. As I have said before neither Big Sam or Bruce Rioch had a stellar first few months at the club.
We just have to be patient and wait for it to click. I completely agree when people say our tempo wanes and we should occasionally be more direct. But SS is a man who has shown willingness to adapt and be flexible - unlike the previous bloke.
It will be this time next year before I even think about getting on SS's back. I have to let the patience for a new manager/regime/team over-ride my impatience to get out of League One. An impatience every Bolton fan will always feel any time we are at this level.
The message to people on SS's back: Too early. Way too early. Even though I understand that it happens because we all want out of this shite league.
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4 minutes ago, JimmyRiddle said:
Two things, we haven't lost so 4 draws on the bounce will be ok if we keep playing well and turn good performances into wins, big if I know but very possibly!
Secondly, we look a proper team, right pegs in n the right holes, so what I'm seeing is what SS is talking about and looks good, but we need wins. This is a step change from Evatt who I was never even sure if he watched the same game or just the tactics as played out in his mind!
The one issue is our left and right wings are out of kilter, on the left Conway is ripping it up but whoever in front of him isn't, and other way around on the right, ACD is but JDC or Tutu rarely seem be on the same wavelength.
With inverted wingers we need overlapping fullbacks who can deliver, that way we can go inside or out. That along with playing a 10, or two strikers gives us enough variation in the formation for most eventualities, we just need players to start making the key parts of the match count.
And finally, Toal, I thought people were over reacting with his performances last season, yes they were down, but he had injuries but I liked him. However he really has gone off this season too which is a shame. GJ always been up and down so no change there.
We all want a striker (rightly) but that defence is very average.
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If I am not at the match I will watch Final Score or the SKY Soccer Saturday version. Only twice in decades of doing so has a goal of ours come up on the vidiprinter only for it to subsequently prove not to be. The other one was also against fucking Blackpool. The BBC never even bothered correcting it.
We are never going to win there are we. Lucky orange bastards.
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Very, very satisfying. Part of me wishes we had gone on to get six or seven but that is being greedy.
If you are reading this and you are from Wigan: Not so fucking smug now eh?