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Everything posted by paulhanley
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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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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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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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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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Truly pathetic and shameful from BWFC. Letting the fans and the town down.
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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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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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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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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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The US hasn't come up with a decent election candidate/President for a decade or more. I didn't agree with anything like all of Obama's policies but he was presidential and carried the role with dignity Regardless of your politics Reagan/Bush x2/B Clinton/Obama were all cut from a different cloth to the present offerings. Yes, even Dubya! I'd rather have had the impeached Richard Nixon then this present generation! It's a poor do when a nation of 345 million people can't muster two decent candidates to choose from.
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I was just thinking that. I guess the fact they are playing and we aren't is a bonus. Usually that's the type of thing that works against us in derby games.
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Always crap to lose and especially to a team in a lower division but long term this is a good thing. Those Luton games in the cup last season hurt us and generally speaking the less games the better given our injury situation. Hoping the pie-shaggers win at Carlisle as that's an extra game for them before our encounter with them. Glad to see Stockport in extra time given they also have an upcoming midweek game.
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Evatt saying the club is conducting a big review, which is the correct course of action. A couple of observations. We have a lot of players who turn out for smaller and/or far distant international sides. Northern Ireland seem to have a pretty carefree attitude to players in their care and then you've got CMG, Forino, Jones et al playing for sides on far distant shores. None of that stuff helps with fatigue injuries. The other thing is we do have at least something of a track record of signing players with a proven injury record - Forino and Tutu and the classic examples.