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17 minutes ago, Casino said:
You really are obsessed with 'derbies'
Move on
I think you will find most football fans are.
Get off your high horse.
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1 minute ago, Not in Crawley said:
No it bloody well doesnt and dont try and justify this as some some sort of free speech rubbish.
This is about exclusion, at an us not them and doesn't in anyway represent the best this country can be.
Its small minded and stupid.
It does represent an underclass that feels 'it' isnt being heard and as ive said a lot of that is about people being left behind and then their ire being weaponised by Populists against the easiest targets. Its shameful.
Bollocks.
People have brains and eyes of their own. It suits your dismal narrative to say they are being led astray by "populists" who are "far right" and "racists" What they actually are is every day people who are not included in "inclusion", not "diverse" enough for diversity and consistently treated as below the salt by this inept Islington bubble Guardianista government we have.
You are going to find that this present chain of events is not a passing fad and you will find it very, very challenging.
PS: How many homes does the socialist Angela Rayner have now? Two tier Kier and his acolytes in every single sense.
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I don't understand how anybody could have a problem with people flying the flag of the nation in which they were born. Pride in your home country is something that is so normal abroad that it goes without comment. The three countries in which I have travelled most are the USA, Turkey and France. In each of those countries you are never a few steps away from seeing the national flag on show somewhere.
This is a campaign against those who want to silence people with whom they disagree/don't share a world view. Same old tactic: Call them racist/label them far-right and thus avoid having to have a debate with them, whether that be on border/immigration policy or anything else. JD Vance is right.
People are absolutely sick and tired of wokery and a Labour party so immersed in it that it hasn't just forgotten its working class roots but it actively reviles them.
If seeing Union flags and the St George's cross everywhere irritates the wokes - then it is doing its job. We do not share your values, we do not share your world views and that is never going to change. We are not an homogenised woke society, we are a plurality with a culture of free speech. If you don't like hearing views alternative to your own you have one hell of a lot of growing up to do.
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Each time this fixture crops up I hope this will be the time we finally win there. It never happens. The only consolation is they have exactly the same issue at Bolton over pretty much the same extended period of time.
Since last we won at Bloomfield Road in 1977 we have won three times at United, seven times at Ewood, four times at Turf Moor, five times at Deepdale, four times at City, twice at Bury and nine times at Wigan - our first win there being six years after our last at Bloomfield.
It's time. And we need it after two home draws. But I have been around the block so many times with Bolton Wanderers that I know better than to devote any energy on hope as regards this fixture.
For those talking up Blackpool's poor start - this is the one game for which they will gather themselves and circle the wagons. We need to match that mentality. Will we?
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Interesting stuff in terms of the debate on the make up of our midfield.
I must admit I liked the sound of Erhahon and Simons protecting our back four but equally agree that in circumstances like yesterday it can mean we don't have enough players up the field. Indeed there's a case for arguing that we shouldn't have started yesterday's game with the two of them in place.
There is a case for starting them both in tough away games but even then there needs to be a realisation that we need to score to win games !!
What nobody has said yet is that the reason SS selected the team this way on Tuesday and today may be that he, like many of us, doesn't quite trust that back four.
The long and short of it is (as stated before) we've signed 12 players and we are feeling our way in to the season.
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Nixon this morning:
"Bolton won't give up on Kenny""Blackburn keen on Afolayan"
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9 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:
It's seems a common theme among clubs in this league and the one below
It's what happens when we spend too long at this level.
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They really have got a chip on their shoulders about us.
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It is all a bit depressing but I go back to this being what happens when you have such a huge turnover of players in a short space of time. And it was necessary.
We are going to have to be patient. But as a fan of Bolton Wanderers stranded in the mud of League One I am not feeling patient.
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2 minutes ago, bwfc2003 said:
still only a temporary stand though with shit facilities
As opposed to the permanent stand with shit facilities of the old Bloomfield Road. I spot a trend....
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21 hours ago, Duck Egg said:
I noticed they had less than 10000 of their own fans there on Saturday. For a big game that's poor support.
You would think they would sell more to away fans under such circumstances .....
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1 hour ago, gonzo said:
Aye I'd be steering clear of that North Stand.
Safe as houses in the south.
They are confident fuckers in this modern day of tightly controlled ticket sales and low chances of decent numbers rocking up in the home end. They weren't so confident in the 70s and 80s and had to live with the fact there'd be BWFC all over the ground.
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This is one of those horrible situations where the opposition have lost three out of their first three and their next match is against .... Bolton. The cynical football fan in me fears the worst and you'd have to suspect Reading will prove much better than the start they've had. Making light work of grabbing three points on Wednesday night would be very encouraging.
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42 minutes ago, ianofcleveleys said:
Fair summary, I remember us kicking around in May how much room SS would have to make meaningful change to the squad and get in more than maybe half a dozen or so fresh faces, he has in fact changed a lot more and at some pace.
Still some fairly obvious areas where we have issues but, still a fortnight short of the end of one window, a lot certainly has been done. Over the next month or two we might not look like we're going to romp into the autos but, hopefully, perhaps with another window's tinkering in Jan and 20+ games to go, we can make a sustained run for it from just off the pace
I think we'd need to be in the top seven or eight come Christmas and with the top two not having become distant frontrunners.
Anyway - hell of a lot of water to go under the bridge between now and then and in between times lets hope the good moments include seeing off the likes of Blackpool and Wigan.
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Mixed feelings as to where we stand.
When the fixtures came out in June I imagine we all looked at those first three and thought we'd been dealt a tough start. As such a return of four points is decent.
There are obvious concerns and most of them have been expressed on this thread. When you sign 12 players in one window and change a style of play that the previous manager had hardwired in to the club, its going to take time. There has rightly been a lot to excite us about the change in emphasis with wingers, pace and some added physique. If you want a positive alternative verb to "excite" that is even more of a key ingredient to success in football it is settle or settled. We're not that just yet.
I do think there's going to be more activity before deadline day. CMG, Schon, Nlundulu and maybe one or two who only have a year left on their contract (Forrester, Johnston) are among those who may leave. I'd love us to sign a really commanding defender to further stabilise that backline but that might be greedy given a dozen signings already and the need for a new striker as a priority.
I think we are just going to need to be patient with SS. He is changing things at pace and progress may not always happen in a linear/comfortable way. I hate the word "project" being applied to football - but we are still in the early days of the SS/Harkin project. Best to remember that as a balance to our impatience to get the hell out of League One.
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6 hours ago, paulhanley said:
Well after Wednesday night we are safe to say we are now due a sending off for the opposition!
Should have had a bloody tenner on this shouldn't I !!
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If we'd been offered 1-1 before kick off most of us would have settled for it. The manner of it though means more question marks than encouragment.
Without being dreadful we don't seem to have the class and comfort in defence to churn out those clean sheets. Meanwhile at the other end just not clinical enough
There are injured players to come back and we've signed 12 - which will take time to gel. Maybe now is not the time to judge and we have two winnable home games coming up.
Most optimistic thing to say is "work in progress"
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3 minutes ago, victor meldrew said:
In jan23 we won3-0, the ref sent their player off, first foul , gave us a penalty and was awarded mom on here.
Well after Wednesday night we are safe to say we are now due a sending off for the opposition!
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Third game of the season away twice in my memory at Barnsley Our Prem season in 97/8 after we had been promoted with them ... lost 2-1, Beardsley scored his first goal for us. Then in 81/2 we lost 3-0 (third of four straight defeats to start that campaign) and Peter Reid sustained a serious injury
...long overdue third game of the season victory at Oakwell it is then.
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21 minutes ago, wakey said:
I'm still traumatised by Stan Anderson.
Sacking the boss and appointing the assistant was the lazy way out for the Bolton board in 1980. They did it with Armfield/Greaves in 74 and it worked. They did it with Charlie Wright after John McGovern in 85, then with Rioch/Todd in 95 and Sam/Little Sam in 2007.
It has not happened since and a little bit out of vogue generally nowadays I think. For us I guess you can say it worked twice in 74 and 95 but not the other times. Worked at Liverpool for years up to Souness.
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Were alright with FV in charge. Even if they get fed up and sell us I think it will be done with integrity and into the right hands. Absolutely nothing they have done over the last six years suggests otherwise.
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Stubbs was a good un for us. He made a right berk of himself with that MOTD interview. I suspect the middle aged Alan Stubbs of the present day would look back on the incident and agree.
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12 minutes ago, Zico said:
That goal v Reading but a bad ROI on £400k
He was not a massive success but he did get a few more goals. One soon after promotion at home to Blackburn sticks in the mind. We beat them 2-1 in the pissing rain at Burnden. They were champions, we were newly promoted. Sent the dingles back home sulking.
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Neither side have a midweek game before this after the League Cup results. Upside of being knocked out last neet.
Maybe this is finally the time we record a win there for the first time since December 77.
I say that every time we go there though.
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In football forum terms you give the impression of having something of a god complex.
We all have our own ways of supporting our football clubs, we all have different histories with them. None of them are wrong.