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Mark Fish.
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1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:
I'm surprised Pompey are interested, to be honest
He's been decent for us but nothing more. At £500K I'd accept, reinvest, move on.
If there's a Pompey fan reading in: Big question mark here about whether JDC is Championship standard.
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I'd say we need
* RWB unless he intends using Jones there in competition with JDC
* LWB
* 2x centre mid. One of them the "midfield bastard" oft mentioned on here who actually just needs to be a midfielder with some height, physique and ability to put his foot in. It may even be that the signing of Forino means he thinks he can play Johnston or even Santos in that defensive midfielder role.
Nixon reckons he has some Bolton news tomorrow.
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5 hours ago, deeane Koontz said:
Refreshing watching Spain they have actual wingers that will go on the outside rather than that modern obsession with inverted/cutting inside every time noncery.
Aye. There's a modern playbook and its good to see someone not abiding by it.
The other one I'm fed up of (and which has been on show loads in this tournament) is the hipster dinky low cutback across the channel between the six yard box and the penalty spot, irrespective of if there's someone attacking that space. Just cross the bloody ball sometimes and let someone get their head on it!
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8 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:
As much as I'd obviously be pleased to see us sign some midfield quality (to replace Maghoma) and a decent forward (to replace JDB), I find it hard to look beyond the influence of the wingbacks, those positions are absolutely key under IE. No disrespect to Williams and JDC but if they are starting more games than not, we won't improve, they don't defend well enough and their attacking is so limited. If we get an upgrade in those positions and adequately replace Maghoma and JDB I will be enthused again.
I agree that area needs strengthening but I'd put it on level pegging with getting some power and physique in to the middle of the park.
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18 minutes ago, tomski said:
Completely agree. I just don’t think he will deliver. Hence I’m writing the season off.
You have to wonder. Best to comment when the full picture has emerged (ie recruits). The best I can say thus far is that the two outfield players brought in have height and (hopefully) physique. I want to see how he recruits to that midfield before I let my confidence wax or wane.
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Not too much by way of BWFC celebrity stuff. Delivered papers to Julian Darby's house when he played for us. Once had a good natter to Alan Waldron. Chris Thompson presented us with our end of season trophies one year for the Bolton Federation. Also had a good natter one night in a boozer to the ref who gave the penalty that McGinlay scored v PNE to get us promoted in 93. I think he was called David Allison.
I can claim to be three steps from a Beatle. My mate's Dad was George Harrison's bank manager.
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52 minutes ago, mickbrown said:
Aye. Argies lost to Saudi and ended up winning the World Cup
I think Italy won it in 82 after drawing all three group games, Mick.
Didn't Portugal do the same in the Euros a few years ago too?
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In any other period of the game that throw in goes backwards and we end up with the back four passing it between themselves. Again.
You'd suspect Switzerland will have way too much for us but stranger things have happened. Sides have won tournaments without playing well until well in to the knock out games. I'd be amazed if that happened with our lot.
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Over the years Switzerland are one of the sides to have a very poor record against us. Without checking I think they've only ever had one or two wins.
... anyway, tomorrow night first. Slovakia beat Belgium and we've been well below par. No formality!
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I don't understand why he doesn't consider Joe Gomez at left back. He's been doing it for Liverpool. Anything has to be better than Trippier constantly cutting back inside because he's right footed!
Tomorrow night I'd be going for
Pickford
Walker Stones Guehi Gomez
Mainoo Rice
Palmer Bellingham Gordon
Kane
..... Foden and Saka coming on as impact subs later in the game if needed.
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9 minutes ago, desperado said:
We are currently the bookies favourites.
Many on here and beyond talk about the “failure” of not beating Italy in 2021 in the Euro final.
Not saying I agree or whether it’s fair, but that’s the reality, anything but winning the Euros will be questioned and criticised,
….because expectations have been raised to that level now.
My expectations may have been close to that type of level 12 months ago but events since have dampened them, and I'm not just talking about the group games in the tournament. We were very average in the four friendlies in 2024 (Brazil, Belgium, Bosnia, Iceland) and Southgate has got his squad cycle horribly wrong. I don't care whether players are getting in the first team at club level or not. If you are leaving Mount/Rashford/Grealish/Sancho at home and picking folk like Bowen/Gallagher there's summat gone wrong.
If they shut me up and end up going far in the tournament I'll be as happy as the next bloke. But if they don't I think Southgate has had a good crack at it now and it might be time to move on.
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I'll be honest I've no idea what to make of this as regards how it'll affect us on the pitch.
What's abundantly clear is that Evatt is being backed to the hilt by the board.
Did we have a smaller management team than the likes of Derby, Pompey? Dunno.
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11 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
We're still in that market though, especially after pushing the boat out on AC last year.
Guess we'll see if one or two go, and for what money, what the spending plans actually are.
Aye, I know. I don't necessarily mean the dosh side of things. More the need for an older head in the middle of the park.
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Surprised by this one. Coleman and Hutch likely to be loaned out now I guess?
Two signings - both in areas I didn't think he'd strengthen. Both with the same profile of mid-20s players, rated at League 1 level, having run their contracts down.
I do think we need at least one midfield signing who doesn't fit that profile.
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I think he's got the squad cycle between tournaments all wrong. We've not filtered the likes of Eze, Gallagher, Palmer, Gordon in to the squad as part of a cohesive system/way of playing. Alexander-Arnold in the holding midfield role says it all really. We have the feel of a league side who made a load of signing on the last day of the deadline and then have a game two days later and play like strangers.
I also think Southgate has got in to the type of manager who drowns his players in tactics and stifles them.
We'll get through now we've got 4 points but I see no grounds for optimism once in the knockout stage. Obviously hope I get proved wrong.
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Every game so far with a decent level of entertainment. Every game with an early goal.
....erm, England up next.
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If Santos is staying then its Jones to be more regular at RWB and potentially means Johnston/Forrester sometimes being in the holding midfield role.
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The jocks never disappoint us in a tournament. Bloody hilarious.
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Spoke to a Wycombe fan at work today. Described Forino as "bloody brilliant", followed by. "He can do better than staying in League 1".
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Tommy's obituary in the Telegraph
Tommy Banks, rugged full-back who became England’s oldest surviving international footballer – obituary
Tommy Banks, who has died aged 94, was a footballer who won the FA Cup with Bolton Wanderers in 1958 and played six times for England, including all four of their games at that summer’s World Cup; a fearsomely tough left-back, he became the oldest surviving former England international following the death of the Luton Town goalkeeper Ron Baynham in March this year.
“He had a lot to say on and off the field but knew football and was a master of his craft,” his England teammate Bobby Charlton recalled. “Fast over the ground and hard as nails – wingers didn’t like playing against him. If you had any weak spot in your make-up he’d exploit it.”
Though he was never once booked, the story is still told in Bolton of how Banks would shout over to Roy Hartle at right-back, “Roy, when you’ve done with your man, chip him over here and I’ll see if he likes gravel rash” – and wingers were supposedly wont to develop “injuries” rather than travel to Burnden Park and become acquainted with the pitchside track.
Thomas Banks was born on November 10 1929 in Farnworth, in Bolton, the youngest of seven children of John Banks and Catherine, née Mannion. He attended Harper Green Secondary School in the town then went down the pit at Mosley Common colliery, while playing for a local side, Partridges FC.
Word of his defensive talents spread beyond Bolton, and Arsenal, Leeds, Wolves, Portsmouth and Burnley all made enquiries, while Matt Busby, who was in the process of creating his first great Manchester United side, turned up at his house with an invitation to watch the first team train. But young Tommy was a committed Wanderers fan – his older brother Ralph, had joined in 1940 – and stood firm, signing, initially as an amateur, in 1945.
He made his first-team debut in May 1948, going on to play 233 league games for Bolton. While his brother Ralph was at left-back against Blackpool in the famous “Matthews final” of 1953, the highpoint of Tommy’s club career came five years later when they beat Manchester United – recently shorn of eight Busby Babes in the Munich disaster – 2-0 in the final, with a brace of goals from Nat Lofthouse.
It was the death of one of the Babes, Roger Byrne, that gave Tommy his England chance. Millions of words have been written, many dreams dreamed, about how England might have fared at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden with Byrne, Tommy Taylor and the mighty Duncan Edwards in their ranks, but Banks acquitted himself well at left-back, and Walter Winterbottom’s side could count themselves as unlucky not to reach the knock-out rounds.
It became an uphill struggle after Tom Finney was kicked out of the tournament by the Soviet Union in the opening game, a 2-2 draw, and England drew their next two group games – including a valiant goalless draw against the eventual winners Brazil – before losing to the Soviets in a play-off.
Banks was brought rapidly back to earth when he arrived back in Bolton, resplendent in his England blazer and flannels. A local woman stopped him, saying: “Hello Tommy, you look very smart. Have you been to Blackpool for your holidays?”
By 1961 Banks – thought to be the first British sportsman to appear in a TV advert, for Gillette razors – was in the autumn of his career. Needing a new challenge, he sought a move to Oldham Athletic. But under the old “retain-and-transfer” system he was at the mercy of his club, who refused to let him go for less than £10,000.
George Eastham had already gone on strike to try to secure a move from Newcastle United, and their struggles would eventually end up with victory in court and a fairer system for players.
But that was several years down the road, and Banks, who had also been a prominent supporter of the campaign to end the maximum wage, was forced to play out his career in non-league football with Altrincham and Bangor City, retiring in 1965. He stayed in his home town, running a newsagent’s for a while and working in the building industry. In 2012 a biography of Banks appeared, Ah’m Telling Thee by Ian Seddon – another former Bolton player – while pupils at his old school, Harper Green, staged a musical based on his life.
Tommy Banks married, in 1952, Margaret Charles; they had two sons. She died in 1977, and in 1981 he married Marguerite Morris, known as Rita.His international teammate, the goalkeeper Colin McDonald, who played behind him in Sweden in 1958, takes over the mantle of England’s oldest surviving international footballer.
Tommy Banks, born November 10 1929, died June 13 2024
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One of our best and one of our own. RIP Tommy Banks.
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France if I had to pick someone.
This tournament (unlike the World Cup) has a history of throwing up unexpected winners: Denmark in the year they didn't even qualify for the tournament by rights and Greece in 2004.
Don't fancy our lot. I think Southgate has got it all wrong with the squad cycle and we're not integrated/cohesive enough. Dearly hope I am proved wrong.
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8 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:
Same as Ashworth and some would prefer him to Williams and Ogbeta. Partly depends what style of player the respective managers want at full back I suppose.
Thing is after a couple of months of pre-season training in pie-land he'll be inculcated with the "we hate Bolton" chip on the shoulder mentality. Fuelled by not getting many games with us. He'll play out of his skin for two games next season inbetween defeats at Burton and Shrewsbury etc.
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