BarnsleyFan

For a time we did play decent football, and that coincided with the time we had decent footballers. There was a future Premier League player and several upper/middle Championship players in that League One team of 2016. It got a run of wins under its belt just before Johnson left, and Heckingbottom did really well in making sure that standards did not slip. So, yeah, it's fair to say that when he had good players, the team played good football (including after promotion) and when he didn't, it didn't. I understand the whining and the frustration from him, because there were - by our standards - some bloody good players who were sold. As a fan, though, I didn't want to hear it alllllllllllllll the timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. When he left for Leeds, I didn't know how good a manager he was, precisely because of my third paragraph. His win-percentages there and at Hibs suggest that he - like my club - never recovered from that fire-sale. It may all be irrelevant to Bolton fans now, anyway, if he goes to them horrible rape-threatening, elbowing thundercunts down the road. (Leeds, followed by that lot! Talk about burning your fucking bridges!) If that's the case, I'll disappear until you're linked with someone else we've had, and then I'll give you my thoughts for better or for worse. Good luck!

Nah, I stand by it, to be fair. My opinion of his demeanour and his style of football wouldn't change even if he ended up being the next one in at Real Madrid. He played how he played and he was how he was in the period I was watching his team. He may have decided to be more upbeat in public, he may have considered playing in a more attractive way. Good for him if he has. It'll mean he has a better future, and others can then judge him on that.

Heckingbottom is a dour sort: you don't want him. When it's going well, he's great. He reverts to 451 hoofball and blaming everything/everyone else for his failings when results start to slide, though. He is not as big a twat as your last bloke - The King Of Twats - but you'd tire of his poor-me schtick fairly quickly. Yes, I understand that his budget at Barnsley was not wonderful. Got it. I even got it before his 100th whine about the same thing. But leaders are supposed to lead. If he speaks to his players in the same negative way he speaks to the fans, we were always doomed. He is a miserable sod who plays football to make your eyes bleed. For a 'new' Bolton with a blank slate to build a squad from scratch, he would not set my pulse racing. Yep, there were good days. But he has never shown the ability to manage. He kept the pot boiling after Lee Johnson left, and I do accept that he was given a very lousy hand when half the squad left in January of 2017. That is when he needed to manage, and not just piggyback the work which had gone on before. He couldn't do it. Leeds or Hibs I don't know a lot about. But I was sick of his complaining and was glad when he left us.