Right so that shit show is out the way....17:00 the big task starts......lets get everyone in. Mrs E isn't playing ball due to being in the office Wednesday and Father in law is using the "i live in spain card" but i've recruit a couple i think to replace them. 

 

8 hours ago, gonzo said:

Does not get any better.

 

We love you Bolton.

 

 

Great for the young uns, my lad 20 this year and see little glory, he’s loving it right now, let’s hope we finish the job for these younger fans. 

Who would have thought a piece of card could make so much noise 😆 blew my little boys mind. Woke up to one being clapped around the house. 

Emotional rollercoaster. The last 5 mins and stoppage time were like slow motion.

7 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Great for the young uns, my lad 20 this year and see little glory, he’s loving it right now, let’s hope we finish the job for these younger fans. 

My youngest is 6, it was his first night game and he was bouncing. He's got his first season ticket next year. All I heard last night was 'Cosgrove is a knobhead'. 😆

My eldest his had a season ticket for a few years, he is autistic but loves coming to the match. He cried when Collins equalised, just sheer emotion, that's the experience you only got following a team.

Can't wait to take them both next weekend, first trip to Wembley for them, I just hope we get over the line and they get to experience what we did last April.

2 minutes ago, BeeversLeftPeg said:

My youngest is 6, it was his first night game and he was bouncing. He's got his first season ticket next year. All I heard last night was 'Cosgrove is a knobhead'. 😆

My eldest his had a season ticket for a few years, he is autistic but loves coming to the match. He cried when Collins equalised, just sheer emotion, that's the experience you only got following a team.

Can't wait to take them both next weekend, first trip to Wembley for them, I just hope we get over the line and they get to experience what we did last April.

@Zico, we need a level above ‘like’

45 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Nice to hear IE saying it’s a learning curve too, got to say very worried how quickly we crumble after conceding Peterborough & Barnsley twice now

 

We didn't crumble after conceding the first last night, but I agree that the 10-15 minutes period after they drew level was very shaky. But the changes steadied the ship to get us over the line. I think Peterboro was just a reflection of the Derby score, but we have seen it in other games. Santos head goes if he makes a mistake and that impacts the whole defence,  saw it for the first and then after his gift for the 2nd.

 

Just now, CambridgeBWFC said:

We didn't crumble after conceding the first last night, but I agree that the 10-15 minutes period after they drew level was very shaky. But the changes steadied the ship to get us over the line. I think Peterboro was just a reflection of the Derby score, but we have seen it in other games. Santos head goes if he makes a mistake and that impacts the whole defence,  saw it for the first and then after his gift for the 2nd.

 

We've got 10 days to get him fully fit and hopefully he'll do his usual of coming back with a stormer like Pompey at home.

Just now, BeeversLeftPeg said:

We've got 10 days to get him fully fit and hopefully he'll do his usual of coming back with a stormer like Pompey at home.

I dont think his head going after making a mistake is due to fitness, we have seen it before. However hopefully a fully fit, raring to go Santos will be less prone to mistakes 

Dempsey and Williams really helped see that game out. 2 big tackles in the middle from Dempsey and a couple of duels won against their winger who he had for pace luckily.

Thought Williams was bloody brilliant last night.

That grass is basically astro turf btw.

3 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Thought Williams was bloody brilliant last night.

That grass is basically astro turf btw.

Thought that very plasticky up close 

Cosgrove gave Santos trouble like no one else I’ve seen tbh. He caused aggro all night long 

for all his good points last night and  how reacts shows you exactly why Rico is still with us and at this level. That first one of the 2nd half should’ve been straight in to the top tier. No fucking about. Manage the game. 
 

anyway post mortems are bad enough when we get beat. Let’s not dwell on them when we’ve just got through to Wembley. Enjoy the next week or so because many have been baying for us to fall and I fucking love watching them squirm that we haven’t. Yet. 

God, where do I start? 

To put it relatively short, I missed the game as I was away in Portugal, was proudly representing the Whites with my shirt all day travelling.

My plane was scheduled to leave Lisbon at 935 last night and I managed to watch the majority of the game on my phone.

As we boarded the plane, we conceded those 2 goals. Rarely said to be a lucky thing, the plane was slightly delayed at takeoff and managed to watch well into added time.

The plane started accelerating and the clock hit roughly 94:00 of 5 minutes added time, and I was furious, thinking I'd have to wait possibly 3 more hours to find out whether we cocked it up or not.

The passenger next to thought I was possibly a mad man but I think he understood what was going on.

Thankfully (against airplane mode policy), I somehow caught signal just 1 minute after takeoff, enough of a signal to get the pitch invading photo from my dad(blurred on WhatsApp).

When we got to Manchester, I could then see the full scenes on social media and what a sight it was to see.

Anyway, just thought I'd share my personal experience, I knew once the the play off dates where announced that something dramatic would happen following us from the Airport!

Let's get it done now at Wembley.

COYWM!

Edited May 8, 20242 yr by Lostock Whites

The reebok was truly rocking! Whoever's idea it was to introduce the cardboard clappers needs a pay rise. Absolutely brilliant noise last night. Up the whites! Wembley here we come! 

It's a shame we're restricted on the number of posts we can like per day 😁

2 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Yes. I was surprised 

He played well tbf but Toal training with him ... can you imagine that ?

Plus, however well he played he was sub for Plymouth ar Wembley. They binned him off after promotion. He was sub for Barnsley last week. There are reasons for this.

2 goals and an assist last night on top of getting them back into the tie at their place after he came on when they looked like they'd given up. This after scoring 3 in 32 all season and being dropped for the the majority of the last 10 games. Bizarre.

Based on how he plays against us he'd be a great signing but his usual level suggests he's a bang average league 2 lump. 

 

27 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

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Thankfully (against airplane mode policy), I somehow caught signal just 1 minute after takeoff, enough of a signal to get the pitch invading photo from my dad(blurred on WhatsApp).

 

COYWM!

I got 5G 30 mins out from landing in Munich a few weeks ago, lucky to get anything near the TS!

I have another SIM now that does work at the TS and is just used when I'm at home matches.😁 

Cosgrove has scored 50% of his season's goals against us in the playoffs. 

If we win next weekend, no thanks.

Charles and Collins are forming a good partenership up front. Cosgrove is a physical threat, no more.

He’s a shit Gary Madine. He’s just one of those annoying players that gets himself really ramped up to play against us and make himself look like prime Drogba.

Same category as McClean. You could probably make an 11 out of them actually. Bang average (not in the Maghoma actually really good sense) but turn into world beaters against us - half of them would have Wigan connections I imagine.

Just now, waffer cup 07 said:

Charles and Collins are forming a good partenership up front. Cosgrove is a physical threat, no more.

That ball at 1-1 that Charles played from the left touchline and put Collins in behind!

Forget the poor second touch from Collins (didn’t have him down for that, especially after just scoring) - the run, the pass and the understanding between the 2 to pull that off is very very encouraging.

1 hour ago, BeeversLeftPeg said:

My youngest is 6, it was his first night game and he was bouncing. He's got his first season ticket next year. All I heard last night was 'Cosgrove is a knobhead'. 😆

My eldest his had a season ticket for a few years, he is autistic but loves coming to the match. He cried when Collins equalised, just sheer emotion, that's the experience you only got following a team.

Can't wait to take them both next weekend, first trip to Wembley for them, I just hope we get over the line and they get to experience what we did last April.

If you do not 'win the day' for likes there is something wrong !

Hope they have a brilliant day.

11 hours ago, royal white said:

Just waiting for an announcement from Craig North on his Facebook page 

Whatever people say about him, he’s always first with the news.

You could be if you kept ringing the ticket office

EDL Craig is a simpleton

3 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

What a photograph

 

It's a good photo but it raises the question in my mind of whether or not somebody else should be captain as he seems to lose the plot a bit when we concede or he personally makes a cock up. When that happens the captain should be the man with the coolest head on the pitch keeping everyone else calm and focused, but you can see Rico's reaction in his face and body language and I'm not convinced he inspires everyone else as a captain should. Maybe he'd recover from setbacks quicker if he wasn't the captain?

I have no doubt he's good at marshalling the back 3 and maybe Evatt feels he needs the captaincy to give him confidence, but there is a small nagging doubt in my mind about that. But, if not him, who else? George would be my choice but is he ready? And if we make it to the Championship, to what extent will we have a different team?

Tis a conundrum.

Edited May 8, 20242 yr by Wanderlust