The Final

[BeeversLeftPeg]

Just now, Zico said:

I'm sure with all the games live on Sky they will want to start with a big showcase game so no doubt it will be them against us or Brum 

What a way for Sky to start this new era of coverage, an interview with Ryan Reynolds

100% Birmingham v Wrexham first game of the season. 'Fallen giant' up against the 'fairy tale underdogs'. And we'll be on fucking Disney too.

[Big E]

27 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Any spare clients refs for Blackpool or Wrexham lads?

You just need to buy season tickets ya door hinge 

[bolty58]

13 hours ago, paulhanley said:

He's been a good un but I don't think this is a bad thing. None of the other midfielders are out of contract. This leaves the slot in the squad for the midfield bastard we are crying out for. Someone with physicality and leadership. 

Absolutely spot on. A midfield destroyer is exactly what we need. That soft centre has cost us too many times.

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, Rizlar said:

Are we becoming the manure of the EFL ?

I hope we are becoming the northern Millwall. Not many greater motivations than feeling like the world is against you. More please.

[Johnnyrotten]

3 hours ago, gonzo said:

At least v Watford we actually had some chances. Eidur missed 2-3 before we finally gave up the fight.

 

Agreed, Watford was terrible but from memory we were the better team 1st half without being great, they scored unexpectedly/luckily just before H-T. It was 1-0 till injury time so we were always in with a chance.  We had most of the play and created some half chances 2nd half. It was a 4 out of 10, Saturday about 2.5. 

Not that it matters 😃

[jeep]

2 hours ago, radcliffe white said:

Not doing the AST next time it will be all over the place 

#DayTripper.....

[Johnnyrotten]

2 hours ago, L/H White said:

we really need to the fixture list to be kind to us 

if we have an opening month that contains, wigan, blackpool, stockport & wrexham, that's got shit show wrote allover it 

I think we need a bit of that TBH, along with 1 or 2 realistic top 2 contenders (eg the 3 relegated teams & Posh). We need to know where we're at  not like this season playing 3 poor teams, 9 scored 1 conceded, we were virtually up! And no need to sign anyone late August, we're flying. I want IE to show he can win some of the bigger games (when they have 11 men) and not leave it till February for reality to hit.

[radcliffe white]

4 minutes ago, jeep said:

#DayTripper.....

Still end up more than your mob 

[batton carrier]

Saturday has been hard to take . We just didn't turn up . But For me stoke will always be the lowest point.What a chance we had to make the fa cup final. As a lad growing up listening to my uncle telling me tales of 53 and 58 it was my dream to see us in an fa cup final and that performance was unforgivable and hurt like hell .

Saturday is 2nd and equally unforgivable. At least with the Watford defeat we turned up . I think Saturday will live long in the memory and evatt and almost the whole team are now out of credit with the fans. 

I hope we can turn it around 

 

[jeep]

1 hour ago, radcliffe white said:

Still end up more than your mob 

😁

I think the LL Leg-End did more than you....

Won't be doing as many next season, they don't deserve us...

[Lostock Whites]

Stoke was my first Wembley experience with the Wanderers. Both as a curse and as a blessing, it gave me thick battle hardened skin that should hopefully never see something as bad.

It was a shock, out of nowhere, a humiliation nobody expected. Stoke also completely outnumbered us and outsung us. Our own fans fighting each other right in front of me and then again outside.

Then had to put up with Stoke fans taunting us all along the motorway back north.

Saturday was bad, very bad, but the Stoke experience was the lowest of the low. It made me deal with Saturdays shit show better, although I'm still massively disappointed.

[Ani]

30 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

Stoke was my first Wembley experience with the Wanderers. Both as a curse and as a blessing, it gave me thick battle hardened skin that should hopefully never see something as bad.

It was a shock, out of nowhere, a humiliation nobody expected. Stoke also completely outnumbered us and outsung us. Our own fans fighting each other right in front of me and then again outside.

Then had to put up with Stoke fans taunting us all along the motorway back north.

Saturday was bad, very bad, but the Stoke experience was the lowest of the low. It made me deal with Saturdays shit show better, although I'm still massively disappointed.

Tranmere was worse. 

[Steejay]

And I can’t get that song out of my head and it’s pissing me off now.

[FrancisFogarty]

The one I can’t get out of my head is 

Der der der der

fucking useless.

[Dr Faustus]

thats just reminded me; as we reached Piccadilly somebody was blaring out I'm Still Standing on the piano

 

i felt good for moment, made me realise will be back one day 

[Johnnyrotten]

1 hour ago, Lostock Whites said:

Stoke was my first Wembley experience with the Wanderers. Both as a curse and as a blessing, it gave me thick battle hardened skin that should hopefully never see something as bad.

It was a shock, out of nowhere, a humiliation nobody expected. Stoke also completely outnumbered us and outsung us. Our own fans fighting each other right in front of me and then again outside.

Then had to put up with Stoke fans taunting us all along the motorway back north.

Saturday was bad, very bad, but the Stoke experience was the lowest of the low. It made me deal with Saturdays shit show better, although I'm still massively disappointed.

Agree with all that. Stoke as an experience was far worse than Oxford.  There were plenty elements of Saturday I enjoyed (upto 4.30ish) whereas Stoke was shit from the first M6 services stop to getting home. It felt like the club & fans had been beaten up, and I didn't want us to get to a cup semi again for years.

Its ironic that the 2 worst days (for me) in 50 years came at a time we were absolutely flying, loving the football/the club/the manager/ general positivity. Twice its been taken away in a heartbeat, in a game that in hindsight we'd rather not have qualified for.

When we add in Watford,  Tranmere and Villa, getting to Wembley really can be a crossroads for our club, it can be the catalyst for either triumph or disaster.

[Not in Crawley]

Villa wasn't as bad for me because as underdogs we did fight the good fight and were unlucky.

Stoke was just really strange (going with a Crawley fan didn't help my mood) but it's a cup and then we had that fmgreat game against Arsenal.

This and Watford for me really hurt.

Anyway - just at the Baker Street weatherspoons on my way home - not seen one BWFC on tour sticker in the toilets- poor form chaps.

[radcliffe white]

Personally this has hit me more than any others, I was very confident about this one and clear favourites 

[Duck Egg]

After blowing several opportunities to get top 2, I was just hoping we'd do ourselves justice and smash the play offs. The struggle to get past a woefully out of form Barnsley should have been another warning sign but at least we were through. We surely can't fail now. Oh hang on,we're Bolton Wanderers, of course we can!

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Cheers up all!

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/keep-up-the-progression-have-to-come-back-stronger-need-more-goals-and-a-rude-awakening-heres-where-we-think-every-league-one-side-will-finish-next-season-including-northampton-town-burton-albion-reading-and-lincoln-city-4635221

 

[gonzo]

49 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Villa wasn't as bad for me because as underdogs we did fight the good fight and were unlucky.

Stoke was just really strange (going with a Crawley fan didn't help my mood) but it's a cup and then we had that fmgreat game against Arsenal.

This and Watford for me really hurt.

Anyway - just at the Baker Street weatherspoons on my way home - not seen one BWFC on tour sticker in the toilets- poor form chaps.

I don't remember being in there after the game but apparently was

[desperado]

2 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

When we add in Watford,  Tranmere and Villa, getting to Wembley really can be a crossroads for our club, it can be the catalyst for either triumph or disaster.

Good point.

Take away Stoke.

We (eventually within 12-18 months approx) bounced back well from Tranmere, Watford, Villa.

As the days go by I’m starting to be a bit more positive that our trajectory is moving in the right direction and that this setback can indeed be a catalyst

 

[Not in Crawley]

13 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I don't remember being in there after the game but apparently was

How on earth did folk jump on someone's car at the junction at the globe? It's a massive road - please don't tell me we were being dicks covering that crossing?

[Johnnyrotten]

1 hour ago, Not in Crawley said:

Villa wasn't as bad for me because as underdogs we did fight the good fight and were unlucky.

Stoke was just really strange (going with a Crawley fan didn't help my mood) but it's a cup and then we had that fmgreat game against Arsenal.

This and Watford for me really hurt.

Anyway - just at the Baker Street weatherspoons on my way home - not seen one BWFC on tour sticker in the toilets- poor form chaps.

Yes of all the Wembley disappointments, Villa was the least bad because we turned up realistically expecting to lose (I remember thinking Carbone would rip us apart, but he hardly had a kick); it was just the manner of the defeat with The Miss and then losing on pens that provided so many regrets that occasionally surface still.  But as you say it was far from a car crash of a performance unlike the others.

Edited May 21, 2024 by Johnnyrotten

[Not in Crawley]

1 minute ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Yes of all the Wembley disappointments, Villa was the least bad because we turned up realistically expecting to lose (I remember thinking Carbone would rip us apart, but he hardly had a kick); it was just the manor of the defeat with The Miss and then losing on pens that provided so many regrets that occasionally surface still.  But as you say it was far from a car crash of a performance unlike the others.

Me and Kent were sat in the lower stand - almost level with Holdsworth - we both were almost celebrating - couldn't miss and then.....ah.