11 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Don’t have to watch them, the stats tell the story.

deary me 

hang your cones up

Mendes Gomes was quality at Morecambe fwiw

Whether he'll be the same player when / if he returns from injury is a different matter

A very close poll in the end.

1 hour ago, Matt Lofthouse said:

A very close poll in the end.

That was well in favour of 'out' in days after the debacle at Wembley. IMO a sign that as emotions have cooled people are being more pragmatic. 

8 hours ago, Ani said:

That was well in favour of 'out' in days after the debacle at Wembley. IMO a sign that as emotions have cooled people are being more pragmatic. 

Well I wish Evatt or Sharon would be pragmatic and confirm what’s happening, the silence is deafening. Over two weeks now since Evatt said he was considering his future and we’ve heard nowt. I know he’s under contract but in todays game that means very little and I think it’s time he came out and confirmed he’s giving it another go to end any doubts.

Did he say he was considering his future two weeks ago?

16 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Well I wish Evatt or Sharon would be pragmatic and confirm what’s happening.

He's off again.

Think he's either working hard but quietly with the board behind the scenes and sorting out his squad for next season or gone on holiday away from all the noise reflecting on his position. Probably the first option. Don't think successful business people like Sharon and the financial backers are taking two weeks off. They will be in full advance planning mode without trying to alert rival teams on their targets.

29 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Did he say he was considering his future two weeks ago?

Not quite, although the headline suggested it. He actually said:

“I will be thinking about everything,” said the manager, when asked what he now had to consider in the coming weeks. “I am a really hard-working, straight-talking guy, and the first person I look at is myself, always. Football is a game of blame, it is a blame culture, and it can be about self-preservation and finger pointing.

“But you can only get better by looking at yourself in the mirror and everyone needs to do that.

“I need to do that. Every player in the dressing room needs to do it. Then we will think about what is next.”

“The summer will be the summer and I will have time to think about what is next. Initially, my thoughts will be on how and why, and just to apologise to everyone.

“We all let the fans down, everyone – myself, players, staff – we all have to own it."

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/24330339.bolton-wanderers-boss-future-oxford-united-defeat/

Edited June 3, 20242 yr by Cheese

22 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Mendes Gomes was quality at Morecambe fwiw

Whether he'll be the same player when / if he returns from injury is a different matter

You’d expect he could replicate or even improve his performance stats playing with better players and with more possession. The question is can he get back to fitness after his injury.. let’s hope so. 

#believe 

Though we've slipped joint second favourite with Huddersfield on 8/1 to joint 3rd with Rotherham on 9/1 for the title 

But still second favourites from promotion and top six

 

To be fair, I think it's fair enough to read "the summer will be the summer and I will have time to think about what's next" as him considering his future when it's in the context of him previously saying similar a few months before in a pre-match press conference

I think it's pretty clear by now that if he was considering his future, the fact he still here indicates he's decided to stay

44 minutes ago, Zico said:

#believe 

Though we've slipped joint second favourite with Huddersfield on 8/1 to joint 3rd with Rotherham on 9/1 for the title 

But still second favourites from promotion and top six

 

The worry is only 25% of teams achieve promotion the year after losing the play of final. 

23 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The worry is only 25% of teams achieve promotion the year after losing the play of final. 

Wouldn't say what's happened to other teams in the past is the main worry.

More concerned about Evatt's inability to inspire the team in big / pressure games (or at half time in pretty much every game), his inability to positively impact the flow in-game, his rigidity to the current system with advanced wingbacks and 2 advanced midfielders that leave us wide open to counter attack, his seeming inability to learn from mistakes (e.g. picking up the edge of the box when defending corners), the fact that we've only achieved so far league positions in line roughly with our budget - and that might well not be enough next season ... there's more, but I'm boring myself now.

He's staying, so I really hope he's doing as he says with the self-analysis. When it's good, it's really good. Need to turn those brief flashes / odd games into something much more consistent this season if we want to go up. 

And he's pretty much run out of 'credit in the bank' with at least half the fan base, so we have to be on it from the off or things could get ugly.

 

31 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The worry is only 25% of teams achieve promotion the year after losing the play of final. 

same bet i've had the last 2 years

I'm confident we'll finish top 6 in which case the bet will be covered near enough and anything else is a bonus

I know we finished with a whimper but we've not become really shit beacuse of it

plenty there to go for promotion again

Sad how we've all forgot how good we played at Barnsley and the atmosphere in the home game.

Best limbs since forest and one of the best nights that ground has seen.

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

Did he say he was considering his future two weeks ago?

Listen to his interview.

13 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Sad how we've all forgot how good we played at Barnsley and the atmosphere in the home game.

Best limbs since forest and one of the best nights that ground has seen.

results business mate, it led to a big fat fuck all 

36 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Sad how we've all forgot how good we played at Barnsley and the atmosphere in the home game.

Best limbs since forest and one of the best nights that ground has seen.

Yep, not felt a togetherness like that for so long, an excitement or a feel good factor.

A couple of weeks later and there's people reacting to posts about random players birthdays from the 80s era with comments like "wish we had that kind of passion now 😔". Like falling over the seats and invading the pitch just days before never happened.

37 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

Yep, not felt a togetherness like that for so long, an excitement or a feel good factor.

A couple of weeks later and there's people reacting to posts about random players birthdays from the 80s era with comments like "wish we had that kind of passion now 😔". Like falling over the seats and invading the pitch just days before never happened.

I think to be fair it was relief more than celebration after so nearly cocking it up. I agree the atmosphere was electric but it’s strange when you think that we actually lost the game? Who really cared though? 😁

The Barnsley games summed our season up…

1st leg so comfortable for long periods but give a cheap goal and all of a sudden it’s frantic if Baxter hadn’t made that save different story

2nd leg go 5-2 up no way should they get back into it and if they scored a 4th we wouldn’t of survived extra time

1 hour ago, L/H White said:

results business mate, it led to a big fat fuck all 

Well I know that ya wally I'm saying it's shit. But thats football.

Folk forget the Sir Les limbs too. That 30 seconds was absolute bedlam.

1 hour ago, L/H White said:

results business mate, it led to a big fat fuck all 

99% of our seasons lead to fuck all. Anyone who can't handle or doesn't understand that has picked a bad hobby. For me, it makes the other 1% absolutely priceless.

14 hours ago, Ani said:

That was well in favour of 'out' in days after the debacle at Wembley. IMO a sign that as emotions have cooled people are being more pragmatic. 

Agreed. If I could vote again I would change it from go to stay now that the dust has settled, I am glad the general consensus seems to reflect this.

59 minutes ago, Nowack said:

Agreed. If I could vote again I would change it from go to stay now that the dust has settled, I am glad the general consensus seems to reflect this.

even as a fully signed up fan club member its fair enough folk wanting a change

i do think theres plenty will keep wanting him out so they can say they were correct in in september 2021 or whatever it was and they can go fuck themselves, tbh

youve got the others who have recently decided theyd like a change and ive much more time for that

 

im not of a mind to change as im still enjoying attending the games

division 3 and not enjoying it wouldn't be acceptable for me to continue supporting IE, whereas I'd put up with any old shit in div 2

plus, i don't think we are for off