33 minutes ago, Stig said:

Is it better or worse if I switch this back to attendance chat...?

Could be 25k on looking at the seats available, so a really big test for us. I want to see our strongest mentality players out there, so I'd give Mcatee a start and maybe Arfield in centre mid. Johnston would be great on for Iredale if he's ready.

Really need to get out flying and quieten down the away fans... Whatever language they're chanting in

They'll be singing in English on the way to the ground mate and then Welsh when they're in amongst us. Unless Cheese is attending, then it will be English the whole time of course. 

But aye, couldn't agree more. A huge test. This might sound dramatic, but I'm not sure what faith I'll have left in Evatt if it's another Oxford, Wigan or Blackpool type game. It's not that we have to win, just feel we need to see a much improved mentality and not allowing teams to bully us. 

9 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Bet you start talking Gaelic next time I see you at the match

Gaelic Bread

My neighbour reckons 4 apiece. 

They score plenty but let them in too.

 

3 hours ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Another hand raised here. Sat in a pub in Caernarfon where the locals (bedecked in Man Utd tops, of course) were speaking in English until they heard us order our drinks and switched to Welsh.

You sure it wasn't Australian they switched to?

2 hours ago, Cheese said:

And as usual, there is none.

Probably cos it's a football forum and not The Old Bailey. 

24 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Bet you start talking Gaelic next time I see you at the match

GAY-LICK? What is that botty language or somfin

2 hours ago, desperado said:

Did they clap in English or Welsh? 

Rest assured their Bed and Breakfast signs are in English.

Back when we had Preston at Cardiff in the playoff, I cadged a lift from a Bolton fan In Nottingham, and we picked up a couple in Ashby before heading down. For some reason or other a wrong turn got us going through Abergavenny   - OK that would be fine, just turn around and sort it. But it was the day of the Abergavenny  tractor parade. So we had to wait as dozens of farmers with tractors in varying states of disarray filed passed to the appreciation of the underwhelmed crowd. I recall one which had a flat-bed trailer behind it with a bloke and his three-legged sheepdog  on it. As he passed, he waved at us - thanking us for taking to time to appreciate his rusting piece of 1930's junk as if we were frantically filling in our "I-Spy book of redundant farm equipment operated by inbred dullards", ready to post it off to Big Chief I-Spy for a certificate. Instead we were desperate to get a a playoff final. Which we did, thanks to some crafty overtaking of a knock-off Massey-Ferguson driven by some toothless bloke and his wife in a funny hat.

51 minutes ago, freds dad said:

Gaelic Bread

very good 😁

25 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Rest assured their Bed and Breakfast signs are in English.

Back when we had Preston at Cardiff in the playoff, I cadged a lift from a Bolton fan In Nottingham, and we picked up a couple in Ashby before heading down. For some reason or other a wrong turn got us going through Abergavenny   - OK that would be fine, just turn around and sort it. But it was the day of the Abergavenny  tractor parade. So we had to wait as dozens of farmers with tractors in varying states of disarray filed passed to the appreciation of the underwhelmed crowd. I recall one which had a flat-bed trailer behind it with a bloke and his three-legged sheepdog  on it. As he passed, he waved at us - thanking us for taking to time to appreciate his rusting piece of 1930's junk as if we were frantically filling in our "I-Spy book of redundant farm equipment operated by inbred dullards", ready to post it off to Big Chief I-Spy for a certificate. Instead we were desperate to get a a playoff final. Which we did, thanks to some crafty overtaking of a knock-off Massey-Ferguson driven by some toothless bloke and his wife in a funny hat.

😆

3 hours ago, Cheese said:

And as usual, there is none. Just English men convinced they're so special that "foreigners" go out of their way to wind them up, by speaking their own language in their own country. It's fucking embarrassing.

Islam? Arabic? This is Bolton!

4 minutes ago, woolli said:

Islam? Arabic? This is Bolton!

I know I’ve had a few digs at Cheese recently but when did Islam become a language?

4 minutes ago, Alf Hartigan said:

I know I’ve had a few digs at Cheese recently but when did Islam become a language?

Just quoting people in Bolton who speak another language, correct, not Islam, just some other lingo, which i have to be reserved on here, but deffo not welsh!

3 minutes ago, woolli said:

Just quoting people in Bolton who speak another language, correct, not Islam, just some other lingo, which i have to be reserved on here, but deffo not welsh!

You don’t have to reserved with me. But calling Islam a language is just incorrect 

1 minute ago, Alf Hartigan said:

You don’t have to reserved with me. But calling Islam a language is just incorrect 

im hoping your not struggling with what i quoted, not Islam!

3 minutes ago, woolli said:

im hoping your not struggling with what i quoted, not Islam!

I might be, doesn’t make sense to me.

Never mind anyway 

Am I remembering correctly, didnt we use to sing Burn your bungalow down, Taff at Burnden in the 80s? 

In Welsh, then English when they realised the Welsh could hear. 

 

1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Which we did, thanks to some crafty overtaking of a knock-off Massey-Ferguson driven by some toothless bloke and his wife in a funny hat.

That bit got me 

Anyway 1-1

They have their day out in the sun and the pessimists on here implode in a rage

31 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

Anyway 1-1

They have their day out in the sun and the pessimists on here implode in a rage

I know it shouldn't matter ... but I hope, wish and pray that the Irish boy doesn't have something to celebrate at 5pm.

3-1 Trotters

It's actually quite good for me we've got such a game / test first game 

Big away following 

Team that will be up for it 

The sort of game we struggled with last few seasons

Time to see if all the reflection and hard work over the summer has paid off 

Probably helps that Wrexham are as likely to concede as score 

But this is a game we generally don't win (if you ignore the ones we do)

8 hours ago, wanderer1984 said:

I know it shouldn't matter ... but I hope, wish and pray that the Irish boy doesn't have something to celebrate at 5pm.

 

It's giving me palpations

Like Zico says what a test this is. 

Big crowd, big away following, the wankathon that follows this lot, live on Sky, James McClean🥔, Phil Parky, first home game after summer of sucidial reflection and crash diets and a shit load of new signings and money spent.

 

Good lord its a big one this.

9 hours ago, wanderer1984 said:

I know it shouldn't matter ... but I hope, wish and pray that the Irish boy doesn't have something to celebrate at 5pm.

3-1 Trotters

Forgot about him. I hope George smashes him.

Wasn't Welsh Wyn Davies's first language when he came from Wrexham?

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

It's giving me palpations

Like Zico says what a test this is. 

Big crowd, big away following, the wankathon that follows this lot, live on Sky, James McClean🥔, Phil Parky, first home game after summer of sucidial reflection and crash diets and a shit load of new signings and money spent.

 

Good lord its a big one this.

It is indeed. 

Each to their own, but I can't see how anyone views it as a run of the mill game.

3-0, years walk in the park, the Welsh come crashing down to earth with a bump and can’t get near us, we wonder how it wasn’t 6, Collins with a brace and the new crowd favourite McAtee finishes it off, McClean sent off late on for a horror tackle after chasing shadows all game - Arfield, McAtee and GT are straight into him proving that we’ve found a bit of fight over the summer.