It was on my telly yesterday , shitty day outside , not really watching it until last 10 minutes.

After they said , United keeper had not released the ball to his back 4 defenders in the whole game.

Every single ball had been given the boot by the keeper ,bring it on and lets get away from negative possession that leads to nowhere.

Its supposed to be an entertainment !

Lets see people battle for a ball booted down field father than defenders fucking up because they cant even pass a ball square in front of the goal area.

1 hour ago, desperado said:

Just saw this pop up on my feed.

As good a place as any to post it seeing as it was in the midst of our tippy-tappy era - although admittedly this seemed to be in direct contrast to tippy-tappy and if we’d played more often like we did in this 2nd half, we may well be in the Championship now!

But a very good Evatt Bolton day. 

Seems bonkers to say this - but I celebrated this goal as much as I did Nolan’s/Rickets Old Trafford winning goals! 

Stuff like that is why Evatt wanted rid of Dapo, any self expression, creativity etc were the "enemy" of "his" tippy-tappy style. He thought he was a genius and had discovered a sort of football cheat code, he thought we were all idiots for wanting a plan b. They thought that if they just recruited the right players that they could pass teams to death, that in the aggregate they'd get enough points to go up. It was nonsense, that spark of brilliance is what gets you those extra points each season by getting a goal when you didn't deserve it. 

Edited October 23, 2025Oct 23 by Zog1

1 hour ago, desperado said:

Just saw this pop up on my feed.

As good a place as any to post it seeing as it was in the midst of our tippy-tappy era - although admittedly this seemed to be in direct contrast to tippy-tappy and if we’d played more often like we did in this 2nd half, we may well be in the Championship now!

But a very good Evatt Bolton day. 

Seems bonkers to say this - but I celebrated this goal as much as I did Nolan’s/Rickets Old Trafford winning goals! 

I was there 

The first half was a stinker but a great come back

Dapo started at LWB

Second half there was a reshuffle that put him further forward and we were miles better for it

27 minutes ago, Zog1 said:

Stuff like that is why Evatt wanted rid of Dapo, any self expression, creativity etc were the "enemy" of "his" tippy-tappy style. He thought he was a genius and had discovered a sort of football cheat code, he thought we were all idiots for wanting a plan b. They thought that if they just recruited the right players that they could pass teams to death, that in the aggregate they'd get enough points to go up. It was nonsense, that spark of brilliance is what gets you those extra points each season by getting a goal when you didn't deserve it. 

 

For whatever point you may have, it wasn’t worth carrying on being miserable for another two and a half years.

2 hours ago, desperado said:

Just saw this pop up on my feed.

As good a place as any to post it seeing as it was in the midst of our tippy-tappy era - although admittedly this seemed to be in direct contrast to tippy-tappy and if we’d played more often like we did in this 2nd half, we may well be in the Championship now!

But a very good Evatt Bolton day. 

Seems bonkers to say this - but I celebrated this goal as much as I did Nolan’s/Rickets Old Trafford winning goals! 

If only he could have been better defensively. 

Evatt did have a Plan B

He even told us what it was. "Do Plan A better"

59 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Evatt did have a Plan B

He even told us what it was. "Do Plan A better"

... & slower, & more passes, & more standing there while the opposition got 11 in position ... even if we were a goal down & in added time.