http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfvJp5awJc

37 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

Bolton 3 Southend 0 1995

David Lee showing the best and his worst finishing.

This was in a period of 94/5 when we really began to threaten the top of the second tier. First time we'd been this high in English football since getting relegated from Div 1 in 1980. Yet our crowds stayed low. Only 10700 for this game. It was almost like the Bolton public just wouldn't believe how good we'd become.

19 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

That goal against Bristol City. When was the last time we counter attacked like that?  Fast running off the ball, quick, incisive passing, great finish.  Under Parky I'd stopped believing football could be played like that.

That team cost millions

I know it's stating the obvious

4 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

This was in a period of 94/5 when we really began to threaten the top of the second tier. First time we'd been this high in English football since getting relegated from Div 1 in 1980. Yet our crowds stayed low. Only 10700 for this game. It was almost like the Bolton public just wouldn't believe how good we'd become.

Talking of attendances I looked at Middlesbrough’s for the 94 season and they was shit

6k against us for that Sunday game on tv 

 

30 minutes ago, Casino said:

That team cost millions

I know it's stating the obvious

Good point , but it can also be argued 3 out of the 5 players involved in the goal cost virtually nowt..

That Todd team though was light years ahead of anything Parkinson ever had at his disposal. 

 

Edited April 24, 20206 yr by dusan nikolic

14 minutes ago, Casino said:

That team cost millions

I know it's stating the obvious

True enough.  To think Keith Andrews probably earned more in 6 months than Michael Johansson earned over his whole Bolton career.

5 hours ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Talking of attendances I looked at Middlesbrough’s for the 94 season and they was shit

6k against us for that Sunday game on tv 

 

Did we win in our yellow shirt?

6 hours ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Talking of attendances I looked at Middlesbrough’s for the 94 season and they was shit

6k against us for that Sunday game on tv 

 

When there was a discussion on here a few months ago about ‘season ticket culture’, it was crowds like that I had in mind. Looking later that season for Boro, they managed to go from 17,000 at home to Forest to 8,500 against Oxford literally a week later.

These days there’s little difference week on week because so much of the crowd is made up by season ticket holders once you take out the games with freakishly high away support, promotion games and the like. 

18 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

Did we win in our yellow shirt?

Was that the away game and we won 1-0 ?

3 minutes ago, marple whites said:

Was that the away game and we won 1-0 ?

 

Me and 3 others got a lift home on the team bus after this, as 1 of the travel club coaches broke down and when they sorted lifts out for everyone - there was 4 left,

players all had fish and chips on the way home and bottles of becks

1 minute ago, marple whites said:

Me and 3 others got a lift home on the team bus after this, as 1 of the travel club coaches broke down and when they sorted lifts out for everyone - there was 4 left,

players all had fish and chips on the way home and bottles of becks

Did they share any with you?

35 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

Did we win in our yellow shirt?

Yes mate and it was bloody cold 

29 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

When there was a discussion on here a few months ago about ‘season ticket culture’, it was crowds like that I had in mind. Looking later that season for Boro, they managed to go from 17,000 at home to Forest to 8,500 against Oxford literally a week later.

These days there’s little difference week on week because so much of the crowd is made up by season ticket holders once you take out the games with freakishly high away support, promotion games and the like. 

They fluctuated a lot didn’t they 

some poor crowds for a team pushing playoffs 

9 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

Did they share any with you?

In fairness, they gave us all a bottle of beer and Phil brown went round and got everyone’s autographs for us.

Today's choice is Bolton 3 Fulham 1 from the 1999/2000 season. With 12 games of the season remaining it felt like the second tier play offs were beyond our new boss Big Sam Allardyce. Even this 3-1 win (with a brace from Dean Holdsworth and a class finish from Eidur) didn't really give anyone belief that we were about to surge through Spring. 

Gates at the time reflected this lethargy in the support base. Only 12,700 were on for the Fulham game and 1,000 less for the next home game against Sheff United. Both were won and we lost only one of those last 12 games, getting in to sixth place on the final game of the season at home to Norwich. 

Of course the following season we got promoted with Fulham who by then had sacked their boss Paul Bracewell and appointed Jean Tigana. They finished top and won 0-2 at Bolton. But on this windswept Spring day, it was three points for Big Sam as momentum gradually gathered.

 

 

Had a decent run towards the end of that season 

think we only lost one after Fulham, possibly city away 

1 minute ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Had a decent run towards the end of that season 

think we only lost one after Fulham, possibly city away 

Exactly right, we lost at Maine Road. However ... to me at least, even with four games to go it felt like the play offs were out of reach.

19 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

Exactly right, we lost at Maine Road. However ... to me at least, even with four games to go it felt like the play offs were out of reach.

Big win against wolves of course 

did we pip them by 2 points 

2 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Big win against wolves of course 

did we pip them by 2 points 

Two points and if it had come to it our goal difference was better than theirs by 3! 

44 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Big win against wolves of course 

did we pip them by 2 points 

The second season running that we pipped Wolves to the final play off spot , without looking wasn't the Fulham game Nolan's Debut?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

The second season running that we pipped Wolves to the final play off spot , without looking wasn't the Fulham game Nolan's Debut?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think it was. I'd seen him once before in a reserve match ... playing in central defence!

Just now, paulhanley said:

I think it was. I'd seen him once before in a reserve match ... playing in central defence!

What a part that lad had to play over the next few seasons.

24 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

What a part that lad had to play over the next few seasons.

What a player he was,  he’s definitely in my top 10 BWFC players who I’ve seen play. 

22 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

True enough.  To think Keith Andrews probably earned more in 6 months than Michael Johansson earned over his whole Bolton career.

Hate that Keith Andrews - another one I would like to kick in the head

52 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

The second season running that we pipped Wolves to the final play off spot , without looking wasn't the Fulham game Nolan's Debut?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes 3 points & 2 points just to fuel the hatred 

On 24/04/2020 at 16:07, radcliffewhite1 said:

Talking of attendances I looked at Middlesbrough’s for the 94 season and they was shit

6k against us for that Sunday game on tv 

 

Attendances were lower everywhere then.  Published tickets sold in Prem this season has been 39,348, with only Bournemouth under 20k.  Average in 94/95 was 24,249, with 8 under 20k.