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

11 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Had a decent career did Gerry, always looked gangly, like a lot of players, he found his level. Although played on a decent Bolton team at the time.

Yep. We've had worse than him. By 83/4 he was our best defender by a mile. Played for Northern Ireland a few times too - including in a 1-0 win over West Germany (just looked him up on Wikipedia)

23 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

Yep. We've had worse than him. By 83/4 he was our best defender by a mile. Played for Northern Ireland a few times too - including in a 1-0 win over West Germany (just looked him up on Wikipedia)

Yep, better than anything we have now.

We just attacked with pace, aggression, numbers and took people on - and by some coincidence you score goals.

 

loved eidur 

11 minutes ago, marple whites said:

We just attacked with pace, aggression, numbers and took people on - and by some coincidence you score goals.

 

loved eidur 

I thought Jensen was real quality.

Just a touch more pace and he could have been world class.

Just lightweight.

Per Frandsen, what a player! Everything about him screamed quality. 

27 minutes ago, marple whites said:

We just attacked with pace, aggression, numbers and took people on - and by some coincidence you score goals.

 

loved eidur 

Quality 

Massive blow when he missed the 2nd leg against Ipswich in the play offs 

7 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

Per Frandsen, what a player! Everything about him screamed quality. 

He was just another level. No idea how he didn’t have Prem clubs knocking down his door. I’d say he was another like Bergsson who truly blossomed in the twilight of his career under Allardyce, but in reality he was bloody brilliant under Todd as well. 

56 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

He was just another level. No idea how he didn’t have Prem clubs knocking down his door. I’d say he was another like Bergsson who truly blossomed in the twilight of his career under Allardyce, but in reality he was bloody brilliant under Todd as well. 

Blackburn dicks hated him, called him lazy!!! 🤣

He gave 100% every single time he played for us. 

5 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

Jon Newsome was awesome for us , I don't think we hardly conceded a goal with him at the back . Did he get injured with us , or did his loan run out?.

If I remember correctly Wednesday wanted £1.5m for Newsome which we couldn’t afford, and Warhurst was £800k.

Newsome got a career ending injury not too long after.

5 hours ago, paulhanley said:

I believe the loan ran out and Todd was told it was either him or Warhurst and he chose the latter. Given the way things panned out he made the right choice. But we needed another central defender. People forget that Gudni's best days as a centre half for us only really happened once Big Sam got hold of him. That first season in the Prem under Sam - Gudni was awesome. He'd got mega fit and Sam had him concentrating on the basics. Under Todd he sometimes seemed hesitant in the centre - by no means poor, but not brilliant either.

Very astute observation. Gudni didn't stand out until the established Prem days. He was steady at full back and centre half until then, which was 5/6  years! He was present for all of the great 96/97 season during which our best centre half pairing was Taggart and Fairclough. 

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by RoadRunnerFan

5 hours ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

Very astute observation. Gudni didn't stand out until the established Prem days. He was steady at full back and centre half until then, which was 5/6  years! He was present for all of the great 96/97 season during which our best centre half pairing was Taggart and Fairclough. 

I had much more confidence in Gudni at right back until Sam came along. He had some really good performances there. That 7-0 win over Swindon springs to mind. He just wasn't that commanding in the centre. Sam transformed him. It was incredible to see a centre back who seemed quicker over the ground at the age of 35 than he was at 30.

One of the few bright moments of the bizarre 19/20 season was the 2-0 home win over our bindipping friends from Birkenhead. It was their first league visit to Bolton for a full 19 years. On the previous occasion we also beat them 2-0. This was 2000/2001 when we got promoted to the top flight (where they've never been) and they got relegated back towards where they belong. We doubled them that year - an early season 0-1 win with a Mick Whitlow goal secured the three points at Prenton Park. Then our players all got on the team bus straight from the pitch in what was dubbed "the dirty protest". 

Bo Hansen was on the mark in this game, immediately followed by an own-goal by Clint Hill. 

It was towards the end of a very strong run of results for us. A Spring of annoying draws awaited and led to the play offs.

 

5 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

One of the few bright moments of the bizarre 19/20 season was the 2-0 home win over our bindipping friends from Birkenhead. It was their first league visit to Bolton for a full 19 years. On the previous occasion we also beat them 2-0. This was 2000/2001 when we got promoted to the top flight (where they've never been) and they got relegated back towards where they belong. We doubled them that year - an early season 0-1 win with a Mick Whitlow goal secured the three points at Prenton Park. Then our players all got on the team bus straight from the pitch in what was dubbed "the dirty protest". 

Bo Hansen was on the mark in this game, immediately followed by an own-goal by Clint Hill. 

It was towards the end of a very strong run of results for us. A Spring of annoying draws awaited and led to the play offs.

 

Correct 

disappointing home draws especially gillingham, Wimbledon & stockport 

Any other season it would of been automatic but Fulham & Blackburn was exceptional 

57 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Correct 

disappointing home draws especially gillingham, Wimbledon & stockport 

Any other season it would of been automatic but Fulham & Blackburn was exceptional 

I remember Birmingham at home in a night match being another disappointment that Spring. We were much better away from home setting up solid and hitting teams on the break!

47 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

''Friends from Birkenhead" 😒

Sorry Paul, we don't have any Friends from Birkenhead, they are merely just bindipping scouse c***s!

Otherwise top post as usual 👍

I honestly can't take them seriously. They're annoying - I'll give them that. But give me a choice between a win over them or a win in an actual derby like Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Blackpool.... and I'd rather have the latter any day. For all bar the 1990s they've been a joke outfit.

On 11/04/2020 at 11:25, Mounts Kipper said:

From 17 minutes on, some fantastic BWFC footage from 1945 when we won north cup beating Man U and then beat southern cup winners Chelsea at Stamford bridge, great scenes from Bolton town and Burnden park and good quality footage. 

Its a brilliant find is that Mounts - some great footage I have never seen any of it before 

The scenes on Trinity street and Manchester road are excellent

The British Council film unit was at the time a wartime propaganda machine which presented  aspects of British Life in the best possible light 

And they certainly did a job with that war cup final against Manchester United which is shown as a 1-0 win to Bolton

Reality was we did win the first leg at Burnden 1-0  but we then played and drew a second leg 2-2 a week later at Maine Road - which is where United played at the time , because Old Trafford had been bombed . 

It looks as though all the action they show is at the Burnden Park leg , but if you look closely the Embankment suddenly has a tunnel to the right of the goal at 20.33 and again at 20.40 - what they have cleverly done is splice together footage from both legs and present it as one game.  

 

 

11 hours ago, BWFC_LOVE said:

If I remember correctly Wednesday wanted £1.5m for Newsome which we couldn’t afford, and Warhurst was £800k.

Newsome got a career ending injury not too long after.

Cheers Mate 

14 minutes ago, Benny The Ball said:

Reality was we did win the first leg at Burnden 1-0  but we then played and drew a second leg 2-2 a week later at Maine Road - which is where United played at the time , because Old Trafford had been bombed . 

 

 

 

The Germans weren't all bad then !!

25 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

I remember Birmingham at home in a night match being another disappointment that Spring. We were much better away from home setting up solid and hitting teams on the break!

Did we not set some record for away wins that season? 

37 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Did we not set some record for away wins that season? 

Just googled it. 14 !! That'd be 15 if you include the play off final. What an incredible record. And it was indeed our record haul for a season.

7 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

Just googled it. 14 !! That'd be 15 if you include the play off final. What an incredible record. And it was indeed our record haul for a season.

Didn’t realise it was that many!

bet we haven’t won that many in the last 5 seasons😀

Edited April 18, 20206 yr by radcliffe white

3 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Or since we left the PL 9 years ago.

We have had some shite managers haven’t we in recent times  

1 hour ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Didn’t realise it was that many!

bet we haven’t won that many in the last 5 seasons😀

It is unbelievable. And there are still those who don't give Big Sam much credit.

2 hours ago, Benny The Ball said:

Its a brilliant find is that Mounts - some great footage I have never seen any of it before 

The scenes on Trinity street and Manchester road are excellent

The British Council film unit was at the time a wartime propaganda machine which presented  aspects of British Life in the best possible light 

And they certainly did a job with that war cup final against Manchester United which is shown as a 1-0 win to Bolton

Reality was we did win the first leg at Burnden 1-0  but we then played and drew a second leg 2-2 a week later at Maine Road - which is where United played at the time , because Old Trafford had been bombed . 

It looks as though all the action they show is at the Burnden Park leg , but if you look closely the Embankment suddenly has a tunnel to the right of the goal at 20.33 and again at 20.40 - what they have cleverly done is splice together footage from both legs and present it as one game.  

 

 

Well spotted that, I did wonder what that tunnel was but never thought it was Maine road. 

5 hours ago, paulhanley said:

I remember Birmingham at home in a night match being another disappointment that Spring. We were much better away from home setting up solid and hitting teams on the break!

Another midweek match was against Grimsby 2-2 at home , I'm sure it was  £5 to get in that night. Some real frustration building up that night , and plenty of grumblings at the end. On a sad not I'm sure an older fan died in the car park after the game.