It's happening. 

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17405193.bolton-wanderers-close-to-takeover-from-uk-based-consortium/

Thank fuck

1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

@Howardroark Are there a number of other potential bidders for the club now that we are going into admin? 

This is serious, even you've got the blue @ disease.

I suspect there will be other bidders trying to acquire us via Admin, only have to look at the Blackpool situation.

20 minutes ago, burnden said:

Plus the 3 play-off clubs not promoted and the L2 play-off club that is, so 3 of Charlton, Portsmouth, Sunderland and Doncaster plus one of Mansfield, FGR, Tranmere and Newport.

Some travelling next season 

2 hours ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

No Portugal or Spain then 

 

Nandos or La Salsa closest we'll get to that

I don't fancy a promoted side 1st up, let them get some confidence kicked out of them first. Gillingham or Southend if we're having a trek, Shrewsbury for a localish game will do

45 minutes ago, Spider said:

It'll be reet, lads.

We're just going to be a bit skint for fair while longer.

Who do we want first up? Lincoln away?

We don’t want Lincoln whilst they’re still on a full-upper from the last few seasons. Let them lose a few and us find our feet before we take our thousands over there.

Somewhere reasonably close and pretty shit so that we can take a load of fans to get behind the new lads / kids but can also start clawing back to 0 points.

Blackpool (I know our record there is shite) or Shrewsbury away for me.

A heavy points deduction and followings will be low next time won’t be a patch on last league 1 campaign

 

4 minutes ago, Eddie said:

We don’t want Lincoln whilst they’re still on a full-upper from the last few seasons. Let them lose a few and us find our feet before we take our thousands over there.

Somewhere reasonably close and pretty shit so that we can take a load of fans to get behind the new lads / kids but can also start clawing back to 0 points.

Blackpool (I know our record there is shite) or Shrewsbury away for me.

We might have their management team by the start of the season. Anyone but Parky for me.

What do we make of SJ’s comments?

 

4 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

A heavy points deduction and followings will be low next time won’t be a patch on last league 1 campaign

 

They'll only be low if we have a bad start. If we're in positive points by October then the crowds will be back.

3 minutes ago, Mantra said:

What do we make of SJ’s comments?

 

If he can't provide proof of funds to the EFL, which he repeatedly hasn't, I can't see them letting him now, even if the club is in Admin.

Bassini should look at Bury or Macc.

Bassini shouldn't be allowed near any football club again nor should KA

14 minutes ago, MickyD said:

They'll only be low if we have a bad start. If we're in positive points by October then the crowds will be back.

i'd expect us to be doing the same numbers as this season if things go ok over the summer.

with the JCL's joining on if things start looking positive throughout the season

5 minutes ago, Pricey said:

Bassini shouldn't be allowed near any football club again nor should KA

True enough. Be interesting to see what the efl do after all this.

6 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

True enough. Be interesting to see what the efl do after all this.

Probably fuck all mate, if KA was to go and get a club in a few year, I reckon they would treat him like anyone else

5 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

i'd expect us to be doing the same numbers as this season if things go ok over the summer.

with the JCL's joining on if things start looking positive throughout the season

Yes would think,

last league 1 was averaging 1800 away won’t be near that regardless of our situation due to bigger distance 

figures not done for this season but probably looking at around 900-1000

It's a shame Scunthorpe, Walsall and Bradford went down - 3 reasonable trips and fairly close.

Hope when we play Rochdale we don't play half as bad as we did when we last played them at Spotland (Crown Oil Stadium) & Chris Taylor give the fans the finger 

Barring the last time we were in League One, we've probably got one of the worst records in England over the past decade. That's a whole generation of fans who've known little else than disaster, and yet our away support has generally been very good, all things considered.

Starting -12 with new owners, manager and players... I think people would be bang up for it.

15 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

Barring the last time we were in League One, we've probably got one of the worst records in England over the past decade. That's a whole generation of fans who've known little else than disaster, and yet our away support has generally been very good, all things considered.

Starting -12 with new owners, manager and players... I think people would be bang up for it.

It would be a dream to go away somewhere and play someone off the park and grab a comfortable win.

Like how Preston came to us and absolutely destroyed us.

15 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

Barring the last time we were in League One, we've probably got one of the worst records in England over the past decade. That's a whole generation of fans who've known little else than disaster, and yet our away support has generally been very good, all things considered.

Starting -12 with new owners, manager and players... I think people would be bang up for it.

I think after this season a lot of fans have now been lost, - 12 or even worse I'd think we'd be lucky to have 5k on for the first home game. Not sure what we are doing yet, I'm going to cancel the DD and see what happens. The youngest lad has completely gave up and I can't blame him. I've been going for over 45 years and atm I really can't be arsed with anymore of this shit. That might change as the season draws near but its going to have to be some positive news to get me back on board. 

2 minutes ago, Eavesy said:

It would be a dream to go away somewhere and play someone off the park and grab a comfortable win.

Like how Preston came to us and absolutely destroyed us.

 

I was just imagining if we had a striker worthy of the name... a proper goalscorer of the ALF/McGinlay/Walker ilk.

It shouldn't be beyond us in this league, however things pan out. Tom Eaves got 20+ last season ffs. And even us, one of the least potent attacks in the history of the second tier, put five past the only League One team we played.

Of course, we could also end up on -20, Parky in charge, Bassini sitting in the dugout and Donaldson leading the line.

Do we expect anyone from the current regime to be back next year?

Maybe their contracts will be terminated through the admin process but perhaps some will come back. As long as Parky goes and we have some new attackers I’ll be happy.

Even in the grand scheme of things, losing Vela, Wheater, Connell and others could be pretty bad. If we are on -20 points I’m unsure we will attract a decent calibre of player and we could end up with somehow a worse team than we have now and then be relegated to League Two and struggle further to attract decent players all the while costs are racking up again.

Wouldnt be too bothered if any of the current group came back even though I know they’d perform much better at League One standard, just because I think the fans need something fresh. But I do worry that the grass is always greener on the other side and we could end up even deeper in the shit. Hopefully the reputation of Bolton Wanderers history enables us to sign some decent loanees and young players.