I realise some of you may have zero interest in this which is fair enough but from time to time I like to have a snoop on OppositionWays out of curiosity. Thought it was worth compiling some together which I'll do in this thread whenever I get chance. 

Seems like Lincoln have some pretty level headed fans but then one or two absolutely bitter fuckers. 

Pick of the bunch includes:

THE BITTER

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How about 10 points deducted for every £million of debt a club has?
Wonder just how low these perennial cheats would drop?

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Red Wimp said:

Bolton stayed in Lincoln last night. Not leaving much to chance.

No that was so they could rack up extra debt.

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Surely we can't lose to these cheats?
Why are they not on multiple minus points?

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I'd rather be us than them. How long do they have to pay their debt?

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The simple truth is, as much as the away fans won't want to admit it, we lost to one of those vile clubs tonight. One of those that has spent beyond their means, and clearly continues to do so.

 

THE PRAISE

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Good game. Shit result.
By the standards of last season Bolton should be pushing for promotion. But then that was last season.

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Beaten by the better team. Good to see a big away following.

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FT. Good game. Credit to Bolton - they did enough to control the game throughout, although we had some bright moments, especially in the first half. They also scored at exactly the right time and managed the game out. 

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Bolton also look like a really good side who should be in the top half of the table.

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I have backed Bolton to win the league as I think they are a decent team. They looked like a very settled team that are used to winning.

Taken from https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/match-thread-lincoln-city-v-bolton-wanderers.117675/page-25 

22 hours ago, athywhite1958 said:

It has happened to us on at least two previous occasions, 3-0 up away from home with 15 minutes to go and lost both 4-3, Watford and Chelsea (never forget that cunt Clive Walker)

Clive 'Flasher' Walker.

Played over 1,000 games in his career. 750 league, scoring over 200 but best known for waving his cock at a bunch of fans.

4 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Clive 'Flasher' Walker.

Played over 1,000 games in his career. 750 league, scoring over 200 but best known for waving his cock at a bunch of fans.

That’s what they say about @gonzocleaning over 1000 windows

Surprise surprise.

Posts taken from https://downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/122057/bolton-town

 

PREMATCH

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3-0 Bolton, after more exciting performances of late, this will be a proper on the beach performance.
Drury & Stead out - BOOOOooooooooooooooooooo etc

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I predict a gallant defeat

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A team that specializes in conceding late late goals (is it only 5 so far.. ?) versus a team that specialises in scoring late late goals (12 in stoppage time..including 2 against us) .

What could possibly go wrong ?

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Think we can add Hardie to the list of very poor January window signings we've made over the last three or four years. I hope we aren't paying a high percentage of his wages. Looks a good player but another made of Twiglets.

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My money is on Sam Dalby Anytime Scorer. My sons best mates not so little brother. At least I'll have a few quid to lighten the ribbing I'll get....!

 

DURING

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It looks a poor attendance?

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Back to usual shite. Fell asleep for the corner. Incredibly negative setup. Sebine not ready to lead the line in a game like this. Way off it. Shitting our pants against the mighty Bolton Wanderers 😂🙄

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Unfortunately this could end up with 4 or 5 going in.

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Charity FC in full swing

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This is a soul destroying watch.

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Bolton look like the team playing a ‘must win’ game, which is crazy considering they are pretty much home dry for a play off…..should be Town giving all but it’s the other way round

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Bolton (with a play off place more or less guaranteed) 8 shots on goal after 22 minutes, Huddersfield Town (still with a mathematical chance of reaching the play-offs) 0 shots on goal after 22 minutes.

The mentality at our club is absolutely horrible.

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Bolton are everything I want us to be…

Pacey overlapping fullbacks
Fast tricky wingers who can actually take a touch and dribble..
Big man in the middle for crosses
Midfielders waiting on the edge of the box for the cutback

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The other thing, after the first quarter of the game. Nobody is beating Bolton in the play offs.

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Look a good side Bolton..
Comfortable on the ball. Good passing. Movement up front..
Goal threat from crosses..
Everything we don’t have..
We’re getting bummed here..

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How are we so inept at playing simple balls finding space etc.
Watching Bolton so far class above.

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This is embarrassing. We look two divisions below them. Bet our team's getting paid more

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Why didn't Kasumu just hit that? Oh yeah....he's a L2 standard player.

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God man Kasumu is absolutely tragic on the ball. Sorry but he is simply not good enough. Great athlete terrible footballer

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This ref is shite

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Sorensen. The master of the shit cross.

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We should be 3 down at half time.

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They could score from every corner

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Another let off for Town. Should be 2-0 or 3-0 down. Bolton have missed some very good chances.

That's probably the biggest positive for Town: we are only 1-0 down and still in the game.

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Should be 3-0. Shame that wasnt the full time whistle tbh. Another dreadful half of football to go with so many others this season.

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as others have said Bolton look levels above us. You could probably change a million things or none and get nothing out of this one.

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Think I deserve thanks for backing Dalby to score. Otherwise we'd be 3 - 0 down with those two sitters he's missed...!!!  

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Dion Charles isn’t my favourite player. He’s probably my least favourite player. It’s still criminal he isn’t on the pitch, if ever a game would suit a player it’s this one.

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Bolton 14 shots only 3 on target...

We are lucky they are wasteful !

Final bloody insult will be if Johnny Kenny a butcher, a baker and candlestick maker that Celtic signed from Shamrock Rovers and who couldn’t score in the bloody SPFL banged one in against Town ! ☹️

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LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT PRESSURE ON THE REFEREE!! FIRST TIME IVE SEEN US DO IT ALL SEASON

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2-1 to Town.

How the fuck has that happened?
 

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40 mins to hang on now boys !

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If we don’t get another soon they’re 100% equalising if not more

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Bloody hell 3-1!!

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Refs determined to even this up.

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Limited footballer scores important goal!!!!!! Get in!!!!

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Still time for another last minute equaliser!

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substantial stoppage time coming up....

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Aside from the (correct) pen and sending off decisions this ref has been absolutely garbage.

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Here we go again...

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That's absolutely despicable goalkeeping.

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How has he scored from there? Shit goalkeeping.

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Surely we can’t lose a 2 goal lead to 10 Fooking men

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90+11 equaliser all over it now.

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Inevitable what will happen now

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All Bolton have to do is ask and the ref gives it

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Bloody hell loads of stoppage time coming.

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Which team are playing against 10 here?

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Ref quite right there. Kenny went down looking for a free kick and then got up when he didn't get one. Absolutely right we had to go off.

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If Kenny wanted to get on with it why the fuck was he rolling around like he’d been shot?

Fanny

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how is he not blowing?

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You fucking wankers. Again!

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That is just cruel.

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Pathetic

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Inexcusable

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Never known anything like this

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What an absolute shit show

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Why was the ref still playing then? 100 minutes. Off his tits.

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Utter fucking wankers. You know you had a team full of absolute losers when you can lose a two goal lead to ten men. Absolute joke. All of them can fuck off

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Where the hell has an extra 2 minutes come from? Ref hadn't even looked at his watch.

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Bollocks. That was some finish to give them credit. 100+ mins though? Ref?

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Got to question the refs timekeeping. 10 mins into 8 mins time added on.

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Would love to know how many points we’ve lost after bringing Charles on this season

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UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE.

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No question. He feels he got the penalty wrong and wanted to even it up. Now he has.

It’s cheating. It’s crooked. It’s out and out bent. You don’t find extra time because you think you fucked up. Especially when you didn’t.

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How the fuck can you get another 3 minutes on 8 added?

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I’m not a conspiracy theorist but fucking me are these refs being paid to make sure we don’t win?

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I think we proved we're as good as them and they're favorites to win the play offs.

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Ref was playing until they got a chance to level for sure though.

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There were two head injuries in injury time which took atleast 90 seconds in total and we made a sub so that's another 30 seconds. Can't blame the time when you're playing ten men, we should have been running rings around them with basic passing and composure

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Match fixing, been going on all season, shambles

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Also really if we don't waste time subbing off Mumba, we likely don't hit the 100min mark and we win (and the ref was right to add additional time due to subs, injuries etc in the original 8mins)

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Even the players believed the game was over when they ballooned the ball over in the 98-99th minute. As it should have been.
How the ref allowed it to continue was beyond belief.

HOWEVER, to concede 2 goals late on again, when opposition is down to 10 men. Legitimately couldn't write it. Poor.

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blaming this on the referee adding another two minutes (which was the correct decision btw) is the biggest COPE of all time

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Can’t even complain about the added time in added time. It was warranted.

Ref is always going to give more time when we were time wasting as best as we could

More embarrassed how we’ve played 10v11 for most of the second half and they’ve scored 2 goals and still looked better than us.
 

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Not sure why people are moaning about the extra time on top of the 8mins. They add on time for subs, and for injuries. There was a sub, 2 bookings and at least 2 occasions where players were down. As much as it's gutting (again), the ref didn't do anything wrong in terms of the additional time (plus 8mins is merely a minimum anyway, not a maximum)

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May is absolutely shite and has been no better than Dion Charles. A rancid footballer and a colossal waste of money for us. Get rid of both if anyone will take them, but pound for pound May has been one of the worst signings Huddersfield Town have ever made.
 

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Hopefully Markham is developing an actual football strategy and finding players to fit it rather than the random slapdash throw money at it approach which has failed twice now.

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Without reading the whole thread, two thoughts.

Alnwick is absolutely awful. The 2nd goal should never be scored from there.

You can't put up 8 minutes and then play almost 40% more added time.

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Whilst the players and coaches could have done better, I feel like we've been royally fucked over again by the ref. There wasn't 8 minutes to be added on before he pulled another 3 out his arse and their centre back Toal was blatantly pulling Charles' shirt despite already being on a booking.

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Whilst it's on us all these injury time goals but the authorities need to get to grips with this double figures injury time every match, it's totally OTT, is there bollocks 10, 14, 15 or 16 minutes to be credibly added on at the end, it's absolutely farcical.

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I always find it strange that the ref can find the amount of additional time on extra time. 8 mins is 17% of 45 which if quite high in itself for injury time but 3 mins extra of 8 mins is 37.5%. Was there really that many stoppages in injury time compared to normal time?

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Was there any context to Elvis at half time?

 

Great work I looked on there earlier the comment below that basically says you can not add on a higher % of extra injury time is brilliant. Using stats to prove you know fuck all.

There is the odd one saying Ted was right and why but then another 5 or 6 just moaning. 

always find it strange that the ref can find the amount of additional time on extra time. 8 mins is 17% of 45 which if quite high in itself for injury time but 3 mins extra of 8 mins is 37.5%. Was there really that many stoppages in injury time compared to normal time?

 

Crikey they have some cranks following them 😂

Quite a few reasonable comments there.

Obviously plenty are upset, but then again plenty of ours were at times.

8 minutes ago, tomski said:

Crikey they have some cranks following them 😂

To be fair we have more than a fair few of our own.

17 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

To be fair we have more than a fair few of our own.

Meh. I think they are some next level odd balls and Yorkshireman to boot

Injury time in football matches is bollocks though. I have a degree of sympathy with them for that. Total arbitrary nonsense that goes for you some weeks and against you on others (there was a game we were chasing earlier in the season where the ref couldn't wait to blow up).

Things you love to see, part 368

8 games without a goal before we sold him, 2 in 47 for Huddersfield and some of their fans think he should play.

He's made more babies than goals in the last 2 years

13 minutes ago, Traf said:

8 games without a goal before we sold him, 2 in 47 for Huddersfield and some of their fans think he should play.

He's made more babies than goals in the last 2 years

Haha, fucking hell what a stat!

Great read 👏

57 minutes ago, Traf said:

8 games without a goal before we sold him, 2 in 47 for Huddersfield and some of their fans think he should play.

He's made more babies than goals in the last 2 years

 

Their striker situation is hilarious. Spent millions on Charles and May for them to sit on the bench.

In January they took Hardie ahead of us, so we signed Kenny instead. And they sent Joe Taylor to Wigan where he's got 11 in 19.

Now they're left having to start a 19-year-old who wasn't getting a game for Curzon Ashton earlier in the season. 

3 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

In January they took Hardie ahead of us, so we signed Kenny instead

Kenny was our first choice all along 😉

2 hours ago, tomski said:

Crikey they have some cranks following them 😂

Have you ever been there ?

Full of old men in baths zipping along country lanes.

23 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Have you ever been there ?

Full of old men in baths zipping along country lanes.

Yeah ha. It defo helped shape my opinion. Also stinky daz went to uni there. 

2 hours ago, Tombwfc said:

Injury time in football matches is bollocks though. I have a degree of sympathy with them for that. Total arbitrary nonsense that goes for you some weeks and against you on others (there was a game we were chasing earlier in the season where the ref couldn't wait to blow up).

Yes I forget which game it was, but you're right.  He gave (say) 5 minutes injury time and during that time the oppo got a couple of free kicks or corners and throw ins, and for each one they strolled over, took absolutely ages taking them, and not 1 second was added beyond the 5.  Given it was a game a while ago that we obviously didn't win, I think it must have been Northampton or Mansfield.

If we ever concede a late equaliser or goal to lose, one thing I will never do is complain about too much time being added on.  Its NEVER enough.  Far too many stoppages, constantly from first minute to last, as far as I'm concerned there should be a limit of maybe 15 seconds to take a set piece and anything more should be treated as time to be added on.

Has anyone got the time or inclination to do a dive through Bradford's forum and post highlights? Should be a good read.

They're miserable gets at the best of times, so should be interesting 

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This is shocking. Nowhere near enough quality when we have the ball.

 

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We're second best all over the pitch. Not by much, but by enough, and in every area of the pitch. Something needs to change - personnel, formation, maybe both. Because we're not laying a glove on em. I could be playing in goal for Bolton.

Sarc with the lowest touches on the pitch in both legs, says a lot.

 

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Nervy
Aimless
Jackson isolated
Bobby hasn’t worked , let’s be honest he’s not match fit . TW on please , Sarce looks lost as well .
Midfield overran at times and perhaps missing Laps

What’s up with the crowd ….?

Even though Walker hasn’t had a save to make neither has theirs .

 

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Boring game of football, Stockport should be watching feeling inspired by this game.

 

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Hats off to Bolton who are an excellent team. To be fair they are defending well and pressing well. If we somehow go through it will have to be a Titanic effort in the second half and with a liberal sprinkling of luck.

 

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Gutless. Players shouldn't have bothered turning up.

 

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Corruption. Arguably two penalties and they get a sucker punch

 

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Aden. Baldwin take a bow
I’ve said it all season and I’ll say it again…. He’s shit and has been all year.
Stick up for him now happy clappers

 

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Ah well. Who wants to go to Wembley and pay £13 for a pint anyway.

Been a very good return to L1, we have a solid base to do some rework in the summer. The big gripe was January. We were well placed and made a total bollocks of it

 

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We’ve been shocking but this referee needs investigating. He’s got almost every decision wrong

 

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Beaten by the far better side

We deserved feck all from these last two legs

 

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Can't argue that Bolton deserve it over 2 legs. Biggest gripe, I don't think we gave our best account, players and management. But I always felt Bolton would have a bit too much and so it proved.

 

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Can’t see Stockport doing the business in the final

 

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Over the 2 games Bolton have been the better side. I can understand the plan to get to 60 minutes and go for it.

We had our chances but a combination of finishing/good defending and good goalkeeping hurt us.

This season has been a huge building block and a good platform to build on.

 

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Hardly far better. They just took two of the chances they had over the two games. Stockport should wipe the floor with them based on what I’ve seen

 

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Congratulations to Bolton , kept in the tie by a keeper that made two great saves .

City fans , honestly should be really concerned . They added nothing imho. Even the commentary said so a few times

That’s was caused by the ridiculous ticketing fiasco .

Wright was exceptional as was Laps when they came on .

Baldwin , sorry that was a dire mistake .


Now for the positive

What a fabulous season , nobody, but nobody expected .
Congratulations to all and thank you .

 

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I agree. Not far better, but a bit better in every department, and that was enough.

 

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Second half loads better, way too much hoofball first half. Just fell short in the end. I think we would've benefited from Lapslie's energy from the start.

Their keeper made 2 brilliant saves, that shotfrom Power goes in and it's a totally different game.

Still proud of what we have achieved this year. Now for a football detox (until world cup).

I hope Bolton shit the bed in the final cos I'm sad like that

 

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I hope they win it . Stockport arnt much tbh .

 

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Very strange individual at the back of the Midland Road stand went out jabbering loudly about "pretend fans" which puzzled me.

The sort of drivel you hear at Wembley when people try to peacock about how they go home and away, but after accepting defeat in quite a cordial way, and with a crowd that can't have had that many fairweather fans in the first place, I really don't get that person's point.

Some City fans are very strange.

 

just sounds like this place 5pm every saturday really - The Voice - Match preview - League One Playoff Semi-Final: Bradford City vs Bolton Wanderers Thursday 14th May 2026 8:00pm | Page 20 | Bantam Talk - Bradford City Forum

I liked the post that said "Best away fans since Leeds about 15 years ago". That's quite an accolade.

Fair play to them, the vast majority quite honest and fair in their assessment.  Hopefully we go up this year and I'd be happy to see them come up next.

I was impressed at how many Bradford fans stayed to applaud their team long after the game had finished.
They'll do well again next season with a few additions, they've got that steely side like Lincoln & Stockport.

They were pretty magnanimous in defeat last night too, had a few wish is the best for next weekend.

Proper club with a solid fanbase.

18 minutes ago, BeeversLeftPeg said:

They were pretty magnanimous in defeat last night too, had a few wish is the best for next weekend.

Proper club with a solid fanbase.

On the whole, yes. 

One or two young pissed whoppers trying to have a pop on the way out i saw. They were correctly laughed at and made to look stupid by ours though.