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 

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At least these lot play some decent music better than the shite we play.

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Dare I say that a Shaun Maloney team knew how to defend ?

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Aimson having a shocker

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Bloody free gift from us to the knuckle draggers….

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Back 3 isn’t working at all today. They’re killing us out wide and have been miles better than us all over the pitch.

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Appalling making these look like prime barcelona, lacking so much at the back i hate wing backs i really do

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Bolton are better than us all over the pitch. We haven’t started playing - at all.

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Im afraid we just haven't started and are totally outclassed

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Need to find out how fast that Gale can limp

 

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If he doesn’t change anything soon this will be worse than the 4-0 defeats them men had to suffer

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Needs change all this before they get a 3rd

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Game over lowe had a mare here already turned it off at work  made these look 100 times better than they are

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Defence and midfield has gone completely missing. This is a bloody joke and I just don’t recognise our team. Disgusted.

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Up there with one of the worst performances i have ever seen

HT

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That was by far the worst first half performance by a Wigan team I have witnessed for years. Absolutely shocking all over the pitch.

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You have to give Bolton credit though...they have done to us what we did to them every year. Mistakes have cost us big style but changes needed and give them a game 2nd half.

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Make them walk home pathetic

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Never left a game early in my life, but a first time for everything, I don’t care what peoples opinions of him are but Lowe is to blame for this debacle from the minute he did his pre match talk earlier this week, why the f**k has he tinkered with the team and set up from last week.

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At last a game where we cant blame the referee.

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What is the equivalent cricketing term for these two derby losses ?
A duck ? A golden duck ?

Very poor today. Beaten by the better team.
... it didn't feel as bad as the 3-1 tonking back in 2014 though.

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Left at Half Time. We went into the game exactly like Bolton in the previous games. Manager playing it down instead of hyping it up pre game. Changing our ways to suit them not playing our own game. Trying to play it out from the back that we don’t normally do after losing it time and time again. No desire to win duals. Over powered. And the MOST UNFORGIVABLE we were OUTFOUGHT. Shambolic first half performance and they all want to have a good hard look at themselves. Embarrassing. Bolton were better today in every single department but they fought. They treated it like a derby and wanted to win. We didn’t.

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They were by far the better team and based on today will be pushing for promotion if they play like that most weeks. That said, most teams will try to frustrate them and I think if we had set up differently it would’ve been a much closer game. Our wingback system just didn’t work today against them and they completely ripped us apart in the first half. Their left back looked head and shoulders above the other players on the pitch.

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Gutless, spineless & down right embarrassing performance from 1 to 11. Why oh why change a winning team from last Saturday.....
I can take a defeat if we at least try, if we at least put a foot in & actually let Noblot know they're in a derby....we didn't, we just made error after error & shot ourselves in the foot making them look world class....christ that's depressing & doubt it'll change my mood for a few days....f@@@@@@kin cack that.

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First half was a tactical disaster to play 3 at the back with those wingers. Second half was down to individual disasters. The centre mid was so weak. The annoying thing is that I know they aren't as much better than us than they looked, but they won that at a canter. It felt gutless and toothless today

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Ha ha ha . yes , the correct result .. but .. John McGinlay has just said .. ' four brilliant goals ..how about 4 ASSISTS .. mark my words .. they won't get gifted like that again

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Let's be big enough to except that Bolton were easily better than us. I hate Derby games but Bolton deserve respect for giving us a proper beating. They are gonna be right in the mix and I have said all along they will go up. It has always been on the cards this defeat but not how easy it was. Its now all about us and how we respond. Up the battered tics.

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I think today was proof we are nowhere near going to be play off contenders this season. Give or take a year or 2, yes! I still think we'll finish in the top half, but we'll need at least 2 - 3 more windows before we mount a serious challenge.

 

Always find it interesting how fans accuse players of not trying, etc when they get a battering. We do it ourselves 

The reality today wasn’t really that we wanted it more, or tried harder. We simply had better players in the key areas, and exploited the space they’d left us. I actually thought Wigan’s players put a really good shift in second half, but the game was done and they didn’t have the ability to really cause us any real problems. 

Lowe failed to spot the problem early enough and that’s on him. Felt sorry for Mullin in particular chasing lost causes and not having the size to really compete with Forino. 

Not too fussed about hating Wigan myself.  But they’ll finish well below us this season. 

Thanks for these @matty2094. Always a good read. 

Just read all that with a beer and grin on my face - excellent.

Even one of their fans commenting on Conway looking head and shoulders above. He will be playing higher level very soon, hopefully with us

8 minutes ago, Stig said:

Just read all that with a beer and grin on my face - excellent.

Even one of their fans commenting on Conway looking head and shoulders above. He will be playing higher level very soon, hopefully with us

I'm not convinced that other fans lauding Conway is doing us any favours!

 

Their fans really are the most thick deluded pricks on God's green earth 

Some soggy crusts in Wigan tonight.

Fuck 'em. Inbred bastards.

Reading that, first time wanderers ways has given me a semi. Thanks as ever for compiling Matty. 

What with them being so renowned internationally, I imagine there's a lot of disappointed Papua New Guineans this evening.

8 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

What with them being so renowned internationally, I imagine there's a lot of disappointed Papua New Guineans this evening.

Funny you should say that as I know a couple of the PNG players in the Leigh team have been to a couple of BWFC games 😂 

Update... 😁

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Disagree with Lowe - we did get battered, but yeah the goals were avoidable.

Looked a touched shocked - and fuming, though avoided throwing individuals under the bus. Can’t imagine it’ll be a pleasant debrief.

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Not pissed off enough. Lowey played the game down all week and it showed. Rubbed off on the players, no fight and no passion. Dare I say it, reminded me of Evatt. It's not just another game, he's even saying the same post match.

Was clear in the lead up to the match Bolton's threat was in the wide areas, most teams double up on their wide men, we just gave them the freedom of the park and they just got in behind our wing backs time and time again. Can't account for individual errors and all of the goals were avoidable but the tactics were naive in the extreme. Should have changed it after 20 mins.

Despite all that though one thing he is right on is that we have to move on quickly from it. Shouldn't let that game define our season. Plus, not saying w would've won but with Kerr, Carragher and Saydee in would've been a different game.

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Zakky said:

Latics player losing it
 

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Piss poor that there’s no security in place. Not sure which club it’d be up to given it’s our players but stuff like that is bound to happen if there’s nobody there to prevent it, it could possibly have been a lot worse.

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Go on lads fill your boots rip em to fuckin' pieces!

It won't happen again mark my words.

We got pasted today, it just may work in our favour a kick up the arse for everyone including Lowey.

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my mates is a pne fan he keeps telling me Lowe is a fraud no plan b and very rarely changes from his system and Schumacher was the brains behind the partnership personally I like Lowe but he's gonna have to adapt as performances line today's especially against them pricks won't go down well

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*in response to bottle gate*

What are the knuckle dragging pricks doing hanging around so long after the match?

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jeffs right said:

What are the knuckle dragging pricks doing hanging around so long after the match?

Because they are knuckle dragging pricks.

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I don't think I am 'exaggerating ' our mistakes....our mistakes were as good as assists. Our main flaws lies with RL & his baffling tinkering with a winning team from last week....merely to compensate for what he thought might be a Noblot threat. Yes on the day you get your win but had our boss had the balls to stand by last week's team it's a different game.....as I said on your win but it's not on a par with our last TEN years 

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I have a defense mechanism at times like this...I clear my memory bank of anything relating to today. We don't have a game until Tuesday night.

There, that feels better.

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wafcharvey said:

Congratulations HD. Bolton where better than us in every department today

We all know Bolton were better than us today but I would rather keep that to myself.

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Today we played a side who were in top form and will be up there pushing for promotion, they were excellent and we had an off day. We didn’t adjust quickly enough and the game was over before we even got going.

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Anyway what galls me about yesterday wasn't losing or particularly losing by 4 or the mistakes we made (alright it does). It was the way we went about the game. Forget systems and tactics - we lost that game in the first couple of minutes; a 50-50 with Murray and their left back, and he tried to put Murray and the ball into the stand. Set the tone straight away and it intimidated a good number of our players (Mullin excepted).

After that we lost virtually every 50-50, every second ball, ducked out of virtually every tackle. We just didn't try to compete with them. It was weak and gutless. It shamed the teams of 21, 23 and even last year who would never have allowed for that even if they may have lost were you to put them in place of yesterday's team. Some of them need to take a good look at themselves. That performance was Ian Evatt like which is the most damning thing I can say.

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Anyway I'd avoid Bolton town centre today as the open top bus parade will be annoying. Let the ugly bastards have their moment of joy , its the 1st time they've had a smile on their faces for years. Bless.

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We didn’t just get beat yesterday we got bloody hammered could quite possibly have been 7. Only for Sam Tickle. All out attack with pace. We simply couldn’t handle the pace. 

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beaten fairly no ref cock ups they were good we were beyond bad end of really

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As others have said, the whole team was a shambles from minute 3/4 after our first 2 corners. We then let them dictate the tempo, never put them under any serious derby day tackle and got what we deserved.....bugger all. Can you imagine the likes of James McClean not putting in a crunching tackle in had he been on the pitch. We lacked any belief or fight & that starts at the hands of Ryan Lowe.

 

That Frank Bullitt on there is one of the most two faced posters you’ll ever see.  He slagged off Maloney something rotten even if they won then when they got rid of him and appointed Lowe he backed himself into a corner saying how good he was but now despite yestersay being completely Lowes fault he has said it won’t happen again and it’s a one off.  Newflash Lowe has always been shit Plymouth fans I know say it PNE fans say it and all say SS was the brains behind those two. 

1 hour ago, matty2094 said:

Update... 😁

 

Beautiful 

A better manager would have changed it after half an hour, yes, some of the goals were giveaways (good pressing by us to force them) but we carved them open another 4-5 times of our own making. Can't see many other managers lining up with 3 at back against us if they've seen the footage. 

They were a bit better second half but the calamity for our 4th killed any chance of them threatening to get back into it. Mullin, to his credit, kept going to the end and took his goal well 

What a bunch of deluded pricks who can’t accept a defeat. 

The universe has a way of correcting itself. Yesterday was proof of that. 

These tinpot bastards would have needed 3 home games in a row to match the crowd we had yesterday.

3 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

The universe has a way of correcting itself. Yesterday was proof of that. 

These tinpot bastards would have needed 3 home games in a row to match the crowd we had yesterday.

Shame we can't attract that kind of crowd every week

40 minutes ago, L/H White said:

Shame we can't attract that kind of crowd every week

Average 21,371 so far this season. 

Decent for the third division.

42 minutes ago, Steejay said:

Average 21,371 so far this season. 

Decent for the third division.

And that’s without any big away followings other than Wigan.

We’re averaging over 20,000 home tickets sold, that’s sensational for a club of our size (ie not a Leeds or Derby) at this level. Especially when we’ve been at it for 5 fucking years

I bloody loved it yesterday, going to the match with my (grown up) lad, a few beers before and after, getting drenched on the way back to the station was all part of the day out.

Hoping to go again in a few weeks or so depending on work and will try and bag a couple of seats in the ESL towards the corner rather than being posh in LoV.

42 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

I bloody loved it yesterday, going to the match with my (grown up) lad, a few beers before and after, getting drenched on the way back to the station was all part of the day out.

Hoping to go again in a few weeks or so depending on work and will try and bag a couple of seats in the ESL towards the corner rather than being posh in LoV.

Come and join the fun In crazy corner that's if you can see past Gonzo's big fat head

52 minutes ago, Eddie said:

And that’s without any big away followings other than Wigan.

We’re averaging over 20,000 home tickets sold, that’s sensational for a club of our size (ie not a Leeds or Derby) at this level. Especially when we’ve been at it for 5 fucking years

Bolton metropolitan Borough has a population of around 280,000 iirc.

Liverpool City Region, has a population of around 1.5m. That's well over 5 times as many.

Reds and blues get around 100,000 fans combined.

That's around 5 times what we get.

They are both in the premier league, and the red lot get many tourists.

Proportionally, doesn't that make us better supported?

 

 

That number 7 if theirs, I said in the first half he’s probably the worst player I’ve ever seen. One paced, weak, bit lazy, couldn’t control the ball and never showed for it. 
 

Turns out he’s called Murray and Wigan fans think he’s the best player in the division 😂

5 hours ago, ianofcleveleys said:

A better manager would have changed it after half an hour, yes, some of the goals were giveaways (good pressing by us to force them) but we carved them open another 4-5 times of our own making. Can't see many other managers lining up with 3 at back against us if they've seen the footage. 

They were a bit better second half but the calamity for our 4th killed any chance of them threatening to get back into it. Mullin, to his credit, kept going to the end and took his goal well 

Yes, a begrudging credit to Mullin.  I commented after about 15 minutes that he'd be a passenger in such a high tempo, fast game as he doesn't have pace, and his only hope would be his trademark header from a corner.  If I'd known then they'd have 16 corners I'd have been worried, but he had no impact at all from them.  Instead, he made a nuisance of himself and didn't moan or try to blame teammates, he just got on with it, and scored a great goal.  We're well beyond his level now but 5 years ago he would have been a great (cheapish) signing and he would have scored plenty for us.

3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Bolton metropolitan Borough has a population of around 280,000 iirc.

Liverpool City Region, has a population of around 1.5m. That's well over 5 times as many.

Reds and blues get around 100,000 fans combined.

That's around 5 times what we get.

They are both in the premier league, and the red lot get many tourists.

Proportionally, doesn't that make us better supported?

 

 

I suppose the counter argument is that the reason they "only" get 100k combined is because that's what their grounds hold.  If they held 200k they'd still fill them, and the rest.  And that's without including how many watch by other means, in this country and around the world (sadly).  Most clubs outside that elite level have to offer cheap tickets to attract more fans, no such issues for them, they can charge what the hell they want and if locals don't buy them, foreign tourists will.