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Post by davidm on Feb 16, 2019 11:02:47 GMT
4 hours to kick-off and no thread yet for this match.
Usual questions:-
- Will the manager play the finishing side from Birmingham?
- Will he revert to one isolated striker?
- Will any young ones get near the team? I know that Luca Connell is injured but where is Pritchard? He is suddenly missing from the squad and the oldies (Dyer etc) are back in?
- Who will play left back? Will Grounds return?
- How will the manager approach this game? Will it be his usual preferred everyone behind the ball and hope to grab something on the break or has he seen the light and realised that a bit of deliberate attacking doesn’t half cheer the fans up?
In my mind, I am still a pessimist (forced that way by 2½ years of this manager). I think he will revert to type. We will concede possession and Norwich will score.
Can’t see anything other than a depressing defeat here.
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 16, 2019 11:30:45 GMT
Just shows the apathy and lack of interest David.
Answers to your questions though, should be very easy.
No
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Grounds
Parkinson has neither the intelligence, confidence or belief to play the team that finished at Birmingham, despite the fact he admitted himself how well they did and actually won.
Just leaving it in tact would not only be the sensible thing to do but also give a huge vote of confidence as well as reward to the players who finished. Sadly, Parky knows nothing about instilling confidence in either players or supporters. Yet again he's told the players this morning that they aren't good enough to expect anything from today's game. I'm sure Prestons players weren't told that against them. It makes you weep with the constant negativity that pervades the club under this man. I'd really love to be proved wrong in all this today but nfortunately David I also have to agree with your last sentence below.
Can't see anything other than a depressing defeat here.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 14:12:02 GMT
It's a catch 22 situation being a Bolton fan we're damed if we do and if we don't, what I mean by that is if we win we are stuck with Parky for the foreseeable future but if we lose whoever comes in might just get rid of him. 2-1 win for me but still get shut of Parky. COYWM
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 15:41:29 GMT
0-3 game over back to the drawing board we can forget about staying up unless we beat the teams in the bottom half of the table. COYWM
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:22:38 GMT
0-4 you're havin a laugh we are truly getting a beating it's totally embarrassing just resign Parky give us a chance. We asked for change and it hasn't worked. COYWM
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:28:47 GMT
Penalty saved by Mathews could have been 5 to be fair it could have been double figures but for Mathews. COYWM
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:58:45 GMT
0-4 well I don't know what to say but 0-4 at home it's got to be time to go. COYWM
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Post by andyl on Feb 16, 2019 17:10:13 GMT
Completely outclassed. I hope Phil P took a lesson in how football is played.
But for Matthews we'd have shipped ten!
We did not get near enough to expose their known frailty. It was a case of chasing shadows minus the chasing. They were so much fitter thsn us.
Murphy showed good touch or pass here and there. Noone was tenaciius if a fish out of water. Magennis tried, Ameobi offered a bit of skill and Williams when introduced fought quite well.
Norwich are a very impressive team and we played to their strenghts throughout.
Matthews 9 2 Bar
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Post by Alptrotter on Feb 16, 2019 17:14:59 GMT
Words really fail me after such a feeble, uncommitted and craven performance. I don’t want to hear about injuries, or we have no money. These are supposed to be
professional footballers and, Matthews & to a lesser extent Noone apart, there were a disgrace.
The defence was a shambles from start to finish, the midfield had no one who had the skill or confidence to get on the ball and use it creatively and our two forwards ( hooray!) never really had a sniff, just chased after aimless punts. Norwich played a simple pass and move style which we just couldn’t cope with. Their straightforward runs were idiotically ignored by our defence and, in all honesty, it should have been 7 or 8.
Norwich are not great defensively, but we look like we simply don’t believe we’ll ever score again.
Thoroughly depressing. I can’t even summon up the energy to argue for Parky to go. He’s destroyed whatever qualities the squad contains and yet people persist in arguing he’s done a great job for nearly three years. It beggars belief.
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Post by bonaparte on Feb 16, 2019 17:55:51 GMT
Nothing to add to Andy and Al, they have said it all.
Left before full time, not done that since 1970.
Couldn't see anything to stay for.
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Post by davidm on Feb 16, 2019 19:15:03 GMT
Yet again, a dreadful home performance.
We are at home and choose to get 9 men (sometimes more) behind the ball and sit back.
I hate our style of play.
We set off and after a brief flurry when Donaldson headed well wide, we just sat back with most of our players behind the ball. We made no attempt to win the ball until Norwich got to our area and we were not too successful at it even then.
Matthews made a couple of good early saves.
Our style of play invited Norwich to score and they did from our free kick. We lofted the ball in, it was headed out to the wing where Murphy made a ridiculous lunge to tackle and missed everything. This resulted in Pukki being one on one with Noone and he just turned him inside out before scoring. Noone is not a defender and it showed here.
From then on it was a procession.
We just stopped covering; we stopped marking and stopped any form of tackling.
The 2nd and 3rd goals both bordered on the edge of offside but, in reality, our defence and midfield just did not cover any runners.
In between all this mayhem, Matthews made 2 or 3 excellent saves or else half time would have 5-0 or more.
Second half, we brought on Ameobi and Williams but it made no difference and we just slept as Pukki + others ran clean through the centre of the defence to make it 4.
Lowe then ridiculously chopped down Pukki for a penalty which Matthews saved well.
I have totally lost heart with watching this abysmal negative hoofball football.
One other comment – we had 5 kick-offs. All 5 went back to Lowe who hoofed the ball high into the sky and the Norwich defence immediately gained possession from all 5. What a tactic!
We are doomed to relegation.
We are doomed to keep this manager until Anderson leaves.
There is little hope.
We must be the poorest passing side in all of the division. I watched Sunderland v Accrington Stanley last night and Accrington were brilliant, They would slaughter us with their quality passing.
There is little else to stay. A dreadful weak midfield, slow ponderous defence and weak attack so what chance do we have.
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Matthews - 9 Thank goodness for Remi Matthews today. But for him, we would have lost 8-0 or worse.
Olkowski - 3 Atrocious. Didn’t get forward enough for a wing back and defensively caught out endlessly.
Lowe - 2 Back 3 in the first half and midfield in the second and he was awful in both positions. His passing is dreadful.
Wheater - 3 Given the run-around by fast forwards.
Beevers - 3 Same as Wheater, couldn’t cope with the movement of Norwich’s forwards.
Noone - 3 Played wing back. Tried hard and had a lot of the ball (in Bolton terms) but his passing really consisted of high balls upfront which went straight to Norwich possession.
Connolly - 2 Oh Dear. Totally aimless performance. Given an absolute run-around by much better midfield players.
Murphy - 2 After a few decent performances, this was abysmal. He gave away umpteen fouls in the 1st half which were really due to him being too slow to appreciate what was happening.
Vela - 2 He was absolutely lost. Deservedly substituted at half time.
Donaldson - 3 A real struggle.
Magennis - 3 Just got long balls aimed at him with little support.
Ameobi - 3 On for the second half and contributed little.
Williams - 3 Second half sub. Caught in possession a couple of times.
Manager - 1 Usual negative rubbish.
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Post by davidm on Feb 16, 2019 19:16:53 GMT
I can’t even summon up the energy to argue for Parky to go. He’s destroyed whatever qualities the squad contains and yet people persist in arguing he’s done a great job for nearly three years. It beggars belief. 100% agree |
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Post by davidm on Feb 16, 2019 19:19:51 GMT
Parkinson shook hands with their manager before the final whistle then walked down the tunnel immediately on the whistle.
What is that about?
He obviously doesn't want to hear the crowd's reaction.
He is hiding away.
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Post by OohMac on Feb 16, 2019 21:00:51 GMT
Truth is he doesnt care a jot what any Bolton fans thought. If he did he would be long gone.
He knows hes in a job for however long he wants it and he can tell Marc Iles a load of rubbish and on Tuesday he can get back to his "we will get through this. Keep the faith"
Im listening to the Jack Dearden podcast at the moment. He says if we stay up Phil deserves manager of the year!
He does concede that he doesnt think we will. But manager of the year? Are you kidding.
Weve won 3 in 23 games i believe. To stay up would say we need to win double that in half the time. I would let Phil handpick his opponents from any of the league clubs and still think he wouldnt manage it.
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Post by bonaparte on Feb 17, 2019 17:28:09 GMT
Watching Doncaster, watched Newport, div 1 against prem teams.
More football from both div 1 sides than from our pathetic pp
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