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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 13, 2019 21:01:30 GMT
Just coming home from a corporate do at MUFC watching Urinals v Wet Spam in the 1999 Suite and the guest speaker was none other than Alan Gowling. He didn’t know the score of our game but when I told him he was truly saddened and had nothing but contempt for Ken Anderson and the shenanigans at our beloved Wanderers. Claiming that the players have given up. I showed him a picture on my phone of him in action In his Umbro Wanderers shirt. circa 79 and he recalls the good and bad times under Greavsie, but nothing compares to now in his words. I felt like crying I really did and he also fears for our predicament. I mentioned Bassini and he’s said as much as we have, out of the frying pan etc etc
Hopefully, the best we can hope for is that the name of BWFC remains when all this shit has settled😞😞😞
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 12:02:10 GMT
Did no-one go to the game? Only match report from AlpTrotter based on ifollow.
I see most relegation candidates, bar us, got a good, or unexpected result yesterday. Even Wigan, playing the leaders Norwich, have a 1-0 lead at halftime, through a penalty.
Are we really that bad? Or, has the team given up?
1. Under Parky's tactics, now they realize they don't work, or
2. No pay, no play.
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Post by whitesince63 on Apr 14, 2019 12:07:36 GMT
I hope and believe that good people are working on saving the club rftr and that doesn't include Bassini, who I think is just a front. I think it's now a case of legal means of getting the club from Anderson which will probably entail Administration but hopefully not Liquidation. I genuinely think all interested parties are determined not to see that. It seems that Ken has now deserted the club completely, he's tied considerable debts to the club not himself, so can sit back whilst potential saviours try to unravel the mess he's left. I can't believe there isn't some element of illegality in what he's done but obviously that has to be proved. What's undeniable however, is that Anderson is every bit the disguisting, low life crook we all believed him to be. He probably knows that once this is all resolved, however that is, he will never be able to hold a Directors position again either in football or elsewhere and is making sure he milks this situation for as much as he can while he can.
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Post by Alptrotter on Apr 14, 2019 12:21:27 GMT
Did no-one go to the game? Only match report from AlpTrotter based on ifollow.“.
Believe me, Wots, watching the games on tv in all their gory detail gives one a pretty good idea of what’s going on. Especially when the inane and very frequently inaccurate commentary of Tower FM is muted ( does this man actually know any of the Bolton players, or should he go to Specsavers? Or is he simply too busy reading out scores from other games to notice what’s going on if front of him? ) Whatever, believe me, he gives no kind of useful account of the games at all.
As to your questions, in my view
Sadly we have really become that bad. Many games start relatively evenly, because there are a lot of mediocre teams in this league. However, as soon as the opposition score, our heads go down and the players look as if they have no belief that they can get back into the game. Of course, there are some exceptions, but that, in my view is definitely the rule. And when you consider our utterly toothless attack, guileless midfield, too frequently jittery defence and ultra cautious tactics, it’s no wonder.
1 and 2 I’d say that many of the team have been going through the motions for a long time now, but Parky’s recent gift to them, to explain their poor performances in terms of the pay dispute has moved that to another level. I’m sure i t’s not only Olkowski who is bitterly regretting joining Bolton. For me, it’s now utterly irrefutable that Parky needs to go, that the team needs to be fashioned in the remaining games with next season in mind and that means promote from within. If things carry on like this, if we are still around next season, , I can see a very weak squad ( even for League One), a totally exhausted and clueless coach and a -12 point starting position.I fear that our fall has not finished yet!
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Post by whitesince63 on Apr 14, 2019 13:53:19 GMT
As long as we're still alive and Parky and Anderson are gone Alp, I frankly don't care how weak we are. If it's a case of stabilising and building again, then I'm fine with that. I don't actually share your pessimism though. I think if this mess is resolved, the EFL will minimise any punishment against the club as they must be suffering some level of embarrassment and responsibility for allowing this corrupt, disguisting cowboy back into the game. OK he'd served his ban but that surely doesn't mean he can just freely be considered a suitable owner for our club? They've cocked up and they must be made to know that and forced to tighten up their rules in future. hopefully that will rule out Bassini getting involved, though I don't personally believe his involvement anyway. Whatever, the seasons over for me now and until change happens I have very little interest in on field activity.
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