Bolton to sign Hull City left back Brandon Fleming on loan

Not seen it confirmed. Also amazed Madine gone back to Blackpool(make your own donkey jokes).

I'd say out transfer activity is confusing. Want players for next season, but will sign a player on a 4 year deal at Hull for experience.

Need players to help the young players. Bring in a young player with very little game time.

You would think the January window really gets started around November. What do we need? Who can we get? Who is out?

I know a lot of that is knock on and things change but Keith Hill seems to be treating Jan window like a Black Friday at Currys. "Grab that its half price. Whatever it is. Dont let these get it, seriously though what is it?"

Keith knew the cards he was dealt when he took the job. A plum job for a ‘Boltonian’ an early Christmas present, I bet he couldn’t believe his luck walking into the hotel of this magnificent football stadium for his interview (presuming it was held at the ground)
He must have believed he could, at the very least, scab a few wins, a few draws, the odd defeat here and there based on his previous managerial record and still take the expectant relegation certainties Bolton Wanderers into L2 with a modicum of respectability, but it’s turned into his worst nightmare.
Scraping the barrel for sympathy are a new part of his constant monologues as seen on today’s BN where he notes the sad loss of his father to cancer. Keith, we are both roughly the same age and have both recently lost our fathers to the Big C as I’m sure many others have, but we do NOT bleat on about it in the public domain, that was a very cheap shot and poor relationship management with your employers and the fans.
On the new signing!!! Totally pathetic. He must be recruited purely to avoid many other drubbings for the here and now and is nothing to do with long term strategy and for that reason and that reason only, you must be replaced as soon as practicably possible.
Sorry Keith but I don’t want a manager helping other clubs out (Hull) I mean, crikey, if your that desperate, why not go the whole hog and take Magennis back on loan as it’s goals we need. Goals win games
Then again, Accy, Rotherham, Lincoln 😡😡😡

Well if they were Parkys nominations, why are you blaming KH for their poor performance? Let’s be honest here, he had little or no choice of who to sign and whether they would fit his system. To be fair, it initially looked good with Verlinden, Crawford and Bridcutt excelling and Chicksen and Emanuel looking reasonable. The football was good and we were getting results then the injuries and sendings off hit, performance since then has been dire and I think the pressure and poor performance by players has frustrated KH. I’m not saying he hasn’t thrown fuel on the fire by his rantings but I’m giving him this window to make squad adjustments and judge him at the end of the season. nobody should underestimate the difficulties he’s under but also shouldn’t judge how he deals with them. He knew the problems when he joined so no point complaining now. Basically he’s 100% right in saying we need to build now and tie the right players down to longer and more permanent contracts. We can’t be losing over half the squad at the end of the season and expect to hit the ground running next year when I for one hope to see us bounce straight back up.

I’m not trying to defend KH Kenglo but I do think he’s getting a few unjustified pelters at the moment. Obviously I’m as frustrated with things as you are and his almost unintelligible ramblings don’t help his cause. Obviously we’d all love him to hurry up and make signings but we have to understand that his potential targets, assuming they’re any good, are also being chased by others and they may be waiting for a better deal than we can offer. I doubt Verlinden will be back but Bridcutt may be if nobody else takes him on. Keith Hill was not a choice for me as manager and the jury’s still well out on him but I do think he needs to be given this window to sign players he wants and he believes can deliver for him. If he can’t do that by the end of the season then for me he has to go but for the moment I’m right behind him in the hope he can pull it off.

As this thread is about our latest left back signing I think it only fair to say I think Fleming looks good and had a fair game against strong pysical opponents. In fact the whole performance was encouraging with more possession particularly in the second half. Ironically without Daryl Murphy we were able to attack and co-ordinate better from midfield, only lacking his finishing touch on occasion. Both Politic and Darcy looked good in this attacking role, and Lowe filled in well for the unlucky Edwards at centre back in the second half. O'Grady somehow doesn't look the part, but Politic in a more central role looked good along with the ever improving Darcy. Both of these guys had shots well saved by Bass in the Pompey goal. I must say I am in the camp that felt Raggett should have been sent of for his foul on Dodoo. The fact that a card was issued, but not red, took no account whatsoever of the position of the foul, and the players that Pompeyy might have had to make further challenges. Yet another ref from the Mike Riley academy.