Morecambe Match - OFF

I'd like to read the preview RTF, as I'm sure others would too. If the next match is called off, it'll save 'til it's played.

As far as nothing to do, you could always give me some tips on the other games.

The way things are going I suspect it’s only a matter of time before football generally gets canned again. With the likelihood that all areas will shortly be put back into Tier4 I can’t see sport being allowed to continue unaffected. In a worst case scenario it could end up cancelling the season again so maybe January signings will be a waste anyway? The vaccine should help for next season but there’s no way they can vaccinate enough people to help this season I’m afraid. I fear the worst.

www.mansfieldtown.net/news/2020/december/salford-match/

another one postponed in Lge 2. due to snow, not Covid..although Covid played it's part as they were unable to get
in the usual number of supporters/volunteers to clear it.


our game being off help should help us. we'll be fresher for Sat'day ( if that one goes ahead ) & Morecambe, when we
eventually play them are almost certain to be in worse form. 4 straight wins right now. and they have been
a bit up & down. top spot after game 5. yet down to 14th by game 14..now back up again.
as you might expect with negative goal diff.

these handy little graphs plot their lge position :
www.footballwebpages.co.uk/morecambe/league-progress


this is what our graph looks like. just briefly making an appearance in that top half
before dropping back down with a poor December.

www.footballwebpages.co.uk/bolton-wanderers/league-progress


this season has long since reminded me of the 2012/13 season..back in the ch'ship after relegation from the Prem.
first under Coyle then Freedman came in.

www.footballwebpages.co.uk/bolton-wanderers/league-progress/2012-2013

back then, we thought we'd just walk this Championship lark. it's all beneath us.
after an ok start, we then never looked like getting back into the top half.
never looked like getting relegated.
we sink even lower at week 29 in 20th position. then non-stop progress . still in play off spot up to wk 45.
then that Blackpool game. no Craig Dawson who'd largely been the catalyst for the recovery. grabbing 4 lge
goals in just half a season & almost instantly getting the defence to keep clean sheets.

for that last game... many fans seem to obsess about the Rob Hall selection. I admit it's not ideal..far bigger
issue for me..Zat is partnering Ream at centre back ..while Wheater is on the bench. Zat is also captain of course.
Ream always did his best work at left back didn't he.

www.skysports.com/football/bolton-vs-blackpool/teams/262270

not one part of that good run did I think DF was a good manager. Evatt supposedly has his red lines...win ball back in 6 secs.
we're yet to see that. i have my red lines too. make Knight captain. = you're an idiot.

try to tell us Santos is super speedy. & Crellin commands his area well. = you're an idiot. there is no need to come out with this drivel.
it's not backing players. say things that are true, and honest if you wish to do that.

I fully expect us to make progress up the lge. whether we'll do enough for the play-offs, i'm not sure.
it's certainly possible. but just like it didn't in 2012/13, it won't mean the manager is the real deal.

Although I didn't go to it, i've got fairly clear memories of it being reported when DF announced Knight as captain at one of these fans forums things with the Chairman and Manager at the Reebok/macron.....
a good 30% of the crowd couldn't contain their laughter, and probably another 30% were too polite to do so.


don't know if anyone went or can confirm that. ?

although i do like Santos way more than Knight, there is still shades of that Freedman/knight axis in Evatt/Santos . look at the chances he's been given. I was looking back earlier at the forum reports
for the one lge game Taft has started..vs Newport it was. nobody thought he was awful. Andy L gave him a 6 compared to the minus 5 he gave Santos. everyone was saying..RS must be dropped.
but Taft gets dropped. we know he dropped a clanger at ( in the cup) Shrewsbury, but then again they are a division higher, and his only (lge) game was against a side which has led the Div pretty much ever since.
some seem to have this licence to commit errors. while others do 1, and you're sent to the Gulag.
we know what it is really..he feels Crellin and Santos are key to his build it from the back stuff...and that's why they get/got endless chances.

Agree totally OM, Evatt gives the impression of being the oracle yet he’s really still wet behind the ears. I admire confidence and also commitment to a belief but there’s a fine line between that and stubbornness. It’s also important to know your limitations and also those of people working for you. IE seems to believe some of his players can do things they aren’t capable of and seems to have a mental block on some of them repeatedly failing. Crellin was the obvious example and I can’t believe continually exposing him to ridicule from fans hasn’t damaged him. There’s clearly no way he can ever play for us again so he must go back to Fleetwood in January for me when he is replaced. Evatt seems to have a similar block with Santos who really could do with a rest. Like you I actually saw nothing wrong with Taft and since unlike Santos,he’s actually experienced at this level. He might also at least leave the ground occasionally when aerially challenged which Santos never seems to do. A little humility might go a long way with Evatt and a realisation that everybody understands he’s relatively inexperienced and is still learning his trade. Most I think would be more than happy to give him time but believing his own publicity certainly won’t help him in the long run.