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Post by davidm on Mar 9, 2021 15:10:58 GMT
An important match tonight.
A win and we are breathing down their necks but a draw or loss and automatic promotion looks difficult.
I presume it will be more or less the same staring line-up. The only decision each match seems to be to pick one from Isgrove, Delfouneso or Maddison.
I want to see us improve on the final ball into the box – too many times this ball is blocked and, despite all our possession, we do not get many clear cut chances.
I still haven’t forgiven Cambridge for beating us to promotion way back in Phil Neal’s days. They are just an awkward side to play against. We should have won there this season but for a terrible mistake by Crellin and a lousy linesman so it is time we beat them.
Always positive, so I predict a tight 1-0 win
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 9, 2021 15:45:29 GMT
It would be nice to get any type of win on today of all days (Burnden disaster)
I’ll take another scrappy boring ugly 1 niller if it gets the 3 points but it doesn’t half annoy me that Morecambe, FGR, Oldham, Trashmere and the like all manage to get up to 3 or even 4 goals in some games (because that’s how poor this league really is) but yet we struggle throughout most games to really put pressure on opponents and worry them that they’re in for a right good hiding (beyond 3 goals)
When are we going to stamp our ownership on this league with a telling performance that makes others sit up and take note?
We must be seen as boring boring Bolton
COYWM let’s do this⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Post by andyl on Mar 9, 2021 16:04:58 GMT
I've mentioned before on here that 9 March, the date of the Burnden disaster, is coincidentally my birthday. I'm always chastened by the thought that had my father who was in the crowd that day been in a different part of the ground ( he was on that side) then I might not have existed at all , still less for him commemorated and for the most part improved the ill omened day.
So ,with that bounce I'm looking to a tight victory tonight. They are a fairly direct team and should suit our counter-attacking strengths. Surely, we are going to stop missing easy chances and find some composure for the final ball soon. I imagine Evatt will opt for a similar team. personally, I'd like to see Maddison start. He offers more threat than the others and more of the time if we get on the front foot or even during transitions. I'd also like to see Thomason have a bit more of a game. Lee and Williams are indeed our best holding midfielders. Lee, although not 100% fit is arguably our best player-at least I think so. Nevertheless Thomason is really good when we are moving forward and actually can play a final pass or a fast switch of play in a way the shorter passing Williams and Lee can't quite
At the start of the season and indeed in the published salaries, Sarcevic, Doyle and Delfouneso were our marquee signings. I'm not convinced that any command a starting place or a right to 90 minutes? Doyle is hard working but needs help and service, Sarcevic is too in and out and far too often tries to be too clever rather than playing someone in and Delfouneso, as often remarked , does not do enough and offers only moments. I think that if we were to be promoted all three would have to be changed? For now though I just hope they offer enough moments to win the majority of remaining games, starting tonight.
Time for the new keeper? Not sure. Gilks kept us in it the other day, but I still sense that he is in need of his sweater soon.?
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Post by whitesince63 on Mar 9, 2021 16:06:32 GMT
I don’t think that we’re boring rftr, we get forward and into good positions as much as anybody but as David says above, it’s our final ball or dead ball situations that are lacking, meaning chances are reduced and goals not scored. I don’t think I can remember a season where we have tested opposition keepers less and nor do I recall a team with less scoring intent than this one. When other teams score they immediately seem to want another but when we score we just don’t seem to have that killer instinct to go and get another. In fact the only time they seem to up their game is when they’re behind and chasing it. Only Maddison and Dapo and to a lesser extent Arthur, appear to me to head for goal, all the others seem to want to go sideways and round. I’m sure if we were more direct and by that I don’t mean by lumping it, I mean by running at defenders and into the box from central positions, we’d get more return. In fairness, we don’t really have a cutting edge. Doyle is ok to a point but he isn’t prolific, so hopefully if we can scrape through games until the end of the season, IE with the ability to pay fees at last, maybe able to bring in someone better in the Summer, certainly if we’re promoted. Like against Bradford, I don’t have any real fears from Cambridge tonight and consequently think we’ll have another comfortable performance and narrow win, so I’ll go 2-1 to the Whites.
Happy birthday Andy and like yours, my father and my uncle were also at the game. Fortunately they were in the Lever end but it was something they never forgot and not will any wanderers fan. Have a good day and hopefully a good result tonight too?
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Post by OohMac on Mar 9, 2021 17:05:09 GMT
Excited for this game.
Think whenever we've played a top team we've been nervous and edgy and not really took a game to them. Now is a great time to win the match but mentally throw down the gauntlet to a team in the automatic spots. A convincing win would really set it up and have those above worried that the true Bolton have turned up. We beat Cambridge and theres no way I see us not finishing above them.
No real need for changes. My personal preference is Thomason at home for MJ or Lee or maybe all 3 and no Sarcevic or Delfouenso GT in a much more advanced role with Ghanoua and Afolyan either side of Doyle.
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Post by davidm on Mar 9, 2021 18:04:10 GMT
I presume it will be more or less the same staring line-up. The only decision each match seems to be to pick one from Isgrove, Delfouneso or Maddison. Well it's Delfouneso who starts tonight - Isgrove & Maddison on the bench |
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Post by whitesince63 on Mar 9, 2021 18:51:32 GMT
Quel surprise!! Did you really expect anything else David? Everyone else in the side I can see but this continual rotation of Isgrove and Delfouneso, neither of whom contribute enough for me, just increases my belief in Evatt’s stubbornness. Why don’t we score enough? There’s two of the main reasons. I don’t want to be negative because you can’t question our recent run of results but I do think on this one Evatt’s got it wrong and both Maddison and Gnahoua would be a bigger threat to opponents. I’m just hoping when it does eventually dawn on IE after 60 minutes that Fonz has done nothing that it’s not Isgrove that replaces him, or the air in Barnsley may well be a little blue. On the positive side I’ve finally got the sound sorted on my laptop so I don’t have to squint at the iPad tonight. Let’s hope the it’s not the only positive!!
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Post by davidm on Mar 9, 2021 19:51:41 GMT
Scrappy start then excellent
Could (should?) be 3 or 4
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Post by whitesince63 on Mar 9, 2021 19:53:42 GMT
Terrific half, every player good tonight and well worth the 2-0 lead which could easily have been more. If Cambridge are an indication of the better teams in this league it just illustrates how good Wanderers are and why we should fear nobody. We need to push on now in the second half and build on this and not sit back satisfied because we know how games can turn. Cambridge won’t know what to do now because if they attack us to get back in the game we will pick them off at the back. Come on Whites, another 2 in this half please.
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Post by andyl on Mar 9, 2021 20:02:19 GMT
Really good. Sarcevic and Doyle at best . Lee, Dapo.
I do disagree ws63 re every player. Essentially until added time Delfouneso made three lateral runs and nothing else.
The risk is that because we are on top and playing with ten the better players could fade and Cambridge carry a real threat. Use of subs will really matter but it would be great if he got Maddison on asap and he took us to 3.
Splendidvplay overall. We look really good
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 9, 2021 20:02:21 GMT
Terrific half, every player good tonight and well worth the 2-0 lead which could easily have been more. If Cambridge are an indication of the better teams in this league it just illustrates how good Wanderers are and why we should fear nobody. We need to push on now in the second half and build on this and not sit back satisfied because we know how games can turn. Cambridge won’t know what to do now because if they attack us to get back in the game we will pick them off at the back. Come on Whites, another 2 in this half please. Fantastic half W63 and I never said we were boring I was merely stating thats perhaps how we are perceived by other supporters COYWM more of the same⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ |
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Post by bonaparte on Mar 9, 2021 20:21:23 GMT
Oh Andy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by davidm on Mar 9, 2021 21:01:24 GMT
Phew!
Frantic finish but deserved win
Second match running when the substitutions have made us worse
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Post by whitesince63 on Mar 9, 2021 21:04:23 GMT
Don’t want to put a damper on tonight but that’s not the first mistake Gilks has made and if that had been Billy Crellin he’d have been slaughtered but why oh why can we not kill games off when we’re on top? Just like Bradford on Saturday we should have won that game at a canter but ended up hanging on. Cambridge could easily have scored another and our automatic promotion hopes would have been in tatters. Still, they’re not so onward and upward. Brilliant performance tonight until Gilks howler, never looked in danger and some of the football tonight was sublime. On to Port Vale now and let’s hope we can get our own back for their visit to the UniBol earlier in the season.
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Post by kenglowhite on Mar 9, 2021 21:06:55 GMT
Things went backwards after bringing Maddison on. I don't see what he brings to the party. Very tense at the end, but the overall performance until then had made it easy to watch for us. After an immaculate display sad to see another boob by Gilks.
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