BWFC v Wimbledon

I just feel davidm, that Evatt will put his heel digging boots on and go with the side that started v Burton, just to prove his point that ‘we cannot pick the same 11’ which might sound contradictory in terms

Hope I’m wrong with that and he starts with Dion and Dapo. Bod needs more reserve games to get him up to speed

funny side Wimbledon. only won 6 games. only Gill's and Crewe have won less.
yet they don't lose that many. 12. 1 less than our 13 losses. so you can probably guess the middle bit. draw specialists. 13 draws . more than anyone in the Div.
and of course , in the reverse fixture we drew 3-3.

the last time they won a lge game was 7th Dec !!. no wins in their last 12 lge games !! .

so I would expect a win, but one thing with them being 1 pt above the drop zone is that they will be motivated. they are not one of those midtable teams
who switch off at this stage of the season.

looked at their individuals. none worth mentioning really. much of a muchness. DavidM already covered 2 of their better ones who are out. goalscoring and assists. 3 or 4 on 4's and 5's.
no-one i'd heard of and none stood out as worth a mention.

they are decent away from home. 4 of their 6 wins away. just 2 at home. generally they score. not big on clean sheets.
interesting of their 6 wins. only 1 was versus a top half side. (oxford ) and that was at home. so no away wins against a top half side.

for set piece goals. they are ranked 5th overall. away from home that ranking goes up to 2nd. only Rotherham have more on 9, to Wimbledons 8. so that could be a concern , hot on the heels of Burton.


few stats on us :

topscorers :

Dapo 10
Dion 5 already !
Doyle 5
Baka 5
K Lee 5
Sheehan 4
Sarce 3
John /Kacha- both on 2
all these on 1 -
Baps, Fossey, Johnston, Amaechi, Thomason & Aimson.

assists :

John / Lee - both 5.
Kacha/Dapo 3
Dion, Jones, Morley, Fossey , Mj - ALL ON 2.
Baka, sarce, doyle, johnston, trafford, sheehan, gordon. -all on 1.


prediction :

fairly comfy I would expect. they might just nick one back. hmmm ...3-1 or 2-1. i'll go 2-1 . we certainly can't afford too many more slip ups .there will be some
but they really have to come at the end of another decent little run of results to really build the momentum back.

Yeah back to the A team tomorrow. Like last season we dont win easily in any games, that Sunderland was an anomaly.

2-1 may need to come back from behind again. Confidence in this defence needs to be built back up. Still think every CB has questions about them.

How many times can you say "an uncharacteristic mistake from Santos" before it just becomes "characteristic"?

So although my hope is play offs realistically if we ever got ourselves promoted our shopping list would be
2 Goalkeepers, 4 centre backs, Right back, Left back, DM, AM, left wiger, right winger, forward.

This season we kept blind faith in Doyle. Thought Gordon and Brockbank were good enough cover. Kept Tutte on. Allowed Delfouenso and Baptiste and Gilks to stay on and believed Thomason was ready.

We cannot carry any passengers in the championship. Anyway thats for another day. 2-1. Lets hope its not too windy. Wimbeldon will be calling in Dave Bassett for route 1 coaching sessions, and they'd work a treat too.

Ha, it does seem a bit like that Chip, we do like to make things difficult for ourselves but I think we’ll win comfortably today. The changes Evatt made on Tuesday, whilst understandable, just didn’t work and I’m sure he’s learned from that, so I expect us to be back to a more trusted eleven tomorrow. Neither Bod nor Baka are regular starters for me if Dapo and Charles are fit but I do understand the need to sometimes rotate your squad depending on conditions and the opposition. I am though firmly in the “play your best 11” camp and don’t like the unforced switching and fiddling with the first team. After this coming week we’re back to Saturday football so Evatt won’t have the excuse of two games a week to change teams and rest players, so let’s see how he deals with all the players he’s brought in as well as those like Kacha and Izzy who are nearly fit again. He’s going to have some hard decisions to make! I’m at the game too so you and your son take care and hopefully enjoy.

Thanks for that owdon, it’s damp, breezy and cold here so I’ll check to cross Pennines routes before I set off. Don’t think the snow will settle but you can never be sure.

Our defence really worries me, I can’t go into games feeing too confident in the win, I might hope and predict that we’ll win, but my nerves are on the brink and our defence sh!ts me up

We could come a cropper today😬😬


10,588 crowd for a top of the table clash between the top two. Absolutely pathetic
Wanderers v Wednesday, Sunderland, Ipswich and you’re talking 22,000 for starters

Seeing that Vinny Jones clip on the other thread reminded me of the time we played The Dons at Burnden all them years back. They beat us 3-1 if my mind serves me well but he wasn’t a footballer, he was just a bloody thug with boots on

YESSSSS get innnnnnn⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

Is it Dion yet again

Nope
It’s Dapo⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️