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Post by OohMac on Nov 4, 2022 7:41:33 GMT
Well i'll be honest I havent botheres to change my clocks, or reset the clocks on the oven or car radios. So Saturday will seem normal for kick off at 3pm. For everyone else more organised it will be the stranger time of 2pm.
Bolton are 4 time cup winners. Barnsley on 1. The shirts will be commemorative 100 years since the White horse final and of all team available in this round both are pretty much right at the top. So a TV snub seems hard to take especially on a week where fans learnt that Christmas was ruined(well boxing day)
Unlike my clocks though Bolton definitely need to change and reset and this is the perfect example. We know from recent times that Barnsley will come, let us have all the ball and look for a sucker punch. Michael Duff, not for me, rarely is keen on a surprise attack. So can see Ian wanting to keep to his game plan as we will probably have stats of 70% possession but low shots on target and EXG.
I'll he honest I dont know if our loaners are cup tied? Assume not but could be wrong.
My team
Trafford Jones Santos Johnson Iredale
Bradley Dempsey Morley Dapo
Sadlier Charles
Looks like a 442 but in truth Sadlier probably drops in to link up and make it 433. Obviously means no place for Lee, Sheehan, MJ, Thomason, John, Bodvarsson or Baka, Isgrove, Kachunga. Which does show how big or squad is but also how quite needlessly similar our players are and how January we could cut back without diluting the quaility.
Whichever team,and system, we play it likely will be a tight game. An early goal helps our game plan and that seems a big concern with Evatts 352.
40k for the winner I believe, not to mention the carrot of a possible 3rd round draw. Maybe even TV money in the next game and confidence to kick start the season. So i'd go all out for this one
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 4, 2022 10:16:58 GMT
Team selection will be critical this weekend. We’ve already played Barnsley so we know what to expect as I don’t think they’ll be much different. Personally I think we do need to change because it’s pretty clear that whatever team Evatt puts out, his system just isn’t working. How about playing Dion as a lone striker running at and through defenders instead of chasing them down? I’d definitely restore Dapo and Declan John down the left because Iredales been a big under performer for me, particularly his crosses and corners which have been awful. If John can’t get in now I don’t think he ever will again. We need our best players on the field and a settled side for a while and definitely no five in game substitutions. I don’t normally suggest teams but just for this week here’s how I’d start.
Trafford Bradley Jones Santos Johnson. John Lee. Sheehan. MJ. Dapo Charles
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Post by riochforthereebok on Nov 4, 2022 10:52:41 GMT
Is that ‘new’ kick off time to save on leccy
Really hope for a decent cup run, perhaps draw Citeh at thei place, as I can only see this season fizzling out to mid table mediocrity
Sorry to be so negative
3-2 to the Trotters
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Post by OohMac on Nov 4, 2022 13:34:58 GMT
Is that ‘new’ kick off time to save on leccy Really hope for a decent cup run, perhaps draw Citeh at thei place, as I can only see this season fizzling out to mid table mediocrity Sorry to be so negative 3-2 to the Trotters Its because the Snooker in on at Unibol on Saturday evening so extra hour gives the chance to get rid of the footy fans before the Snooker hooligans embark. Not sure why they didnt go earlier than 2 but think Barnsley had to agree.
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Post by OohMac on Nov 4, 2022 18:36:16 GMT
Anyone know if the 2pm Kick off now means it is available on iFolllow?
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 4, 2022 19:01:31 GMT
No OM, just the audio as usual.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 5, 2022 14:12:28 GMT
For Gods sake, how useless are we? We can’t score in the oppositions net so we start on our own now!! It really is appalling and if we lose this one there really ought to be questions asked about Evatt’s position. I’ve been fully behind him so far but both his comments this morning about none of the players justifying a start I’m really wondering if they’re behind him or not because it certainly doesn’t look like it on recent form?
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Post by OohMac on Nov 5, 2022 14:13:51 GMT
Goal down. Santos finally finds the net.
Last season and the season before had a really awful record of conceding first and often early. Seems thats the same pattern emerging.
Being young and still learning are not the same.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 5, 2022 14:36:37 GMT
And now it’s two!! This could be a drubbing?
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Post by OohMac on Nov 5, 2022 14:37:20 GMT
2 down after 30 mins. Pathetic. For me Evatt goes now or in 10 weeks time when seasons gone.
Fresh ideas needed. Sure a decent coach will have this squad up and running immediately.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 5, 2022 14:50:44 GMT
Half time, two down and probably time for the first of Evatt’s 5 changes? What a shame we can’t switch managers at half time?
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Post by OohMac on Nov 5, 2022 15:03:11 GMT
3rd season going into winter with serious questions about the manager.
Think Evatt will lose the dressing room soon as he did last season.
Any XI in any formation is destined to fail with him in charge because theyve not been able playing with any sort of rhythm. Its chop and change on a weekly basis.
They cannot do the absolute basics.
Peoples arguments of "were still top 6" will age very badly. We will be out of the cup and play off picture soon.
Quite simply were getting worse. Individually and as a collective.
No confidence in Evatt. But lose him and we could be back in the promotion hunt.
Wish we paid Peter Atherton by the word. Not so much Evatt(Keith Hill 2.0)
Dean Holden on comms today. Coaching pedigree better than what we have.
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Post by whitesince63 on Nov 5, 2022 16:05:23 GMT
I think judging by recent performances OM he may already have lost the dressing room. FV now have to consider whether allowing Evatt to import more players in January is the right move. I don’t think he’s in any danger of being sacked yet but clearly if things continue to deteriorate as quickly as they are, that may change. Frankly those who keep insisting that it’s just a blip and that we shouldn’t worry because we’re still 6th may soon find us nearer the drop zone than promotion contenders. Today was just awful again and surely FV can’t be happy that another potential revenue stream bites the dust. Only 5,500 there today even at cut price and it won’t be long before gates generally drop if performances don’t improve.
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Post by OohMac on Nov 5, 2022 16:11:51 GMT
And once again after full time our Sunday league manager in a flair up with opponents bench and storming towards the referee.
This from a man who says he takes defeats on the chin.
I know hes going nowhere Whites, always known but for me he'd be shown the door tomorrow. Instead we will wait until were not in a position to challenge. We'll also probably sell Dapo at a cut price because he cant be happy. Declan John will probably go on a free like Sarce despite being linked £750k in Summer.
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Post by realtrottersforever on Nov 5, 2022 16:36:19 GMT
www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2022/november/evatt-out-to-change-cup-luck/" Ian Evatt is hoping to embrace and re-write FA Cup history when he starts out on the cup trail again with Wanderers.
Evatt has led the Whites from the bottom of end of League Two to the top six in League One during almost two-and-a-half years in charge at the University of Bolton Stadium."
"As a player I never really had any cup runs and as a manager I’ve had no cups runs "
“Hopefully we can give our fans something to sing about." blimey , add that one to his long list of cup failures...Stockport, and I include the home match in that too, as well as the away game shocker - 100+ year event of going out to a non-league side, Hartlepool in the FL trophy . Crewe, Villa this season, when Villa had shocking away form and were ripe for a shock, hence the tv coverage vultures. it doesn't matter if the team is in a league above, or below, or same level as today, Ian will find a way to lose, you can count on that !. Ooh Mac mentioned the Dean Holden co-comm on Radio Manc. Jack Dearden also been in good form. surprised they're allowed in the stadium what with the Pravda style broadcasting of the in-house IFOLLOW/BOLTON FM. those 2 wouldn't be allowed on there. Dearden was saying , in general, we 're always trying to score the perfect goal. over passing in wrong areas. totally agree. also said the first goal was caused by tippy tappying about in wrong areas. Holden re-counted a bollocking from BSA for doing that once ( and once only ) . while I can accept we can progress the football style a little, we don't need to totally disown the past, a football style that got us plenty of iconic victories. the amount of self-inflicted goals I see these days in any football, not just for us, is off the scale . when a theory of play predicts this ,but we ditch that way of play to use a method of play which invites this, something not quite right there for me. it's not just black and white, surely theres some middle ground , a sliding scale. we're buying into the nonsense excuses the big sides used to use against BSA. they couldn't explain why their sides kept getting walloped by us despite them having the better sides on paper. edit- just thinking of maybe Clough or Fergie type style would solve that Venn diagram, you're still playing football , but defenders arsing around at the back in risky areas would still get lambasted by both.
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