BOLTON v Cheltenham… match thread

Although I’m confident we’ll win this one comfortably there’s still the worry that once again we’ll slip up just when there’s the chance to put some daylight between ourselves and the chasing pack. Of the teams in the top six we must surely have the easiest game on paper but as we know, games aren’t played on paper. I am though beginning to see the makings of a tougher outfit than previously so as long as we don’t have another Carlisle moment we could well be top by Saturday evening with Derby not playing until Monday and Posh and Pompey both having loseable fixtures. Let’s hope it goes well for us and sends us into our replay on Tuesday in full throttle. Luton themselves have a toughie of course this weekend away at Burnley so the result there may well have some effect on Tuesday nights game. As for tomorrow I’m predicting a comfortable 2-0 win as I think we may be building up Cheltenham just a little bit too much.

Halfway through he season and we’ve already reached the stage of “must win” for most matches. It is not a bad attitude to have so Yes a win is essential today.

As long as we don’t drop into the Bristol Rovers performance and stroll around, we should be OK.

I assume we will revert back to our “normal” line-up – if there is such a thing –

Baxter

Forrester Santos Toal

Dacres-Cogley Sheehan Dempsey Thomason Williams

Charles Adeboyejo



The manager might find a place for Maghoma but for me he is too casual - skilful but doesn’t concentrate.

As I have said many times, I would also start with Bodvarsson but the manager seems to prefer the Charles/Adeboyejo combination.

Our home record against Cheltenham is D D W – not the greatest. They are also much improved so it won’t be an easy game but we need to win and keep the pressure on the teams around us.

A tight 2-0 win for me.

I really thought JDB deserved a starting slot ahead of Adeboyejo!!!

He ran his socks off on Wednesday and he’s a fit lad so he could have easily managed starting today. He must wonder what he has to do to get full minute games, or is that all he’s being used for, just fits and starts??

I just wonder IF IF IF Dion or Vic can bag a goal before 35 minutes??

30mins gone and the attitude of this team dosnt look good at the moment.

Match Postponed.

Of course you realise that there are more important things in life than football.

 sorry wernt it was abandoned You can only postpone before the game begins

Yeah W63 we all hope for some good news on that front. We’ll probably have to rely on SKY News for info just as the BSM fixture announcement as the BN didn’t seem too bothered

On the Charlton Posh game, it was frantic, it was energetic, it was a decent watch, with great forward play from both sides, but also and not surprisingly, both defences were awful, especially Athletics when Mason Clarke got his 2nd (he’s a real prospect by the way), they just sat off him and he almost pea rolled it into the net

That said, when Charlton went forward, the Posh defenders couldn’t handle them and they were all over the place, with only luck saving them on occasion as well as erratic finishing from Athletic

It’s the old adage of ‘marathon not sprint’ I guess and there’s 20 odd games left for everything to change, as I’m sure it will and I also cannot help thinking that we could be in a false position (stay with me here)

Had we have played that full game yesterday, after the first half an hour, it was laborious, boring, worrying, in that Town had the better chances, if we had any at all. We just passed ourselves to death with Dion and Vic looking disinterested (bit unfair on Vic as he did try so my oh my he’s rubbish) and Baxter playing out that pea roller pass to Santos on every occasion which led to Towns front men pressing us with dangerous intent

We’ve got to up the ante and excite the crowd once more, especially the home crowd where you have to rely on this as your un-breachable fortress

Very worrying that we have an unenviable fixture backlog just when the summit could have been reached