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Post by chip on Mar 29, 2024 16:30:29 GMT
I’m finding it hard to believe that this team has what it takes to claim second place COYWM
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Post by Woppy the Italian on Mar 29, 2024 16:33:03 GMT
That's because we haven't chip
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Post by chip on Mar 29, 2024 16:45:46 GMT
The best defender outside the premier league almost cost us a goal whatever next 🤷♂️COYWM
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Post by Woppy the Italian on Mar 29, 2024 16:50:42 GMT
He's been awful all game. Slowing everything down and day dreaming. Needs to be sold
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Post by davidm on Mar 29, 2024 16:55:51 GMT
We created NOTHING at all.
Had possession but did nothing to deserve to win
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Post by chip on Mar 29, 2024 16:56:50 GMT
Well Ian will be happy we have got a point but I’m sorry that was dreadful moving on 🤷♂️
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Post by chip on Mar 29, 2024 17:04:03 GMT
Ps the only good thing about today is Barnsley and Peterborough lost so we have consolidated third place for now other than that it’s been Pooh COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 29, 2024 17:04:13 GMT
I couldn’t do it (the jet washing)
That was absolutely awful from start to finish No player deserves more than a 4 (Santos -2) And to think, even Carlisle bagged 2 past these We will get mullered in the play offs, we’re not that good
Evatt’s choice of Jerome to start needs a full explanation as well
We had absolutely no goal threat at all and Collins, what a complete £750,000 flop
In truth, had Stevenage took any of their chances at goal (Icounted 7 at least) they’d have been home and dry
Had we gone into our next game with just a 4 point deficit to Derby and a game in hand on them, it might have looked promising but for me now, it’s play offs sadly
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Post by Pedro on Mar 29, 2024 17:06:06 GMT
Has the team improved? NO. Have they learned anything? NO. Dire, unimaginative "football", never looked like scoring even if they played another 90 minutes.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 29, 2024 17:22:30 GMT
Has the team improved? NO. Have they learned anything? NO. Dire, unimaginative "football", never looked like scoring even if they played another 90 minutes. Time for change, but it won’t happen sadly Evatt is done for me, what was the point of a half time team talk that did nothing at all, if anything, we were worse in the second half if that’s even possible And if that’s you on the BN Ped shouting for Paul Cook- fantastic shout It would not surprise me if it comes out later that Charles WAS actually fit to play today but Evatt chose not to use him
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Post by OohMac on Mar 29, 2024 17:32:58 GMT
Once again question the bravery, the heart and desire of this team. To know derby had a home game and to not give it everything is shocking.
But moreso I question the system again. Blackpool 1, Wigan 0, Derby 0, Stevenage 0. 1 goal in 360 mins of football. Its not good enough. It doesn't work.
£1M spent on strikers this and last January. Can't score. Another collection of runarounds for Evatt.
So yeah more questions for Markham and Evatt. All we hear is how wonderful they are and how hard working they are.
How many players sold for money. 1. How many Bolton fans think selling Dapo and bringing in Vic improved the club.
So we've sold badly. We've bought badly. Our biggest asset is still Keith Hills signing.
Won't ever change this guy. Noticed the time of the subs identical to evey other match. Most stubborn man we've had.
Can't change, won't change. And guess what we're back for another season in this league.
Hope he doesn't dare criticise the standards of the refs next year or the fixture schedule because you've had 3 goes to get out.
Evans made a comment that other managers always comment to him about the budget we have. Wonder if Sharon and FV think they've given Ian enough money to get out of this. Do they really think we're improving?
We cannot blame the whole thing on losing 2 players either.
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Post by davidm on Mar 29, 2024 17:40:31 GMT
So disappointing.
We just did not do enough to earn a win.
In fact we create no real chances. We hit the bar with a header from a corner and had some half-hearted shots from outside the box but no real danger to the Stevenage goal.
The manager will again say that we had control and dominated the game but we created nothing at all.
For the first 10 minutes, we joined in with Stevenage’s kick and rush football. Big boots from the back which immediately lost possession and Stevenage endlessly aimed balls into our box. They also aimed numerous kicks and pushes at our players but somehow got away with it.
We eventually settled a bit and played some passing football but it was a big boot that nearly created a goal when Jerome chased a big hoof and somehow got a toe to lob the ball over the keeper but it was just wide.
Coleman made an excellent save from the Stevenage full back who shot from 20+ yards.
Toal made an excellent block when the ball fell to a Stevenage man unmarked 10 yards out. We had a few shots but all from outside the box and then were unlucky when Forester headed against the bar from a corner.
And that was the 1st half – kick and rush from Stevenage which Santos and co dealt with well and some passing but no chances from us.
The 2nd half was considerably worse.
Stevenage continued the big boot and the wild tackling and we just faffed about with no purpose.
As I feared, we eventually made a defensive mistake when Toal miscontrolled a long punt to let their man slightly clear but somehow (was it a foul?) Toal somehow blocked him.
Then Santos made the mistake of the match which should have lost us the game. We decided to pass it about at the back and he blindly tried to pass to the left but instead put it on a plate for the Stevenage man who did the right thing and squared it only for his team mate to shoot wide of an empty net. We were so lucky there.
In the end, it was a horrible match. I never want to see Stevenage again. I said this after the home game against them but they are more suited to rugby than football. Similar to John Beck’s Cambridge if anyone can remember
Good results from Peterborough and Barnsley but we now need Derby to drop points in 2 matches which is asking a lot. I think this result has cemented 3rd place for us.
Not good enough!
Marks:-
Coleman - 7 Made one tremendous save in the 1st half and a number of good catches
Dacres-Cogley - 6 Got forward well but as with Ogbeta his centres into the box were poor
Forrester - 7 Hit the bar and defended well
Santos - 5 Would have been a much higher marks but for getting caught in possession a couple of times and then making an absolute howler to give Stevenage an open goal. Won a good number of defensive headers.
Toal - 7 Defended well. Yet another though who got caught in possession and almost gifted a goal
Ogbeta - 6 Busy up the wing but, and it’s a big but, his centres nearly always hit the first defender.
Sheehan - 6 Could not get into the game
Maghoma - 5 Not his sort of game – too physical. Stevenage players just knocked him over
Thomason - 5 I’ve said this so many times today but another who kept getting caught in possession. Added to some very poor passing
Jerome - 7 Credit to him. He led the line well.
Collins - 6 He was busy and looked to have something in him but too many poor passes
Dempsey - 5 Have to say that I saw no impact at all from him when he came on
Bodvarsson - 5 Another with no impact
Morley
Iredale
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 29, 2024 17:56:24 GMT
When you look at the managers that have been in and around us since Evatt took the role at Bolton, they have all fared much better than Evatt A promotion from a very easy league and a win in the Sherpa Papa crap thingymebob is all Evatt can shout about
Being an also ran in the play offs is hardly lighting the world up either, but just look at the names below and the following paragraph of managers that will be overtaking Evatt. We have stagnated far too long with this chap but it looks like we’ll be persevering
Ryan Lowe Kieran McKenna Steven Schumacher Darren Moore Leam Richardson Liam Rosenior Liam Manning
Darren Ferguson John Mousinho Paul Warne Dave Challinor Nigel Clough Phil Parkinson Neil Harris
This EvattBall has had long enough now and I think the board need to make some easy decisions at the end of the season once we've failed in the playoffs !!
Do you really think we can beat Lincoln over 2 legs when we can’t even muster a decent shot at goal against Stevenage??
I’m afraid it’s over as I can’t see much progression in the play offs with Evatt still here
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Post by one2many on Mar 29, 2024 18:31:04 GMT
90 minutes of my life wasted. Santos was poor and the rest followed their captain.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Mar 29, 2024 18:39:53 GMT
Reading up next They’ve just beaten the team that beat Derby!!
Today’s game was akin to a mid table pointless borefest where neither team can go up or down
I’ll leave the final word to our sponsors
TOUGH SHIT😞😞
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