Mattyblue

Always thought he was called Chris…

Good god. We just don’t have a hope, do we.

Why would the club do that? He is following their remit.

Absolutely no chance it gets close to a sell out in home areas. Only issue you might have is they may want a prior record of attending games. But if you ring the ticket office I’m sure they’ll sort something out.

Think you know the answer to that!

He’s being a tad disingenuous there. There’s always months on end through the season with no shirts, especially this time of year, but normally you would see more arrive in the new year/back end of the season. To run out of shirts in November and not bother even trying to restock sums up this piss poor excuse of an operation and something not replicated anywhere else. The lack of standards at this club is embarrassing.

They don’t, and the defeats are often shockers too. And as we’ve also not convinced in many of the wins either we are highly likely to fall away as they dry up. But that doesn’t mean we don’t currently deserve to be third, as it’s a results business and we’ve had more of them than anyone 4th and below…

You can have two thoughts at once. I.e after half the season we are third because we deserve to be, as we’ve won more games than anybody below us. However, we are currently 18th in the form table and we obviously look like a team about to fall away.

Then we may as well get used to being a Championship/L1 yo-yo club akin to a Barnsley. ‘Sustainable PL club’ my arse.

China, something ,Covid something…

Sacking Sam wasn’t a mistake and we haven’t played better football in 20 years than what we are offering now. That level of insight and we let him dominate the forum…

I’m not one for banging on about ‘style’, it’s a results business. But we’ve played no better football than this in 20 years? I mean, honestly, the mental gymnastics are something to behold at times! 🤦‍♂️

Seemingly the whole ethos of BRFC - as proven last January. A very strange football club.

Ipswich no, so not fussed about them. Bolton very much so as throughout history we’ve always been fairly similarly supported. Also ‘population of the borough’ as the basis of your argument is not an exact science as support comes from outside borough boundaries, indeed parts of Bolton borough are historically not even BWFC hotbeds, they just got bundled in with the town in the local government changes of 1974, whereas the town of Bolton is not significantly larger than BwD. Third division Bolton have higher crowds for one reason - season tickets with an entry point of £220/£230

360 degrees is about right. He was already talking tripe before he went in…

Problem is it was never a ‘new’ Riverside, just a patch up job that has lasted 30+ years.

*Fans on social media.

Are we in a ‘false position’? No, because the position is the position at the halfway point of the season and we’ve won at least three more games than any club below us. Though I do agree we will probably fall away. However, 3rd ‘means nothing’ because it’s ‘boring’? No 3rd means a great deal for any club in a league that has a promotion slot via a playoff system.

Ha, well I suppose we all waste far too much time on here droning on about things we can’t influence one iota, so why not have a fantasy shopping list.

Oh I see. Bit of a waste of your time then, no?

Five players in January and spending multi millions whilst doing it, thought you said we weren’t that kind of club?

You get a ‘run of games’ by offering something in the cameos you do get. But your solution is to just start him regardless against all the evidence for what, 4,5,6 games? We’ll be about 10th by then. What is you obsession with starting some loanee a county mile out of his depth? Thought you were a Rovers fan, not a Leicester/George Hirst fan.

All ‘up north’, aren’t they…

That last paragraph, you’ve literally just nicked that from J*B. Try getting your opinions in 2023…

The EFL are seeing dollar signs. They’ll have looked at tickets sold for ifollow/red button night games and thought that people are still buying. Which they are, but there are far less actual bums on seats for those games, as many ST holders give them a swerve (but still buy a ST as it’s only 4/5 games out of 23, still worth their while). But put every game on and just watch how many ST holders keep their cash in their pockets and stop bothering completely.