ALAN HOUGHTON'S FAN'S VIEW: Bolton Wanderers 0 Middlesbrough 3

Sluffy wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Bullshit. The effort just isn't there. No one put their foot in, in days gone by N'Gotty or Taggart would have had Traore in row z within 5 minutes.

Correct. At times he was taking the piss.
Someone needed to take one for the team and give him a whack. Never easy to be quite so confident when you're fearing for your knee caps.
As you can see,I'm not a purist.

They'd have had to have caught him first and they just weren't quick enough, although both Beevers and Robinson had the chance to get to him on the touchline prior to the first goal. Still, booting a player doesn't equate to effort and neither does "putting your foot in". Whether they fell short because of poor mentality, poor managerial instructions or poor athleticism is up for debate but you're implying it's because they weren't trying. For me it was more like racehorses against carthorses with the carthorses unable to get close enough to "put their foot in".

Clearly you've never played regularly as a defender in an eleven a side team.

wanderlust wrote:

Sluffy wrote:

wanderlust wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Bullshit. The effort just isn't there. No one put their foot in, in days gone by N'Gotty or Taggart would have had Traore in row z within 5 minutes.

Correct. At times he was taking the piss.
Someone needed to take one for the team and give him a whack. Never easy to be quite so confident when you're fearing for your knee caps.
As you can see,I'm not a purist.

They'd have had to have caught him first and they just weren't quick enough, although both Beevers and Robinson had the chance to get to him on the touchline prior to the first goal. Still, booting a player doesn't equate to effort and neither does "putting your foot in". Whether they fell short because of poor mentality, poor managerial instructions or poor athleticism is up for debate but you're implying it's because they weren't trying. For me it was more like racehorses against carthorses with the carthorses unable to get close enough to "put their foot in".

Clearly you've never played regularly as a defender in an eleven a side team.

But the naughty man ran away from the little boy and the big boy couldn't catch him either.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Bullshit. The effort just isn't there. No one put their foot in, in days gone by N'Gotty or Taggart would have had Traore in row z within 5 minutes.

boltonbonce wrote:I'm not sure Derren Brown could motivate this lot.

I suppose he could make a start by telling Pratley that the round thing is a ball.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Bullshit. The effort just isn't there. No one put their foot in, in days gone by N'Gotty or Taggart would have had Traore in row z within 5 minutes.