Neil Danns suspended for Ipswich and Wigan games

Neil Danns will miss Bolton’s upcoming away games against Ipswich and Wigan after collecting his tenth booking in the league.

The midfielder was shown yellow in the first half against Millwall.

And after accumulating a total of ten yellow cards in the league Danns will now serve a two-game ban, ruling him out of the Ipswich and Wigan game.

He could next feature in the home game against Blackpool on April 4.

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I think most people would agree Danns has been reckless lately and definitely not as effective as he was earlier in the season.

I was delighted Lennon took him off at half time yesterday, as I really thought we'd end the match with ten men if he didn't.

What's up with Danns? He's better than this. Recently he's looked like a carthorse on sedatives. 

I'm not making excuses for him but I can't help wondering if he's carrying some kind of knock we don't know about or if something really terrible has happened in his personal life that's put him under stress and knocked him off his game. Whatever it is it needs to be sorted and soon. We can't afford players who get constantly suspended.

i do like Danns but just recently he's got into the habit of always trying one more turn or flick when he doesn't need to, then he has to dive in to correct his mistake and explains why he's had so many bookings.

Doffcocker's comment above about taking him off at half time was exactly what i was thinking as well, he was a red card waiting to happen on Saturday.

Danns will be 33 in November and he's already massively exceeded my expectations of him when he came in here. Hopefully it's just tiredness that's led to his drop in form, but he is getting on a bit. I wouldn't want to go into next season relying on him to be playing as regularly as he is now to be honest. Whilst we've signed a ludicrous amount of central midfielders over the last few years I don't think we're any closer to solving the issues we have there. It's the most important position on the pitch for me,if I was Lennon I'd make it a priority in summer.

bwfc1874 wrote:Danns will be 33 in November and he's already massively exceeded my expectations of him when he came in here. Hopefully it's just tiredness that's led to his drop in form, but he is getting on a bit. I wouldn't want to go into next season relying on him to be playing as regularly as he is now to be honest. Whilst we've signed a ludicrous amount of central midfielders over the last few years I don't think we're any closer to solving the issues we have there. It's the most important position on the pitch for me,if I was Lennon I'd make it a priority in summer.

Also think that the attacking set up leaves him a bit exposed at times so he "takes one for the team" way too often. You'll notice his disciplinary record was nothing like this when Freedman used him further forward but Lennon swapped him and Pratley around and lo and behold Pratley starts playing like a genius and stops giving away fouls all the time. Unfortunately Dannsy was left doing what he can to shield the back four.

Danns is a bit of a hot head but an ok player.  Where is he regarding his contract?  If out of contract I would offer the one year at a time deal. Of course we have no idea what Neil is thinking or who he wants to keep.

he's already signed another 1 year deal i think?

Danns signed a one year extension a few weeks back

beat you to it boggers 

You werent sure

Wigan have just signed Jerome Sinclair from Liverpool on top of Ojo and Jermaine Pennant who scored 2 cracking free kicks for them on Saturday.
They clearly think they can avoid relegation and are throwing a few bob at it so Lennon may be focussing on the Wigan game but we're going to have to be very careful that we don't help them with their survival battle.

Don't know who will step in for Dannsy as defensive mid for these 2 games. The fact he's English makes it harder seeing as he played 5 loanees last game. Lennon won't recall Spearing or Medo so we are either looking at playing someone out of position or promoting from the development squad - Perry maybe? Seems unlikely so I suspect he'll throw in a CB or even go 352 to resolve it.

it will probably be Coke starting, the only other option is Trotter

Wigan to batter Bolton and stay up on GD sounds a good bet.