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An overwhelming majority of Wanderers fans have resigned themselves to League One football next season.
A whopping 92 per cent of supporters who voted in a poll by The Bolton News believe the club is heading for relegation, with nine games to play.
Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat against Preston North End left Wanderers 11 points from safety with just one win from the last nine league games.
No club since three points were introduced for a win in 1981/82 have come back to save themselves from this position and with the Whites’ direct rivals Charlton Athletic, Rotherham United and MK Dons all picking up wins in the last few weeks, there is little reason to suggest they can escape their fate.
Neil Lennon refuses to give up hope in public and insists he will remain as positive as possible with his squad in an effort to change the run of results.
“We can’t give up,” he told The Bolton News. “We have to believe that things will change but for that to happen we have to start taking some chances.
“We are doing all we can. We are being as positive as we can.
“We have tried using reverse psychology and saying that the whole world expects us to go down, we have tried to take all the pressure off them and say ‘go and play with freedom and no expectation’ but it hasn’t worked.”
Wanderers – without an away win since last April – go to Bristol City this weekend knowing they cannot lift themselves off the foot of the table regardless of what result they get at Ashton Gate.
Heavy pressure has been put on the club’s new owners to make a change in management but until relegation is mathematically assured, no decision is expected.
Lennon says he will carry on regardless and hopes to get a chance to remodel the club over the summer, if possible.
“I will do the job until told otherwise,” he said. “I’d want to stay longer than the end of the season if I can. It’s a precious position.
“It has been a really difficult time, our hands have been tied. We have lost players, had an embargo, and we haven’t been able to bring anyone in.”
Meanwhile, it is understood Wanderers have made another request to Liverpool to defer the £100,000 payment owed on Jay Spearing until the summer.
The midfielder could be sent out on loan for the remainder of the campaign, with the payment triggered after his next league game for Bolton.
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A whopping 92 per cent of supporters who voted in a poll by The Bolton News believe the club is heading for relegation, with nine games to play.
Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat against Preston North End left Wanderers 11 points from safety with just one win from the last nine league games.
No club since three points were introduced for a win in 1981/82 have come back to save themselves from this position and with the Whites’ direct rivals Charlton Athletic, Rotherham United and MK Dons all picking up wins in the last few weeks, there is little reason to suggest they can escape their fate.
Neil Lennon refuses to give up hope in public and insists he will remain as positive as possible with his squad in an effort to change the run of results.
“We can’t give up,” he told The Bolton News. “We have to believe that things will change but for that to happen we have to start taking some chances.
“We are doing all we can. We are being as positive as we can.
“We have tried using reverse psychology and saying that the whole world expects us to go down, we have tried to take all the pressure off them and say ‘go and play with freedom and no expectation’ but it hasn’t worked.”
Wanderers – without an away win since last April – go to Bristol City this weekend knowing they cannot lift themselves off the foot of the table regardless of what result they get at Ashton Gate.
Heavy pressure has been put on the club’s new owners to make a change in management but until relegation is mathematically assured, no decision is expected.
Lennon says he will carry on regardless and hopes to get a chance to remodel the club over the summer, if possible.
“I will do the job until told otherwise,” he said. “I’d want to stay longer than the end of the season if I can. It’s a precious position.
“It has been a really difficult time, our hands have been tied. We have lost players, had an embargo, and we haven’t been able to bring anyone in.”
Meanwhile, it is understood Wanderers have made another request to Liverpool to defer the £100,000 payment owed on Jay Spearing until the summer.
The midfielder could be sent out on loan for the remainder of the campaign, with the payment triggered after his next league game for Bolton.
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