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All roads and trams led to Fleetwood as we embarked on the Grand Tour of League One which we hope will lead to the Championship.
With seven of the next nine matches away from home, we bade our loved ones farewell, ready to rack up the miles for the Wanderers.
Pre-match refreshments were at the Thatched House in Poulton, which has its own microbrewery and has recently won a contract to supply the Strangers Bar in the House of Commons, so it was a fitting place for our pre-match debate.
The general feeling was that we needed a result to get the wheels back on our campaign, after a disappointing start to 2017.
But, where was the inspiration going to come from after all the knocks we have had recently?
The answer came as the teams were announced.
An absolute buzz went through the Bolton crowd with the news of Darren Pratley starting and Jem Karacan on the bench.
Was something about to go right for us? The crowd were up for it and so were the team.
It is a long time since we dominated a match so much.
We could have easily doubled our score. We were looking for heroes and we found them all over the pitch, none more so than Filipe Morais who tore Fleetwood apart.
ALF opened his account for us and our goalscoring centre back twins got in on the act. There is a nice little competition going on at the back.
League One seems to have been about teams going on unbeaten runs and then falling away.
Many teams have looked likely to get into the promotion spots, only to suffer a poor run of results.
It’s up to us now to make sure that we are the team that finishes the strongest with a good run at the time that matters.
This one win doesn’t mean that we’ve done it yet. We’ve another 11 cup finals to win.
In football you are only as good as your last game.
But there was enough on display at Fleetwood to show that we are in with a real chance of getting promotion if we all can keep it together, on and off the pitch.
I hope that my words don’t come back to haunt me but it is a long time since I’ve felt so good coming out of a match.
No codding!
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With seven of the next nine matches away from home, we bade our loved ones farewell, ready to rack up the miles for the Wanderers.
Pre-match refreshments were at the Thatched House in Poulton, which has its own microbrewery and has recently won a contract to supply the Strangers Bar in the House of Commons, so it was a fitting place for our pre-match debate.
The general feeling was that we needed a result to get the wheels back on our campaign, after a disappointing start to 2017.
But, where was the inspiration going to come from after all the knocks we have had recently?
The answer came as the teams were announced.
An absolute buzz went through the Bolton crowd with the news of Darren Pratley starting and Jem Karacan on the bench.
Was something about to go right for us? The crowd were up for it and so were the team.
It is a long time since we dominated a match so much.
We could have easily doubled our score. We were looking for heroes and we found them all over the pitch, none more so than Filipe Morais who tore Fleetwood apart.
ALF opened his account for us and our goalscoring centre back twins got in on the act. There is a nice little competition going on at the back.
League One seems to have been about teams going on unbeaten runs and then falling away.
Many teams have looked likely to get into the promotion spots, only to suffer a poor run of results.
It’s up to us now to make sure that we are the team that finishes the strongest with a good run at the time that matters.
This one win doesn’t mean that we’ve done it yet. We’ve another 11 cup finals to win.
In football you are only as good as your last game.
But there was enough on display at Fleetwood to show that we are in with a real chance of getting promotion if we all can keep it together, on and off the pitch.
I hope that my words don’t come back to haunt me but it is a long time since I’ve felt so good coming out of a match.
No codding!
Source