The run-in to promotion

You've been very unforgiving since you hit 33 Nat. Is this the new you ? 

Natasha Whittam wrote:

terenceanne wrote:Obviously the Wilkinson experiment didn't work but I am for giving young lads a chance. So not overly complaining. But can somebody explain to me Wheater being thrown upfront when we have Long parked on the bench. Anyhow for me a couple of tweaks for Tuesday... Long in obviously, and Derik in for Dervite ..... and maybe Karacan as an early sub for Spearing or Pratts .....depending on how it's going.

Clueless.

You'd change the defence despite conceding just 1 goal in the last 4 matches?

The problem is tactics and striking personnel.

Consider yourself branded a bellend. Again.

This is from somebody who says we will get dicked every single game and wants the manager out ASAP.

No clue.

Well we've lost the first 2 of the five. Worryingly, we haven't looked like scoring let alone winning although we did hit the bar a couple of times today - but other than that just one shot on target.  
So how can we now be confident of winning two of the last three? 
Maybe we won't have to? Suspect we will though.
What is for sure is that Bradford and Fleetwood will have been massively encouraged by our problems.

I doubt the players give a shit, better chance of a new contract if we stay in League 1.

Natasha Whittam wrote:I doubt the players give a shit, better chance of a new contract if we stay in League 1.

They mustn't have much of a grasp of economics then. 
If we don't get promoted we're going under and we may never come back.

wanderlust wrote:
If we don't get promoted we're going under and we may never come back.

Utter rubbish.

This site should be renamed Bolton Drama Queens

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:
If we don't get promoted we're going under and we may never come back.

Utter rubbish.

The accounts (the most current set) are now officially overdue and we're still haemorrhaging money hand over fist.

Anderson's propping up the cash flow from month to month but we don't know how long he's prepared to keep doing it.

If the rumours are true, he's probably pinning everything on us going up this season, so if we fuck it up, who knows what'll happen next season.

Failure to secure promotion at the first attempt could well be catastrophic.

Bread2.0 wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:
If we don't get promoted we're going under and we may never come back.

Utter rubbish.

The accounts (the most current set) are now officially overdue and we're still haemorrhaging money hand over fist.

Anderson's propping up the cash flow from month to month but we don't know how long he's prepared to keep doing it.

If the rumours are true, he's probably pinning everything on us going up this season, so if we fuck it up, who knows what'll happen next season.

Failure to secure promotion at the first attempt could well be catastrophic.

Anderson has already said that the big earners will be gone in Summer, so the finances will be in a more stable position, where that leaves us as a team is another question, no promotion this season could well mean another Phil Neal era.

If we don't go up we'll have to get our finances in L1 order and given that we are currently living beyond our means and still losing money the only obvious way is to shed assets and even then we may struggle. We all know that some of the high earners will be off anyway, but the difference in promotion is twofold: how deep the player cuts will have to be (and ergo our chances of being competitive) and our chances of getting investors. 
I know which I'd prefer.

wanderlust wrote:If we don't go up we'll have to get our finances in L1 order and given that we are currently living beyond our means and still losing money the only obvious way is to shed assets and even then we may struggle. We all know that some of the high earners will be off anyway, but the difference in promotion is twofold: how deep the player cuts will have to be (and ergo our chances of being competitive) and our chances of getting investors. 
I know which I'd prefer.

Despite what happens tomorrow, we must win on Tuesday.  Mathematically if Bradford or Fleetwood get 7 points from their last 3 games, one win from our last 3 should give us automatic promotion.  Of course, if either club wins all 3, we would need to win 2... but my feeling is one win will do it for us.  We have had two really bad spells this season, and hopefully this is not a third.  We can win all three remaining games, and go out with our heads held high.  Let's get back to form.

I'd like to go with your thinking Obs, but I would like to chuck in, (in my currently depressed state), that we have a habit whereby, when we lose one, we tend to lose at least three.

gloswhite wrote:I'd like to go with your thinking Obs, but I would like to chuck in, (in my currently depressed state), that we have a habit whereby, when we lose one, we tend to lose at least three.

That's pragmatic Glos... and we have had 2 bad runs this season.  I do think if Madine is back, we will win at least one of the last three.  Howard scares the daylights out of me... has not recovered his form.  We are a team who can win all three... but as you said, our bad form goes in cycles.  I think that will not happen if Madine is back.  I also think, as I said, that one win will send us up.  Then again, I didn't think Trump would win unless he ran the table.  Unfortunately, he did.  I'm more confident of Bolton going up and Bradford and Fleetwood not running the table!

Today may give us a break with Sheffield Utd playing Bradford, and Fleetwood at home to MIllwall. Both hard games. Hopefully they will both lose,and we will win against Bury, and were back to where we were.

Bury won't make it easy for us, they are still smarting from Clough 'diving' for 2 penalties at Gigg lane. If the lead is down to one point by tomorrow that adds even more pressure.

Please God let Madine be fit (a sentence i never thought i would type on here)

i'll be cheering on Millwall and Sheff Utd today

Madine's "doubtful" for tomorrow according to Parkinson in today's BN.

Now I've noticed that I'm in Brugge the weekend of the play off final, I'm more certain than ever we're going to fuck this up.

RustyNail wrote:Now I've noticed that I'm in Brugge the weekend of the play off final, I'm more certain than ever we're going to fuck this up.

Relax. If we don't get automatic promotion I very much doubt we will actually get to the play off final.

Perhaps I should have titled this thread "The run down to the end of the season" as "promotion" is looking distinctly premature today. By now we should be promoted and giving  our young strikers the opportunity to stake their claim for a contract in the Championship, but instead we have Parky begging Madine to play through the pain for the final two games in a desperate bid to solve the mystery of the missing goals. 
Now that it's come to this, there's no chance he'd risk youngsters which would require a change of tactics - maybe there never was  chance - and it looks like he's lost confidence in Wilko so it'll all be down to the players and system he's been permutating all season. We can only hope for a miracle.

We have to assume Fleetwood will beat Vale and with Posh getting 4 today, we could be in for a nightmare next week.