What damage has been done to Bolton after players strike?

So you think the players knew they’d be paid because they have a contact in accounts payable? Possible but highly unlikely in my experience of football clubs.

We were linked to Lowe when Blackburn first went down, this year he had just come off the back of a completely anonymous spell at Blues, ask any Bluenose how highly he’s rated there, so again this doesn’t smack of us doing much better in the market than last year. 

Good business both him and Oztumer IMO but certainly nothing to suggest our budget is any larger.

But look this is all talking around the main point - Ken not paying the players and falling out with them has only made us less likely to succeed next year. Yet we’ll have the usual idiots blaming Parky if we’re not mid table.

True Parkinson will probably end up being the whipping boy, certainly with the likes of Martin.

It's my belief for what it is worth that Parkinson is capable of building more entertaining sides if circumstances allow him to do so.

Time will tell if he's ever given the chance - I hope so.