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IT is never easy being a Wanderers fan. As we were basking in our encouraging start to our season, the financial sharks gathered and took us to within a Carr’s pasty-width of administration.
But we survived to fight another day with the welcome assistance of Messrs Warburton and James and the leadership of Mr Anderson.
Then, just as we were beginning to breathe sighs of relief, we lost one of our own as our president Eddie Davies sadly took his last breath and passed away.
For everyone connected with Bolton Wanderers, our emotions have been well and truly battered this week.
As we gathered for our Doombar deliberations before the match, our thoughts were that it was a relief to get back to playing football.
Confidence was high after our fightback against Preston, though Steve McClaren’s Hoops were recovering after a dreadful start and a tight game was expected.
Phil Parkinson was forced into a couple of changes and this meant we had our first look at Christian Doidge leading the attack.
Sadly, we didn’t get the performance everybody had hoped for as a fitting tribute to Eddie Davies.
We were particularly flat in the first half, allowing QPR to run hoops round us.
Too often we were beaten for pace and, at times, you would have thought that we were the away team.
Josh Magennis managed to pull one back, but it was a case of too little, too late.
It wasn’t a happy ending to this traumatic, testing week.
We need to sort our home form out and make the UniBol stadium a fortress and somewhere away teams don’t like to play.
It’s still very early days and Parkinson is in the process of sorting out his best team.
We fans are struggling to recognise all the new arrivals, so it is no surprise that we are a team in progress as players and management get to know one another and begin to blend in.
The events on Tuesday show we are not out of the financial woods by a long chalk.
Mr Anderson has done very well sorting out the financial mess he inherited with precious little resources to do it with.
A recent Facebook poll showed he had over 75-per-cent approval from the fans.
There is still a long and winding, hopefully not winding-up, road ahead of us.
Together, Bolton Wanderers have a future.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/16882236.alan-houghtons-fans-view-bolton-wanderers-1-2-qpr/?ref=mr&lp=7
But we survived to fight another day with the welcome assistance of Messrs Warburton and James and the leadership of Mr Anderson.
Then, just as we were beginning to breathe sighs of relief, we lost one of our own as our president Eddie Davies sadly took his last breath and passed away.
For everyone connected with Bolton Wanderers, our emotions have been well and truly battered this week.
As we gathered for our Doombar deliberations before the match, our thoughts were that it was a relief to get back to playing football.
Confidence was high after our fightback against Preston, though Steve McClaren’s Hoops were recovering after a dreadful start and a tight game was expected.
Phil Parkinson was forced into a couple of changes and this meant we had our first look at Christian Doidge leading the attack.
Sadly, we didn’t get the performance everybody had hoped for as a fitting tribute to Eddie Davies.
We were particularly flat in the first half, allowing QPR to run hoops round us.
Too often we were beaten for pace and, at times, you would have thought that we were the away team.
Josh Magennis managed to pull one back, but it was a case of too little, too late.
It wasn’t a happy ending to this traumatic, testing week.
We need to sort our home form out and make the UniBol stadium a fortress and somewhere away teams don’t like to play.
It’s still very early days and Parkinson is in the process of sorting out his best team.
We fans are struggling to recognise all the new arrivals, so it is no surprise that we are a team in progress as players and management get to know one another and begin to blend in.
The events on Tuesday show we are not out of the financial woods by a long chalk.
Mr Anderson has done very well sorting out the financial mess he inherited with precious little resources to do it with.
A recent Facebook poll showed he had over 75-per-cent approval from the fans.
There is still a long and winding, hopefully not winding-up, road ahead of us.
Together, Bolton Wanderers have a future.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/16882236.alan-houghtons-fans-view-bolton-wanderers-1-2-qpr/?ref=mr&lp=7
