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ALAN HOUGHTON'S FANS' VIEW: Anderson has over 75% approval from the fans + Bolton 1-2 QPR

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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.

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karlypants

karlypants
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Wanderlust makes up the 25%! Laughing

luckyPeterpiper

luckyPeterpiper
Ivan Campo
Ivan Campo

Look. Anderson's done a very good job for the most part but he's not perfect. I'd say a 75% approval rating is fair. For me he's got so many balls to juggle in keeping the whole thing going that it's a surprise he drops so few not that he drops some of them from time to time.

As to yesterday's game yes it was a disappointment but I don't think it's time for us to break out the 'We're Doomed' or 'The End Is Nigh' signs just yet. Personally I think all the off field stuff and tension plus of course the passing of Eddie Davies must have affected everyone to some degree. Hopefully now the business side of things has been sorted (at least for the moment) and even the Heathcotes saga has been resolved it'll allow everyone to take a deep breath, clear their minds and be ready to come back strongly in the upcoming games.

Growler


Tony Kelly
Tony Kelly

Sluffy wrote:
Sadly, we didn’t get the performance everybody had hoped for as a fitting tribute to Eddie Davies.

Mr Anderson has done very well sorting out the financial mess he inherited

The financial mess he inherited from Eddie Davies

Leeds_Trotter


El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Diouf

Growler wrote:
Sluffy wrote:
Sadly, we didn’t get the performance everybody had hoped for as a fitting tribute to Eddie Davies.

Mr Anderson has done very well sorting out the financial mess he inherited

The financial mess he inherited from Eddie Davies

While I agree that Eddie left us in a financial mess, I reckon Gartside lead Eddie down the garden path. It was him who convinced Eddie to let Coyle stay for as long as he did.

wanderlust

wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

The problem is that 75% of the fans still believe Anderson is capable of saving us despite remaining unprofitable, possibly due to interpreting "stopping the rot" as "taking us forward". I see it as no more than stopping the practice of pissing away money which we've done historically, especially under Gartside - not the same as turning the business around especially as we inevitably continue to slide whilst we can't make a profit. Selling shirts and season tickets is great but we'll need much bigger plans than that to really make a difference and whilst the concerts will help, we'll need the kind of money deals and partnerships that only the big boys can bring if we're going to turn it around.
Unless he finds a connected buyer, I suspect the popularity tide will turn sooner or later as he doesn't have the wherewithal or acumen to compete at this level. Time will tell.

Growler


Tony Kelly
Tony Kelly

Leeds_Trotter wrote:
Growler wrote:
Sluffy wrote:
Sadly, we didn’t get the performance everybody had hoped for as a fitting tribute to Eddie Davies.

Mr Anderson has done very well sorting out the financial mess he inherited

The financial mess he inherited from Eddie Davies

While I agree that Eddie left us in a financial mess, I reckon Gartside lead Eddie down the garden path. It was him who convinced Eddie to let Coyle stay for as long as he did.
The buck stops at the very top for me.Ultimately Gartside was just a club employee who could have been sacked by Davies at any time.
And of course it wasn't Gartside who wouldn't pay the clubs tax bill.

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