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Why do we set up our team to lose every week?
The average possession when we play away is 35 per cent, while at home it is 42 per cent.
We are almost a spent force by half time because we are so easily dispossessed – concede a goal and that seems to be it. We look timid and we are timid.
Save for set-pieces, our back line get nose bleeds if they cross the halfway line.
We undermine the midfield every time goalkeeper Ben Alnwick sends a long ball in the direction of an isolated and well-marked centre-forward.
The chances of us keeping possession for more than one minute in any match is probably less than five per cent.
By the end of most games most players in a Bolton shirt have lost interest, if not heart. It is Championship football at its worst.
We are clearly not getting the best out of our team.
On the first day of the season Josh Magennis and Yanic Wildschut were all over the national press when we beat West Brom. How many hours have they played alongside each other since?
Josh Vela was a big part of the team that took 10 points from the first four games and now he is lucky if he makes the bench.
Magennis/Noone/Donaldson combine to score five goals in 45 electrifying minutes against Walsall and then Donaldson is left on the bench against Bristol City. Why?
Is it any surprise to see Bristol City take 70 per cent possession when something that works in one game is replaced by something that clearly did not in the next.
Is it not obvious changing the team every week gives rise to a situation when even past the halfway point of the season our players do not seem to know each other?
There are too many changes, too little constructive football and we are a team set up to lose in my opinion.
We will be relegated whether or not we bring in any more players.
It is the mindset which is all wrong.
Tony Ambrose
Blackrod
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The average possession when we play away is 35 per cent, while at home it is 42 per cent.
We are almost a spent force by half time because we are so easily dispossessed – concede a goal and that seems to be it. We look timid and we are timid.
Save for set-pieces, our back line get nose bleeds if they cross the halfway line.
We undermine the midfield every time goalkeeper Ben Alnwick sends a long ball in the direction of an isolated and well-marked centre-forward.
The chances of us keeping possession for more than one minute in any match is probably less than five per cent.
By the end of most games most players in a Bolton shirt have lost interest, if not heart. It is Championship football at its worst.
We are clearly not getting the best out of our team.
On the first day of the season Josh Magennis and Yanic Wildschut were all over the national press when we beat West Brom. How many hours have they played alongside each other since?
Josh Vela was a big part of the team that took 10 points from the first four games and now he is lucky if he makes the bench.
Magennis/Noone/Donaldson combine to score five goals in 45 electrifying minutes against Walsall and then Donaldson is left on the bench against Bristol City. Why?
Is it any surprise to see Bristol City take 70 per cent possession when something that works in one game is replaced by something that clearly did not in the next.
Is it not obvious changing the team every week gives rise to a situation when even past the halfway point of the season our players do not seem to know each other?
There are too many changes, too little constructive football and we are a team set up to lose in my opinion.
We will be relegated whether or not we bring in any more players.
It is the mindset which is all wrong.
Tony Ambrose
Blackrod
Source