Bolton v Leeds United

I love playing Leeds, there's always a decent atmosphere and it seems Tuesday will be no different with our Yorkshire firends having sold all their tickets.

Leeds are on the up, we are very much on a downer. Could this be Owen Coyle's last game? I certainly hope so.

The last time the teams met in the league was back in 2004 when Bolton thrashed Leeds 4-1 with two goals from Youri Djorkaef, one from Kevin Nolan and and Ian Harte own goal.

Look at the team from that day, what we wouldn't give now for an Ivan Campo in midfield or a Bruno N'Gotty in defence. Maybe even a Henrik Pedersen in attack!

Jussi Jaaskelainen
Nicky Hunt
Emerson Thome
Bruno N'Gotty
Ivan Campo
Simon Charlton
Youri Djorkaeff
Kevin Nolan
Jay Jay Okocha
Henrik Pedersen
Kevin Davies

I can see us losing this one 2-1.

Christ lookng at that team makes me feel like crying compared to the shit being served up today.

It's freightning how downhill our side has gone in the space of 8 years when we last played them, i'd even take nicky hunt and henrik perdersen back at this stage, at least henrik had some passion when he wore the white shirt.

3-1 leeds.

I think we'll get beat 2-1, the final nails in Coyle's coffin...

Did anyone watch Derby v Forest today? What a cracking game. 2 teams that played great football on the floor, blood and thunder, absolute rip roarer.

Can't remember the last time i saw a bolton team play with anything near that level of quality, and them two teams are hardly "fancied" in this league.

Leeds are another team that know how to score goals, play nice football too.

Who knows. I can't see Coyle surviving a bad defeat thats for sure. Probably a draw.

I'm sure that game in 2004 was when we virtually relegated Leeds and Alan Smith was in tears at the end. They always bring a massive noisy crowd and they'll be well up for this one.

Wouldn't be surprised if Dioufy got the winner, he's on a bit of a roll at the moment.

Anything can happen in this league. This weekends results prove it. It's the War of the Roses on Tuesday and Lancashire will be victorious.

If SKD starts 1-3 Leeds ..... no SKD 2-2 Can't see a win but you never know.

No evidence has still been provided that we will not get rolled over.

terenceanne wrote:

No evidence has still been provided that we will not get rolled over.

And from what I have seen this season I have no evidence to suggest that Leeds will turn us over either.

I'm surprised so many people think we're gonna get turned over. This league is so unpredictable. How many teams that started off well have been turned over by those you'd least expect? Look at Peterborough yesterday!

All that's gonna happen is Clueless is gonna keep winning the games he needs to save his job, which incidentally won't see us anywhere near where we need to be in terms of the table.

doffcocker wrote:I'm surprised so many people think we're gonna get turned over. This league is so unpredictable. How many teams that started off well have been turned over by those you'd least expect? Look at Peterborough yesterday!

All that's gonna happen is Clueless is gonna keep winning the games he needs to save his job, which incidentally won't see us anywhere near where we need to be in terms of the table.

Very true, we've been shite all season and we're still only 6 points off the top.

And if we beat Leeds, the deficit will be even less.

I can see it being an open game, Palace seem to just come and said break us down, which we obviously couldn't.

I'd imagine Leeds will play more of an open game and go at us from the start.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Look at the team from that day, what we wouldn't give now for an Ivan Campo in midfield or a Bruno N'Gotty in defence. Maybe even a Henrik Pedersen in attack!

Jussi Jaaskelainen
Nicky Hunt
Emerson Thome
Bruno N'Gotty
Ivan Campo
Simon Charlton
Youri Djorkaeff
Kevin Nolan
Jay Jay Okocha
Henrik Pedersen
Kevin Davies

Or Nicky Hunt at right back.

Even now he couldn't be worse that Mears.

Stats may say we 6 points from the top ....but as for footballing skills we are way off at the moment. We are 18th currently ......the teams ahead of us are saying the exact same thing.

Not to mention we are below Derby again !!!!

10 points from 8 games works out at 1.25 points a game, which multiplied by 46 gives you 57.5.

Millwall finished on 57 points last season, placed 16th.

Our goal difference is also piss poor, we'd have to win our next 2 games 5-0 to even have a chance of being in the play off places IMO.

I'm ready for the game!

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Who's going to score though? We don't have a striker capable of finding the net - Mark Davies has already got his quota for the season so all we can do is hope Eagles has one of his good days.

3-0 Leeds.



I honestly cannot see us scoring.



The deal with the Championship is not to play to you best abilities but to play to the opponents weaknesses - hence the odd shock result!

Who would I pick I hear you ask. Well I think we can all agree it is about time something slightly more drastic happened. It is no good going with the same useless bunch all over the park.

Eagles, Bogdan, Knight, Spearing and Warnock would all retain places. The rest are way too off the boil for me.


(or take out Mavies and put in Ngog or Afobe)

Please, let's just see some big changes. The players being picked every week are not doing the job. They need to be made to sit up and realise this by taking a stint on the bench. A fifth midfielder would help us stop conceding imho. Mavies would also be more effective in the middle of the five and would be a goal threat working with the pace of Sordell, Eagles and Wylde. I think we would actually look better going forward like this than with 2 strikers.