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Ian Evatt says he won’t change the way Wanderers attack their last eight games of the season regardless of who writes off their play-off chances.
Defeat against Plymouth Argyle on Saturday leaves the Whites 10 points adrift of the top six in 11th spot with some bookmakers now ranking their chances at 100/1.
Evatt refuses to concede defeat and believes his players will continue to fight until it is mathematically impossible.
“People can write off our chances and that’s fine,” he told The Bolton News. “They have probably got the right to do that but it’s just not in me to give up.
“It is just not in the players. We won’t allow it.
“We have to keep driving standards every day in training.
“We know what we’re capable of and I think that’s the disappointing thing, the points we’ve dropped, we can accept the MK Dons one and the Burton one because we don’t feel like we did ourselves justice.
“The ones that are tougher to take are Tuesday and today (against Morecambe) where we feel we have performed really well and not got what we deserved.
“But we will go again, we will work hard this week and get ready for Crewe.”
Evatt switched formation in the second half to 4-3-3, which he later admitted was a gameplan that had not been worked on since seven new signings came to the club in January.
He is confident, however, that the squad he has built will improve over time even if they do not make their play-off target.
“This is fundamentally a new group, seven new players in January is a lot,” he said. “We are still working on them, we have had a big turnover of players this year and it was needed, so we are improving all the time.
“Have we improved fast enough to make up for that bad couple of months? Maybe not, but we’re going to keep going and keep trying to get as many points as possible.”
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