Bolton 2-1 Cardiff

Lofty_Love wrote:The starting line up was pretty poor overall, clearly set up to not concede, The only positive from it was that Ricketts finally played at RB.

The set up worked pretty well though in term of not conceding, neither team was able to build any momentum but the only players on our side who looked at all dangerous were chungy and eagles. Unfortunelty they got a jammy goal through Bogdans error. At half time neither team deserved a goal but they had one.

When the changes were made we looked a hell of a lot stronger attacking wise but as usual our defense suffered a bit, but in general coped. All in all we throughly deserved the win considering we could have easily had a penalty earlier, their goal was bloody lucky and not at all deserved, and N'gog scored two..

The players who I though had a good game:

N'gog (Every shot was dangerous, netted two, first yellow was bollocks)
Warnock (looked very solid and got stuck in, far better than Alonso)
Eagles (Usual stuff)
Chungy (Our most skillfull player, rarely misplaces a pass)
Mark Davies (General play was much better than usual)
Petrov (been working hard for his place, think he deserves it)

Bad game:

Pratley (Usual of not doing anything)
Andrews (Did even less than Pratley)
SKD (Really, really bad game)
Bogdan (Three bad games in a row, but I doubt we have anyone better at the club)


As much as I think Knight is a terrible player, he is big and strong, and if he is told to stop wandering off and doing stupid things (he lost possession a lot in the first 25 mins)then he could be good in the Championship, the first of either Mills or Knight to underperform and Id stick Ream in.


For the next game Id like to see:


--------Sordell--------

Petrov---Eagles----Chungy

--Spearing----M.Davies

Warnock--Knight--Mills--Ricketts

---------Bogdan-------




Good start for Dougie.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Wanderlust, you are clueless.

Pratley was rubbish, every bit as bad as he was under Coyle. I've never seen a so-called professional footballer so poor at doing the basics. We improved because he was taken off.

Andrews played well, for the first time in years the opposition weren't cutting through our midfield like butter.

If you need a lesson in football PM me.

wanderlust wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Wanderlust, you are clueless.

Pratley was rubbish, every bit as bad as he was under Coyle. I've never seen a so-called professional footballer so poor at doing the basics. We improved because he was taken off.

Andrews played well, for the first time in years the opposition weren't cutting through our midfield like butter.

If you need a lesson in football PM me.

Clearly you have much to teach me.

As they say "You don't know what you don't know" - wise words indeed.

Fill me in at your leisure...





..could you start by advising me what this emoticon is meant to mean ?

Is it an "in the room" reference, a "you're a fat bastard" reference, an "I won't forget this in a hurry, pal" reference, a "you're an endangered species, f*****!" reference or a "I like you because you're like an elephant and I like elephants reference"? Or just a picture of a tiny elephant head?.

Michael Bolton wrote:I agree it would be for the best to make kev a back up striker but no manager would arrive at a new club and just drop the popular club captain and take the captaincy off him. A new manager can't rock the boat like that and risk getting on the wrong side of players otherwise the players may decide they don't want to play for him. Of course kev will start in midweek but it doesn't mean dougie thinks he is different class, management is not just about managing a football team tactically,it's about managing people in the best way to get the best out of them. That is why nat is so wrong criticising dougie shaking n'gog's hand when sent off. That would have meant a lot to n'gog. That is going to help get the best out of him. Did you ever have a teacher who believed in you and encouraged you and praised all your good work - it makes you work harder to do your best.

Boggersbelief wrote:
I get the feeling he hated working under coyle, he wasted no time in pointing out how much better training had been since coyle was sacked. Maybe kev didn't feel motivated enough to play to his best for OC.

Now under DF I feel we will see KD return to the Powerhouse he still is.

Listen to me, I know what I'm saying!

wanderlust wrote:

I can understand this, but what Freedman may eventually realise is that both Sordell and Ngog can hold the ball up reasonably well - perhaps not as well as SKD if it's a straight tussle with a defender, but they compensate for that by having a better chance of getting on the end of inaccurate passes and punts. I don't see a valid reason not to start one of them instead of SKD and if they gel in training, maybe play with 2 strikers at the expense of a wide midfielder. If we are chasing the game and had both Sordell and Ngog with a licence to shoot (having sacrificed a holding mid) we'd be a threat.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Sordell hasn't exactly played badly either. That can't be said for Afobe, who was constantly picked ahead him for some reason.