January business..

Get rid of CYL, Knight ,Mears, Mavies, Ngog, Holden, Eagles, in fact, it wouldn't bother me if any player goes come January .

Keep all the players, get rid of Freedman and you'd see a massive difference in the quality of play. Added to that we wouldn't have to listen to all the bullshit and garbage he comes out with before and after games.

Here 20 mill out of my own pocket ..... go buy Baines for left back..... here's another 5 mill for Dawson.

Now we are a good team right ???

Nonsense...... poor team selection and tactics have cost us more games this season than shuffling left backs.

I would expect a hammering today but all those earlier games blown with piss poor decision making...that's the thing costing us this season.

terenceanne wrote:Here 20 mill out of my own pocket ..... go buy Baines for left back..... here's another 5 mill for Dawson.

Now we are a good team right ???

Nonsense...... poor team selection and tactics have cost us more games this season than shuffling left backs.

I would expect a hammering today but all those earlier games blown with piss poor decision making...that's the thing costing us this season.

   

Yesterday we played arguably the best team in the league at their ground and scored 3 good goals. But we conceded 5 and gave away a stupid penalty.
All 5 goals could have been prevented and 3 (plus the pen) were down to individual errors.
The system we play is flawed and despite having holding midfielders, we continue to get exposed at the back.
It's not rocket science. We stick the likes of Spearing in the middle so we don't have a soft centre and yet again the opposition simply bypasses them by going wide and yet again all the goals come from the flanks - including another OG from a ball across the box.
Change the system and push back their wide players - job done.

wanderlust wrote:
It's not rocket science. We stick the likes of Spearing in the middle so we don't have a soft centre and yet again the opposition simply bypasses them by going wide and yet again all the goals come from the flanks - including another OG from a ball across the box.
Change the system and push back their wide players - job done.

So don't you agree that a manager who still hasn't worked this out should be shown the door immediately?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:
It's not rocket science. We stick the likes of Spearing in the middle so we don't have a soft centre and yet again the opposition simply bypasses them by going wide and yet again all the goals come from the flanks - including another OG from a ball across the box.
Change the system and push back their wide players - job done.

So don't you agree that a manager who still hasn't worked this out should be shown the door immediately?

He reads my posts. Expect wholesale changes to the system within the month, something along the lines of

                                      Lonergan

..............Threlkeld.............Baptiste.................Bolger

White................................Ream........................Riley

Hall...........................Mavies...........Moritz................Eagles

......................................Beckford
.

i think if we could find a good centre half, we could push Ream into the defensive midfielder role, his passing is a million times better than Spearing, maybe Spearing could be better a bit further forward?

How about a 4-1-4-1 formation? Dougie won't play 2 up front so this may be the answer

Maybe Spearing would be better on the bench?
Have amended accordingly.

Breadman wrote:guidetti......?


Who's that?

It looks like City are loaning him to Malaga.

RT: I think we all know what we can expect over the next month or so. Why not rename this thread something like "Jackanuary" and make it sticky so that all the speculation can be relatively contained?

wanderlust wrote:RT: I think we all know what we can expect over the next month or so. Why not rename this thread something like "Jackanuary" and make it sticky so that all the speculation can be relatively contained?

Swearing alert, I am about to swear. You have been warned.   

Rename it "Jack -SHIT-uary" and get ready to say  "Happy New Phil does fuck all yet again" and you'll be spot on. 

We might get one on loan but we won't buy a single player and anyone even half decent will be 'over priced' and 'out of our reach' as Fat Phil explains that 'we wont be held to ransom' because a player with twenty goals to his name this season already turns out to cost more than two stale custard creams and a used teabag.

Seriously, I can't even be arsed to watch the transfer window this time. January is Bolton's 'do nowt month' and this'll be no different. I might have a look on the Beeb text service on Feb 1st to see who we didn't get.

How many players did we sign in the window last year?

Chelsea are ready to spark a January scrap by sending out wonderkid Jeremie Boga on loan. The midfielder, 16, is tipped to make a breakthrough at Stamford Bridge. The Blues want Boga to gain experience in the Championship first, with Bolton, Birmingham and Charlton set to fight for his services.

wanderlust wrote:RT: I think we all know what we can expect over the next month or so. Why not rename this thread something like "Jackanuary" and make it sticky so that all the speculation can be relatively contained?

Jackanory it is then!   

Reebok Trotter wrote:Chelsea are ready to spark a January scrap by sending out wonderkid Jeremie Boga on loan. the midfielder, 16, is tipped to make a breakthrough at Stamford Bridge. The Blues want Boga to gain experience in the Championship first, with Bolton, Birmingham and Charlton set to fight for his services.

Dougie wanted him a while back and do we need another attacking midfielder?  I would rather have Ryan Bertrand at left back, seeing as though Chelsea still owe us a loan player, but from what I've heard we won't be doing the choosing with regards to what player Chelsea will loan us.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

wanderlust wrote:RT: I think we all know what we can expect over the next month or so. Why not rename this thread something like "Jackanuary" and make it sticky so that all the speculation can be relatively contained?

Seriously, I can't even be arsed to watch the transfer window this time. 

LPP - If you can go an entire month without commenting on the ludicrous speculation on unrealistic targets that we get every year I'll be truly amazed.

Dougie's failure to sign Dawson (and Ronaldhino) will at least spur you to call for his head yet again.

No way you'll keep schtum.

wanderlust wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

wanderlust wrote:RT: I think we all know what we can expect over the next month or so. Why not rename this thread something like "Jackanuary" and make it sticky so that all the speculation can be relatively contained?

Seriously, I can't even be arsed to watch the transfer window this time. 

LPP - If you can go an entire month without commenting on the ludicrous speculation on unrealistic targets that we get every year I'll be truly amazed.

Dougie's failure to sign Dawson (and Ronaldhino) will at least spur you to call for his head yet again.

No way you'll keep schtum.

Wanderlust I would appreciate it if you would at least get your facts a LITTLE bit straight mate. Show me one post, just ONE where I have EVER called for Dougie to be sacked let alone 'call for his head yet again'. I am one of the few on here who has consistently counselled patience until the end of this season before judging his fate and have done that very thing on the voting thread today. 

As to Dougie's failure to sign anyone, it's not HIS failure at all, any more than it was Owen Coyle's before him. They have no control over the purse strings and the purse itself is (so far as published finances say) empty to the tune of MINUS 136 MILLION quid. If he's given the money to even sign a free I'll be surprised because it looks as though he's been told "sell to buy" and "Release to loan" somewhere along the line. I freely admit I don't KNOW for a fact he or Owen were told that but the way we have done almost nothing in the buying market and not a massive amount in loans would suggest it. Phil tells them what money they can't have and Dougie then will have to do what if anything he can. That's why I called it PHIL-does-fuck-all and not DOUGIE-does-nowt. 

Be a good chap here wanderlust; at least check that you're right before deciding to post on something you think I've already said please?  

LPP, I think you have misunderstood Wanderlust's comment. He actually bats for the same side as you and I. He wasn't having a go at you in any shape or form. He was referring to speculation about the January window. That's all this post is about. Pure speculation, nothing more, and sometimes where speculation is concerned, common sense and facts go out of the window.

Reebok Trotter wrote:LPP, I think you have misunderstood Wanderlust's comment. He actually bats for the same side as you and I.  He wasn't having a go at you in any shape or form. He was referring to speculation about the January window. That's all this post is about. Pure speculation, nothing more, and sometimes where speculation is concerned, common sense and facts go out of the window.

No Rt he is referring to me personally. Read his sentence. 

"Dougie's failure to sign Ronaaldinho and Dawson will spur you to call for his head yet again. 

No way you'll keep schtum."

Not "the antie Dougie brigade", not "they", he says "you" and does it twice. I resent people putting words in my mouth at the best of times, to have it done by a complete stranger who could have damned well checked what I'd said before pontificating on it with a few clicks of a mouse is bloody well annoying and I won't leave it unanswered. I'm normally pretty mild mannered and quite reasonable but this one I won't let slide. If you are going to give your opinion of what I will or will not say you'd better either know me personally quite well or have some previous posts of mine as evidence to back yourself. It may sound petty but this is an issue I take seriously no matter what "side" wanderlust is on.