Sunderland 2-2 Bolton.

largehat wrote:

I'd love Wigan to go down.

Why?

To add to an already lengthy injury list Coyle has Chris Eagles, Mark Davies, Ryo Miyaichi and a couple of others carrying knocks now doubtful for the game at the Stadium of Light.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

largehat wrote:

I'd love Wigan to go down.

Why?

I don't like them very much. Their fans have an irrational hatred of BWFC.

Whenever I go to Wigan for non footballing reasons and mention I am a Bolton fan, they always reply by telling me we are rivals and they hate us. It does my head in.

I don't like that roadsign they have that says 'Welcome to Wigan - home of Super League Rugby and Premier League Football'. It needs to come down.

A horrible town full of horrible people.

What a bunch of tarts. Play through the pain barrier you knobs.

largehat wrote:

I don't like them very much. Their fans have an irrational hatred of BWFC.

Whenever I go to Wigan for non footballing reasons and mention I am a Bolton fan, they always reply by telling me we are rivals and they hate us. It does my head in.

I don't like that roadsign they have that says 'Welcome to Wigan - home of Super League Rugby and Premier League Football'. It needs to come down.

A horrible town full of horrible people.

Fair enough, I'd still much prefer Villa and Rovers to go down. That would be perfect.

I really don't mind who goes down, honestly it's always fun to see a "big" club go down isn't it.

Villa would be hilarious, that said it won't happen.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I really don't mind who goes down, honestly it's always fun to see a "big" club go down isn't it.

Villa would be hilarious, that said it won't happen.

Don't count on it.

The way villa are at the moment anything is possible. The baggies would love to put one over on the Villa which would leave them right in it if results go our way

Blackburn and Villa to go down for me

MrK wrote:

Don't count on it.

The way villa are at the moment anything is possible. The baggies would love to put one over on the Villa which would leave them right in it if results go our way

Blackburn and Villa to go down for me

I agree with MrK, Villa look in big trouble...especially if they lose at WBA. As long as we at least match their result at the weekend I think we will finish above them.

As long as we are not included, I don't really care who goes down.

largehat wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

largehat wrote:

I'd love Wigan to go down.

Why?

I don't like them very much. Their fans have an irrational hatred of BWFC.

Whenever I go to Wigan for non footballing reasons and mention I am a Bolton fan, they always reply by telling me we are rivals and they hate us. It does my head in.

I don't like that roadsign they have that says 'Welcome to Wigan - home of Super League Rugby and Premier League Football'. It needs to come down.

A horrible town full of horrible people.

I don't view them as a particularly different bunch to us, but on one or two other forums, some of their fans are getting annoying over their recent transformation.
Some of them are forgetting that they've been shit for the vast majority of the season, and will be shit again next season right up to April, and will be calling for the manager's head all over again.
For this reason, I'd enjoy it if they went down.

We have a hell of an injury list growing for tomorrows game, 6 players in all could miss the trip to the SOL.

"I've six players who were involved against Aston Villa that can't train today," he said.

"But I'm hoping we can patch a few of them up and get them out there on Saturday. It's not rocket science to know Chris Eagles came off with an injury (at Villa).

"Mark Davies was touch and go to play beforehand, managed to come through it, but he's another one who is doubtful.

"Ryo Miyaichi received a bang on his shoulder, and then one or two others who came into the game have taken knocks. "

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Bloody hell, it looks like just NRC and Pratley in midfield. Maybe he will bring back Zat Knight to partner Wheater and throw Ream in the middle ? Either that or give Vela a game.

This could really kill the momentum from the villa game if he has to make that many changes.

Personally if we have that many midfielders out I can see a 4-4-2 with Prats and NRC in the centre, I can't see him throwing Vela in a 4-5-1.

The line-up tomorrow is going to be very interesting because if we can find the winning formula then we should put a bit of daylight between ourselves and the rest of the pack.

largehat wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

largehat wrote:

I'd love Wigan to go down.

Why?

I don't like them very much. Their fans have an irrational hatred of BWFC.

Whenever I go to Wigan for non footballing reasons and mention I am a Bolton fan, they always reply by telling me we are rivals and they hate us. It does my head in.

I don't like that roadsign they have that says 'Welcome to Wigan - home of Super League Rugby and Premier League Football'. It needs to come down.

A horrible town full of horrible people.

The reason Wigan fans don't like Bolton is that they hadn't got a football team until the 1930s and for the first 50 years of their existence they were nowhere. From time immemorial the vast majority of Wiganers who were into footie either supported Wanderers or one of the Liverpool teams - or United. Certainly everyone at the Leigh end of Wigan were Wanderers fans. Almost half the people that died in the Burnden disaster came from the East Wigan/Leigh area. As Wigan's fan base grew when they started to have a bit of success those that had always supported Wigan turned against Bolton because they knew we had "their" fans and disliking the Wanderers became part of their culture. They nicked our fans and turned them against us.

Miyaichi shouldn't start anyway - he's not good enough.
What an opportunity to play Riley and Vela. If they're ever going to get thrown in now's the time to do it rather than further risk the others - inless it's all bluff and mind games.
Re points required/who will go down - we need to win just to stay in the race IMO. We're in the bottom 3 and at this stage of the season it's points on the board that count, not games in hand as they mean nothing.
Even a win won't put us clear, but it will at least have the effect of worrying the other teams around us. We musn't lose sight of the fact that we're in deep shit. Villa win was nice, but it will mean nothing if we don't follow it up with a win at the SOL.

Cheers WanderL, I didn't know that. All I remember about them, was when I went to a game years ago, and stood on a grassy mound to watch them. I'm assuming they've moved on since than

wanderlust wrote:Miyaichi shouldn't start anyway - he's not good enough.
What an opportunity to play Riley and Vela. If they're ever going to get thrown in now's the time to do it rather than further risk the others - inless it's all bluff and mind games.
Re points required/who will go down - we need to win just to stay in the race IMO. We're in the bottom 3 and at this stage of the season it's points on the board that count, not games in hand as they mean nothing.
Even a win won't put us clear, but it will at least have the effect of worrying the other teams around us. We musn't lose sight of the fact that we're in deep shit. Villa win was nice, but it will mean nothing if we don't follow it up with a win at the SOL.

You don't want a lot, do you? Play a couple of kids with about 5 PL appearances between them and all three points.

I'll be out of my house about 16 hours tomorrow to make the trip and I will be delighted with a point. How you can say that will mean nothing is staggering. We won't need 12 points from 4 games to stay up. We probably won't even need 6.

LH, I reckon you're right. Whatever happens tomorrow, and lets be honest, if all the Sunderland players turn up and play as they can, were buggered. We must get something out of the game, even if we lose. If we lose our confidence and feel-good factor at this stage, it doesn't matter how many games we have left, we don't have the games, or the time to make a comeback. We have to get it right first time, and I'm out on whether youngsters would make a difference now. (possibly for last 30 or so, if its obvious we ain't going nowhere)

I'd happily settle for the bottom 6 to all lose this weekend.