[WakeyTerrier]

Get him gone!

Crowd numbers alone tell you the football is poor, the results are going the same way as our League position. The guy is clueless

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Most consistent goal scorer in this division over the past 4 seasons is Alfie May, signs for Town and we play him out of position.

Wiles not enough
Taylor not good enough
Kasumu should be told to pass the ball as soon as he wins it back
Most of them look effed after 60mins blowing out of their backsides

Formation and style of play isn’t working, hasn’t worked for the majority of the season.

Once again…get him gone!

[Lord Snooty]

The players are so unfit. Why is Castledine subbed afer an hour? He's our best player but can't manage a full game after a two week break.

We were on top of the game in the first half but every time Taylor chased and won the ball, he's no support with him. We should be flooding the box not hanging on to a one goal lead.

Poor Feeney gets beaten to a header for the equaliser. That's a shame because up til then he's man of the match. Why? Because he'd won every header before. But why has he had so many headers to go for? Because our defenders can't stop crosses coming in.

Buy a proper left back for goodness sake.

Why are they so unfit? Well I'm sorry but that has to be the manager's fault. I don't think his tactics are bad, it's just that they're not good enough.

Ledson is a prime example. Clearly not fit but stayed on for the whole game even though young Vost was stripped ready to come on. Why didn't he?

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Perhaps they're spending too much time in the classroom and not enough in the gym or on the training field.

[theo_luddite]

[Devongone]

I don't believe your players are unusually unfit. Far too many managers make substitutions simply because they have players available (and possibly want to keep them happy!) Yours is plainly one such.

He took off your best player, Castledine, who didn't seem to be sending out any distress signals, after about an hour. He WAS once an academy star at Chelsea and now seems to be heading back in the same direction. If he looks shattered, is getting kicked all over the park or is carrying four yellow cards, then sub him. Otherwise play him every week and keep him on the pitch, he is a seriously good player.

Throughout Cozier-Duberry looked Bolton's most dangerous player and Rooskens WAS doing a brilliant job of minimising the havoc he could cause. Naturally he got hooked near the end. It took Cozier-Duberry fewer than 10 minutes to score!

Taylor isn't the greatest player I've seen, but no-one can fault his energy and enthusiasm. Unfortunately you don't seem to get anyone close to help him and possibly reduce the effort he needs to expend. He was, however, still a threat when he was hooked, but I doubt he could have lasted 90. I like Dion Charles, but THAT is not his game. I doubt he has ever gone so long without a goal in his life and I can see why it is happening. He's scored loads of goals playing wide. Like Rashford he wants to cut in and curl shots into the corner of a net, not exhaust himself like some clockwork mouse chasing lost causes.

You were good in the first half, but you needed to press for a second goal much harder. In the second half you were sponsored by 1-0 Park The Bus UK. Your manager asked for it and Bolton gave it to him. He needs to reassess. I'm sure you all know this and I'm just repeating John Cleese's bleedin' obvious. You should be a play-off team, but without the work of Kasumu and Rooskens you wouldn't have reached the 90th minute.

To an outsider like me it looked as though every substitution you made weakened the team. You should be substituting to improve things ..... obviously. To everyone but your manager.

[theo_luddite]

Little to argue with there Devon, other than Castledine was completely done after 60 mins v Stockport and we kept him on for 85+, so that's maybe why he was hooked after an hour, even though he looked fit enough for at least another 10 minutes this time and he's had almost another 2 weeks of training in him.

[Devongone]

There IS such a thing as second wind. Let him go, see what happens. If he can't play 90 minutes he can't be a professional footballer.

You can't turn the tide against Stockport playing against Bolton. I've no sympathy at all with the manager. You have a really good player. Asking 90 minutes of him is asking him to do his job, it isn't unreasonable. And he looks willing. Set him free, see what he can really do, I think he is the real thing.

I saw potential in that team, but reducing ambition to let's hold on to our one goal will stunt it's growth.

[Lord Snooty]

We've been relegated from 2nd to 3rd tier three times. It took ten, seven and then eleven years to get back up.

Strap yourselves in. This is gonna take a long time.

[WakeyTerrier]

With the centre forwards we have got you need players to put the ball in the right places. None of them are target men so the hit and hope is no good.
We seem to be lacking a centre forward who they can play off. Think back to Wayne Allison, he wasn’t the greatest goalscorer but his play brought goals galore for his fellow forwards.
We also seem to be lacking in Wingers, slowly but surely we’ve managed to bin them off over the past few seasons and this leaves us short when trying to chase a game.

We need two wingers on the pitch and we a big centre forward for Taylor/May or Charles to play off. I know it sounds silly old fashioned but I think it’s what we need.
Keep things simple, the way things are now seem to be too complicated for the players to play.

[Lord Snooty]

You're right, Wakey. Binning off wingers is a huge problem. Excuses like "he's got an attitude problem" doesn't help now his attitude problem is creating goals for Stoke and Wales.