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CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGERPremier League Bolton Wanderers by ferdinandbymick (U9744195) 16 March 2008  I am pleased to see at last some realism creeping into the comments made by supporters. They reflect what I was saying weeks ago, when I looked at the way we were playing and the fixture list ahead and got very gloomy. We cannot any longer beat another struggling team that plays most of the match with only 10 men. I never did believe we could beat Wigan even after having rested many of our top players last Thursday. That was a dreadful management decision last week to put out the team that we did. We now have the worst of both results. We get knocked out of the UEFA cup, something this time last year we were going all out to qualify for, then because of this the team plays with its head down and we lose to Wigan. In companies I have worked for, the manager who made such a bad strategic decision would be thrown out instantly. The few optimists left might look at the games played and say that we have a match in hand over some other relegation threatened teams, but that match is at OLD TRAFFORD! Where to now? We are not going to win against the top teams and we have enough of those left to play. We are also unlikely to pick up 3 points on any away match because we play even worse away than at home. We will probably not get many points from other struggling teams because they are playing with a determination we can only dream about. Most of these clubs have better players or better managers or both. The only match that I believe we can get 3 points from is at home to Sunderland on 3rd May, because Sunderland has an even worse away record than us. But this will not be enough to escape relegation. Latest comments
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U10166044 posted Mar 16, 2008 I wasn't too happy when GM was appointed and said so on here.
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nbliss (U3067197) posted Mar 16, 2008 There'll be six teams (Reading, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bolton, Fulham, Derby), in my opinion, that won't get 40 points this season. It'll be very close and I agree it doesn't look good for us.
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Pennycuik (U2836057) posted Mar 17, 2008 It could come down to goal difference...we must not ship in a bagfull at Old trafford.
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Paphoswanderer (U11261546) posted Mar 17, 2008 Unfortunately I can see a rout.
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straffan (U3201273) posted Mar 17, 2008 Our defence has been playing well. Look at the goals we have let in against Portsmouth (bad refereeing), Blackburn (2 penalties one should never have been given and Raziak's goal ruled out even though he was passed the ball backwards and it would have given us the lead. instead we had to chase the game). Liverpool; the Jussi own goal and the shot off the post that went straight to the Liverpool forward. Again we had to chase the game Comment on this article |
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