libero
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Post by libero on Sept 2, 2019 19:12:18 GMT
just seen that,what a water take I bet he’s on 10k a week Efl f**king sh**e,all the teams that played their u16s have had a advantage over all other teams It's a scandolous situation and the EFL have got themselves in a right mess for allowing them to start the season. They need a significant points deduction. No way can they be allowed to remain in the division next season. Just wanna echo the points made here. Imagine the uproar if a team that battered them 5-0 stays up by on goal etc. Many other clubs and their fans will rightly feel annoyed. Once the season began there was a high chance this kind of issue would come along and nothing can be done about it. It's great Bolton survived, but there should have been some kind of contingency plan set up by the EFL. I am sure they saw this coming. I heard someone say they should have been treated like Bury, played no games and been made to make them up. This would have been better. Yes, they only have 1 point (i think), but other teams have of course benefited from battering them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 19:25:24 GMT
It's a scandolous situation and the EFL have got themselves in a right mess for allowing them to start the season. They need a significant points deduction. No way can they be allowed to remain in the division next season. Just wanna echo the points made here. Imagine the uproar if a team that battered them 5-0 stays up by on goal etc. Many other clubs and their fans will rightly feel annoyed. Once the season began there was a high chance this kind of issue would come along and nothing can be done about it. It's great Bolton survived, but there should have been some kind of contingency plan set up by the EFL. I am sure they saw this coming. I heard someone say they should have been treated like Bury, played no games and been made to make them up. This would have been better. Yes, they only have 1 point (i think), but other teams have of course benefited from battering them. Completely agree ...... I find it ridiculous that Bolton can sign pretty much a brand new team which is superior in experience and quality than what the teams who have faced them in the first 6 games of the season have faced. Those teams who they've faced in the first 6 games have pretty much been given a 3 point and plus 5 goall head start over everyone else. Very unfair on the rest of the league who haven't played them yet and makes a farce of League 1 this year over and above the Bury fiasco
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Post by rosssgb on Sept 2, 2019 19:30:06 GMT
Disgusted that Bolton now have probably one of if not the strongest starting XI’s in the league. Was always going to happen once they were taken over, and I bet they still owe ex players and contractors money, EFL is a Dam joke
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2019 20:17:11 GMT
Bolton started the season with -12 points. They have postponed the Doncaster match so I would expect another points deduction to follow. It should be another -12. And that doesn’t even take into account not playing at the end of last season. It should be a deduction that condemns Bolton to relegation. Now that the dust has settled after the last week I hope the EFL will act. But being the EFL I’m not confident that anything will happen. If nothing happens I think that will leave the EFL open to some action by other clubs in League 1 either sooner or at the end of the season by clubs who might go down if Bolton stay up. UTG!
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Post by Gas-Ed on Sept 2, 2019 20:17:46 GMT
Disgusted that Bolton now have probably one of if not the strongest starting XI’s in the league. Was always going to happen once they were taken over, and I bet they still owe ex players and contractors money, EFL is a f**king joke A bit like when Southampton assembled the likes of Lambert, Barnard, Lallana, Schiederlin, Waigo, Fonte and Puncheon the year after they had been put in administration. It isn’t right at all. Bolton will be back in the Championship within a couple of years and the pundits will be singing their praises, saying they’ve worked miracles.
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Post by axegas on Sept 2, 2019 20:47:58 GMT
Underwhelmed by our transfer window, we seemed to have lost a couple of good defenders, gained a couple of good defenders and have a bit more depth up front compared to last season. No marquee signings or big expenditures but some decent enough business. The one good thing is that we haven’t weakened in any department and taking into account our signings in January, we look stronger than we did at the start of last season. I can't see we're even any stronger up front, we've lost Jak & Reilly for Smith & Victor, it looks just a straight swap ability wise to me. I sense it's going to long old season of trying to grind out results. I would rather have Smith and Adeboyejo over Reilly and Jakubiak. Just my opinion though.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Sept 2, 2019 21:57:04 GMT
It's clear we haven't signed anyone. A little disappointed, especially given the "marquee signing" label Coughlan gave, but in all seriousness what would our idea of marquee be? Wouldn't it be someone who's too good for a team that many have touted for a relegation fight? And also, negotiations in football are honestly so fickle, I'm not sure if anyone recalls when Chris Wilder and Sheffield United released a video of "behind the scenes of deadline day etc." But it purely demonstrated this, they had practically already signed Devante Cole from Fleetwood until his agent suddenly asked for a much higher price than they were willing to pay, despite the fact they'd already negotiated a price. Despite all this though, we've had a good window overall. I'd probably give it a 7/10, we could have done with another creative player but maybe Coughlan sees Tomlinson or Bennett has a solution (despite their lack of gametime so far). Don't think GC sees either as a solution. KB he wanted to get rid of but nobody would pay his wages like we are paying him. Tomlinson, promising young talenr that he is, if GC thought he was ready would be getting a lot more action than he has done. Don't think he's played a minute this season yet?
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Sept 2, 2019 21:58:48 GMT
Underwhelmed by our transfer window, we seemed to have lost a couple of good defenders, gained a couple of good defenders and have a bit more depth up front compared to last season. No marquee signings or big expenditures but some decent enough business. The one good thing is that we haven’t weakened in any department and taking into account our signings in January, we look stronger than we did at the start of last season. I can't see we're even any stronger up front, we've lost Jak & Reilly for Smith & Victor, it looks just a straight swap ability wise to me. I sense it's going to long old season of trying to grind out results. Straight swap? I think we have improved quite dramatically up front personally. Just needed to sign someone more creative to put them on a platter for then!
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Post by Gassy on Sept 2, 2019 22:03:52 GMT
Just the 9 signings for Bolton today then ffs
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Post by singupgas on Sept 2, 2019 22:11:05 GMT
I think Victor started first game really well..been used sparingly since, up front we definitely look to have better options.
It was Midfield we could have done with another player, can only assume we never went in for anyone.
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Post by Gas-Ed on Sept 2, 2019 22:22:11 GMT
Just the 9 signings for Bolton today then ffs That was always likely. Ex-prem side in League one with a decent stadium etc. As I said earlier, it really does remind me of Southampton, when they signed Rickie. I’d imagine they’ll splash the cash in January and who knows, perhaps they’ll even perform a great escape? Put a few wins together this side of Christmas and anything is possible.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 22:33:20 GMT
can’t believe we haven’t signed any creative players from last season when that was so obviously what we needed. This team is gonna need are full support so let’s get behind the lads and hope we’re still in league 1 next season. I guess this is the first real proof the ALQ's have lost interest in the club, I still can't get my head around why we've got 4 decent FB's but no creative CM. Pretty sure leahy was signed because of the injury to holmes-dennis. Also looking at the amount of appearances mark little has made since city won league one it also made sense to get cover at righ-back.
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Post by buckaroo on Sept 2, 2019 23:23:51 GMT
There are some stunningly selfish and hypocritical posts here. Don’t remember many objections when this club was on the brink of financial collapse and got rescued by a foreign takeover. Gas heads were delighted when they thought these wealthy owners were about to spend millions on a new team and stadium. Sour grapes now, because it didn’t work out. What’s the difference, if we’re honest?
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Post by chewbacca on Sept 2, 2019 23:41:17 GMT
Bolton’s new owners have taken a £20m loan out to finance this. Not sure it ends well.
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Post by Gassy on Sept 3, 2019 6:25:44 GMT
Bolton’s new owners have taken a £20m loan out to finance this. Not sure it ends well. 2x £20m loans I believe, £40m in total
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Post by Marshy on Sept 3, 2019 6:56:23 GMT
There are some stunningly selfish and hypocritical posts here. Don’t remember many objections when this club was on the brink of financial collapse and got rescued by a foreign takeover. Gas heads were delighted when they thought these wealthy owners were about to spend millions on a new team and stadium. Sour grapes now, because it didn’t work out. What’s the difference, if we’re honest? Where’s is the evidence to support that we were on the brink of financial collapse? Bolton have been in trouble for years and now they seem to have got away with it again, comparing us to Bolton is ludicrous! Do you work for the EFL?
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Post by peterparker on Sept 3, 2019 7:52:02 GMT
There are some stunningly selfish and hypocritical posts here. Don’t remember many objections when this club was on the brink of financial collapse and got rescued by a foreign takeover. Gas heads were delighted when they thought these wealthy owners were about to spend millions on a new team and stadium. Sour grapes now, because it didn’t work out. What’s the difference, if we’re honest? Some fans want to see us play reasonably attractive football and have a reasonable chance of surviving in Div 1, I guess you're content to see us lose every away game w/o scoring and once again finish up in a relegation fight at the end of the season. Perhaps I could take that if we're more or less breaking even but the ALQ's are still managing to lose £2m/£3m a season. So your solution is to spend more money?
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 3, 2019 8:35:46 GMT
I can't see we're even any stronger up front, we've lost Jak & Reilly for Smith & Victor, it looks just a straight swap ability wise to me. I sense it's going to long old season of trying to grind out results. Straight swap? I think we have improved quite dramatically up front personally. Just needed to sign someone more creative to put them on a platter for then! That’s it in a nutshell!!😀 UTG!
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Post by chewbacca on Sept 3, 2019 8:51:25 GMT
Some fans want to see us play reasonably attractive football and have a reasonable chance of surviving in Div 1, I guess you're content to see us lose every away game w/o scoring and once again finish up in a relegation fight at the end of the season. Perhaps I could take that if we're more or less breaking even but the ALQ's are still managing to lose £2m/£3m a season. So your solution is to spend more money? Create more revenue streams, unfortunately to do that in the short term they might have to spend money. It's Catch 22.
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Post by neilv93 on Sept 3, 2019 8:57:50 GMT
So your solution is to spend more money? Create more revenue streams, unfortunately to do that in the short term they might have to spend money. It's Catch 22. Or just make the sausage rolls a tenner from now on?
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