[Archived] The nPower Championship 12/13

[K-Hod]

Posh 5-4 Bolton

Wow.

Aye. Had Soccer Saturday on, sounded like a frantic finish!!

[rovers11]

O`Driscol been sacked at Forest. Got a feeling their owners are skint and are not the real deal.

[roverandout]

sounds familiar.

[rovers11]

. Hear Roy Keane is being lined up there. Eerily familiar to what we've just done with berg. Heard that their players were paid late last month.

[chaddyrovers]

reckon hughes is going there

[NH1875]

Read the statement on their club website, sounds like a calculated decision to bring someone in and spend in January to force their way up the league.

[John]

Forest Owner - Fawaz_alhasawi: made contact with PL manager tonight. Meeting Thursday.

[DE.]

Struggling to think of any current PL manager who would drop a division to manage Forest.

[Stuart]

I assumed they were talking about Hughes but maybe Lambert has had enough?

[DE.]

Leaving Villa to go to Forest would still be a really, really strange move.

[sharpysharps]

He probably means PL manager by reputation surely?

[Stuart]

Jumping before he's pushed? I'm just guessing of course.

Not sure who else. McDermott, Adkins, Martinez? O'Neill has history but can't see it.

Gotta be an anachronism and they mean Hughes.

[John]

Di Matteo and Keane linked so far

[longsiders1882]

We won, you lost, Bolton lost and Leeds lost - Christmas came a day late this year.

[forumquizmaster]

Bolton Wanderers have confirmed the signing of Barnsley striker Craig Davies for an undisclosed fee. How many players called Davies/Davis do Bolton have now??

[longsiders1882]

3 on the bounce and 3 clean sheets for us. I think it is fair to say that back when, we appointed the better manager.

Just hope the form continues until March now.

[DE.]

It would have been hard for you to do worse, wouldn't it?

[longsiders1882]

Well as it turned out, yes but there were one or two on here at the time suggesting otherwise.

And before anybody thinks I'm getting carried away, I still think we are a mid table side and that's where we will finish. Worryingly for you though, I do now believe we can finish above you.

[Alex Rover]

Got to say as it's turned out you've done alright for yourselves recently. Steve Cotterill, Owen Coyle, Eddie Howe and now seemingly Sean Dyche.

Apart from Brain Laws of course (very strange appointment).

[longsiders1882]

You just had to mention Laws didn't you!

To be fair Howes last 6 months were not great, hindsight suggesting his heart just wasn't in it. Still Dyche is looking a brilliant appointment and I don't mind admitting I wasn't blown away when we appointed him.

[Stuart]

Just listening to the commentator after the Cardiff win. Apparently they are off to Dubai for two weeks for R&R.

Remember when we used to do that? Where did Kean take us when we were last in the PL dining on Venkys coin? Keighley was it?

And people say we shouldn't be throwing snowballs at Venkys.

[forumquizmaster]

You just had to mention Laws didn't you!

To be fair Howes last 6 months were not great, hindsight suggesting his heart just wasn't in it. Still Dyche is looking a brilliant appointment and I don't mind admitting I wasn't blown away when we appointed him.

Longers, my brother-in-law has told me that Celtic (who he works for) will bid for Charlie Austin if they lose Gary Hooper.

[longsiders1882]

Can they can afford him? I would have thought we will want at least 6 million.

I'm surprised we've had no bids yet but I guess his injury has come at a 'good' time, in that sense, for us. Losing players to bigger clubs is something we are used to and in fairness to our board they've generally played hard ball and got good value for us in recent years - I guess the theory is we can't stop bigger clubs poaching from us but we can make sure they do it on our terms and at our price.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

They can afford to spend a lot of money on a player, it just isn't their philosophy.

They would only buy him if they lose Hooper and he'd go for at least 7 million anyway.

What kind of player would you desribe Austin as? A penalty box player/poacher or is that doing his all-round game an injustice.

[longsiders1882]

He has more all round game than just being a poacher but he is one of those players that comes alive in and around the box. He's happy to work hard, work in the channels etc but you really don't get the best from him asking him to do that, you want him sniffing around from the box - great with his head as well.

I'm sure they can stump up the cash but it is likely that we will want at least what they get for Hooper and I just can't see them doing it - then again maybe our board will be tempted with a low ball offer of 4 million with the team doing well enough without him who knows.