Hasta

They didnt go fully over but they went towards the fans and applauded. After getting quite a bit of stick second half I wondered if they'd not bother but they did.

Enjoyable game which I never felt we would fail to win at any point, even with their promising start. Bolton looked so punchless and devoid of ideas up front, with 35 year old Clayton Donaldson looking worse than I remembered from when he was at Brum. Thought Butterworth looked decent. Williams and Lenihan seem the best centre back pairing we have found although I'm not convinced it's good enough for a top 6 push.

Dark grey and red halves or stripes ?

Whilst he's obviously posting genuine racist tweets by Rovers fans which he has received over the last 6 years, he seems to want to tarnish Nick Harris purely based on ththe sub headline of "A Rovers Taiwan Takeaway". The article refers to the fact that he had left Rovers to go to Taiwan, and the sub headline appears to have been written by someone else after the article had been submitted. Not quite sure where he's trying to go with this as he's received far worse from supporters than the article (which even if you take the sub-heading at its worst isn't particularly offensive) but he seems to want a higher profile target in Harris.

For the handball, had that come over the top of several heads and brushed a defenders arm ever-so-slightly in that position, no-one would have said penalty. Therefore, whilst it did nick his forearm, you can't disallow it for that. It was a remarkable game whereby at the end either Man City got KO'd out of their holy grail competition again, or Spurs bottled another competition again. Anyway you looked at it you won.

On a poll on one of the Bolton websites, of the people out of contract, David Wheater, is one of the only people they'd vote to keep. Not saying he's the right option but I'd be happy bringing in Bauer and a taller, experienced head at centre half.

As there is not a match thread yet, does anyone know if the QPR game is on the red button?

Allardyce you mean.

Paul Downing. Unbeaten in all Championship games he started.

Not going to bother rushing around after work to get down for this. Red Button fayre.

I'm not as doom and gloom as some. At home, we have been well in the game against both Bristol City and Norwich. We beat Hull and West From. All performances which have happened whilst we've become a comedy act on the road. Middlesboro was awful first half but generally at home we've been in games and on top in games. We may lose by the odd goal but I'm hopeful of a result. I don't get how Chapman still can't be ready for 20 minutes if required.

1. Disagree 2. Stupid KO time. Agree 3 Agree 4. Unsure 5. Disagree 6 Disagree. They can play well for 85 minutes then commit hari-kari for the last 5. That not lack of motivation. The motivation and effort has generally been there. 7. Agree. If that has been your stance all along then nothing has changed. 8. That is, dare I say it, a little bit plastic as a reason for not attending. But I get your bundling it in with numerous other issues.

Popular player tries his best for the club and is instrumental in getting us back to the Championship. Then gets found out to be not good enough at this level and gets nicknamed Smallw*nk by classless fan.

Just to put it into perspective, watch Breretons goal from a West Ham point of view. Nuttall gets the ball as the lone striker and they all just stand 5 yards off him and don't go near him.

Please tell me he's a left back.

At least you will be home in time for the early Premier League kick off.

Depends on cost. Yes unless the BBE season ticket touches £400

Raya Nyambe. Lenihan. Mulgrew. Bell Reed. Smallwood. Bennett Dack. Rothwell Graham Ive not changed the keeper as I have no idea how good or bad Leutwiler is. Unlike the outfield positions you never see him play. I'd let Rothwell roam to either wing as he wishes. Make sure one of Reed / Bennett is always looking to get forward to support when we break. Encourage the full backs to get forward with one of the midfield 3 always aware and filling in as required. Presuming Lenihan is fit, I've gone back to him and Mulgrew as they played together in the early part of the season when's we were in better form. Rodwell feels like he has been the constant during this poor run, although the individual mistakes have rarely been down to him. Chapman should come through 60 minutes for the U23s on Monday and sit on the bench on Saturday.

I'll answer my own question. In the football league this season there has only been 1 other game which has kicked off at 12pm and has not been televised - Blackburn V Leeds. We are the only club out of the football leage clubs who do this. This may be because we are one of the few clubs who can accomodate 7000 away fans, but that wasnt a problem in the premier league. So what is different?

I don't get why it is 12pm and not 1pm. That's ridiculously early. There's a big difference to many people between the two. How many other non-televised games do you see kicking off at 12? Rovers think they have covered this releasing a statement that tells us very little.

Unless of course we could afford to pay the police more to police the game if we were in the Prem. Even though we are not meant to have to pay police for policing the streets, the only reason I can see for this is that the police say that they either want X amount of pounds or the game kicks off at 1pm. Do we have police within Ewood on matchday?

When we were "shite" in the 80's, we finished 6 times in what was, or would have been, a top 6 play off spot to get in the top flight. Our 'shite' season of 1981, they haven't bettered since 1964. Im all for looking forward, but to suggest we were on a similar level from early 70s to when Jack stepped in is laughable. I was born in 77 and until "loud and proud" night in the late 90s, Preston were one of them plucky local teams we played in the Manx cup.

So the reason given for the early kick off time is "due consideration was given to the game being a local derby, previous encounters between the two clubs, the large away allocation and the short distance for thenpreston fans to travel" That's a nothing answer without expanding. All of the above apply to many, many local derbys and yet a lot of them kick off at 3pm. If we even got into the Premier League, would the fixtures against the Manchester or Liverpool clubs have to kick off early. Of ourse not. If they were on TV they could well be 4pm or 5pm.

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Chaddy - you and a number of other posters were saying exactly the same thing when Coyle was in his final few months. The reason for not wanting Coyle gone was "who could we possibly get". Mowbray had been jobless for a while at that point and nobody was putting his name forward. Fast forward 2 years and it's deja vu. You don't know who would take the job and some managers are just better fits for some clubs that they were for others. There are plenty of managers who would be interested, and if we are still losing games next season due to poor team selection and poor defensive setup, then another manager could feasibly rectify that fairly quickly. Just to clarify, I'd give TM the summer and next season to keep the progression under his reign going so I'm not calling for it his head. All managers make mistakes and learn. However when you stop progressing, then stagnating or regressing because you don't believe you can do any better is not the right attitude.