Match Day Thread Bolton v QPR

To be fair Bolton have won once in 12 games. They are a shockingly bad side. Sheff Utd had an off day whereas we are having an off season.

 

Indeed. Bolton are dogshit but we aren't good enough to always beat dogshit especially away in a gale. It happens- I've seen plenty of QPR teams that would have meekly surrendered.

 

Wednesday. Got the impression Bolton are improving

 

Fair perspective. Much worse when you drop points against those teams at home ie worse for Bolton than us today.
Must confess to getting edgy as we slip again towards the drop zone but lots of footie to be played yet.

 

Serious question: on the basis that we’re not shipping that many goals (yet) and I’m not hearing that we’ve been played off the park by any team (yet), is there really that much wrong with this team other than the absence of a decent goal scorer and the return of a few injured first-teamers?

When I look at the table there’s teams well above us that have also lost 4 games, but they’ve won where we’ve drawn.

I don’t feel the doom & gloom of others and remain optimistic about the fortunes of our club. We’re building something, so my expectations for this season are modest, but next season would want to see some kicking on.

 

The table doesn’t lie.
Winning is a habit.
The boys are giving 110%
It’s a long season
This is the world’s toughest league
It’s a results business

Sorry, run out of cliches. There is much more to be happy about in terms of spirit and competitiveness, and I think we are trying to play decent football. The problem we have is inconsistency, we’ll go on a run and have the best form in the league, and then embark on a bottom of the league standard bunch of games. It’s been the same since Ollie arrived. Nice when we are on the good runs, but if the bad ones stretch out too long we could be in real trouble. I’d like a bit of win one, lose one, draw one and introducing some of the youngsters as we feel comfortable.

 

Its great to put a good performance in,but its a results driven game and as much as its encouraging to play well it means diddly squat..so all the rhetoric and cliches from olly and TF means zip..onwards and upwards.

 

Just seen the highlights. Bidwell gave Pratley about 3 acres of space for their goal.

 

That boy Pratley is class and would’ve only needed two.

 

Top post.

 

Presumably the doctor was with others when he said it, and they were all wearing white coats

 

I do wish he would follow other chairmen and keep his mouth shut.less is more.

 

Are we, or are we having the season we expected?

 

I'm disappointed we haven't won a trophy yet and cured AIDS.

Did anyone expect much more than 15 points from 13?

 

Roller I think we have played better than expected which is a worry. We really should be beating cr2p teams like Bolton because if we cannot take the points off the likes of them what chance do we have with a good team? Only reason we scored was because they have a naff defense.
It was a good start for 'Hollow' but his limitations are showing week by week.

 

Very true. Just look at the match stats.

We create the opportunities and chances which is great. But we are simply are not efficient in putting them away.

Perhaps we lack the individualism and skill. But it was a great finish by Sylla today - however, we need more of such moments.

 

When have we ever beaten the teams we are expected to? Even under Warnock we lost 4-1 away to Scunthorpe who eventually finished bottom of this league.

So far this season we've had more success against supposedly better teams. In our "tough" start to the season, where many expected us to be firmly routed to the bottom of the table after the first 5 or 6 matches, we exceeded expectation, in the "easy" run following that, we've under-performed. At some point people will finally realise that they can not predict results in this league, it is nothing like as cut and dried like the Premier League.

I'd agree that our attack is weak, but that is hardly Holloway's fault. It seems to me that he cannot win. If he sticks to the same team he should have tried something different, if he changes it then he is tinkering too much. The one thing that he has definitely brought to the team is that we battle, by God do we battle. You clearly don't want him as manager, that's fine, your choice, but no one is going to make Freeman become Messi or Smith become Ronaldo, however no one is going to try harder.

 

A good encouraging post but the slip down the table is worrying.

 

A point away from home is always a good one, just need to start winning some home games.

 

Last week, I made comment about how a replacement of manager might help our team, being that Ollie just wasn't getting the results we need to show any hint of improvement over the last season or so. There was much comment on here to imply support for Ollie was much greater than l could have imagine after so many lacklustre performances this season.

I think having to come from behind, to draw with a team coming dead last in the competition, tells us where we really are.

We all are entitled to our opinions .................. you can see mine as plain as day.