Match Day Thread Bolton Wanderers v Sunderland – Saturday 29th January 2022 - KO 15:00

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Southern A said:
Worth pointing stuff like this out seeing they are now our comparison for the playoffs

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I’ve just liked your post - but I don’t really! I mean I like your post but not the content, if you see what I mean. I just wish it weren’t true.
 
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RTB said:
Roker Report - Player ratings

Ron-Thorben Hoffmann: 0/10
Six goals conceded from seven shots on target, just not good enough.
Carl Winchester: 0/10
His early season form has completely deserted him, all over the place defensively and no threat going forward.
Daniel Batth: 0/10
As if we weren’t losing bad enough at the time, Batth decides late on to try and top Santiago Vergini’s own goal from the hammering at Southampton.
Callum Doyle: 0/10
Didn’t look comfortable from the off, Bolton closed him down early and he struggled throughout.
Dennis Cirkin: 0/10
Thought he was doing OK in the first half, despite the score, but went missing in the second.
Corry Evans: 0/10
Our most experienced player and captain, he should be the one to get hold of the team and sort them out. That didn’t happen.
Dan Neil: 0/10
Comfortably his worst performance in a Sunderland shirt, nothing happened for him today.
Lynden Gooch: 0/10
Couldn’t make anything happen from the left wing and then struggled at left back.
Elliot Embleton: 0/10
Had a good effort on goal in the first half but not able to create anything of note.
Leon Dajaku: 0/10
Anonymous today, didn’t get at his full back and like the rest of the attacking players, created nothing.
Ross Stewart: 0/10
Too easily shackled by Bolton’s centre backs, had nothing to work with but far below his usual standard.
Substitutes
Jack Clarke: N/A
Came on with his new team-mates having already given up the ghost, looked promising and can hopefully only improve from here.
Alex Pritchard: N/A
Team had already given up, even though Pritchard’s introduction was just after the 50th minute mark.
Patrick Roberts: N/A
Came on for Dajaku and had a chance to show his quick feet with one good run but no chance to make anything happen at that point.

Man of the Match: 6,000 Sunderland fans.
Obviously can’t give a man of the match after that performance, so rather than none at all I’ll give it to the fans. They turned up in their droves, to watch the team embarrass the badge.
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Agree with all of us, although I think Stewart at least tried, but had no support whatsoever. Agreed about Clarke too, looked very promising.
 
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Why does LJ chop and change how he sets his sides up , I realise Flanagan has made some mistakes in recent games but as a right back playing in a four is he better or worse than Winchester. Cirkin was sacrificed to accommodate Gooch - WHY ? if Gooch tracked back to support Cirkin he wouldn’t be left exposed as much as he was today . LJ seems to think by tinkering he is clever but I think putting square pegs in to round holes never works particularly as our wing backs aren’t reliable in tracking back . The midfield was very poor and laboured and ball retention again was poor today , throwing the new players on as substitutes was a meaningless exercise which exacerbated the poor management which smacked of over confidence. Get back to basics and a system your team understands LJ and quickly ,or hope of promotion will disappear .
 
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Bigmackem said:
Why does LJ chop and change how he sets his sides up , I realise Flanagan has made some mistakes in recent games but as a right back playing in a four is he better or worse than Winchester. Cirkin was sacrificed to accommodate Gooch - WHY ? if Gooch tracked back to support Cirkin he wouldn’t be left exposed as much as he was today . LJ seems to think by tinkering he is clever but I think putting square pegs in to round holes never works particularly as our wing backs aren’t reliable in tracking back . The midfield was very poor and laboured and ball retention again was poor today , throwing the new players on as substitutes was a meaningless exercise which exacerbated the poor management which smacked of over confidence. Get back to basics and a system your team understands LJ and quickly ,or hope of promotion will disappear .
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Hate to say it, but playing like we are, hope for promotion is long gone.
 
Gordon Armstrong said:
I've lost count of the amount of times that he's out-thought by opposing managers.
He really doesn't seem to understand the game, has only one tactic, and doesn't react to teams that outplay us.
I'm sick of being hammered (not just beaten) 'cos he doesn't know what he's doing, and his arrogance is so obviously without any justification whatsoever :angry:
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I’ve been on ljs side up to now, but have finally come to realise that he is a one “high-press” donkey who thinks he’s a tactical genius.
 
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I'm not totally balming the manager, everyone involved was a disgrace and quality at times this season, however there's no consistency. You look at our squad and start to think "What could a Warnock or a Pulis do with these players" because I tell you what, each season we FAIL, they couldn't do much worse. We were on the break in the 1st half and there was Stewart running toward their box accompanied but about 6 Bolton players, what the **** is Ross supposed to do with that?? Sorry everyone but I'm bastard raging tonight.Im normally over a defeat by 6 o'clock, but that was new level of embarrassing. At least we're a topic of conversation on talkSPORT tonight for a change.
 
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monty987 said:
The pompey result saved him or he would have been gone and this would not have happened and more money wasted, we are in the crap now nowt till the summer now. We have to go to Oxford and Wigan as well remember. I stopped going to away matches in 1991 after a 6-0 defeat and made the right choice i feel sorry for those supporters forking out a fortune watching these i used to pay fiver for the coach trip and a ticket about £3. Mick mcarthy in on Monday first and will he have time to bring players in ? And does this mean some of the players want away ?
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Good job they f**ked up and gifted us that opportunity to score last week.
 
Smug in Boots said:
Great day out ...

Met up with loads I knew, some I didn't and helped a few people along the way.

... only spoiled by 90 minutes I still don't understand tbh.

The players didn't seem happy with each other from the start.

Hoffman, Doyle, Neil and Embleton looked like they don't want to be here.

Off to the pub <cheers>
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Last few games, especially at the start, the lads have looked out of sorts. Confused by tactics? Over-trained? I don’t know, but something is amiss.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Great day out ...

Met up with loads I knew, some I didn't and helped a few people along the way.

... only spoiled by 90 minutes I still don't understand tbh.

The players didn't seem happy with each other from the start.

Hoffman, Doyle, Neil and Embleton looked like they don't want to be here.

Off to the pub <cheers>
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Loads of trouble with our fans and the police over the bar shutters being closed, battens and flares then all kicked off, many left after 4, you not see out?
 
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