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Thanks for your kind words, but we have been playing poor for a while now, hence us dropping like a stone/out of the play off places.Whenever you U's have been kind enough to let me visit your site as I have often done, I've always found that for the most part, U's fans have been welcoming, balanced in their opinions and knowledgeable. Tonight it's a bit of a meltdown.
WE Yellow - you and the others who traipsed up to Lancashire to watch your teams' performance have my utmost respect and sympathy - been there myself when the Wanderers have let me down on numerous occasions.
From our perspective, the Wanderers owed us that performance. Twelve games ago we were 2 points behind the leaders with 3 games in hand - prime position to storm the league - but our form inexplicably fell off a cliff. I say inexplicably, but that's not entirely true as we had a swathe of injuries and suspensions and a punishing schedule - but despite Evatt saying we had the strength in depth to cover it, we just couldn't readjust. We squandered our games in hand, Pompey pulled away and Derby overtook us whilst the rest closed the gap and the form guide for the last 10 games put us at 16th in the league. Coming into this game we were bricking it. We'd played well throughout the barren spell but couldn't convert our chances and got mugged week after week, conceding some comedically bad goals - akin to the second tonight but on a weekly basis, so we had plenty of reason to be worried.
Tonight it finally clicked for us. Maybe the players finally got the message that they were about to blow a superb start to the season? Maybe they actually heard the sort of criticisms about individuals players and the manager similar to those levelled at your team that appear on this site tonight? Or maybe they realised they are now in the last chance saloon as far as the automatics are concerned? Whatever the reason, they came out fully focused and for the first time in ages maintained it for the full game.
There is no doubt that you have some quality players - they just have to find a way for everyone to be on the same hymn sheet and that takes time - it certainly did for us.
Moreover, it could happen overnight as it has for us. I hope that the players and manager read the comments on here tonight. I hope they realise how much it means to the fans. I hope they remember that you're still in with a shout for the playoffs. And above all that they take it to heart and find a way to click as a team again to repay guys like you who spend a lot of money and take a lot of time to travel up and down the country to support them.
Sure we played well tonight, but you deserve a better performance than you got and we both know that the quality players you have can do better than they did.
All the best for the rest of the season. Maybe see you in the playoffs if your lads get it together and we don't beat Derby, Posh, Stevenage and Pompey.
Exactly, and this is why the final straw for me and ‘Desnt’ have a ‘Bucking’ clue was when he said last night that he didn’t see this coming?!What sums it up for me is that most of us aren't that surprised by last night. An absolute drumming has been on the cards for weeks.
There are zero redeeming elements to last night.
I don't give with this post, would you be so nice if the result was reversedWhenever you U's have been kind enough to let me visit your site as I have often done, I've always found that for the most part, U's fans have been welcoming, balanced in their opinions and knowledgeable. Tonight it's a bit of a meltdown.
WE Yellow - you and the others who traipsed up to Lancashire to watch your teams' performance have my utmost respect and sympathy - been there myself when the Wanderers have let me down on numerous occasions.
From our perspective, the Wanderers owed us that performance. Twelve games ago we were 2 points behind the leaders with 3 games in hand - prime position to storm the league - but our form inexplicably fell off a cliff. I say inexplicably, but that's not entirely true as we had a swathe of injuries and suspensions and a punishing schedule - but despite Evatt saying we had the strength in depth to cover it, we just couldn't readjust. We squandered our games in hand, Pompey pulled away and Derby overtook us whilst the rest closed the gap and the form guide for the last 10 games put us at 16th in the league. Coming into this game we were bricking it. We'd played well throughout the barren spell but couldn't convert our chances and got mugged week after week, conceding some comedically bad goals - akin to the second tonight but on a weekly basis, so we had plenty of reason to be worried.
Tonight it finally clicked for us. Maybe the players finally got the message that they were about to blow a superb start to the season? Maybe they actually heard the sort of criticisms about individuals players and the manager similar to those levelled at your team that appear on this site tonight? Or maybe they realised they are now in the last chance saloon as far as the automatics are concerned? Whatever the reason, they came out fully focused and for the first time in ages maintained it for the full game.
There is no doubt that you have some quality players - they just have to find a way for everyone to be on the same hymn sheet and that takes time - it certainly did for us.
Moreover, it could happen overnight as it has for us. I hope that the players and manager read the comments on here tonight. I hope they realise how much it means to the fans. I hope they remember that you're still in with a shout for the playoffs. And above all that they take it to heart and find a way to click as a team again to repay guys like you who spend a lot of money and take a lot of time to travel up and down the country to support them.
Sure we played well tonight, but you deserve a better performance than you got and we both know that the quality players you have can do better than they did.
All the best for the rest of the season. Maybe see you in the playoffs if your lads get it together and we don't beat Derby, Posh, Stevenage and Pompey.
Five down with 15 minutes plus added to go I was seriously worriedHaving slept on it I think 5:0 flattered us. It really was that bad.
I’m always amazed that people spend time & money to go to a match just to spend the whole game looking and shouting abuse at the opposition fans.Most entertaining part of the night was the small subsection of Bolton fans next to the away end who were determined to give out s**t for 90mins instead of watching the game, and ended up getting kicked out - which I thought was a weird approach to take when you're 5-0 up.
We've been crap most of the season mate. Even when we were top 2 we weren't particularly good. And now we are clueless, toothless and rudderless and have been for months.Look guys, I can understand your feelings after last night and we’ve all been there at times but when Wanderers play like they did last night and for once actually take the chances there’s no team in this league that can live with us. Your players were shell shocked because they just couldn’t handle Wanderers pace and movement and when every player in your team is on it as our were last night results like this are going to happen. As you saw, we have goals right through the team so it’s nigh on impossible to stop us when we play like that. In fairness we have been excellent in games recently but have just missed chances one after the other. Last night we didn’t and you got the brunt of it. I know it’s tough but if you want to make the play offs, which you still can, you need to stick behind your team and manager. Good luck for the rest of the season and you never know, if we don’t make automatic you may still get a chance to get your own back?
Look guys, I can understand your feelings after last night and we’ve all been there at times but when Wanderers play like they did last night and for once actually take the chances there’s no team in this league that can live with us. Your players were shell shocked because they just couldn’t handle Wanderers pace and movement and when every player in your team is on it as our were last night results like this are going to happen. As you saw, we have goals right through the team so it’s nigh on impossible to stop us when we play like that. In fairness we have been excellent in games recently but have just missed chances one after the other. Last night we didn’t and you got the brunt of it. I know it’s tough but if you want to make the play offs, which you still can, you need to stick behind your team and manager. Good luck for the rest of the season and you never know, if we don’t make automatic you may still get a chance to get your own back?
Yep, they paid a lot to get him, then realised they’d made a big mistake. It happens.Good shout but he did only last 6 months at Swansea.
'customers' pleaseNeeds a new manager, backroom staff and a big turnover of players in the summer for me.
Fans pay good money to attend to be entertained and currently they are being heavily under changed.
There are no similarities between Buckingham and Manning tactically.1. Tactically, what was Manning doing with this team that Des isn’t? The formation seems to be the same. The players are more or less the same. There are certain things that I can see as a coach and have picked up from listening to others but I’d love to hear the big tactical differences others see.