After another week of upheaval bolton bottom of the league with just 26 points and 11 from safety face bristol city at ashton gate 6th from bottom with 40 points but still a bit of work to do before they will be safe from relegation themselves. Bolton last won away at Cardiff on easter monday last year and if they fsil to win today then another easter monday will pass without an away win. Team news. A lot to ponder for interim manager jimmy phillips and his assistant peter reid. Stiil without ben amos, dorian dervite, max clayton injured. Jay spearing can no longer be picked because of contract issues nor liam feeney the first to be shipped out of the high earners. Who comes in is speculation at the moment. Maybe young keeper cambell, defenders maher, finney, winger walker, striker woolery. David wheater may be fit but can't see him being picked with the club looking towards the future. Team news to follow....
posted on 19/3/16
One hell of a job for anyone coming in.
Deano is going to find it hard to bring in new investors with this shower of players.
Anyway guys, time for me to sign off. I hope you can all forget about football for a few hours and spend your leisure time with friends and family. Just ban any talk of BWFC.
posted on 19/3/16
Most of these players are here for another 12 months
posted on 19/3/16
JP / Says there's a lot of work to do on the training pitch over the next 2 weeks.
posted on 20/3/16
Here is Jimmy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7fEg2PGY7I&feature=youtu.be
posted on 20/3/16
Post game quotes from Jimmy.
Post-game quotes from the interim boss following defeat at Ashton Gate
Jimmy Phillips spoke to the media following Bolton’s 6-0 defeat away at Bristol City.
A thoroughly miserable afternoon at Ashton Gate got off to the worst possible start, with the Trotters two goals down inside the opening ten minutes.
And things went from bad to worse in the second half, as Bolton collapsed and conceded a further four goals.
Speaking in his post-match press conference Phillips covered the below points.
On the manner of the performance…
I can only apologise to all of the Bolton fans, from those in the ground to those following from afar. It was an embarrassing performance and the players admitted that in the dressing room after the game. We’ve let the supporters and club down today. The players know that. We didn’t dominate the play at any stage and didn’t work hard enough to close the Bristol City players down.
On the Bristol City goals…
I don’t think that they had to work too hard for the goals. Conceding after three minutes in an away game set the tone and we were wide open for the second goal.
On the team selection…
We put Kaiyne Woolery upfront as we felt we needed some pace in the team. It was something that we lacked, particularly with Liam Feeney moving on loan to Ipswich. Kaiyne is still learning the game and at times he did cause the Bristol defenders a couple of problems in the first half, but that was about as good as it got for us.
On the task ahead…
There’s a lot of work to be done and a big rebuilding process ahead. Maybe today’s result has put into perspective just how big of a rebuild is needed. Our task has now been made far harder by today’s result. It’s damaging to morale and to team spirit.
On the upcoming international break…
We’ve got a two-week period to properly work with the players now. Even if we had won today, we would have still have been in over the international period because we time to work with the players and get across our ideas. We need to get some structure and organisation into the players and that’s what we’ll be working hard to do.
posted on 20/3/16
Not many post game comments from members of the forum.
Not surprising really after that result. Let's hope Jimmy and Peter can do better in the remaining games.
posted on 20/3/16
Probably only saw 55 mins or so of the game and the highlights. Didn't go to Rotherham away but the 1st time I have seen players lie down. Just a disorganised mess. Putting this down to the change in management and coaching staff in the week. The keeper is poor. Amos was dodgy at times but this guy no chance with him. Derik is not a right back. Wheater didn't look match fit, moxey very poor. Holding did his best. The passing from the central 2 of pratley and vela poor, couldn't understand trotters omission. Mavies was just a passenger on the right side of midfield. Walker and woolery tried their best but probably playing at too higha level. Madine. Not saying aanything because I might get in trouble. Going to be a long hard rebuild without any money and if the high earners just hang around for the wages next season then it's another relegation next season. The only hope is Holdsworth gets a manager in just like Sam at the start who can build a team that is bigger than the sum of its parts.
posted on 20/3/16
Good assessment Benny. Difficult times ahead.
posted on 21/3/16
Whilst obviously happy with a 6-0 win (who wouldn't be?) I feel for you guys.
It's horrible to see your team lose like that - one guy threw his Bolton shirt at your players and nobody around us took the micky
All I can say is look at Leicester, Norwich and Southampton - they took a step back and look where they are now.
Good luck guys.
posted on 21/3/16
thanks for your comment redandwhite, although most of us Bolton fans are embarrassed by the result, I am still in angry mood at the performance of our players. No passion, a couldn't careless attitude from most of them.