Grendel
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Robins said two were offside
Match Thread Bolton Wanderers vs. Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 10th Aug (3 Viewers)
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Robins said two were offside
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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Your last point is exactly what my biggest concern is though, we miss so many sitters.
Even if the Bakayoko one wasnt offside, Hiwula had the goal gaping from 6 yards and scuffed it.
Grendel
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He said he got one decision wrong the Bakayoko offside
Nick
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Did I miss their goal?
In my opinion and this is not a knock at Robins but he boobed not starting Godden had he I reckon the game would have been won by half time, golden rule PLAY YOUR BEST PLAYERS especially against inexperienced kids. when he came on his movement created panic every time we attacked, thought basically we played well but needed too many touches, can’t tell with the offsides need to be level like the linesman to know.
Nick
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He said the Shipley one was debatable.
skyblue1991
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Just my opinion.
I'm pissed off that we didn't break down at U23 Bolton team and we should've taken away at least a 1-0 win with those disallowed goals (whether they were disallowed or not). For me we had no ideas in the final third.
We clearly need at least a creative midfielder and another forward.
I though Godden looked good when he come on, hopefully he starts next Sat.
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itsabuzzard
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Johhny Blue
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But you were wrong about us being 17th last week
skyblue1991
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This was our best chance this season apart from playing Bury to obtain three points and we failed.
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Grendel
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Robins said 1
Grendel
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He said it was marginal but a foot was ahead of the defender he said it was unlucky but not an incorrect decision.
kg82
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I’ll give you that. I didn’t say otherwise. What I said was we created chances. We’ve put the ball in the back of the net 3 times. At least 1 should’ve counted.
Otis
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You can, but you have to wait until it is dark and you have donned your balaclavas.
Grendel
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Great - we’ve clearly addressed our goal scoring issues - I’m so reassured
kg82
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I also didn’t say anything about finishing. Actually, I did, in the previous post. We’re not clinical. Nothing to do with creating chances.
Liquid Gold
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Good job we know the official in line didn't stick his flag up for the first two then.
On reflection Not too dispirited, team that started today was not our best, we have Jamie Allen to come in and we have yet to see this Kasteneer bloke, we will get better.
I know Robins has said no more signings but a fleet footed strike partner for Godden would be a priority for me if I was manager.
I know Robins has said no more signings but a fleet footed strike partner for Godden would be a priority for me if I was manager.
Nick
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We don't play with 2 strikers to have a partnership.
Grendel
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We don’t have a real number 9 anyway
Skyblueweeman
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fernandopartridge
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We don't even have a big man to play alongside, Baka isn't it. The young Bolton centre backs must think men's football is a piece of piss
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Skyblueweeman
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We scored 3 times...the officials incorrectly disallowed them.
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Grendel
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Bakayoko in relative terms has to be the worst signing for some time
pusbccfc
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Coming round to agreeing with you. Abysmal today.
SeaSeeEffCee
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We broke them down once, the other two were offside. WE WERE PLAYING A YOUTH TEAM.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Poor poor result but goes deeper than that.
We didn't play as well as we could do. Could be for a number of reasons. it was probably difficult for MR to prepare for the game tactically as he had no idea who'd be playing for them or how it'd be best to wear them down (even though it shouldn't have been that difficult to find a weak spot somewhere) and maybe the players didn't prepare properly because of the uncertainty and they were playing a young team but they were flat for much of the game. Midfield or strikers didn't dominate that game like they should've done.
Baka and Hiwula weren't anywhere near as threatening as they should be against such inexperienced defenders. Godden took a decent chance of Jobello (probably didn't get a shout) and missed a decent chance but it's early days yet.
Which brings me on to MR. At least he brought on the two forwards quite early. But then as usual steadfastly refused to chance the system despite it not suiting the subs. Why bring Max on to not play down the middle? Especially when he's still coming back from an ACL? If you weren't going to change the system you may as well have kept Hiwula on. When we made the change I expected up to go Godden and Max up top, but we didn't.
I'd have also expected us to put far more pressure on their defence and keeper but we didn't. We had loads of chances apparently but there were few and far between that truly made them sweat.
I should say well done for the effort of the Bolton lads, but in reality they went out there under the instruction to kick lumps out of us. If anything the one positive is we haven't picked up injuries.
This also brings in the main reason we didn't win today - officiating. That ref was clearly giving them extra leeway in their fouls due to their age. An established team could've probably expected twice as many fouls given against them and probably a red card or two.
Then there were the three disallowed goals and a number of penalty decisions not given. If we'd have been the other team in light blue who've got VAR at their disposal that game would've been 4-0 even from our poor performance, not taking into account their heads may well have drop and the adrenalin that sustained them to full time wouldn't have been there.
At worst that officiating needs looking into just due to the poor standard but it was so bad and so one-sided you almost feel it needs to be looked at from a betting irregularities side. The ref seemed to be looking for any reason whatsoever to not give things our way and let them get away with some atrocious tackling/fouling.
We didn't play as well as we could do. Could be for a number of reasons. it was probably difficult for MR to prepare for the game tactically as he had no idea who'd be playing for them or how it'd be best to wear them down (even though it shouldn't have been that difficult to find a weak spot somewhere) and maybe the players didn't prepare properly because of the uncertainty and they were playing a young team but they were flat for much of the game. Midfield or strikers didn't dominate that game like they should've done.
Baka and Hiwula weren't anywhere near as threatening as they should be against such inexperienced defenders. Godden took a decent chance of Jobello (probably didn't get a shout) and missed a decent chance but it's early days yet.
Which brings me on to MR. At least he brought on the two forwards quite early. But then as usual steadfastly refused to chance the system despite it not suiting the subs. Why bring Max on to not play down the middle? Especially when he's still coming back from an ACL? If you weren't going to change the system you may as well have kept Hiwula on. When we made the change I expected up to go Godden and Max up top, but we didn't.
I'd have also expected us to put far more pressure on their defence and keeper but we didn't. We had loads of chances apparently but there were few and far between that truly made them sweat.
I should say well done for the effort of the Bolton lads, but in reality they went out there under the instruction to kick lumps out of us. If anything the one positive is we haven't picked up injuries.
This also brings in the main reason we didn't win today - officiating. That ref was clearly giving them extra leeway in their fouls due to their age. An established team could've probably expected twice as many fouls given against them and probably a red card or two.
Then there were the three disallowed goals and a number of penalty decisions not given. If we'd have been the other team in light blue who've got VAR at their disposal that game would've been 4-0 even from our poor performance, not taking into account their heads may well have drop and the adrenalin that sustained them to full time wouldn't have been there.
At worst that officiating needs looking into just due to the poor standard but it was so bad and so one-sided you almost feel it needs to be looked at from a betting irregularities side. The ref seemed to be looking for any reason whatsoever to not give things our way and let them get away with some atrocious tackling/fouling.
lifeskyblue
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I really can’t disagree with you. Apart from his two goals at Charlton and a 10min spell last week (when he was almost unplayable) what has he done that merits leading the line?
Oh just remembered...he had a decent game at Peterborough. But really this is not good enough.
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Otis
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You look at him and think he should be much stronger than he actually is.
Then he should get one then.
fernandopartridge
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It isn't physical strength he lacks it is thought and instinct
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