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You can't act like keep a clean sheet against Bolton's U20s is an achievement

Two more goals than we managed and they had to play against some actual senior players

No, any sort of win would have been fine, but the key part is that we should have won. We were playing against a hastily thrown together youth team. We won't play an easier game all season.

I understand that it's early days, and we can't take too much stock from these early results, but then again, we were playing a youth team. This isn't a regular poor performance against a poor side, it was us failing to beat a hastily scraped together bunch of kids and it's hard to feel downbeat...

I don't think the season is over based on that one result, but the performance itself was nowhere near good enough considering the standard of the opposition. It's worrying how the early signs are that we've failed to address any of the issues from last season in terms of personnel or...

The embarrassing mindset is how accepting our fans are of abject mediocrity. Any team in League One would be extremely disappointed in to have got that result today, yet here we are trying to sugar coat it.

We’ve played what could well be the two worst sides in the league

I’m not going to reward them for keeping a clean sheet against a team of kids who didn’t even have a recognised striker. In fact, we were very fortunate they didn’t score. Passing from both was woeful, and they slowed the tempo down every time they had it. Played directly into Bolton’s hands.

Can’t recall a single thing he did right. Every touch was heavy, every pass was poor. Shocking.

We broke them down once, the other two were offside. WE WERE PLAYING A YOUTH TEAM.

Marosi 6 Dabo 5 McFadzean 4 Rose 4 Mason 6 Kelly 6 Westbrooke 4 Shipley 5 Jobello 6 Bakayoko 2 Hiwula 2 Biamou 0 Godden 4 Bapaga 5

Generous

What positives are there to be found from being unable to break down a youth team? Do people genuine think we played well today? We lacked any sort of creativity, no one in the side has any composure in front of goal and we didn’t even defend that well.

Not conceding any goals against a youth team and a team who lost 3-0 at home today isn’t an achievement.

We were playing a youth team. This result and the performance are utter embarrassments. Offside goals or not we were awful today. Any other team in this league would have comfortably won today.

Alan Nixon reporting that all their senior players are refusing to play tomorrow as things stand and Bolton are desperately trying to get them to. Honestly, given the circumstances our goal for this game should be to be top of the league by the end of it.

Pretty sure it’s against EFL rules to play behind closed doors

There was a Birmingham ITK who seemed to think he wanted to come here ahead of them but didn’t mention anything about Wigan etc.

That’s that then. At least the saga is finally over.

Bolton offering print at home which should help a few. Know I wouldn't have been able to get them in time without that.