League 1 General Chat Thread

[Muzzle]

Quite a few of us are too young to properly remember Burnden tbf, I remember as a kid when collecting Merlin’s stickers & reading Match etc it was always the Reebok stadium. So for me that’s Bolton’s traditional stadium name and Big Sam will always be the first manager you think of when talking about Bolton with Kevin Davies up front.

I keep forgetting that I am old

 

[Greenacres]

Blimey, I'm old enough to remember when Peter Reid played for Bolton!

 

[Greenacres]

My real worry about our game against Sheff Weds, given how the game at their place went, is that it could amount to little more than public humiliation in front of the TV cameras...which I don't think will be of any benefit to our club, the players or fans.

 

[Chris FGR]

My real worry about our game against Sheff Weds, given how the game at their place went, is that it could amount to little more than public humiliation in front of the TV cameras...which I don't think will be of any benefit to our club, the players or fans.

Bit like the Exeter game was.

 

[Greenacres]

Today's game will be interesting, we have shown a little promise since Big Dunc arrived...the defence does look a bit more organised even if our threat up front is somewhere close to minimal...I think a lot of fans are resigned to relegation but just want to see some hope that a bounce back next season is more than a distant possibility.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Today's game will be interesting, we have shown a little promise since Big Dunc arrived...the defence does look a bit more organised even if our threat up front is somewhere close to minimal...I think a lot of fans are resigned to relegation but just want to see some hope that a bounce back next season is more than a distant possibility.

Yeah, how we go down will make a big difference to next season you'd think, fighting or shambolic whimper.

 

[Muzzle]

Blimey, I'm old enough to remember when Peter Reid played for Bolton!

I'm old enough to have seen him play for Bolton

 

[Bartonyellow]

The worst game of football ever at the Pirelli. Fucking abysmal. Both sides with no interest in winning it.
But great news ! I didn’t fancy it and so I didn’t go. Dodged a bullet there. And saved £20 on watching that dogshit.
At least it’s a clean sheet and a point I suppose.

 

[thewwfc]

My real worry about our game against Sheff Weds, given how the game at their place went, is that it could amount to little more than public humiliation in front of the TV cameras...which I don't think will be of any benefit to our club, the players or fans.

aargh, you’ve just reminded me that we’ve been shat upon 6-0 not once, but twice, by Huddersfield, LIVE!!! on Sky.

Thank fuck I was on holiday for the second one and missed it altogether, but I saw every painful minute of the first, and yes it was a relegation season for us.

 

[Greenacres]

aargh, you’ve just reminded me that we’ve been shat upon 6-0 not once, but twice, by Huddersfield, LIVE!!! on Sky.

Thank fuck I was on holiday for the second one and missed it altogether, but I saw every painful minute of the first, and yes it was a relegation season for us.

Put a tenner on FGR to win that game 6-0...if it happens you can retire on your winnings!

(Caveat: I am not a gambling man, if I bet on a horse in the Grand National it usually falls at the first fence and ends up as dog food)

 

[GEORGE]

Quite a few of us are too young to properly remember Burnden tbf, I remember as a kid when collecting Merlin’s stickers & reading Match etc it was always the Reebok stadium. So for me that’s Bolton’s traditional stadium name and Big Sam will always be the first manager you think of when talking about Bolton with Kevin Davies up front.

I must be old then as I remember up front was Wyn Davies and the goalkeeper being Eddie Hopkinson. Never been to the new ground but remember going to Burnden Park when Rovers won 2-1 in 1968.

 

[White horse]

I must be old then as I remember up front was Wyn Davies and the goalkeeper being Eddie Hopkinson. Never been to the new ground but remember going to Burnden Park when Rovers won 2-1 in 1968.

Not old, just well seasoned , not many on this board will remember those two but I do know about them. Wyn "the leap" Davies was the strapping 6 foot 2 Welsh international centre forward of the sixties and Hopkinson was the England goalkeeper in the late fifties, i always wonder how the old players would go on in today's game. Very difficult to compare different eras really.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Our game at Oxford now on Sky, after largely being ignored by the football ruining c*** we've become their new pets. Wankers.

 

[ProfessorGreen]

Don't think it's been mentioned on here but earlier in the week the club announced a £21million project for a new Category 2 status academy and home for the women's team in the middle of the city. Argyle and the Argyle Community Trust expected to stump up roughly £18million, funded by current shareholders, with the council and a couple of other parties contributing the rest.

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/academy-site-secured-brickfields

What it means for Plymouth Albion Rugby club who currently use the site I'm not sure. The rise of the Exeter Chiefs has been to their downfall as they're clearly the major rugby attraction in the county.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Don't think it's been mentioned on here but earlier in the week the club announced a £21million project for a new Category 2 status academy and home for the women's team in the middle of the city. Argyle and the Argyle Community Trust expected to stump up roughly £18million, funded by current shareholders, with the council and a couple of other parties contributing the rest.

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/academy-site-secured-brickfields

What it means for Plymouth Albion Rugby club who currently use the site I'm not sure. The rise of the Exeter Chiefs has been to their downfall as they're clearly the major rugby attraction in the county.

I presume Albion were party to the development? You can have the Chiefs if you want, I really hope their bubble bursts soon.

 

[masi51]

Well my eyes have been opened to rumours/facts that i have been told yesterday

All i will say is we are not ready for the poison chalice which is The championship

 

[BarrieOwl]

Well my eyes have been opened to rumours/facts that i have been told yesterday

All i will say is we are not ready for the poison chalice which is The championship

 

[masi51]

Not ready for the Championship on the field thats a certainty..........Off it not sure it benefits any team

 

[Luke Imp]

Huddersfield and Wigan have a fight on their hands at the bottom of the Championship and the former are mulling over going into admin apparently, whilst Wigan have failed to pay their players on time (again!), so will probably incur their suspended points deduction this season.

 

[kieran_vale]

Not ready for the Championship on the field thats a certainty..........Off it not sure it benefits any team

That league is ridiculous really. There’s now four teams I believe under transfer embargo’s (pretty redundant really given it’s outside the window but never mind). The shit down the road have their owners writing off really eye-watering sums of money just to be compliant with FFP. You never know though, on the field you have a good manager and seem to use the loan market well so there could be a chance.

 

[valefan16]

Huddersfield and Wigan have a fight on their hands at the bottom of the Championship and the former are mulling over going into admin apparently, whilst Wigan have failed to pay their players on time (again!), so will probably incur their suspended points deduction this season.

Wigan just seem to go through this 2-3 yearly cycle at the moment. Didn't they come down in huge financial trouble a couple of seasons back?

 

[Muzzle]

Hearing Reading could be in bother as well

 

[BarrieOwl]

Hearing Reading could be in bother as well

No, you don't say

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hearing Reading could be in bother as well

I was Reading Hearing are in trouble

 

[Bartonyellow]

Hearing Reading could be in bother as well

Fuck em.

 

[Laker]

Wigan just seem to go through this 2-3 yearly cycle at the moment. Didn't they come down in huge financial trouble a couple of seasons back?

Yep they got taken over and the owners put them into admin yet the administrators couldn’t work out why. Was all really weird.

 

[shoddycollins]

Yep they got taken over and the owners put them into admin yet the administrators couldn’t work out why. Was all really weird.

They built a fancy new stadium (helped by the fact that Dave Whelan also owned the rugby league team who can actually fill it) and had a spell in the Premier League and have now kidded themselves into believing they're a top second tier club that should be enjoying regular excursions into the top flight and for whom relegation to the third flight can be seen as an aberration. But they're not. They'd never even played as high as the second tier until I think 2004, and we've spent more seasons in the top two divisions than they have. Since being elected to the league they've established themselves as a third/fourth tier club and have only recently gotten higher than that through unsustainably chucking money at it, and the sooner they accept that the better for themselves.

 

[valefan16]

They built a fancy new stadium (helped by the fact that Dave Whelan also owned the rugby league team who can actually fill it) and had a spell in the Premier League and have now kidded themselves into believing they're a top second tier club that should be enjoying regular excursions into the top flight and for whom relegation to the third flight can be seen as an aberration. But they're not. They'd never even played as high as the second tier until I think 2004, and we've spent more seasons in the top two divisions than they have. Since being elected to the league they've established themselves as a third/fourth tier club and have only recently gotten higher than that through unsustainably chucking money at it, and the sooner they accept that the better for themselves.

Yeah remember a Wigan fan on here when they first game down and seemed to think they were a massive club far above this level… despite ten years earlier being a relatively average L1 club.

That’s the problem with clubs throwing money at it without a sustainable plan, Bournemouth for example of their backers pulled out when be in a similar position as the fan base just isn’t there.

 

[Si Robin]

The irony is that when we played Wigan last season, their fans were the most grounded of any ex-Premier League team that I can recall (it's possible I just spoke to the decent few).

It seems that "investors" look at the ground, the fact they had 8/9 seasons in the Premier League, and possibly the FA Cup win in 2013 and assume they're a massive club when that's clearly not the case.

 

[Valeite]

There seems to be more creativity in the accounts departments of most championship clubs than there is on the field of play. FFP is being flagrantly ignored so perhaps it has to change to being a percentage of gate reciepts and gates announced as being the actual attendance and not some fantasy figure like some clubs announce.