Leeds United 1 - Bolton Wanderers 0

the calculated gambles undertaken by Gartside on managers and player movements have backfired disasterously, it is accepted Coyle inflicted the greatest damage with Gartsides blessing, by releasing or selling our best player assets to replace them with inferior players locked into the club on probably 3 year contracts, while our managers seem incapable of getting any level of consistency or credible performances out of the team as a whole. Why Gartside engaged a manager with only 18 months experience remains a mystery, did Freedman make Crystal Palace the team they are, or did that team make Freedman look good and appear a better manager than he actually is ? Based on results to date Freedman has not made a shred of difference and has probably done worse than Coyle would have done had he stayed, based on the fact the squad was assembled by Coyle and therefore the players were self ingratiated towards him. It remains to be seen what changes if any for the better may arrive during the January window and thereafter, it does appear certain the team will not be challenging for promotion, unless an extraordinary transformation takes place beyong our wildest expectations, far more likely we could be battling against relegation. Gartside has been extremely quiet of late, no doubt pondering how he can explain away the ruin he has brought down on the club for which he is entirely responsible for. I repeat my case for more able strikers, goals are the only thing that can save the team, a quick look at past results show we have missed out on draws and victories by a single goal in each game, if you were to add an extra goal across all games played to date it would be interesting to know how that would have affected our points total. If you create only one chance in a game and put that in the back of the net you can walk away with 3 points. Cardiff have had several single goal victories and they sit 7 points clear at the top of the league - point made - no pun intended.

I went to the game and came away very frustrated. Shooting stats which had been improving now deteriorating. Our defence has improved but we need players to shoot harder and more accurately. Surely not impossible when all they do is kick a fecking ball all day?! bwfc75 what stream do you use and is it any good? I will need a good one for the southern games

I normally use Firstrow but a 'friend' from America sent me a link after he heard I like 'soccer'. It was just a blue link I clicked on and it opened. I had to download a 'player' for images but it was crystal clear. He said a few weeks ago that our 'soccer' is live on their screens all the time. Premiership at 3pm (10am his time) are always live games and some Championship too. It's something he pays for, I think? That should be our TV schedule, not there's.

And yes where is the "Nobody" button on the MoM poll!?

The reason why we are in our current predicament is in the main the poor transfer dealings of Owen Coyle and some bad luck with injuries. At this point we have to give Dougie Freedman some time to build his own team, he is no fool and can surely see how bad we perform at times plus the deficiencies of some of the players, but he knows that slagging them off in the media will not help. Big Sam was a great manager, but he has moved on and so should we.

I see Ipswich are now on our shoulder and ready to overtake us, well done Mick McCarthy, the transformation you have engineered in 2 months is fantastic and exactly what the Bolton fans knew you were capable of doing, given you have years of experience doing just that, precisely why Bolton fans wanted you to replace Coyle. Unfortunately our glorious Chairman who has a similarly impressive record in selecting our managers, for all the wrong reasons, decided otherwise. With the paramount objective to get the club back in the premiership this year ( £70 million Sky money or financial oblivion was the win- lose objective ) Mr Gartside choose instead to appoint a trainee. Brilliant logic, I can only assume Gartside shares the same mentality as Lord Cardigan, who sent our light cavalry to certain destruction charging the russian artillery. Since making the appointment our team is running head first into the valley of death, retreat ! retreat !