Bolton Wanderers 2 - Burnley 1

A WIN! 3 Points! Beating Burnley! First on TFLS with more than 30 secs of video. Inspired substitutions by the Manager rubbing the faces of the idiotic boo boys right in it with a goal each for BOTH subs. As he said last week - he knows what he is talking about! I went home with a smile on my face! F'ing brilliant. Well done to the second half team for never giving up.

If we can't follow that up with a win over a struggling Forest, then we can forget this season. Only start playing when we're 1-0 down, familiar old story....

Surprised C.Davies didn't start but then again team selection remains a puzzle. This time DF got out of jail and was most fortunate, which should keep the hounds at bay, however, for 75 minutes against a pretty ordinary opponent we did nothing and looked incapable of getting back in the game, but goals change everything and they did the trick yesterday. Once we see a true improvement in performance from the off and we hit the net more regularly I will get off DF's case but until that happens I fear we might continue taking one step forward and one step back. Anyway - 3 valuable points desperately needed, onwards to the next game.

Something else struck me on Saturday: the difference between successful Premiership footballers and successful Championship footballers. Our Premier League players, who aren't cutting it in the Championship, are disappointing not because they lack ability but because they struggle to adapt to the Championship demands. We are good on the ball, composed and elegant in movement but struggle to unlock defences. That's because most of the defences I've seen don't have a lock to unlock. Championship sides, especially against us, defend deep and regimental. When Craig Davies came on, (a seasoned Championship player) he was fast, strong and direct. Then it hit me: when there's no lock on the door to pick, bust down the door! When he scored he seemed delighted, really pleased for him.

entirely agree with the others about Bogdan, worst decision ever by Coyle Gartside to sell El Habsi to our opponents and let Juski walk away, leaving us with a no 3 at no 1 and a string of results to prove it ever since his promotion. Standing a mere 3 points above the relegation slots is worrying, we have yet to witness any real improvements in our play, the only hope remaining is once we see a full strength team assembled there will be positives flowing from it. Very difficult to speculate beyond that, I simply hope to see decisive decisions taken on team selection, cannot see SKD getting another full game, unless Craig Davies bombs it, albeit I would like to see him, N'Gog and Sordell as our attack with DeRiddear on the wing, Eagles or Chungy getting the other remaining slot. If it works fine, if not change it again. Midfield should be the new lad with Holden and one other from the mix. I do wonder how Gartside is coping and what his thoughts are - he took a gamble with DF and it remains to be seen how it will pan out - guess the compensation package would be large should it end in tears, but then again it seems Gartside is resigned to keeping DF regardless of what happens, survival does seem more realistic than relegation but you never know, the way we play anything can happen. No easy games coming up in the next 4, it appears to be make or break time, I cannot help but reflect on how poor Derby and Watford where at the start of the season, they are now organised playing to their potential while we are still flapping around treading water as if we have no real talent or potential.

Copied from Bolton News site: DAVID Edgar admits Burnley failed to make the best of a changing Reebok atmosphere after he had opened the scoring on Saturday. The Clarets defender headed home the afternoon’s first goal 10 minutes after half time, setting off a chorus of jeers around the stadium. At that point it seemed Wanderers could allow the negativity to get on top of them – but substitutes Craig Davies and David Ngog came on to have the final say and leave Edgar wondering what might have been. “We were on the front foot in the first half and in the beginning of the second half when we got the first goal you could see the whole atmosphere changing around the place with the crowd getting on their backs, and it is just disappointing the way we conceded,” he said. “Once we got the goal we took our foot off the gas a bit and we should have taken advantage of their crowd turning on them and put a lot of pressure on them. “But we stopped playing it out from the back and stopped playing our football that we played in the first half and the first 10 minutes of the second half. “We have got to be mentally stronger to get on to the ball even when the crowd are going wild. We need that little bit of composure. We just lost that a little bit after we scored.” This is why I have tried to encourage a positive outlook. Hope the grammar and punctuation are o.k.!

mid week time and nothing to really discuss, Pedro's views on Medo & Holden appreciated, wonder if DF will give them a game soon or maybe he is keeping them in reserve for next season when their fitness levels should be better. Boltongav sums up how we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Burnley and robmoss equally touched on the baffling decisions DF makes - why take your best attacking player off and leave the worst one on the pitch when your losing, no one had any idea at that stage we would pull 2 goals out from nowhere in the last stage of the game, not even DF. Rather than praise his substitutions, the question should be raised why where they not on the pitch from the start, it all smacks at DF having no real idea as to who our best 11 are, who should be in attack and who should be on the bench - indecision and confusion from the manager spills out across the team, how to attack and how to score goals - does anyone know ?