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Thanks Wanderer @BWFCNick. I will be fully supporting you in the play-offs. My grandfather was from Bolton so of course a Wanderers fan, hence I grew up as a dual supporter of DCFC and BWFC (I know, but it is possible). His older brother was at the Burnden Park tragedy back in 1946, and he took me to some of my earliest matches, the PNE promotion game in 92 (??), the FA Cup replay (RIP) at Liverpool in 93, the 5th Round tie that year at the BBG, plus the 95 League Cup final and that amazing play-off final against Reading… I also was there for the European games at Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Red Star Belgrade, and the incredible night when Bolton knocked Atletico Madrid out of Europe. I’m certainly a Derby County fan first and foremost these days, but Bolton are in my heart for sure. My grandfather would have hated this season, he’d have been the sole (low key) Bolton supporter in a family of Derby County fans. I hope we will meet in the Championship next season.

Forgot to add best away season ever as well 😝

They will be calling for him to be sacked if we lose our first two games of next season.

Well done to Paul Warne and the team. Warne was brought in to get us out of League 1 and he has done so in his first full season, with our best ever points total, the best defence in the league, best goal difference in the league, a really great achievement!!

I will care if we lose 3-1.

I haven’t been concerned or worried all week but now I’ve turned the tv on I feel sick. Hope we can all enjoy the game.

Best away season ever in our history??

Indeed. Mods should lock this thread, discussion and promotion of illegal activity is not appropriate on this forum imo.

I don’t know why anyone is even thinking about this given that there may well be absolutely nothing to celebrate by the end of the season.

As for the game… we couldn’t beat Cambridge at home, so I have zero confidence that we can beat them away. Same with Carlisle… they’ve already won 3-1 away at both Bolton and Peterborough… I fully expect them to do the same at PP. I’ve been known to be wrong, of course, but… … …

I think they have more Cambridge-Peterborough and Oxford-Reading rivalries… happy to be corrected if I’m wrong though.

It wasn’t a “chastening visit” to Wycombe, it was an improvement on last season when we lost, and a point closer to promotion. Anyway, I came across the below on X today, said by a former Derby County legend who happened to be Bolton Wanderers manager at the time he said it. I completely subscribe to this philosophy, and I hope we can all embrace it for at least the last three games of this season. Too many of us seem to favour a “love the club, hate/slate the players and manger” kind of approach. That isn’t what we need. Let’s all be supporters as well as fans.

Whatever anyone says, this is a tricky game. We couldn’t beat Wycombe at home, why should we expect to beat them away?? They are no mugs. We lost there last season, after all. A win here would be a massive boost though. So, would I take a draw right now?? No. We can and maybe should win. But nothing is guaranteed. They would love to beat us, and may be on a high after Sunday. The uncertainty is why we turn up every week though, right??

Regarding whether the league is weaker this year, that may be so of the best teams (us, Portsmouth and Bolton are probably not as good as Ipswich, Plymouth and Sheff Wed last season), but at the end of last season a lot of dross was relegated out of this league (Forest Green, Accrington, Morecambe), and they have been replaced by teams that are mostly comfortable in mid-table this year (Stevenage, Leyton Orient, Northampton), so the mid- and lower-rated teams I think are actually stronger this season than the season before.

It is an absolute disgrace that we have just lost 5-0 against the team who are bottom of the league, Warne absolutely needs to be fired, preferably tonight.

Stuart Attwell style ghost goal that was also offside and handball.

It was so clear and the lino was right there, I dunno how it was missed.

Some folk are just so blinded by their hatred of Warne that they don’t even bother actually watching the games any more. They just pray for us lose so they can spew their toxic negativity yet again.

Bolton only need two wins to overtake us if we lose the next five.

It’s quite incredible when you think about it that we have only won automatic promotion once in 37 years.

It’s what true supporters do.

Today is the first day I started to believe promotion might be possible, so I have given myself a good slap and come up with many scenarios by which we can blow it. We can already see from todays results how good Cambridge and Carlisle are, for example, so we will surely lose our last two games. Not to mention very tricky games at Portsmouth and Wycombe. I have now successfully re-convinced myself that we have no chance.

I don’t know how the season will end, but I think at the start of the season nearly all of us would have taken second place at Easter. Wouldn’t we?? 🙂

Yes. I was back visiting from the US and attended just those four games… not a single goal to celebrate. I flew back to Chicago on the Thursday and two days later we were scoring 5 against Forest. Initially I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry… but of course why would I cry after such an awesome result?!?

We will be grateful for the play-offs when we finish 4th.