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Probably. There'd have been less messing about at the back. The players would have been fitter and would have dealt with 90 minutes better.

20,000 Bolton fans over 5,000 from Derby

I loved it today, absolutely loved it. A near-full house, an opposition team and its fans fully fired up, but we put them back in their box just like we used to when Todd, McFarland, Gemmill and co. strutted their stuff and King Kevin danced over the mud. We never looked like losing. This was a real statement performance where even a corrupt/bungling oaf of a referee and his accomplices couldn't change the result. 
Isn't it great to be a Derby fan again? 

Just had the displeasure of listening to Charlie Palmer in the car on the way back. Managed a word per minute of roughly 4. 

I do wonder if PW had been our manager last season we might have stayed in the Championship. PW does have the ability to wring out the very last drop of performance from his players, he has made us into such a resilient side ???

What was right was that the one who could no longer fulfill his contract got the sack

Difference was they were able to work, and he wasn’t. Not resale value. 

I liked Keogh as a player, his few mistakes were unfairly highlighted imo. His heroic last ditch tackles and goal blocks more than made up for one or two mishaps that happens to all defenders now and again. He gave everything on the pitch for us and I'll always respect that.
However, on the night of the infamous driving episode he was a Bamford of the highest order. He was club captain and should have had an ounce of leadership about him and stopped the lads driving at all let alone jump in with them.
He treated the players he should have been looking after very shoddily and deserved sweet fa.

As we know they had laid on taxis to get the players home. Some including the senior pro and captain declined to use them. 

Opinions mate.
Mine is that he was in the wrong to get in the car knowing the driver was pissed when he was the club captain, thats all. I don't give a feck about the case.
 

At least in goal B4 could stand up all game. It’s worth considering ?

If Mr Clowes trusts him then that’s good enough for me.

Or he might just feel that he wants to put right some of the wrongs of the past?
He almost single-handedly kept us running in administration. 
The Club has moved on, so should we.

I personally think League one is about right for Bolton. 

You should see how we treat each other ?

Was saying this the other day. Knights work rate, tenacity, never give up attitude, selfless team play and unbelievable fitness levels allow our other midfielders to be more attacking and risk taking.
Hourihane in particular has looked so much more confident in arriving late into the box, taking risks and scoring goals since knight is there.
Players can push on, safe in the knowledge that if the move breaks down knight will be there sprinting back into shape helping cover runners and counter attacks.
Hourihane and bird are technically gifted players but with limited pace. They would love to be in there knowing knight can cover for them.
Real good balance to the midfield.

To be honest we need another forward who knows what the job means so it ticks the boxes - sure he could move to the championship and maybe get a game and be paid more probably but at Derby county there are people in the football ground and chances to score goals in a side looking forwards not over their shoulder 

Rosenior was completely unproven. If he was ‘already good’, why didn’t he get the job permanently?
Hull are ‘well up the league’? They were 20th and now they’re 16th. He’s meeting the brief but let’s not over-egg it. He’s doing a respectable job. Nothing more, nothing less.
All of our success is due to the squad Rosenior assembled? What a great way to undermine the job our current manager is doing!
People said Warne would have to rip the squad up to get them ‘playing how he wants’. This has proved to be untrue. People said the football would be a turn off and attendances would drop to 12k. Again, it’s untrue.
We have signed no-one and gone on an unbeaten run stretching back to October. We have played with a left back at centre back, a central midfielder at right back and an attacking midfielder at left back, and we’re 12 games unbeaten in the league. Even many of Rosenior’s signings have performed better since he left.
But of course none of that is down to the current manager, is it?
 

We're playing better football now than what we've been doing over the last few years. It's a much better watch. It's proper football and none of this possession for possession sake rolling it out from the back nonsense. 

It’s nice to see that Warne is converting people from sceptics to believers.
But let’s be honest, our fanbase should have been right behind him from the very beginning.
It’s not like he fluked one promotion. He’s won three. He’s a very good coach at this level and exactly what we needed.

I think Fozzy is better in the middle than he is at left back. Him and Cash are a good partnership, Cash goes to win the ball and Fozzy sweeps up behind him.
Fozzy's been like Beckenbauer the last few weeks.

Totally agree. We really are “mixing it up” go long or play it out .. there isn’t an edict or religious dogma. We are playing football and it’s great 

One of my criticisms at the beginning when Warne came in is we all knew his style was direct and get the ball into the other half as fast as we can and try and win second balls and play from there. I think the team originally struggled with what that meant and how to execute it.
One of the key differences for me in this run is that Warne is allowing his defensive players to actually work the ball and pass it between us. It’s not as frequent as the LR style but it’s a definite shift from early Warne days.
We are constantly now in the 50-60% possession stat. Wildsmith gives a lot more short goal kicks and we definitely allow CF and EC more freedoms on the ball. 

I for one am really enjoying it now because it isn’t hoofball for 90 minutes. A lot of our better goals come from the passing passages of play - Hourihane header today for instance was a nice move with the EC diagonal after some passing in the defence. If you look back over the recent goals since December a lot more are worked plays. Hourihane against Accrington, McGoldrick first goal against Forest Green. All were excellent team moves.
I feel that Warne now trusts them and he’s striking the correct balance between ball retention, long balls, direct balls into Collins and playing the triangles of play to create space. There is a decent mix in there so we are not too one dimensional.
Well done Warne and his team. This is starting to get fun.

Defo Bobby. I remember having that fixture list. 1986/7?

They never took the Popside.