Bolton 0-0 Charlton

#BWFC team to face @CAFCofficial: Amos, Threlkeld, Wheater, Holding, Maher, Derik, Pratley, Vela, Davies, Heskey, Clough

Is Radio Nuts on tonight?

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Is Radio Nuts on tonight?

It is mate, Radio Nuts is now live guys!

Confirmation of today's team:

BWFC: Amos, Threlkeld, Wheater, Holding, Maher, Derik, Pratley, Vela, Davies, Heskey, Clough

Subs: Rachubka, Moxey, Danns, Dobbie, Wilson, Woolery, Walker

karlypants wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Is Radio Nuts on tonight?

It is mate, Radio Nuts is now live guys!

Cheers KP. 

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

karlypants wrote:

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Is Radio Nuts on tonight?

It is mate, Radio Nuts is now live guys!

Cheers KP. 

No problem.

So why did we drop Samizedah?

That was pretty dire. Glad I couldn't make it now.

boltonbonce wrote:That was pretty dire. Glad I couldn't make it now.

The game has done the same as a shitty novel and made me sleepy.

I feel like i'm ready for bed now.

I'm already applying another coat of Vick's Vaporub. I'm sure David Furnish would be turned on by that.

Report: Bolton 0-0 Charlton Athletic

IN BRIEF

Wanderers and Charlton Athletic played out a goalless draw in the club’s penultimate home game of the 2015/16 season on Tuesday evening.

In a game of few chances in front of goal, Zach Clough did have the ball in the back of the net only to be denied by the offside flag, but the efforts of both sides ultimately proved fruitless as the spoils were shared at the final whistle.

TEAM NEWS

There was just the one change for Wanderers from the side who started against Middlesbrough at the weekend with Oscar Threlkeld making his first start for the club this season following his return from a loan spell at Plymouth Argyle.

FIRST HALF

With the sun setting at Macron Stadium, the game got underway and it was Wanderers who were the side in the ascendancy early on although their efforts ultimately reaped nothing too much of note.

Charlton were under pressure from the off though, with the visitors struggling to make any real inroads of their own into Bolton territory, although on the rare occasion that they forced their way into Ben Amos’ box, the Whites’ defence were calm and collected.

As the game reached its quarter-hour mark, neither goalkeeper had been troubled too much with the clash falling into something of a lull as the home side in particular attempted to force their way through with some calculated build-up play.

A quarter of the way through the match, Simon Makienok enjoyed the first real effort for the Addicks when connecting with the ball halfway inside the box, but the towering forward’s header was comfortably smothered by Amos.

Up the other end meanwhile, Derik Osede came close to opening his account for the club when his looping effort from 25 yards narrowly cleared Nick Pope’s crossbar and landed on the roof of the net.

The chances appeared to breathe life into a game which had been lacking in excitement, with Threlkeld agonisingly failing to connect with Josh Vela’s cross into the box shortly after.

There was still an air of tentativeness about the game though although Clough did have the ball in the back of the net on 39 minutes after Mark Davies’ initial shot had ricocheted through a crowd of bodies and into his path, only to be denied by the assistant referee’s offside flag.

The most notable incident of the first period, just the one minute was added on but it brought no more goalmouth action as the half finished goalless.

SECOND HALF

With no changes at the break, the second half began with Bolton on the attack once more, with Charlton on the backfoot early on.

Jose Riga’s side did threaten themselves shortly after however, with Marco Motta’s dangerous cross-goal pass being blocked at the death with Igor Vetokele lurking and ready to pounce.

With 54 minutes on the clock, the deadlock appeared to have been broken when David Wheater thundered a header goalwards from Clough’s corner, but Pope was on his guard and tipped his effort over the crossbar.

Bolton proceeded to pepper the Charlton goal with shots in the aftermath with Wheater again coming close while Derik saw a header float just wide.

The second period was certainly livelier than its predecessor, with Ademola Lookman drilling a shot straight down the throat of Amos from the edge of the box on the hour mark.

The game was falling into an end-to-end encounter inside the final quarter, with Jimmy Phillips introducing Kaiyne Woolery into the mix in place of Heskey with 25 minutes remaining as Bolton looked to take all three points in the clash.

The young forward certainly brought some excitement to proceedings, with him pick-pocketing his man shortly after his introduction and racing into the area, although he was eventually snuffed out at the death.

Frustration was evident though for both sides, with any real fluidity in the game lacking for each team.

The best chance of the half meanwhile fell to Darren Pratley with ten minutes to go, but the skipper was unable to poke the ball home from close range from Threlkeld’s fizzing pass across goal.

With the clock ticking down, it was the home side looking the more likely to snatch a late winner with Woolery smashing an effort from a tight angle into the side netting with five minutes remaining.

With three minutes of additional time indicated though, it was Charlton who were in dangerous territory with Bolton forced to keep their wits about them inside the closing stages.

Ultimately though, neither side were able to make the breakthrough as the game ended goalless, unfortunately confirming relegation to League One for the Addicks in the process.

FULL TIME

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Sounds like a corker. It's only the second game I've missed this season,and by the sound of it, I'm glad that I did.

it was a very boring game, i was surprised Charlton didn't really look to go for a win, they seem resigned to going down with us.

The only plus point for me was the performance of Threlkeld at right back, he was our best player by a mile, just shows what getting a regular game on loan (unlike most of our other players out on loan) can do, he was excellent in defence and got forward very well.

Still can't understand why we start with Heskey, he's slow, overweight and contributes next to nothing, we could have played a lamp post up front and you would be hard pressed to spot the difference.

At least with a lamp post they could have seen where the goal was

Lost all interest after a lifetime and too old to care now they won't come back from this.

Boring but interesting if that makes any sense. We finally get to play a team at our level and it showed in the possession stats but despite Mavies and Clough being given carte blanche to do what they want, we were completely devoid of creativity or goal threat.
I honestly don't think either of them are consistently good enough to be the mainstay of our forward thinking play.
Threlkeld thrown in at FB despite having reinvented himself as a DM at Plymouth where he was nominated for player of the month. I suppose we have loads of DMs at the moment so needs must.
But generally it gave the impression that we might already have just enough defensively to scrape by in League 1 whereas we lack creativity going forward so seeing as Mavies was given a free role, we wouldn't have to compromise defensively if we replace Mavies and Clough with players who can make an impact in their respective roles. But for now, we remain dreadful going forward. 
39 goals scored all season tells it's own story.

At least we didn't get battered by Charlton so I think we've found the level commensurate with this team's ability - League 1. But where we'll get creative midfielders and lethal strikers from on our budget is yet to be seen.

lusty with the embargo still in place and no sign of it being lifted anytime soon our budget's irrelevant. Remember we're not allowed to sign players for free who are willing to play for nothing.

True, but with the immediate debt paid off, my understanding is that in order to have the embargo lifted, the club merely have to conform to the FL monitoring criteria. I think I read something to the effect that the club voluntarily chose not to seek the lifting of the embargo for now.

wanderlust wrote:True, but with the immediate debt paid off, my understanding is that in order to have the embargo lifted, the club merely have to conform to the FL monitoring criteria. I think I read something to the effect that the club voluntarily chose not to seek the lifting of the embargo for now.

Why would they do something that stupid? With all the troubles we have you'd think getting the embargo lifted would be a huge priority. I find it impossible to believe a club would deliberately hamstring themselves that way especially after the season we've had. 

I don't know where you heard that but I'll have a look and see if I can find it because the last I saw on this issue was a statement by the FL (repeated on the BWFC website) that the embargo would remain in place until the league had received some overdue books. 

To the best of my knowledge that hasn't happened yet and there's been no confirmation that SS even have or know the location of the 'missing' accounts. There was a short statement on BWFC that said 'steps are being taken to rectify the situation with regard to the transfer embargo and resolve this matter as soon as possible' but that was about two days after the takeover and I've not seen a peep since. Of course that may mean I simply missed it so if you do happen to remember later where you saw that could you please let me know? Thanks.

wanderlust wrote:Boring but interesting if that makes any sense. We finally get to play a team at our level and it showed in the possession stats but despite Mavies and Clough being given carte blanche to do what they want, we were completely devoid of creativity or goal threat.
I honestly don't think either of them are consistently good enough to be the mainstay of our forward thinking play.
Threlkeld thrown in at FB despite having reinvented himself as a DM at Plymouth where he was nominated for player of the month. I suppose we have loads of DMs at the moment so needs must.
But generally it gave the impression that we might already have just enough defensively to scrape by in League 1 whereas we lack creativity going forward so seeing as Mavies was given a free role, we wouldn't have to compromise defensively if we replace Mavies and Clough with players who can make an impact in their respective roles. But for now, we remain dreadful going forward. 
39 goals scored all season tells it's own story.

At least we didn't get battered by Charlton so I think we've found the level commensurate with this team's ability - League 1. But where we'll get creative midfielders and lethal strikers from on our budget is yet to be seen.

Not to mention that it's surprising that Mavis & Clough have played a few games without injury which is a shocker. One or both will be injured next season so where does that leave us.  So the embargo better get lifted obviously which still doesn't solve the no money issue....we shall see.