Bolton 2-1 QPR

The club are doing a special deal for the fans. Anyone who buys a ticket for the QPR game gets a free ticket for the Blackburn game. Being an ST holder it's no good to me but for anyone who can only make the odd match it's good value for two crunch games.

I just hope the club charge QPR fans £50 like they did to us at the start of the season.

I really think we will struggle to beat QPR, especially if Coyle perseveres with the hapless duo of Knight & Pratley.

My prediction is Bolton 1 QPR 1

If OC goes to 4-4-2 like he did against wigan, I will be fucking livid and seriously pissed off that he hasn't learned his lesson with that formation by now.

Though I think it would work if he had NRC and Muamba in the middle with 2 wide men and 2 strikers up top, just not having NRC and M.Davies or Pratley alongside him.

I see that OC is the favourtie to lose his job this weekend, if we lose to QPR. Odds are 7/2. So even if we lose there's a silver lining !

I think losing Coyle now would ensure our relegation. Look at Wolves, got rid of Mick and no one to replace him. Before I'd have said they could escape, now im pretty certain they will go. This is a good example of how there actually are no managers out there right now.

The time for getting a new manager is far gone. We just have to support Coyle.

They replaced Mick with a nobody, Imagine if they replaced him with Rafa Benitez or Mourinho, Wolves would stay up.

Obviously we're better to stick with Coyle because the people out there are no better.

We'd end up with Ian Dowie or fcuking Phil Brown and we'll be in the ryman within 4 years.

I'm with Lofty on this. Much as I would have liked to see Coyle replaced earlier in the season, doing it now is pointless. It would cost us money we don't have and there is nobody currently available who could save us if we lose against QPR. I am also sure that Gartside won't sack him even if we lose the next three games.

So we just have to keep hoping that there are three teams worse than us this year.

If he was sacked after Saturday (which isn't going to happen) then I can only think of one man who I reckon would keep us up, Alan Curbishley but it doesn't matter as OC is going nowhere favourite or not.

Folks, are some of you high this evening?

We could sack Coyle right now and replace him with a Cheesey Wotsit and we'd have a better chance of staying up. Coyle has proven all season he is clueless, why do you still cling to the hope he'll turn things around?

I'd bring in John McGinlay for the last 11 games. I guarantee you we'd stay up. Imagine the buzz around the place - the Reebok would be full and the crowd as vocal as they've ever been.

hardly, you could guarantee that Jesus Christ would materialise at center field and the reebok would still be empty.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:hardly, you could guarantee that Jesus Christ would materialise at center field and the reebok would still be empty.

Get real. Every Bolton fan who hadn't been to the Reebok for 10 years would crawl out of the woodwork to see McGinlay's first game in charge.

If you're reading Eddie, and I know you follow my work, do it now while there's still time.

It has been pointed out to me that kick off is at 12.45pm tomorrow. I didn't find out until last night.

Good job you didn't rock up at 3 mate. We'll be out of the bottom 3 by then.

wanderlust wrote:Good job you didn't rock up at 3 mate. We'll be out of the bottom 3 by then.

Let's hope so! Put pressure on the rest of the pond feeders.

Skill-wise, both teams are poor, so if it comes down to passion, I think we are going to have a fight on our hands. The one thing we lack is leadership. I for one, would lie to see Reo Coker directing from themiddle of the field, standing still for all I care, but at least giveng the team some direction/plan.Coming out and saying what should be done after a game is just a case of hindsight. Foresight would be most useful. I still think we will have a very narrow win, (alternatively, itll be a rugby score), but no inbetweens)

OK, the worst thing he could have done was play 4-4-2 involving Davies. He hasn't done that but he's done the second worst thing which was to not drop Pratley.

01 Bogdan
02 Steinsson
18 Ricketts
31 Wheater
32 Ream
10 Petrov
16 M Davies
19 Reo-Coker
21 Pratley
24 Ngog
30 Miyaichi

not a bad team, its the one I was hoping for except the Prat for Muamba

Prats will prove the doubters wrong today.

Muamba and NRC are a better combination than Pratley and NRC plus Pratley has done nothing at all for us so far.

Good Lord did we ever need that goal from Pratley.

The set pieces have been absolutely dreadful so far.