There is absolutely no doubt that Freedman is a clown and, once again, his team selection left Bolton fans shaking their heads. I'm pretty sure that Dougie is the only manager who would drop the players who scored in the previous game.
Having said that, there's not a lot Dougie can do about the absolute lack of basic footballing skills on the pitch. The defence is an utter shambles. Knight's ability is well documented, but Mills is an embarrassment and equally as bad. He has two settings: head the ball and hoof it, anything else is beyond him. Baptiste is a better striker than defender. The term "headless chicken" was invented for this knob. And even Ream was hoofing the ball at every opportunity today, that's if he wasn't passing it to the Boro winger.
Chung Lee should not play for BWFC again, he's lost any ability he once had and is nothing more than a sideways passing passenger. Spearing is like some heavy drinking pub league footballer, how can a professional footballer who once played for Liverpool have so little ball control? Mavies tried hard but he simply doesn't have the ability some Bolton fans seem to think he has - several times he broke away only to pass the ball to Boro.
As for the strikers, God help us. While I felt a bit sorry for Mason having to play on his own upfront with it being hoofed in his general direction, the few times it was played to his feet it bounced off him like he was made of iron. And when he was put through on goal he sliced it wide. Beckford came on and was utter shit, an embarrassment in fact.
So Freedman is clearly at fault, but the players are responsible for more dropped points. But until Freedman starts dropping people for pisspoor displays nothing will change.
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