Bolton 6-0 Sunderland

wanderlust wrote:

Sluffy wrote:Anyone else notice that the first goal was longball from the keeper?

Yup - the Sunderland commentators on the foreign iFollow stream I was watching. They made a big deal about it - continuing to denigrate BWFC and saying it was just a punt/we were lucky etc - and when they were in shock when we scored the second they commented that in both cases S'land had the numbers back but defended poorly - which was true.
By goal 4 they were asking fans not to use bad language on the post match phone in.
By goal 5 - the cracking header that any striker would be proud of - they were well down the "unacceptable" road and commented that the casual observer who didn't know the relative league positions would assume BWFC is top of the league and S'land were struggling in the bottom half.
Goal 6 - they were almost writing off S'land's promotion chances and scanning the results around them.

Very enjoyable listen

wanderlust wrote:

Sluffy wrote:Anyone else notice that the first goal was longball from the keeper?

Yup - the Sunderland commentators on the foreign iFollow stream I was watching. They made a big deal about it - continuing to denigrate BWFC and saying it was just a punt/we were lucky etc - and when they were in shock when we scored the second they commented that in both cases S'land had the numbers back but defended poorly - which was true.
By goal 4 they were asking fans not to use bad language on the post match phone in.
By goal 5 - the cracking header that any striker would be proud of - they were well down the "unacceptable" road and commented that the casual observer who didn't know the relative league positions would assume BWFC is top of the league and S'land were struggling in the bottom half.
Goal 6 - they were almost writing off S'land's promotion chances and scanning the results around them.

Very enjoyable listen

terenceanne wrote:Ian bringing on triple strikers and a creative attacking midfielder still to come in before Monday. We need a bigger bench
Obviously well dun today to all and a tip of the hat for Sharon for coughing up some cash.

Safcinpeace wrote:Just thought I would pop in to see how you are feeling about this game and how your season has gone so far.

From our end we are starting to get players back, couple of weeks ago we had 9 of the first team squad out injured or down with Covid, we took choice to keep playing games to avoid getting into a position of playing two games a week and this resulted in a dip game n form. Having said that it is currently 1 defeat in 14, so it’s not that bad.

We have brought 4 new faces in so far Hume a young lad from Ireland, one for the future I think, Batth who looked very good on his first game last week, a big strong experienced centre back, which we needed, Roberts from Man City, who appears to be very talented player who cost £12m only three years ago but appears to have fallen away, so a rescue job, a bit like Pritchard was, then there is Jake Clarke from Spurs who I don’t know a lot about.

There are lots of rumours about Defoe returning as well.

We are at that stage of the season when every game is must win, so we will not be siting back for a draw. We have played some very nice counter attacking football getting defence to shots on target very quickly.

However we tend to be vulnerable when we have a corner, we have shipped a good few goals from break aways from our own corners.

observer wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Over to you....Nat

Nat must atone with another brilliant Behind Enemy Lines column.

wanderlust wrote:
Yup - the Sunderland commentators on the foreign iFollow stream I was watching.

karlypants wrote:

Is this the dodgy facebook thing you watch?

okocha wrote:Awesome stuff, and 5 of the 6 goals were terrific. Well done, everyone involved on and off the pitch.....

dutchwhites63 wrote:
i thought the diving header from sunderland was spectacular

Biggie wrote:QUEST

Bolton lucky to get the wind assisted goal.
Declan John mishit it.
Sunderland scored an OG.
And Bolton only had 7 shots on target, so it was a case of one of those lucky days where everything goes in.

However, they failed to acknowledge that we had plenty of other chance that resulted in shots shots wide, or attempts blocked. Honestly, we could have had a couple more.

BoltonTillIDie wrote:Sunderland have reacted by sacking their manager