MK Dons 0-2 Bolton

Hip Priest wrote:Sluffy : "You can see it here then"

Lusty :  "Thanks"



Is this the start of a big bromance?

Or is it more likely the most civil exchange you're ever likely to see between these 2. 

Natasha Whittam wrote:Do people watch the same team as I do?

I can't see a Bolton victory under any circumstances. We just don't win these games.

I hope I'm wrong, but as you know, I rarely am.

The last time I was confident of regular away wins was under Colin Todd when we walked the league.

Ten Bobsworth wrote:A bit of history you don’t mind recollecting then.
Biggest mistake Toddy made was spending £3.5million on someone called Holdsworth. Sorry Doctor Holdsworth.

Toddy got the Wanderers into the Premiership as CHAMPIONS and hasn’t written a book full of egotistical, self-serving hogwash, so far as I know.

But dare you click on this...:

Sluffy wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

I'm always interested in the history of BWFC on the playing side.

As for Holdsworth, if we only paid £3.5m for him, what a bargain! 39 goals in 158 games is a pretty good return. We'd all love a 1 in 4 striker right now.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

I'm always interested in the history of BWFC on the playing side.

As for Holdsworth, if we only paid £3.5m for him, what a bargain! 39 goals in 158 games is a pretty good return. We'd all love a 1 in 4 striker right now.

Growler wrote:

Including winning goals in league matches against  Liverpool and Chelsea.
I didn't rate the signing at the time, lack of pace and not even Wimbledon's best strker  but over his full spell at Bolton he did ok

Ten Bobsworth wrote:No offers then? No-one who can provide any credible explanation of why the University of Notlob honoured Dean Holdsworth ahead of John McGinlay, Kevin Davies, Gudni Bergsson, Ricardo Gardner, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Eidur Gudjohnsson, Bruno Ngotty, Phil Brown, Michael Ricketts, Jay Jay Okocha, Youri Djorkaeff or almost anyone else you could name?

Why? Why? why?



There has to be an explanation.

Ten Bobsworth wrote:
OK isn’t good enough when you are the most expensive player on the books and probably on the highest wages.

He managed to score THREE times in 1997/98 after being signed as our main striker. Nathan Blake scored 12 and Alan Thompson 9.

After dropping down into the Championship he managed to score 12 in 1998/99 behind both Bob Taylor and Arnar Gunlaugsson.

He managed just 11 the next season 2 ahead of Bo Hanson (hurrah) but 2 behind Eidur Gudjohnsson.

It was 11 again 2000/01, 8 goals behind Michael Ricketts who had cost all of £400K.

Promotion that season (via the playoffs) showed Holdsworth once again completely out of his depth in the Premiership scoring all of TWO goals.

Were there other aspects to his game that made up for it. Not as I recall. Poor at tracking back, lazy in the tackle and rarely providing many assists.

But I come back to why it was Holdsworth that Unibol decided should be honoured with a doctorate. Somebody will know. Someone must have promoted it, but why?

wanderlust wrote:

An equally valid question is what would have happened to BWFC if Holdsworth/Sport Shield hadn't intervened?

Fact is, the winding up order was due to be heard and we were staring down the barrel with no hope of survival.

I'll leave the speculation about what happened afterwards to the experts - but the very fact that he got involved at that exact time when the rest of the world was ready to let us go to the wall is perhaps why he was given the honour.

He may well be dodgy and who knows what his motives were?  - but what he did saved the club at the very moment we faced oblivion.

I think Dean Holdsworth is a prick but I'm grateful for what he did.

wanderlust wrote:
An equally valid question is what would have happened to BWFC if Holdsworth/Sport Shield hadn't intervened?

Fact is, the winding up order was due to be heard and we were staring down the barrel with no hope of survival.

I'll leave the speculation about what happened afterwards to the experts - but the very fact that he got involved at that exact time when the rest of the world was ready to let us go to the wall is perhaps why he was given the honour.

He may well be dodgy and who knows what his motives were?  - but what he did saved the club at the very moment we faced oblivion.

I think Dean Holdsworth is a prick but I'm grateful for what he did.

Sluffy wrote:

No, he didn't save the club at the very moment we faced oblivion, it was reported at the time that Eddie Davies had already filed the papers for Burnden Leisure to enter Administration if the Holdsworth deal had collapsed.

Clearly he must have been highly prepared for that to have happened as Holdsworth partner in the purchase stepped away on the day and Ken Anderson stepped in at the last minute (unknowingly he later claimed, of Holdsworth deal with BluMarble - and the 'missing' £1m' to the club, half of which he now owned!

It would have been highly unlikely that Administration would have led to liquidation as no club has gone bust since Maidstone in 1992 - even Bury FC still exist to this day.

Who knows who would have bought us and how we would have fared, but we would in all likeliness - due to the largess and generosity of Eddie Davies and him not seeking to get the vast bulk of the money owing to him by the club - still be in existence.

So no, Holdsworth's intervention certainly did not save us from oblivion at that point in time.

And therefore, your gratitude to him for saving the club is misplaced.