FT: Bolton 0-4 Huddersfield

Evatt is done. His confidence is shot and we've been sliding since Christmas. After the dismal failure of the play off he showed for the second season in a row that he chokes when it matters and now we're seeing him choke every week. For the good of, if not the very survival of Bolton Wanderers Ian Evatt needs to be replaced immediately. I hate calling for a manager to be sacked, it's a terrible thing to do to someone in any profession but sometimes it's absolutely necessary. Sadly this is one of those times.

I was at the game and to start with the atmosphere was ok. There were even a few Evatt songs. 

I was surprised that Johnston and Sheehan was on the bench and as the game progressed you could see yet again it wasn't working. Charles on his own upfront just doesn't work and playing Collins and Dempsey didn't work either.

The atmosphere turned after we went 2-0 down, it was the first time i've heard fans singing we want Evatt out and when the third went in the ground emptied!

All 4 goals were preventable and the third and fourth were just embarrassing! Almost as embarrassing as Evatts interview after the game, blaming the fans for the negative attitude and saying he'll get blamed for it all - no shit Sherlock!

I was undecided about Evatt but after Saturday he has to go. I'm just glad i'm not going next week against Reading as if Evatt is still there it will get very messy if we go behind.

If we carry on like this for much longer then we will have to give the end stand back to the away fans as the attendance will be dwindling again!

Huddersfield boss Michael Duff hailed his side’s “complete performance” as they won 4-0 at Wanderers.

Josh Koroma bagged a brace either side of half time, with Ben Wiles and Anthony Evans also getting on the scoresheet.

“I thought we were excellent,” said Duff. “We have been asking for a complete performance and that is probably as close as you will get, definitely the closest we have had from minute one.

“They are a strong team and I thought probably up until the first goal, it was nip and tuck. We had the better of it but without either side being dominant.

“We took over second half and looked really solid defensively, moved the ball, scored different types of goals.

“Overall, you are always going to be pleased with 4-0 at Bolton but I thought we thoroughly deserved it.”

Duff was pleased that his side didn’t sit back after going a couple of goals ahead and instead kept looking to score more.

“I think Anthony Evans’ goal tells you everything,” he added. “We are winning the game and have four or five men in their penalty area because they are still trying to play out.

“What we don’t want is we go a couple of goals up, just sit on the edge of our box and hope to survive.

“I don’t think we did that against Rotherham but, subliminally, that is what we did and we spent the whole game defending.

“You end up losing anyway so you might as well get on the front foot, get them as far away from our goal as possible with the way we crunch the pitch.”

The Huddersfield chief had to watch the action from the stands while serving a touchline ban.

“You just have to deal with certain things. During the season, you get ups and downs, things go for you and things don’t,” he said.

“I didn’t enjoy it but they will probably keep me up there now! Pato (Martin Paterson) has walked off the pitch and he can’t speak.

“You are a bit more emotionless when you are watching it in the stands, a bit more clinical.

“Part of the job on the sidelines is encouraging, telling people when to press and things like that. I didn’t have to do that today, thankfully.”

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Ian Evatt said he would be seeking “conversations” with the Wanderers board after a heavy defeat at home to Huddersfield Town left his side in the League One relegation zone.

The Bolton boss admitted that the result – a third league defeat on the spin – had left him considering his next step.

Two goals from Josh Koroma and one each from Ben Wiles and Anthony Evans handed Michael Duff’s Huddersfield a routine win and prompted chants of “sacked in the morning” from the away end.

Whether that decision will be made remains to be seen but Evatt found it difficult to sum up a desperate 90 minutes as he spoke to the local press.

“I am distraught,” he said. “I don’t really have the words. It is hard for me to come off the back of that and speak to you guys, as you can imagine. It is difficult to manage my emotions.

“We were out-fought, out-battled, they were better technically than we were, it was as bad as I have seen since I have been at the club. It is extremely damaging and hurtful to us all at the football club.

“From the moment the final whistle went at Wembley I felt a massive black cloud and negative energy around the whole club. At the minute I can’t seem to shift it and I can’t find the answers.

“I feel like that is everything against what I am as a person, what we have built here, and at the minute I don’t have the answers.”

Asked what his next step will be, and whether he may take the decision to leave the job he has held for just over four years, he added: “I don’t know. I have always tried to be straight and honest with you guys, very respectful, try to tell the truth, but the truth is that really hurt me.

“I have been through a lot of tough things in my life and it has created the man I am today.

“This is as tough as it gets. I don’t want to taint and tarnish everything I have done and created here. That today has really hurt me, personally.

“One thing I always do is back myself. I am an extremely confident person. It is tough for me to give you the answers you want because I don’t have them right now.

“I need to go away and think and have some conversations, see what happens.”

Wanderers have won one of their first five games, but also only 13 from 41 since the turn of the calendar year.

The play-off final defeat against Oxford United in May has proven particularly damaging and Evatt admits there has been a noticeable effect on his players.

“I have said the minute we lost that final, I felt in and out of the club a huge negative energy,” he said. “Everyone was just traumatised by it.

“We have come back and I think there has been a huge amount of negativity towards me, towards the players, and we can’t seem to shift and change it.

“The way we play is built around confidence and at the minute we have zero. So, yes, that is the truth. I don’t know what else to say to you.”

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Having had a look at the highlights, the 1st goal was from a good cross but wtf was our defender doing? Second goal I feel was a bit harsh and shouldn't have been a pen IMO but the 4th goal was a complete and utter fuck up by Baxter.

I have said since the lads played Mansfield Town in the League Cup that we should be trying Luke Southwood in the starting 11 and not Baxter. Southwood is a good shot stopper and you can see that from the penalty shoot out they had. I'm starting to feel that Baxter has this attitude where he can't be arsed.