Anyone For Owen Coyle?

[nigel]

See their fixture list? Very, very tough first few games. He is a good manager IMO and Bolton will pick up points. They did us in the cup easily enough.

I've literally just seen that fixture list, didnt realise, still they were feckin awful today.  Makes it all the more galling we lost to them.  Plus did you notice our reserves did theirs 3-1 the following night, obviously they were knackered following the cup win!

If it was their reserves that beat us in the cup (which is what people are making out), it must follow that  our reserves beat their 1st team in that fixture.

[Phil from the upper holte]

They ain't got a decent forward now that sturridge has gone back to chelsea, they were crap at the back end of last season though

[supertom]

Injuries and a horrid fixture list has played a part. Coyle's certainly not the brilliant manager some made out, though I think he's decent enough. Personally I think we're showing improvement with McLeish now. He's still finding his feet but we're making steady progress and sitting comfortably.

Bolton will end up mid-table if they get their better players back fit soon enough. I don't think they'll go down, not when there's a lot of piss poor squads in the top flight, in far worse shape.

[Vanilla]

First 7 Bolton games:

Played:
QPR A
Man City H
Liverpool A
Man Utd H
Norwich H
Arsenal A
Chelsea H

Won 1 Lost 6
Teams played expected to finish in the top 6 = 5/7

Villa first 7 games:

Played:

Fulham A
Blackburn H
Wolves H
Everton A
Newcastle H
QPR A
Wigan H

Won 2 Drawn 5
Teams played expected to finish in the top 6 = Maybe 1/7

[Shrek]

Why they sold Al Habsi to Wigan I'll never know.

Is it Worrying that they played us off the park in the carling cup?

[Brend'Watkins]

Losing at home to Norwich is the stand out result.  If they'd have won that the pressure would have been off.  Now they have to win the next game otherwise they could well spiral.

...And that God we didn't re-sign Rio Coker. 

[darren woolley]

They've had a tough start to the season but I think they have lost 11 in 12 matches going back to last season and there goalkeeper was really poor yesterday.

[PeterWithesShin]

They've had a tough start to the season but I think they have lost 11 in 12 matches going back to last season and there goalkeeper was really poor yesterday.

Since the Stoke semi-final trouncing they have lost 11 out of 12 league games. Their only other wins since then have been in the LC against the Macc Lads and us.

[Chris Smith]

Theres something about him that I just can't stand, everytime I see him being interviewed I want the interviewer to hit him over the head with the microphone.

If Fergie is Taggart then Coyle is the weasel faced grass who shops his his granny for a bag of smack.

[Matt C]

They miss Holden desperately and have had some other misfortune with injuries - didn't one of their summer signings break a leg in pre-season? Big test for Coyle to get them back on track - I reckon he will.

[Ads]

They'll struggle all season now.

It all well and good saying "look who they're playing", but be it Man United, Chelsea or the mighty Norwich City, they've looked a bag of balls in all of them.

Losing becomes a habit and they've had that habit since the semi-final defeat to Stoke.



 

[Pete3206]

No

[kipeye]

Judge them after we have played them in the league.

[KRS]

They've had a tough start to the season but I think they have lost 11 in 12 matches going back to last season and there goalkeeper was really poor yesterday.

Thats actually a very good point...they lost their last 5 league fixtures of last season against Fulham, Blackburn, Sunderland, Blackpool and Citeh. It is actually worse than the 7 games played so far this season so no wonder the fans are starting to voice their concerns. Coyle has got 6 games now to turn it around or he could be in the race with Kean to be the first PL manager sacked.

[Damo70]

They haven't got a goalscorer. They miss the Korean guy Lee's goals from midfield as he's out injured long term and they would have been in huge trouble last season without the Sturridge loan and his goals.