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Title: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Filo on January 02, 2026, 08:44:42 am
What a dick, must have been on the crack on the coach
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Barmby Rover on January 02, 2026, 09:08:46 am
That is hilarious! I would guess it is one of the best ones in League 1.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: mushRTID on January 02, 2026, 09:21:05 am
Well before the game he was saying they should be coming here and winning so that’s just an excuse.

I thought they were genuinely dreadful yesterday and it’s not winning these games that I fear will cost us in the end.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Donnywolf on January 02, 2026, 09:25:53 am
Maybe their "trotters" were digging in.

Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Ian Nimmo on January 02, 2026, 09:30:27 am
Just read through their forum and not one single poster has given us any credit for the way we played.
All comments are that we were sh1te, well maybe we were at not taking our chances, but we have played worse than yesterday and still received some praise from opposition supporters.
So fans totally blaming their manager and him blaming the pitch, for them being outplayed for majority of the game.
Same old, we are big club playing little old Donny!
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Donnywolf on January 02, 2026, 09:37:36 am
We battled away , took the game to them , and could , maybe should have won

The majority of their fans would have been expecting a walk over after seeing our goals against column but pleased to say again ....

We battled away , took the game to them , and could , maybe should have won on the same pitch as they were
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: GazLaz on January 02, 2026, 09:42:03 am
It helped us they started the best player in the league on the beck. That was pretty handy.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: roversdude on January 02, 2026, 09:55:07 am
Obviously blamed TSL for the previous game
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Spud on January 02, 2026, 10:00:56 am
The pitch comments are embarrassing tbh, what a dick.
As for their fans, I've not been on their forums but most comments ftom them on fb have been that they were shite & we deserved the points.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: eastender on January 02, 2026, 10:02:27 am
I wonder if Pep is blaming the Sunderland pitch this morning , which seemed to be in a much worse condition than ours .
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: keith79 on January 02, 2026, 10:18:28 am
Thats new. I dont think anyone as blamed our pitch before
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 02, 2026, 10:31:11 am
The pitch is a bit crusty, as it can be at this time of year, so there's the odd bobble but nothing that would prevent teams playing on the deck football.

I had a read of their forum and most said they were lucky not to be 2, 3 or 4 down at half time and could easily have lost the game if it wasn't for our poor finishing. Obvs they're bound to talk about their poor play rather than our good play. They can't mask the booing that was coming from their end.

Schumacher rotated his players and got it tactically wrong.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: GazLaz on January 02, 2026, 03:46:18 pm
Thats new. I dont think anyone as blamed our pitch before
Few ex players have blamed it for injuries later in their career!
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Boycie on January 02, 2026, 04:21:05 pm
David O'Leary used the same excuse when we beat Aston Villa in the league cup at Belle Vue.
"The pitch was a bit crusty"
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: danumdon on January 02, 2026, 04:30:37 pm
David O'Leary used the same excuse when we beat Aston Villa in the league cup at Belle Vue.
"The pitch was a bit crusty"

On that occasion he was right, it must have been close to freezing at the start of the game, defiantly freezing during the match, think the air temp was around -3 when the game finished.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 02, 2026, 04:58:20 pm
Perhaps Schumacher ought to go watch some of the games played in the 60s and 70s, even pitches of the biggest clubs were literally like ploughed fields at times and those players managed to play scintillating football.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Donnywolf on January 02, 2026, 05:04:26 pm
Perhaps Schumacher ought to go watch some of the games played in the 60s and 70s, even pitches of the biggest clubs were literally like ploughed fields at times and those players managed to play scintillating football.

Including  Burnden Park I seem to recall ( may be wrong though )
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 02, 2026, 05:10:33 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: scawsby steve on January 02, 2026, 05:26:13 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

The Baseball Ground was an absolute quagmire, yet Cloughie and Taylor managed to win a First Division title with it, with some real ball playing footballers.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 02, 2026, 05:31:46 pm
You're right SS, and I don't ever remember managers complaining about it.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Donnywolf on January 03, 2026, 07:21:05 am
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Ian Nimmo on January 03, 2026, 08:39:49 am
Thats new. I dont think anyone as blamed our pitch before

There has been some criticism (and thus blaming) of the pitch in the last couple of years.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 03, 2026, 12:17:35 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !

Very good, Wolfie, very good  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: ForsolongaRover on January 03, 2026, 03:31:18 pm
Just read through their forum and not one single poster has given us any credit for the way we played.
All comments are that we were sh1te, well maybe we were at not taking our chances, but we have played worse than yesterday and still received some praise from opposition supporters.
So fans totally blaming their manager and him blaming the pitch, for them being outplayed for majority of the game.
Same old, we are big club playing little old Donny!

Let us take pleasure in the fact that they all had a miserable afternoon.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: ForsolongaRover on January 03, 2026, 03:43:22 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !

Very good, Wolfie, very good  :thumbsup:

Of course the sandy soil at Belle Vue made that one of the best playing surfaces in the country in the 50s and 60s when the goal area and penalty boxes in so many were like farm yards - mud and puddles.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: drfchound on January 03, 2026, 06:36:17 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !

Very good, Wolfie, very good  :thumbsup:

Of course the sandy soil at Belle Vue made that one of the best playing surfaces in the country in the 50s and 60s when the goal area and penalty boxes in so many were like farm yards - mud and puddles.

Didn’t  the old BV pitch have an ash base as well.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Ldr on January 03, 2026, 06:39:31 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !

Very good, Wolfie, very good  :thumbsup:

Of course the sandy soil at Belle Vue made that one of the best playing surfaces in the country in the 50s and 60s when the goal area and penalty boxes in so many were like farm yards - mud and puddles.

Didn’t  the old BV pitch have an ash base as well.

That’s what I understood, ash from local pits
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on January 04, 2026, 08:00:33 am
i wonder what his excuse was when Swindon Town beat them 4-0 in the FA CUP 2nd round on December 7th

they used to say belle vue was the biggest ground in the UK

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=swindon+4+bolton+0&mid=E4A2B881DFFD4B732F9EE4A2B881DFFD4B732F9E&FORM=VIRE

i like the 4th goal
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: donnyguy on January 04, 2026, 05:31:32 pm
No shots on target home against Northampton today, wonder what’s today’s excuse.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Alan Southstand on January 04, 2026, 05:56:20 pm
Probably our pitch again ;)
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: drfchound on January 04, 2026, 08:56:59 pm
i wonder what his excuse was when Swindon Town beat them 4-0 in the FA CUP 2nd round on December 7th

they used to say belle vue was the biggest ground in the UK

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=swindon+4+bolton+0&mid=E4A2B881DFFD4B732F9EE4A2B881DFFD4B732F9E&FORM=VIRE

i like the 4th goal

Biggest pitch mate.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Red wizard on January 07, 2026, 06:32:00 pm
I don't remember Burnden Park Wolfie but my now lousy memory has the Baseball Ground and Stamford Bridge looking like ploughed fields at times.

Definitely Baseball Ground was a mud bath.

Plough Lane sounds like it should have been !

Very good, Wolfie, very good  :thumbsup:

Of course the sandy soil at Belle Vue made that one of the best playing surfaces in the country in the 50s and 60s when the goal area and penalty boxes in so many were like farm yards - mud and puddles.

Didn’t  the old BV pitch have an ash base as well.
Yes it did. It's why it never waterlogged. I don't think we ever had a game off for waterlogged pitch.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Frankie Rennie on January 07, 2026, 11:38:14 pm
Just read through their forum and not one single poster has given us any credit for the way we played.
All comments are that we were sh1te, well maybe we were at not taking our chances, but we have played worse than yesterday and still received some praise from opposition supporters.
So fans totally blaming their manager and him blaming the pitch, for them being outplayed for majority of the game.
Same old, we are big club playing little old Donny!

I don’t know which forum you visited Ian but I think you’ll find that most of us agreed that we were lucky and you should have won. We were awful and that’s not me taking anything away from Donny but we were and have been for weeks. I think Schumacher is under pressure at the moment and will blame everything and everybody but himself for how bad we are. Anyway, just to put the record straight there’s no question on the day we were second best.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Ian Nimmo on January 08, 2026, 11:41:49 am
It was the Trotters forum, Donny soldiers thread.
Title: Re: Bolton manager blames our pitch
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on January 11, 2026, 04:54:10 am
It was the Trotters forum, Donny soldiers thread.

and they made yet another pig's ear of it at Peterborough