Bolton manager blames our pitch

[Filo]

What a dick, must have been on the crack on the coach

[Barmby Rover]

That is hilarious! I would guess it is one of the best ones in League 1.

[mushRTID]

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.

[Donnywolf]

Maybe their "trotters" were digging in.

[Ian Nimmo]

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!

[Donnywolf]

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

[GazLaz]

It helped us they started the best player in the league on the beck. That was pretty handy.

[roversdude]

Obviously blamed TSL for the previous game

[Spud]

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.

[eastender]

I wonder if Pep is blaming the Sunderland pitch this morning , which seemed to be in a much worse condition than ours .

[keith79]

Thats new. I dont think anyone as blamed our pitch before

[DonnyBazR0ver]

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.

[GazLaz]

Thats new. I dont think anyone as blamed our pitch before

Few ex players have blamed it for injuries later in their career!

[Boycie]

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"

[danumdon]

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.

[i_ateallthepies]

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.

[Donnywolf]

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 )

[i_ateallthepies]

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.

[scawsby steve]

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.

[i_ateallthepies]

You're right SS, and I don't ever remember managers complaining about it.

[Donnywolf]

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 !

[Ian Nimmo]

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.

[i_ateallthepies]

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 

[ForsolongaRover]

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.

[ForsolongaRover]

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 

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.

[drfchound]

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 

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.

[Ldr]

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 

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

[Colemans Left Hook]

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

[donnyguy]

No shots on target home against Northampton today, wonder what’s today’s excuse.

[Alan Southstand]

Probably our pitch again