We gave it a good go today. Really pleased to see Jackson make a change at half time. Really surprised me and it worked. Nkeng was excellent, it's a shame he was fouled so much because actually our dead balls today were pants. Thought the game passed Smith by today. Would have liked to seen Nelson come on for him and then Bugiel on instead of Hackford. Thought Hackford's pace cause them issues and hopefully we will start him again. Give him a run of games. Just that bit of quality lacking today unfortunately. Bolton are a good team.

Bugiel obviously upset JJ. He has had about 30 mins gamein total in January. No t8me on pitch with Stevens in any L1 match in Jan.

Corners - we need to have a player on front corner of 6 yd box, a player deep and a player on the keeper. We hadnone or one of the three for each of our corners. Corners 101.

We don't have the quality to play out from the back and we don't have a player capable of winning long balls and holding it up (except perhaps OB on his best days). So we're impotent. Bizarre thing is more or less the same group of players looked good enough for playoffs first 10+ games. What happened?

I think if we are pinning our hopes on a teenager taking his first steps in the league football, we are laying bare the struggle we face in this division. I hope Tuesday is Nkeng's moment for a goal, an assist, or even just a chance created.

Our wide players are too wide at the same time. Too spread out across midfield. No wonder Reeves and Smith look over-run. I’d rest both of them for a while. Reeves looked better last season after coming back from some time off, IIRTC.

JJ sitting pretty. We cannot afford to !sack him no matter how bad our &performances are!

Rotherham take the lead at Exeter

Lots of matches left still to ensure mid-table mediocrity, but the football at times is awful. Not quite sure what the strategy of the club is, but it's fast becoming the same 'make the most of having gone up while you can, as we don't really have a plan for growth' as last time.

Yes they should have been 3 or 4 up at half time but we were better in the second half. Reeves clearly likes having Tilley back, as Tilley positions himself well to receive passes, maybe get him to work with Nkeng on the latter's positioning.

We were lucky not to be totally out of it at half time but were a lot better in the second half and had a couple of good chances (even if not “shots on target”). Bolton were clearly a class above us (I suspect that the difference in our respective budgets is massive) but whether we stay up or not isn’t going to be about our performances vs the Boltons of the division- we need to get something from the Port Vales, so Tuesday is critical.

Yeah I thought that Keefy. I only watched the last 25 mins or so but noticed a number of tackles where we didn’t really go in with intent and the ball went to them as a result.

Very comfortable win for Bolton. We are not strong enough in tackles and no idea how to create goal scoring opportunities.

We definitely played better second half, but no real answers to our scoring problems - expected to lose by far more than 1-0, so it’s a moral victory to us in truth… 😬

Hope you’re all enjoying a nice beer though, eh

That last stat is an AFCW record btw.

1 goal in 7 home league games and that match was the 5th consecutive home game without scoring.

Nkeng got us 5 free kicks. He could earn us a lot of money.

In the 15 mins I watched not a single touch in their box. Commentator said that we had been looking a bit better before that. Then I caught the corners at the end where we did get our heads on it. Unlucky not to score at the death but from what I saw we didn’t deserve a goal. Maybe JJ was resting Bugiel for Tuesday night.

We played a lot better in this second half but it is telling our most dangerous player is an 18 year old making his start in senior football. Some of the more experienced players should hang their heads in shame. You can see why Tilley is back with us - not L1 quality. Need to find a way to fit in Browne and Mkeng and allow for their defensive deficiencies - maybe play a workmanlike midfield three behind and play them as Salah and Mane did for Liverpool. And maybe it is time for Stevens to be spending time on the bench so we can have Bugiel being the big man.

No shots on target again

TF - we have had 4 shots inside their box this half so I do not think your are right on that

If they'd kicked orft at 3o'clock we'd have slaughtered 'em.

Been watching for about 15 mins now and haven’t seen us touch the ball in their box yet.

Don't have the quality to open them up I'm afraid