Stottie

Ferk me, five minutes ago they wanted someone with "more experience".

If we appoint him normally, it would be bad enough because he's a plank who arguably more full of himself than Allardyce. However, if he's also on the wage-cutting agenda mentioned, then what a disaster. We'll go down and stay down. If what Golfmag says is true, its time for some FCUM type action, it really is.

You must have been gutted to see all those missed chances and then that elbow and the afters. I thought there would have been a retrospective ban.

Shola looks crocked to me. Him starting was the major mistake today. With Barton and Nolan out, it was always going to be a struggle, but no need to be a player down from the start. If he wants to go two big men, he could have done so with Best.

Very poor. Shola looks crocked and CM pairing also makeshift. No replacement positive midfielder on bench. (Makeshift at CH too, but that's others' fault) Basically we need two creative players in January. Amazing thing is that we were still in the game until Guthrie fell over.

The commentators keep saying their first was offside. Of all the games to get sympathetic towards us!

Oh well, game over. Alan Smith ffs. Another match where we've made someone look good. Smith booked already! Double ffs!

A rare vertical ball from WBA and it goes straight to one of our players.

Powder puff challenge from Jonas, otherwise it would still be 0-0. Their best other chance was Sol dawdling. They're just knocking it square and getting nowhere (which admittedly beats route 1 with no-one running for the flick-on). We've got to create something now but I can't see from where. Guthrie and Shola have been terrible and the wide players have also been poor.

Wouldn't Citeh pull another "won't go to rivals" one with Johnson though?

.COM say Mulumbu is out, is that right? Did that Jara not get banned for the elbow then?

Well played lads. Especially the center halves and Routledge who came in and did brilliantly. We were always going to be up against it, but a shame we couldn't have done more with set pieces. That's what could have given us a win. Still, a great point all the same!

Hopefully we won't see Guthrie on the right again for a while.

Aye looks injured. But even when fit he pulls left too much. Carroll's left footed, so its Shola who should go right. It would give a near post/far post option. Him on top of Carroll shows up pretty clearly on the Guardian chalkboards too.

Don't Bolton have massive debts? If he's scoring and on a free, I doubt they could match the wages someone else would offer.

The ol' indiscipline cloud may have a silver lining. I hope they're both sufficiently fit. Working with Sol could be Taylor's last chance to improve and justify some of the hype when he was younger. He'll definitely get no change out of the big man if he shouts and points at him after effing up himself. They'll also have Tiote as cover. Whoever plays right midfield is going to have to cover Cashley. Its probably only Routledge that has a hope of keeping up with him.

Lampard and Alex are expected to be out and Terry is expected to be fit. Essien will be serving the 3rd of his 3 game suspension. I think. No Essien or Lampard (we wouldn't track him) and Tiote man back. Them trying to win the game.This could be all right. Carroll can handle Terry in both areas (ooh err missus!)

Tiote and Carroll give me hope. If we lose either or both to injury, its time to seriously start worrying.

It would be tragic if the HBA injury compounds into Carroll wanting to be away. Main thing is to not sell in January. We can't sell even for silly money with the points total we're likely to have by then.

Brilliant today and not far off a second. It looked like he was barged off the ball for a penalty too.

Total nightmare today and the sending off was dense, but at least it's a position where the backup should do okay. Barton's really left us in the lurch.

Thumbing the self destruct button all day here. For all the media hype, I've not been impressed with them. I'm not surprised Wolves nearly drew with them.

Santa's come early for Bolton.

We're telegraphing a lot of our passes. Not so impressed with Bolton so far though.

Gutted that we've gifted them a goal.