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What a tackle Stephens.

No idea how that stayed out.

Close from Dobbin! Edit: Actually hit the post!

Hanging on so far though. Dobbin was nearly in then.

Hopefully it's not too serious. He has become an important player for us.

Without Larin we are blunt. We need Mubama or Dobbin to come good and cover for him. Or give a youngster the chance.

Bit of an exaggeration. We didn't test him much. He came off his line and played the sweeper type role very well I'd agree. But we barely tested him with actual shots, which was always his weakness. His hands could have been crisp packets and it wouldn't have had any impact.

Nope. He has gone permanently, thankfully.

They are a good team. But I think our lads will raise themselves for this game. We do need Larin fit as our only reliable striker. If he isn't there then we'll struggle to score anywhere. And we need to play the formations that have brought up success. Not whatever we saw yesterday.

He was surely not bought as an out and out striker. But given how crap Mubama has been and our failure to sign another decent striker (or, any striker) we are forced to give him a go.

Horrible peformance. Should have won but also gave away potential winners for them.

Another awful miss. Was easier to score.

Wide open at the back and nothing going foward. The subs havent helped.

He heard. Edozie and Manning on. Shows how much faith we have in Mubama..

Playing like we're a man down.

Save Peretz. Bolton going to nick this despite being largely shite.

Some really poor play out there today. Awful misses. Miscontrolling. Passing it back to them.

Wtf ref..

Dobbin wide. Awful.

We need to get a grip here. Bolton haven't been a threat but you sense they'd only need 1 goal.

We don't look dangerous enough lately.

It wasn't really working with Larin anyway. Hopefully we can adjust the system and get Dobbin some goals!

Disjointed petformance so far. Bolton having a lot of the ball. We seem slow to close down.

Hopefully we can follow this up with a good solid win against Bolton. Going to need that before going into 3 very tough games against teams above us currently. Which are an opportunity to overtake those teams, or potentially fall further behind. Enjoying the season so far. And more so now the Spygate thing is done!

Would be great but can't see it happening. THB was obviously bought in as a squad filler for them, to cover injuries and rotate during a long season. Whether he understood that when he signed remains to be seen. He has sacrificed being the main man here and regular football for the hope of Premier League action and Europe. If it doesn't work out I'd gladly have him back at Championship level. If we're in the Premier League by then, question marks would still remain if he's up to it. Hope it works out for him eventually.