Steven Schumacher

There were some good bits, but it was a pretty weak performance.

No more, no less, no panic, no massive sirens blasting, but probably something for Steven Schumacher to, to have a little think about.

Uh, we will run through it in as quick a time as I humanly can do, I think today.

Even in the first 10 minutes, I think you could see that Boro were different gravy.

And, uh, uh, as seems to be the case nowadays, Bolton had an obligatory one-on-one that they missed.

Ruben Rodriguez went through on Lorath Orel's pass.

Good ball, great chance, weak shot, and, uh, I think Steven Schumacher said afterwards, 26 seconds later, uh, Gavin Bazunu was picking the ball out of the net to Mario Kosev-Dubre.

Remember him? Yes, he had a good game.

And we'll talk about it in just a moment.

Coming up, we've got a press conference with Steven Schumacher and with club captain Owen Toll.

Chatting to my old pal Dom Shaw from the Northern Echo Club.

All about Borough, of course.

YouTube will be on to me.

A massive, massive game ahead.

So let's hear it from Steven Schumacher, not the only person lacking sleep around here, by the way.

I think

We absolutely can.

With Steven Schumacher as assistant, I should have said.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

He's, y- you know, a bit like...

A, a little bit like Steven Schumacher's demeanor, that n- you know, nothing's ever particularly dramatic with him.

He, he's very kind of, yeah, well, you know, kind of, uh, laissez-faire, if you will.

Um, but I think he's gonna be a really good player for Bolton.

It's all been very upbeat, Henry.

Bring it on.

So Steven Schumacher has said this team is night and day compared to the one he inherited off Ian Evatt.

And-

Then we've got the small matter of the FA Cup draw coming up tomorrow night.

We've got Stevenage on Tuesday.

It's all go at Plymouth Argyle.

And the weekend did not, Sam, down follow the theme that everybody would have wanted yesterday afternoon because Huddersfield came to Home Park and boy, did they conquer.

I could go on probably for an hour about how unhappy I am with that performance.

Nothing much positive to say about it apart from Murphy-Cooper and maybe Bakenson when he came on.

Let's just hope to God there's a serious response to that on Tuesday because that's just taken all my excitement out of going up to Stevenage on Tuesday night away to be honest.

Rant over.

I'm still not convinced.

And I'm going to doff my cap a lot to Stephen Schumacher in terms of the effectiveness.

He's getting a team that...

in my opinion, is still punching above its weight.

I think Sam Dalby is seriously lacking support up there.

I'm not convinced by Theo Baird.

I still think there's loads of gaps, but I think Schumacher is making it work.

And I think the lads... to a man putting in such an effort as well.

favesCheers, Russ.

Uh, moving on to the team news now from the press conference from Steven Schumacher, who we're gonna hear from very shortly, by the way.

Uh, but yeah, in terms of the injuries, there wasn't too much to report.

Cillian Dong is back in contention.

Um, but yeah, other than that, there's no fresh concerns for Bolton.

I guess really it's just about managing the minutes.

How many changes do you make with these games coming thick and fast? But equally, you know, you don't want to change a winning team, so it's, uh, a bit of a hard balance for Steven Schumacher to strike, but it's a good problem to have, isn't it? So digging a bit deeper now into Southampton, and to put it simply, things are looking quite rosy over there.

Uh, sixteen points on the board, albeit it would have been twenty if not for the deduction at the start of the season.

In the end the result is not good enough.

In that game we saw Steven Schumacher get his subs bang on.

Meanwhile you put in so many crosses with no one getting on the end of them.

Is Peixoto showing enough of a plan B in case it's not going his way?