Theo Bair

as well, just real quick, the striker situation.

I've seen a few people saying that Bear should be more involved.

And in a game like that, when it's so one-sided...

I mean, firstly, he scored.

Like both wingers, every single time there was an opportunity to just go, he went.

And same with Lancashire.

And I think watching it comparatively with our wide players and we don't quite have the same pace in like the striker role, but like, There was that opportunity in the first half where Bear gets in behind and his touch is a bit heavy and he probably...

The first touch should have been better and he should have got a shot away, but instead he gets closer to the byline and knocks it across the keeper, whereas Gale is like... 20, 30 yards away, just sort of like jogging in.

It doesn't get tight enough to the man who plays first-time ball back to the guy Arahama's marking, who he doesn't drag, doesn't even look at him, leaves him wide open.

And then it's game over because Bear is playing right back.

And to be fair, that midfielder plays an absolutely wonderful pass.

And there wasn't much Gavin Bozuna could do about that, who I thought had a great game.

I'm about people in general like.

be mourning him you know yeah but I think

I think a lot of it has been when he's like come on ahead of um Bear as well um which is uh frustrated people at times people throw in like his shoe his pal and all that in um but I know he scored in the under 21s game um last week was it when they played McAtee and plays like that um Watson um but to be fair to him credit where it's due I thought he looked a lot sharper um And something like a Ryan Hardy that I've seen before and not the one that we'd seen so far this season.

So I'm hoping, and last time we were on when Chris was on and he was saying about not trusting his own body at the minute because of the injuries and the fitness.

We've done so well so far and we've been in every game.

But, you know, I felt in that first half, before Bear got the goal, I was thinking if we can keep it below five, then that'll be an achievement today.

And the thing is, I don't think Bolton necessarily play that badly.

I thought, you know, again, we won on one, which we don't take, with Rodriguez before their first goal.

So you'd have probably taken that.

So today it is what it is.

Good for Bear to get his goal.

But, yeah, we move on.

We had Simon's deflected shot that could have gone in.

Bears disallowed goal for a soft foul.

That Simon's one, just,

oh, my God.

I'm still finding it hard to move on.

LAUGHTER I'll be honest I'll be honest I am taking great pleasure in in watching Preston's demise but when he scored a brace at QPR yeah my heart was was pining a little bit erm But we move on.

To bring it back to Wanderers, nobody was excited at the signing of Theo Bair and actually his performances since the Stoke game have been pretty decent.

He gave us more in the Stoke game than Dalby did when he came on.

And I think a lot of us came out of the summer window a little bit concerned because we didn't bring another striker in.

So we have, we did on, I think it was on deadline day or the day before, signed Theo Bair, and he had his first start on Tuesday, so he's a really big, really big lad.

Holds up play really well.

He had a good game.

Things do change right at the very end, and we've been through, you know, what happened with Jonny Kenny, what happened with, um, uh, with, uh, Max Dean as well.

All of those dominoes had to fall for, for things to, to get moving on, uh, on Theo Bair.

But Oxair with, you know, barely 48 hours left said that he could eventually go.

Um, they were s- trying to sign an Englishman actually, it was, uh, Cameron Archer that they were trying to bring in.

So once they managed to bring in Cameron Archer, they could then let him go- Um, so it's, it's very complicated.

It's very con- it's no wonder that, that transfer stories often, like, tie themselves in knots because so many different facets can f- can trigger them and, and to get them moving.

And poor old, uh, Theo Bair's trying to tell his story here.

And, uh, uh, you know, he just, he just wants to play for Bolton, bless him.

So I mean, it's, it's, you have to have-

Christ, they got money for Theo Bair.

[laughs]

Aye, they did.

Good money-

Ah, yes

... for Theo Bair as well.

So, you know, it is doable for, for the so-called, well, the smaller clubs in the Premiership in Scotland.

You've got to give them some props for their defending on the day as well and the way they executed that game after getting reduced to 10 men.

Bear did come off the bench to score in, I think, the 94th minute in the end.

Good finish as well from the big man.

Dolby, like I say, there was 60 seconds where maybe something could have happened.

And then to go 2-0 down was disappointing.

So glad we got the goal at the end.

It was a good finish from Bear, but not good enough today.

You know, saying that, we're going to have...

enough.

I will have Theo Baird.

So there we go.

That's how it works.