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Visiting Bolton fan. Given nobody has won an away fixture between Bolton and Blackpool for decades I don't suppose we should be very hopeful. Two visits to Bloomfield in the space of a month! In terms of support I think we'd sell whatever you allocate to us. Our away followings are very...

I think arch-rivalries like you and Preston never change. Burnley and Blackburn didn't play each other and if anything the animosity festered and the rivalry was even more intense for the break. Those who remember the 70s and before on both sides would see a Bolton/Blackpool rivalry. As others...

1993 to 2010. Been a few since then.

Visiting Bolton fan: I was explaining to a younger relative on Saturday that Blackpool are very old rivals of Bolton's. He'd absolutely no idea . Years ago I'd seen a fan survey suggesting that Blackpool viewed Bolton as their second biggest rivals after Preston. I googled it and it seems a...

Visiting BWFC fan, I don't really remember the 70s games but I'm old enough to remember the 80s ones. The biggest following I recall was a Tuesday night game in 86/7 in Div 3. You were flying and we were near the bottom, we won 1-0 with a goal by Steve Thompson. You must have had not far off...

Visiting Bolton fan: Very impressive away following today from Blackpool, you've brought some great followings to ours since 2010 when we started playing each other again after a very long pause. Obviously I'm happy with the result but a very close game and although I thought if any team...

I'd say you're going to get Norburn. Quite apart from Keanu Baccus, Bolton are also working hard to sign Germany U21 midfielder Florian Flick from Schalke 04 on loan. (cue loads of Allo Allo jokes). BWFC may have registered an early interest in Norburn but I suspect we're being used by...

Baccus is an international and at 23 is still a really good age. You can see why either club would invest a fee in him and watch him develop. Norburn's benefit would be being able to hit the ground running with League 1 knowledge. Think it'd be sensible only to offer a 2 year contract though at...

Visiting Bolton fan. We are deep in to talks to sign an Aussie international midfielder from St Mirren called Keanu Baccus, 23 years old. Reported to be costing a decent six figure fee. Speculation is that Norburn is/was the option if that deal doesn't work out. Norburn is Bolton born so there...

Visiting Bolton fan. I think we'll be resuming our fixtures next season because I can't see us being good enough to get through the play offs. We've been short of proper derbies this season as Accrington, Morecambe and Fleetwood don't quite cut it (even if the first of those have beaten us as...

Visiting Bolton fan. If you do go down I think your derby with us would be back on again. Even if we secure 5th or 6th its tough to see us getting the better of whichever of Ipswich, Barnsley and Sheff W don't get the automatics. We've already sold 14,000 season tickets for next season so very...

Visting Bolton fan. I would of course say this but ... Evatt has Bolton in his heart every bit as much as Blackpool now and the feeling is reciprocal. He's as safe as houses with our Board (the folks who saved us from liquidation) and he's getting financial backing at the right moments. There's...

Visiting Bolton fan. Just seen this dreadful news on the BBC and that prompted me to go to your local newspaper The Gazette. Condolences to the family and all his mates and RIP to the lad himself.

Visiting Bolton fan. Only just became aware of what happened yesterday via the BBC. Let's hope the Blackpool lad in hospital pulls through. I know there's a horrible history of trouble between Bolton and Blackpool but from the 1990s onwards I thought we'd put the worst of this behind us (both...

My memory of that 1986 game from a Bolton perspective is that we had two very young lads making their debuts. Both players went on to be stalwarts in the later 80s and early 90s but were callow that day and got bullied a bit ... Julian Darby and Mark Winstanley. I think I'm right in saying the...

Visiting Bolton fan not looking for bother. Some time ago I posted a piece I'd spotted on a new Bolton website based on an old Bolton fanzine (bit like AVFTT in that regard at least). It was about our shared hero Jimmy Armfield. Just recently there's been some more stuff that will be of...

Hadnt thought of that :) No idea if he's any good. Evatt speaks very highly. League of Ireland signings always have an element of being a gamble though.

We (Bolton) will have two first team players coming back from very long-term injury (Josh Sheehan and Lloyd Isgrove) and one new signing from the League of Ireland in late July making his debut - Eoin Toal.

Visting Bolton fan. I'm impressed with our gates just now. Our brush with extinction a few years ago has wiped the state clean and we built up a generation of new young fans due to spending 13 out of 17 seasons in the Prem from 1995 to 2012. The capacity of Burnden Park had slipped to about...

Sad news. A Jimmy Armfield signing from Blackpool for us at Bolton. RIP