A death in the family...

...but that's not really an excuse for not writing for a month.

AH HA! And you thought I meant our beloved manager and his team. Not quite, although at the moment the life support is on and the emergency recuss unit is standing by. As someone said somewhere over the past few weeks, "It's like seeing a loved one slowly ebbing away.".

So now that X Towers has reopened and I have come out from behind the cushion, I can honestly say that it feels like a continuous nightmare at the moment supporting a team that appears to be fading fast. A good result at Fulham notwithstanding, the horror shows at Villa and at home to Chelsea and Blackburn have placed us in the position that if we don't get a result at Wolves tomorrow the only thing keeping us off the bottom is the bigger horror show down on the south coast. At the end of October fans were chanting Megson's name down at the Bridge, now it appears ever more ironic.

It may have been expected to lose to Chelsea and Villa, good teams both, but Blackburn were so woeful away from home it just didn't make sense to revert to The Badger in the middle of the park, at the expense of Lee or Little Davies. Blackburn were there for what must have been the taking but we basically gave Blackburn the game. Thank you Mr Ricketts. It would appear the Big Sam can beat us from his hospital bed.

And talking of the lack of defence, it occurred to many Bolton fans about, ooohhh, last June that the problems that Bolton had weren't at the back, they were at the front and in the middle of the park, so bringing in three unneeded defenders who weren't wanted at their previous clubs, two of which were the relegated West Bromwich Albion and the almost relegated and pre season relegation favourites Hull City. Stefan Dennis managed only three games before being benched, Sam Ricketts managed a bit longer before not understanding what it means when the keeper shouts "KEEPERS BALL" in a Finnish/Lancastrian accent and it took Zat Knight to score two own goals before the GSO decided he may have made a mistake there. That's about £10million of your money (if you include the fee paid to West Brom). Add on the £8.2million for Elmander and that's a lot of money that we aren't getting back.

So, we look to tomorrow in trepidation but hope that SuperKev being banned might make the GSO to change things around. Again, our opponents are there for the taking. So the Towers would be looking at the following formation:
Jussi - Steinsson, Cahill, AOB, Samuel - Lee, Little Davies, Cohen, Gardner - Kidneys, Elmander.

Although we won't.

So, our predictions for tomorrow:

1. Someone to mention "A Tale of Two Wanderers"
2. Someone to ask whether Bolton "Will miss their talisman, Kevin Davies".
3. Little Davies to get roundly booed.
4. A 1-1 draw.
5. Both teams to be at least 5 points from safety by Sunday night.