DEADline day.

No great surprises that nothing else happened in the few days before the transfer window SLAMMED shut, as they love to say on Sky Sports News, except Obadeyi moving to Rochdale on loan and Danny Ward extending his loan at Swindon to the end of the season. However, with the news that Kidneys is out for up to a month there was some musings by the manager early on in the day that he may move for another striker. However, by the evening he had resisted the temptation.

This is a blow for T'Wanderers, leaving us with only SuperKev and the misfiring Swede as options, unless you include Bambi Vaz Te. As we all know, Big Ivan has come through a lot in his career (current record of being reminded of this by a commentator being held by Martin Tyler in the home game against Arsenal at 3:32 into the game) and you would expect the only thing to take him down would be a cannon ball to the gut, a snipers shot to the cranium from the Lofthouse Upper or a punch in the back from the Dad of the Year. An ankle injury seems just a little tame to be the reason for his absence from the team and I fully expect that the story will soon surface that he has gone off to Vietnam to get the last prisoners out.

Is not bringing anyone else in a mistake? Well, it says that he is out "for up to a month" which could mean a couple of weeks or the month. In my opinion there is no need for a knee jerk reaction, especially if you bring someone in for the rest of the season and they find themselves fourth choice after two games. That would be a waste of money. (Speaking of which, it would appear that Scotland was too cold after Angola for The Shitt and he will see out the rest of the season in the reserves. Welcome back Danny. Yes, I am lying.) The last time we did something like that we brought in the god that is Grzegorz Rasiak, which turned out well. These are the decisions that managers stand and fall on and it is better bringing no one in than someone who could take three weeks to fit in.

In other news, we are still waiting for the crap website to put anything up about the fans forum on Thursday, for those of us who, y'know, don't live in the north west, although by all accounts it went very well. Nice to see the former manager getting roundly booed and confirmation, if any were needed, that he had been invited to a forum but had declined. Well, it's never nice to be pelted with tomatoes and rotten cabbage, which is what would have been coming out of his mouth.

So another day passes. I will see you tomorrow and leave you with this thought. Just what the hell is this doing on the Bolton Wanderers page of the former BEN even if the suspect looks suspiciously like Stuart Holden?