Counter attack

Another week flies by. Work is manic but if I could crack a couple of 10 hours days my desk would look a lot more rosy and my mind a lot more lucid. Mind you, the pub has been calling pretty loudly this week, which hasn’t helped with my time management.

9 more shopping days, I need to spend some time on Amazon this weekend to make sure that I don’t end up paying through the nose for delivery. I hear the weather back in the UK is a little frigid, it is strangely still very warm here, which throws me out of balance as I walk down Front Street with the sun blazing and the lights wrapped around Christmas trees and lamposts fighting against the bright sky to twinkle.

I expect to be in front of the radio tomorrow listening to the Addicks at Bolton. Wanderers are in the exact same league position under Dougie Freedman than they were when they sacked Owen Coyle. Mind you neighbours Blackburn are 10 places lower since they booted out Steve Kean.

I’ve never been to The Reebok, but did go to Burnden Park a couple of times, including the very last game (see photo) there in 1987 when Mark Kinsella threatened to upset the party. I think Bolton won the league that season as well.

Bolton are one of the teams that we have played the most in our history, yet this is our first meeting since 2007, but at least those going tomorrow won’t have to suffer seeing Sir Lennie in a Palarse tracksuit.

I am hoping for one of those effective counter-attacking performances tomorrow utilising more productively the pace of Danny Haynes. I read somewhere this week that Dan Seaborne had extended his stay on a weekly basis. If he is fit, then I wonder what Powell will do with Wilson and Solly. I hope both get to start on the right.

I have been keeping an eye on Danny Hollands at Swindon. I sponsor his Addicks shirt, which is little good to me as he’s been wearing the red of Swindon these past few weeks. He scored an own goal last week and was quoted in a local paper saying that he didn’t know what the immediate future held.

His impact at Swindon may not as been as he’d hoped although in the nicest way Hollands is a gear box and not a jet engine. His temporary boss, the ever controversial Paulo Di Canio has already given Danny a public dressing down and I think his loan ends after Saturday.

I can still see Eddie Howe in Hollands future, but personally I hope he returns to The Valley.