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lol hughes favourite for job i just heard. Off to rob a bank and LAY LAY LAY

my best mate plays for bolton so if i find out before the news, will try and help out for some free ££££

end of the day it's tough for the chairman to continue to support hiim when the fans hate him.

Agree he's done as well as he can. Personally I hope they rot. Love it when fans think they're better than they are. I seem to remember Charlton calling for Curbishly's head when they had a bit of success and they were "languishing" in the bottom half

Look where they are now

I think Megson has been pretty unlucky, I am not sure what Bolton expect to achieve but maintaining their premiership status means they have been punching above their weight for many years.

It is not like they have been used to a diet of brilliant expansive football in the past, me thinks they might live to regret this decision, thinking the grass is greener on the other side.

not really. there was never a time when he was hated, not even disliked. in fact I can't remember a time when he was anything but loved at the valley. there was a period when we were close to europe but not quite there when it was thought he wasn't the man to push us that bit further but that was obv while we were top half and doing very well. in the end he left as a hero, very different to the megson situation

end of the day it's tough for the chairman to continue to support hiim when the fans hate him.

Agree he's done as well as he can. Personally I hope they rot. Love it when fans think they're better than they are. I seem to remember Charlton calling for Curbishly's head when they had a bit of success and they were "languishing" in the bottom half

Look where they are now

It'll be a long time before Megson manages again, if ever.

Simple question - would you have him at your team as your next manager?  This is so reminiscent of Jimmy Calderwood, everyone telling fans how lucky we were to have him, but once he gets sacked, astonishingly no-one else wants to employ him. Funny that. It'll be a long time before Megson manages again, if ever.

Not sure how you quantify that, only 11 teams have more top flight years under theuir belt than Bolton?

Before my time as a Bolton fan, but you'd be wrong there as well, historically Bolton have been a pretty attacking team, that changed largely unde Fatso, and totally under Megson. And even under Allardyce, the days of JJ & Djorkaeff are pretty fresh in the memory.

With respect, and as someone with no love of Megson following a fairly dull spell in charge of my club, that is complete balderdash

He'll do well at a lot of clubs from Championship level down

Looking at clubs historically especially pre 2nd world war, when Bolton spent a lot of time in the top division isn't realistic. Post 2nd world war Bolton have spent some time in the basement of the football league and quite a bit in the 3rd flight. Using this as a measure you could argue that Burnley, Preston, Blackpool, Huddersfield are all natural top flight teams.

There fan base is a lot smaller than a number of teams who have performed a lot worse than them in the last 15 years. I can't recollect many teams failing to sell their full allocations for events such as playoff finals, which Bolton did in the 90's or even the Fa cup semi final against villa in 2000 in fact.

The attacking football teams to which you refer were yo-yo clubs at best as I presume you aren't harking back to the times of Nat Lofthouse.

The small fanbase is understable given the number of teams in the area. Given the choice between all the clubs in the North West nobody is going to choose Bolton unless they live there or are mentally disturbed. If you meet a Bolton fan they inevitably have either been brought up there or have parents who forced them into it.

The small fanbase is understable given the number of teams in the area. Given the choice between all the clubs in the North West nobody is going to choose Bolton unless they live there or are mentally disturbed. If you meet a Bolton fan they inevitably have either been brought up there or have parents who forced them into it.

As a Forest fan, I can sympathise with the Bolton fans.  We played the worst football ever under Megson, we hated him with a passion and couldn't wait for him to get the chop.

Long ball football is all her knows and is ultra negative tactically.  What happened in the game the other night when he took of their striker and ended up drawing is classic Megson.  He used to do it all the time at Forest.

All you could here when we were at the games was him screaming and shouting from the dugout, and I used to think that if I were out there playing that would certainly not motivate me one bit.

You have had a lucky escape Bolton, you will survive now.  See it as a late Christmas Pressie!!!

He was booed before, during and after his first game in charge. Bolton need a reality check, small club shooting above their station syndrome. Hope the fans enjoy the championship where they belong.

The only surprise in Bolton's decision to sack Gary Megson as manager was that it took chairman Phil Gartside so long to sharpen his axe.

Megson has been a dead man walking since January, when he dubbed supporters "pathetic" after they had jeered him following the surrender of a two-goal lead in the local derby at Blackburn.

That result came after a run of four defeats in a row.

The chairman would have remembered the four defeats in five at the start of last season; the seven-match barren spell at the end of 2008/9; the two four -goal drubbings by Chelsea in October; the 5-1 humiliation at Villa in November; the defence's failure to keep a clean sheet this season and only three in 44 league games going back 13 months.

And most of all the fact that Megson lost twice the number of league games that he won in 2009.

But Gartside must take a long look at the way he has run the club over the past few years. Christmas 2006 is particularly significant.

Bolton went into the New Year third in the table, with Allardyce believing that further investment in the January transfer window would take Wanderers into the Champions League.

Gartside seemed to baulk at the idea. Unknown Slovakians Lubomir Michalik and Zoltan Harsanyi came in for nothing.

Journeyman David Thompson arrived for a nominal fee from Portsmouth. They played a total of 25 games for the club. The Champions League dream faded.

Allardyce's love for Bolton died with it. His ambitions were loftier than his chairman it seemed.

Critics of Gartside believe that he should have been bolder.

By accepting a mere place in the top 10, mediocrity was invited into a club that had shown such dogged hunger under Allardyce. Did the rot start there?

The appointment of Sammy Lee as manager following Allardyce's decision to leave was born out of romantic loyalty.

It was a mistake. The chairman has to take responsibility.

But to claim Bolton fans ‘turned on Megson’ would be to presume they ever wanted him in the first place. Megson’s appointment was always wildly unpopular. And nothing he’s done since that appointment has made them reconsider those first impressions.

“There has never been one occasion where we haven’t outworked the opposition,” said Megson yesterday, a boast which neatly sums up his attitude to the game, an attitude which antagonised Bolton fans (and most fans at clubs he’s managed).

Bolton hated seeing their forwards being taken off when they were winning games, and were mortified that he sent out a reserve side against Sporting Lisbon in the Uefa Cup. They didn’t want to be blamed, by Megson , for the club’s defeats. And in short, they didn’t want supporting Bolton to be such a joyless experience. Perhaps results will be worse without him, but from their point of view, nothing could be worse than the status quo.

So I’m not sure the outcry is justified. Megson will get another job, Bolton will get another manager. And that manager, through not being Gary Megson, will arrive on a wave of goodwill which, if he’s half-decent, will help him keep Bolton in the Premier League.

Far from “paying for their jeers with tears”, I rather suspect Bolton fans will enjoy the new year a lot more than they did this one.

With respect, and as someone with no love of Megson following a fairly dull spell in charge of my club, that is complete balderdash

He'll do well at a lot of clubs from Championship level down

I think they were going down either way and will still go down.

He's still on gardening leave so it's no wonder his names not been linked with clubs since Reading, Preston and Wednesday jobs were all available and he couldn't take one of them because of the terms of his sacking from Bolton.

Nothing apart from the fact he'd have to half his wages?
He was mentioned for all of the above jobs and i know he was contacted by Wednesday but it couldn't go anywhere because the terms of his sacking hadn't yet been agreed.
Maybe he's got a bit more class than to say he could have all 3 jobs and that their current managers were all 2nd choices?
Or we can carry on believing that the man Bolton paid £1mil for him after a couple of weeks at Leicester isn't wanted by anyone.

Tighty is spot on, how much would you like to bet Megson is a manager again at a football league side in 2010.

Must have missed the bit, where you accepted my bet. All very well bumping threads, putting your money where you mouth is seems to be somewhat lacking.