Bolton Wanderers promotion and Championship admittance from Ian Evatt: “Don’t think we’re ready.”
Although he thinks the League One team will be ready to get there and stay there, Ian Evatt acknowledges that Bolton Wanderers were probably not ready to make it to the Championship this season.
With 73 points overall, Wanderers finished ninth in the third division of English football this season—a fantastic accomplishment for a team that had just been promoted.
Normally, 73 points would be sufficient to place the Whites in the top six, but due to the high calibre of League One this season, Bolton trailed sixth-place Wycombe Wanderers by 10 points.
Wycombe will play MK Dons in the play-offs this evening. Sunderland will play Sheffield Wednesday in the other semi-final tomorrow. The final lineup will be announced on Monday night.
Next season, one of these teams will play in the Championship alongside
Wanderers’ late-season run up the standings had stoked expectations of a remo Wigan Athletic and Rotherham United, the reigning champions.te possibility of making the playoffs. Despite only losing three games in the second half of the season since mid-January, Bolton finished outside the top six.
Although Wanderers are being promoted this season, Evatt acknowledges that the Whites were not prepared to win the Championship in their current campaign. Instead, the focus is on at least making it to the play-offs next season.
condition as well as the fierce rivalry in the league above League One.
Evatt, nevertheless, thinks Wanderers are improving under Football Ventures and chairman Sharon Brittan, to the point where they will be able to fight in the tier and be prepared for it both on and off the pitch. The Wanderers last won the Championship during the 2018–19 season.
“As much as we all wanted to do it this year—and me more than most—I don’t think we are ready,” he said to the Manchester Evening News.
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