Manny Road

Back from the dead with a little help from the BWFC forum – and you?

Thursday December 17th, 2009

Shot in the arm: Manny Road finds Gary Megson's secret formula

Gary Megson isn’t the only one to get a shot in the arm this week

I’m weak. It’s only been three-and-a-half weeks and I’ve already broken my two late-year resolutions. Regular readers will know that I gave up this blog after the Blackburn game and also vowed not to attend another Bolton Wanderers match until significant personnel changes were made in the dug-out department.

I was coaxed in to breaking the latter by a spare season ticket for the West Ham game on Tuesday night (full disclosure: I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially when the supporter in front of me called Megson every name under the sun for replacing Ivan Klasnic with Chris Basham, only to then sit down, turn to his companion and say: “I quite like Basham actually”).

With regards to the blog, I was touched by the comments left on my suicide note and by the several emails I received after hanging up my pen.

One of those emails has led to an exciting new opportunity – Manny Road is merging with our friends over at bwfcforum.co.uk, the Bolton Wanderers forum set up in response to the club’s ludicrous decision to close down the message board on bwfc.co.uk.

Exact details are yet to be finalised but watch this space as the two sites gradually integrate over the coming months.

The guys from the ‘official unofficial BWFC forum’ have convinced me to carry on writing on a sporadic basis (probably around once a month). As part of the merger we’re also going to open up Manny Road for any budding young writers, or old ones, who fancy trying their hand at a spot of blogging.

Ideally we’d like to recruit 5-10 writers to produce regular content. The posts are unpaid, but you’ll get full training in how to use the system and I guarantee you will learn loads about writing, blogging, interacting with your audience and how to use WordPress. You’ll be the talk of the town and be fighting the women off with a stick too… OK maybe not. But you will have full free freedom to express whatever opinions you like about Bolton Wanderers, regardless of whether Manny Road or BWFC Forum agree with you. We’ll even let you praise Gary Megson, if that kind of thing floats your boat.

If you’d like to get involved as a writer for Manny Road get in touch via the contact page here.

And for the less bold, why not head over to BWFC Forum and have your say there.

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