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James Trafford outlines Bolton Wanderers play-offs view and reveals club's new biggest fan
26.02.2022 - 09:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
James Trafford believes Bolton Wanderers are confident of reaching the League One play-offs but are not getting ahead of themselves prior to taking on MK Dons this afternoon.
Wanderers travel to Stadium MK today as third takes on 10th in the League One standings.
Ian Evatt's side sit five points from the play-offs heading into the encounter, while the Dons are three points from the automatic promotion places.
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And Bolton can narrow their deficit to the top six with a win and potentially put themselves that much closer to being in the conversation for the play-offs at the end of the campaign.
Trafford joined Wanderers in the middle of the January transfer window from Manchester City and revealed that members of the Bolton squad who won promotion last season are helping to guide players like him who are in this position for the first time.
The goalkeeper is under no illusions of how tough today's clash will be given the run Bolton's opponents are on and believes League One is such an unforgiving division that every game must be given the same approach.
He said: “We are all confident, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves, away at MK will be difficult.
“Obviously we want to try and get into the play-offs but we can’t get too excited.
“The core of the squad know what it takes. They help lads like myself who haven’t been in this position before, going for a target at this point of the season.
“We are following their lead, a bit.
“They are on a good run, as we are, and they play decent football as well, as we try to.
“This league is just tough. Shrewsbury, Morecambe – they are hard games. And because of how
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