Buckley says Bolton blocking out cash crisis

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time on Friday. Chairman Ken Anderson is hoping Laurence Bassini, the former Watford owner with two bankruptcies and a threeyear football activity ban to his name, will bail out the club.

Buckley, on the scoresheet with Callum Connolly, was proud of the way the players shut out distractions to cut the gap to safety to five points.

The winger said: “All we can do is concentrate on the pitch and we did our bit against QPR. We showed we have the fight.

“I just focus on the football. All we can do is make sure we are 100 per cent on Saturday and we were – or you don’t get results like this.

“People are different how they might react to not being paid on time, but you just have to give everything.

“Ipswich, our next opponents, will be another tough game. There is pride at stake in trying to knuckle down to our work. When you win, it repays everyone. Things may have changed off the pitch, but the professionalism on it has not.

“The aim at the start of the season was to stay up. It would be a massive achievement if we could get out of the spot we are in.”

Sub Nahki Wells pulled a goal back late on for Rangers, who have won just one of their last 13 games in the league and picked up only six points this year.

Boss Steve McClaren suggested he was now “running out of tricks”, adding: “In a run like this you get low on confidence.

“The mistakes are a frustration and mean we have to score two or three to get a result.”

Lumley 5, Rangel 6 (Smith 62, 6), Hall 6 (Leistner 48, 6), Lynch 6, Bidwell 6, Wszolek 6, Luongo 6, Scowen 5, Freeman 5, Osayi-Samuel 6, Hemed 6 (Wells 70, 7)

Matthews 7, Olkowski 7, Wheater 7, Beevers 7, Taylor 6, O’Neil 7, Williams 7, Connolly 7, Buckley 7 (Noone 79, 6), Ameobi 8 (Donaldson 88), Magennis 6