Meet the Bolton Wanderers Academy stars – Owen Coyle would rather have an empty bench than pick them!

Trot on Bolton's well-documented injury problems have left Owen Coyle with just 15 first-team players at his disposal. What has been slightly baffling is his refusal to call upon an Academy player, even if it was just to warm the bench and sample the atmosphere of senior football. Instead he named just four substitutes for [.