Bolton Wanderers boss Owen Coyle insists the club was never a route one team.

Coyle admits he's trying to build on the foundations laid by previous managers.

He told the Bolton News: "I think there's always perceptions of football and Bolton have been tagged rightly or wrongly as a one-dimensional team that just play the ball from back to front, and I honestly think they did the club a disservice with that, but that was the name it was given.

"All we've tried to do is to try and make sure we have more facets to our play, more flavours if you want; that we're not predictable. That's all we're trying to do, we're just trying to get better year by year and hopefully as time goes, and you'll see a more fluid, better passing game. You can't come in and click your fingers and think it falls into place; you have to work at it very hard and as I say, try and improve on it slowly as you go."