
With only two victories from their last eight league games, the Trotters required an equalizer in the 90th minute to salvage a point in a 2-2 draw against lowly Cambridge United over the weekend.
The former Premier League team has a game left over sixth-place Stockport County to make up the difference, and now sits three points outside the play-off spots.
The Wanderers manager spoke out against the animosity toward his team that is currently reverberating from the seats, stating that the climate in the north west was terrible over the weekend and that several players were “shocked.”
In a match where they controlled possession but struggled to put the ball in the net for much of the ninety minutes, Bolton finally got their reward on Saturday thanks to an own goal in the ninetieth minute from Zeno Rossi.
The home crowd wasn’t pleased with that performance, and the bitter feeling at the final whistle summed up how Evatt is currently feeling, even though the team is within striking distance of the top six in the division.
Wanderers also qualified for the Vertu Trophy quarter-finals with victory over Lincoln City last week, but in a time of life where everyone constantly expects more, Evatt was left to face the music after the final whistle at the weekend.
“We’re one win away and it’s a hard sell, I get it, but that is the reality of the situation,” he told The Bolton News.
“We’re not out of it. We’ve still got stuff to play for. The best thing for everybody is to be supportive.
It’s football. I have to not take it so personally and make sure that I’m positive and focused on what I’m trying to do. But people are forgetting four and a half years of good work and from this club being in ground zero.
Which is each to their own. Some of the social media stuff, you can’t control. That’s just become way out of hand.
“The reality of that is that people with 20 or 30 followers want 40 followers. They feel like the best way to do that is to be over-aggressive and personal, which is the way of the world.

In an indication of their desire to return to the Championship at the end of the season, Bolton Wanderers paid £1.2 million to acquire Joel Randall from Peterborough earlier this month.
Evatt acknowledged that the midfielder was caught off guard after his transfer, and the 25-year-old has since entered a crucible of suffering in his new environment.
Evatt told the Randall Bolton News, “He’s shocked by it.” “I think he’s surprised because I’ve always stated that we’re seen as a really excellent football squad and a really good football club from the outside.
And we’re not, as I mentioned, but coming from somewhere where Peterborough is 19th, I believe there might be some reason if we were.
“We’re two games from Wembley in one competition. We could still get promoted in this competition. So, all is not lost. “We have to do our best to support the players for as long as we can because I do believe that everyone wants to see us win. There’s no one that wants to see us win more than me. And we’re working very hard to try and make that happen.”
With crucial clashes against Charlton Athletic and Huddersfield Town in the week to come, Evatt will be hoping for a turnaround in fortunes for his Trotters side, as well as a better feeling among the fanbase, as the search for the top six continues amid the turmoil at the football club.