IAN Evatt says he will be buying his ground-staff a deserved beer tonight after their hard work gave Wanderers a chance to blitz Wimbledon.

Snow had piled up after a Saturday morning flurry but the pitch and surrounding areas were cleared quickly to enable the game to go ahead.

Wanderers then did their work on the pitch, crashing four goals past the hapless Dons to earn a well-deserved three points.

“I thought man of the match and performance of the day was the stewards, the ground-staff, the volunteers who did everything they could to help us get this game on,” said the Bolton boss.

“Sometimes they don’t get the credit they deserve but I am so appreciative because it made a huge difference to us and the pitch was brilliant, immaculate. We enjoyed ourselves out there today.

“We have to enjoy it, so I am hopeful I can get the ground-staff a beer tonight to say thanks and then we’ll get the pitch ready for Tuesday.”

Wanderers had lost a seven-game unbeaten run at Burton a few days earlier but Evatt said his side never looked like they would carry a hangover into the Wimbledon match.

“It was a blip, that is all it was, and we have hardly spoken about it to be honest,” he said.

“We parked it quickly and felt it was a game in isolation where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

“The pitch, the conditions, the six minutes, it wasn’t really a reflection of how we played the game. I don’t think we got battered for 90 minutes.

“But we parked that result and wanted to show what we could do today, and I think we went out there and did it.”

Evatt had his team selection questioned in midweek but made four changes to the team against Wimbledon to earn a win that he felt could have been even more emphatic.

“I have got the benefit of picking the right personnel for the right challenge and we thought we had done that on Tuesday, the physicality, but it didn’t work out that way,” he said.

“We’d always planned the team today. We thought it would suit us and I thought we were good but there is loads more we can do. First half we enjoyed ourselves, expressed ourselves, which is great when you are three or four up. But when you smell blood I always want more.

“I just think we weren’t quite as professional as we should have been.

“We can play with tempo, we can play with speed, but we have to keep doing the right things. I think we over-expressed ourselves on occasion but, hey, I am being nit-picky when we have won a game 4-0 and I am complaining. I just think there is so much more to come.”

Goals from Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Dapo Afolayan, Dion Charles and Amadou Bakayoko put Wanderers eight points off the play-off positions, going into a home game against Lincoln on Tuesday night.

“We set ourselves a target of wins and points and we are still a long way short,” Evatt said.

“We have 13 more games to go, lots of points to play for but we need to win games.

“I am not surprised, the answer is no. We recruited really well and put a lot of hard work into it, myself and Chris Markham, who has been fantastic. So have the team of analysts behind him who make reports and try to help us make the right choices. It is a big team effort, as we have seen with the ground-staff and the stewards today, all of it comes to fruition on days like this.”