Town lost out to a stoppage-time strike, and it's now seven Championship matches without a win.

Bolton substitute Joe Mason volleyed home from a corner in the second minute of time add on to seal victory for Wanderers.

The defeat was a touch harsh on Town, but they once again paid the penalty for failing to take their chances.

Town kept the starting side on duty for the last two games, the draws at home to Middlesbrough and away to Reading.

Bolton included two former Town players, Neil Danns and Lukas Jutkiewicz, in their XI and has a third, Jermaine Beckford, on the bench.

Wanderers arrived at the John Smith's a place and a point below Town, who were 16th going into the game, and having lost just once in nine.

The home side had the better of the early exchanges, with ex-Bolton man Danny Ward firing in a rising shot which brushed the right-hand angle of post and bar.

But Bolton were lively on the counter, and Chung-Yong Lee shot against the right-hand post from Alan Hutton's cross.

Midfielder Oscar Gobern was heavily involved, and had a header from an Adam Hammill corner cleared off the line by Jay Spearing.

Hammill lofted a shot across the face of goal and Nahki Wells had a shot in the turn blocked by keeper Adam Bogdan.

Then the Hungarian dived to push another Gobern header from another Hammill corner around his left-hand upright.

Liam Trotter tested Town keeper Alex Smithies with a header from Hutton's cross during the scrappy opening stages of the second half.

Then Ward glanced the ball narrowly over the Bolton goal as Tommy Smith combined with Wells and swung over a good cross.

Wells' persistence set up Ward for another chance, but Bogdan was equal to the shot, parrying the ball, then gathering.

Ward was Town's most dangerous looking attacker, and he brought another save from Bogdan with a flicked header from Smith's cross.

Danns tested Smithies with a well-struck free-kick, and while Beckford came on for the final stages but was unable to provide a breakthrough, his teammate Mason managed to.