Match Thread Home v Cambridge Sat Dec 19th

He's getting there @Fordy117 slowly but surely....

 

Well done Mark and Connor. Fantastic job in these two games.

 

I do worry, that if we'd scored more this season, AK would have given himself a hernia.

 

Just listened to Truman on radio,he sounded like he knew what he was doing more than I can say more than stuart did on occasions.

 

Loved watching that, everything that a Bradford City team should be all about, committed and organised with a few bits of quality.
Can't fault any of the players. POC and Sutton again our best 2 players and set the tone for the rest of the team. ROD nothing to do all game, but came up with a big save last minute. Wood back to his best. Novak was great and could easily have had a few goals. What a goal from Pritchard, best I've seen in a long long time. I'd written off Evans and Guthrie but they both came on and did well.
Won all the 50-50s in there, and that gave us a base to play some really good football at times. Mixed it up well which created the space in the final third for us to create chances.
Such a shame there wasn't any fans there to see that.

Whoever is the new manager I hope they took notice of how great the last 2 games have been. Football doesn't have to be complicated and this squad doesn't need a complete overhaul. 2/3 good signings in Jan and we could be looking very strong.

 

Never do anything in haste that you might regret going forward.

An Everton win and it's been a great Saturday.

 

Where's Paudie??

 

Consigned to history now as a bcfc manager and rightly so. No disrespect but this last stint has arguably been his worst, rubbish.

 

That be our new Head of Twitter - he’ll be our CEO in a few months when Sparkles moves up to be Honorary Life President.

 

Pritchard all but confirms what we were all saying (apart from those who we still know think McCall should be in the dugout - looking at you Bronco).. the players are much more comfortable playing this formation, the back four are well protected and McCall's tactics were leaving us far too open at the back and it was just attack, attack, attack at our defence.

 

Well said, when you’re thoroughly down beat, fed up, and demoralised you aren’t yourself. Credit to each and every one of them including the caretaker team for such a professional performance.

 

great job there, we should have won by more. Novak was great but hes got to be finishing more of those chances or itll come back to bite us. would say we need to be a bit more clinical all round but apart from that I thought it was a very complete performance. Booted them when we needed to and stood up for the battle, then for me we were pretty much cutting them open at will for most of the second half. Samuels needs to go back in Jan, not good enough but cant fault his application. Guthrie looked ok but I'd also be looking to move him on urgently. When we keep it simple and play to our strengths we have a good side.

 

And finishes the interview with”everyone’s buying in to it as well”
Very telling.

 

I'm sure Stuart McCall will be as happy as the next Bradford City fan with today's result.

 

McCall's a Leeds fan, grew up a Leeds fan..we all know you can't change your football team. grew up dreaming of playing for Leeds at Elland Road.

 

I'm with you regards young Samuels.

 

Very revealing comment "we felt we were always going to concede" (might be a slight misquote)

I think Stuart simply asks players to do more than they have the ability to do and that's his downfall