The Voice - Match preview Bradford City vs Barrow Saturday 18th February @ 3:00pm

According to WOAP City had 687 passes and Barrow 204. Stubbs and Platt had 204 between them and Cook had 14 touches in the match.

 

And Halliday not looking forwards and passing backwards 1,025 times.

 

hope you are right Idle. I wouldnt fancy us in the playoffs myself. I wish i had more optimism

 

I'm starting to think that Cook might have stolen one of his dwarves or driven off without paying from his car wash. It's starting to get irrational.

I guarantee you no other club in this league with a 19 goal top scorer round have fans with such vitreoul towards him, unless he were keeping a club legend out.

 

Only starting.

 

I can't bear to listen to his guff, but if anyone else can ...

 

Of course he's going to say that. It's the standard type of nicety you'd get from a new player.

 

This is a serious issue isn't it.. it was a massive gamble bringing them both in and both gambles have failed miserably. We have a history of making these mistakes too, look at Eisa, he's probably going to be out for ages again, not that I'm particularly bothered.

 

Home games against teams who are prepared just to sit In need a different dynamic. I don’t understand what east has done wrong. Smallwood and Clayton seem to be doing the same job. Play Clayton for me. Smallwood on the bench for the last 25 mins if Clayton’s legs go. We need the full backs to offer more going forwards. Halliday seemed scared to go forwards yesterday. We lack pace since Wright left. We’ve lacked guile all season. Only Walker looks to be able to link play and be a step ahead. That was dismal yesterday. We would have been better going for it and losing 2-0 than not making their keeper have to save anything.

 

We don’t seem to have that kind of mentality.

 

Let's be honest. I hope it doesn't happen but not one of us would be surprised if Stubbs joins them in the treatment room before long.

 

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate

 

Maybe play Gilliead in Halliday's position.

 

....and the clown who sits beside him. Morais and Gary Jones must be too expensive for Radio Leeds.

 

A really good summary of the game detailing just how shocking the performance was.

https://widthofapost.com/2023/02/18/bradford-citys-latest-home-set-back-is-more-than-a-bad-result-it-underlines-the-need-to-play-with-much-more-purpose/

 

2 full transfer windows to build a team. This is what is being churned out at this stage of the season? Very very worrying. Does he realise that if results aren’t coming then the bare minimum requirement is to entertain? That was absolutely horrible. I’ve been trying to convince my PL friends to watch with me but I’d just be embarrassed to be honest.

Also, iFollow stopped working at half time which is ridiculous, I hope city have a refund policy as I didn’t get up at 4am for nothing. Actually, maybe iFollow did me a favour…

 

I'd give this season a 4/10 so far just to quantify my thoughts but I do think these reactions can sometimes be over board. We've littered this season with these type of performances only to come back with a solid Stevenage or Salford type performance. We' ll stay exactly where we are for the remainder of this season. I fully expect us to get a result or two in the coming weeks and suddenly the mood will change only to go back to the despair of yesterday a week later. We are consistently inconsistent. I'm certain that our play off chance will go to the wire and come the end of the season we'll be somewhere between 6th and 10th just like we have been for the majority.

 

A very telling paragraph from the piece
er the 90 minutes, Barrow produced 204 passes. To give you context on what type of game we were treated to, Matty Platt and Sam Stubbs collectively made 204 passes themselves. Yes, that’s right, the two City centre halves produced as many passes during the game as the entire Barrow XI, plus their three subs.

 

Is there anything he said you can even disagree with, or are you just sulking with him haha

Seems like the most pragmatic and honest assessment I can remember.

 

Yep except he sets the tactics and picks and motivates the team. We flopped once again playing a poor team and he is the one responsible