The Voice - Match preview Mansfield Town vs Bradford City Saturday 2nd September 2023 3:00pm

We have different opinions on City and if you don’t like different opinions on a City opinion site then you know what you can do.

 

Richards played well like the look of him, the others drifted in and out. Like what I’ve seen of Smith but he suffered from a lack of service like any striker would for us.

 

No, he's a Liverpool fan.
I think he's Klopps love child !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

For the same reason that couldn't by the end of the September's of 1998 and 2015, but eventually had great seasons.

 

One team in the top 8. One out of 6. I'm all about balance. It's not been a disaster but don't just make things up.

 

There's many seasons that have ended up fine, where we couldn't "see it" that way in early September. I didn't realise that we now measure Hughes based on points comparison for last season - not least because we've played two promotion contenders away from home and last season had only played Stevenage at home, after 10 games.

Incidentally, we took 18 points from our first 10 matches, not 20.

 

I doubt that at all. You just THINK you have higher expectations. In truth you don't. We all want promotion this season.

 

The last three teams we have played have been scoring for fun and we conceded 1 goal Crawley had a great win today as did Crewe Accrington are doing really well and Mansfield who had they won today would have been second

 

Only just seen the score and read up. That's how much I'm losing interest in the style

 

Didnt tune in today but would have taken a point from a tricky trip if given a choice before kick off.

nice to see we are looking robust at the back again (at least that’s what Im guessing from the result!).

 

No point being robust if you can’t score.

 

A decent enough point today. From a neutrals prospective I think you would conclude both teams essentially cancelled each other out, without been spectacular.

Again we were found out by the high press in the first half. However when we did get the ball to Odour and Walker, we looked decent. Thought both had decent games - I like the look of Odour but cannot see how he ever was going to be a LWB.

A few others had ‘huff and puff’ games. Halliday as reliable as always, although can see his limitations when we go forward he’s still head and shoulders my first choice RB/RWB.

Fair I give a shout out to Osadebe who I’ve criticised in recent weeks but thought he was one our better players, certainly first half.

We really need to find a way of transitioning quicker from back to front and use the likes of Walker, Smith, Odour and Pattison (when back). Smith had little to work with today, we missed Cook.

It’s not a bad result and the performance was ok. A league home win, progress in the cup and a league away draw (and clean sheet) within 7 days against the opposition we’ve had isn’t a bad return.

A week off - hopefully get some injuries back and set up for next weeks TV game.

 

A very solid point from City today. We're the first team to take anything away from Mansfield AND stop them from scoring - they had bagged 8 in 3 competitive games at home and won all 3 prior to today.

Still plenty for us to work on, but we were missing a number of key players in Pattison, Cook and McDonald and still have the likes of Chapman and Oliver out. Many attacking options which are currently not at our disposal.

However, we've gone to yet another tough place and taken something home with us. A mediocre start perhaps, but gradually improving, not to mention we've played 6 out of 8 competitive matches away from home so far. Definitely not a disaster as some make out. Yes, performances need to improve and people are rightly challenging formations, style of play and general tempo. But as I've said before, we need a degree of patience and allow the team to bed in, whilst also acknowledging we have been missing key attacking players - particularly today - which has certainly hindered us.

 

Its been an alright start to the season at best, arguably slightly below par but if you're saying we've mainly played teams who have had good starts I'd expect to see more than one side in the top 8 to back up your claims. It doesn't even include a single side in the top 6 on form so it's a massive stretch.

 

It wasnt a bad performance today - very frustrating though. Our off the ball running and decision making was appalling.

Halliday is also completely useless in the opponents half. Kelly was a rock today. Very good game. Walker had decent spells. Smith worked hard. Odour looked lively now and again..

Considering who we had missing, 0-0 is an ok result. Defence did well. Will take a point.

 

A very fair assessment. Well said.

 

I cannot for the life of me believe that fans are genuinely satisfied, some even happy, with not winning when we are 15th in the league table after 6 matches.

What a negative and quite frankly sad mentality.

If we were chasing mid-table then a point at Mansfield isn't bad. We're chasing top 3 - we should be disappointed at every match we don't win, not accepting lying in 15th claiming a point is great. Unbelievable.

 

Cool story bro.

 

Not many teams will win at Mansfield this year

 

I’ll put you in the attention seeking team, along with RC Bantam.


You know the players available today so let’s see what YOU would have done.

Starting 11
Formation
Tactics
Substitutes and their times .

White Coat Bantam has been sorting out his 4 answers for at least a couple of hours and now he’s completely done a runner.Surely you can give us a laugh?