The Voice - Match preview Salford City vs Bradford City Saturday 15th October @ 3:00pm

Good win today and a good way to put last week to bed with a hard working performance.

Thought Chapman was quality today if you give Watt time he will pick passes but Chapman dealt with him well and had to put a real shift in would have been richly deserved if he had managed to get a goal as well. Cook with another goal, Critchlow looking every bit a top loan signing and looks to be a good group.

Great to see the way the players interacted with the fans as well happy days are here again!

 

I'm becoming increasingly impressed by Foulds. I thought he was too lightweight for a promotion push - but I could now see him been able to adapt to L1 if we get there.

Nice problem for Hughes, two LB's who are two of the best in the division.

 

Who the f*** is downbeat then? We all have opinions, I have mine and you have yours, let's keep it civil, shall we???

 

Fantastic performance today. Perfect away performance. Salvors had a lot of the ball but only really threatened a couple of times. Chapman could have had a couple. Tried to pass it into the net for one chance wheee blasting it would have been better, then tried to lob the keeper where a shit with lace would have been better. Never the less, he was a constant threat. Wright should have done better in the first 10 mins. Great work ethic shown by the teams which has been missing the last few games which was great to see. 3 points off 3rd with a game in hand, what’s not to like. Up the chickens

 

I was impressed by Foulds today and I agree, he's developing nicely. I've never been convinced by Ridehalgh and for me, Foulds is now first choice.

 

Like East, if you come into the team, play well and the team win then you're giving the manager a problem - fair play to both of them!

 

East is better in the air. A better passer and tackler with better awareness and does not give the ball away easily. An easy upgrade on Gillead

 

I'd take his opinion over yours any day of the week. Good win and we just need to improve econsistency.

 

I think without both Ridehalgh and Songo'o last season could have been far more nervous than it ended up been.

I think Ridehalgh quality of cross and just all round reliability, was badly missed when he wasn't around last season.

Happily, Foulds has now caught up and perhaps overtaken him.

 

What a result and performance as well. Everyone a 7 at least. Keep this up and we will be definitely leaving this league this season.

Great reaction from all at the club to analyse last weeks defeat and put a plan in place to rectify it. MH said they had worked on selecting the right moments to press and what signals to give each other to work as a team to good effect.

Really proud to be a Bantam right now.

And finally what great vocal support today-very loud on the radio.

 

East only got in today because Gilliead was unavailable. Today's game would have suited Gilliead, it's amazing how a player has one good game and suddenly he's the best thing since sliced bread.

 

True mate but isn't it great for us that someone who hasn't played much can come in and have a good game.

 

He will replace Gillead eventually as he is better player who is not afraid of pressing forward unlike Gillead who gets headaches past the half way line

 

Today was the perfect away performance. Hughes did a number on Salford like Challinor did against us last week. He didn't throw plan A out of the window, instead predicting that Salford would approach the game with a style that would suit our plan A down to the ground. Let them have the ball on a piss poor pitch, possesion means nothing if you aren't gonna commit to creating chances as we have found out ourselves. For all their possession we controlled most of the game with ease.
Oh and did I mention how great it was to see Cooky break his poor run of one game without a goal...

 

I agree but he's got to earn that place. So far this season to be fair he's not shown anywhere near enough to oust Gilliead. I hope he takes the form from this game forward.

 

I'm pretty sure plan A involved lots of fecking about with every goal kick. Thankfully, today, he reverted to plan B in this respect.

 

Very good win.

 

We were that end and stood to the right of the goal from where the chance came it didn't look like it had crossed the line from where we were stood.

 

^^^^^^^^^Exactly this.

 

Fordy that is at least 2 positive comments from you in the past few weeks. Where's the malt whiskey. i need a large one