The Voice - Match preview Bradford City vs Mansfield Town Saturday 4 February 2023 @ 3:00pm

Fully agree. Mansfield could have had 3 or 4 themselves today.

 

Yet again we fade from the 70 minute mark. This seems to have been true for a number of seasons so there must be something causing it that isn't connected to the present crop of players. My theory is that training on heavy ground next to a river takes too much out of players during the week and leaves them struggling at the end of Saturday games, but I've no way of proving that. What is interesting though is the number of players over the years who've come here with good records and just don't produce it for us. Or players who are poor for us but prosper once they've left. Or, in some cases, both. It also seems to affect our midfield players, the ones who do the most running, worse than the others. If there is some unknown factor influencing our performances it would also explain why so many managers with apparent ability fail here. The phenomenon also seems to have got worse in recent times as winters have got milder and wetter. Global warming, milder wetter winters, heavier training ground, fading badly at the end of matches. Could there be a connection?
And a further thought. Last year there was much less rainfall than usual from January onwards which led to water shortages in the summer. That coincided with our best form of the season. And how many seasons have we performed well in August, September and into October and then in April and May?

 

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How many have you had??? hahaha

 

We train at a school so I think you are right in your thoughts.

 

Just a theory, mate. Have you got a better one?

 

So if we owned the same grass we are training what difference do you think that would make to match day performances?

 

The pitches at the training ground are far better than our Home pitch, more so the one through the arches which is out of the way. They have spent a lot on it and it's like a bowling green, go have a look.

 

Hughes' post match interview nearly resulted in me totalling my car into a lamppost. It was absolutely minging.

 

We need our own training ground. What are we? A small time club that own F all?

 

why isn’t he part of us ????? Is it down to him being honest and not trying to sugarcoat that we are 9th ???? And yet again we squandered more points because Hughes failed thousand of folk yet again !!!!!
My god the way he was going on about us being a division apart from Wrexham next season was laughable ............ the mans out of his depth at this level but hey we stand 9th with a game in hand ............ up next we face the long ball merchants of Stevenage now surly our lovely play it on the floor football will flummox Stevenage ............... nahhhhhh will it Fook .............0 goals in our last 5 away games jeeeeeeeezzz I bet fat boy Evans is bricking it as we speak

 

with our fanbase thinking we are small time happy to be 9th in the league just sums us up

 

Couldn’t believe he blamed the ref for adding too much stoppage time. They scored in the first minute of time added on, did he expect the ref to blow for time bang on 90 minutes.

 

That global warming is the reason behind our perennially abject second half performances? A pint of what you two are smoking please. Heard it all now.

 

No, it’s football and our training ground doesn’t help us at all.

 

Are you Michael Howard in disguise?? Constantly avoiding answering the question?
Here it is again:
So if we owned the same grass we are training on what difference do you think that would make to match day performances?

 

Let’s be honest. Today’s test was the ‘decider’, whether or not we have the potential to go up or stay in this godforsaken league for yet another year. It’s not going to happen this year unfortunately.

 

The alternative is that we consistently appoint useless managers with Hughes being the latest in a long line. An equally plausible explanation.

 

Who said that.