The Voice - Match preview Bradford City vs Doncaster Rovers Tuesday 5th March 2024 @ 7:45pm

Gained.

How was OMD?

 

The club used to reckon “Tuesday nights under the lights are magical”. People just don’t want to venture into Bradford after dark these days, it’s grim.

I got asked for spare change 3 times within 5 minutes of walking out of Broadway!

I much prefer the Saturday 3pm slot and to be honest I might just watch next week’s Tues game on iFollow.

 

So we're the two men at the side of him in Kavanagh and Wright.

 

I've just had a chuckle back to myself...

That Odour pass in the second half.... magic

A DMH moment of true magic

 

Probably not saying anything about the referee Leigh Doughty that hasn’t already been said here but he was awful.

He set the tone in the first 5 minutes with very soft free kicks and Doncaster knew that they’d get a decision everytime they went down under barely a touch. The ref fell for it every time.

And to book the keeper in the 93rd minute for time wasting just takes the biscuit.

A poor performance all round from the referee and he should be disappointed with himself. Be interesting to see how the referees assessor sees it, but those reports are never publicised.

 

@Keefly Bantam

Stats don't always tell the truth but these are representative

 

Very poor. Pretty much said odour played centre midfield because he didn't want to drop him

 

Probably gained. We didn't play well, and looked rusty against a side who looked sharp, fast, and at it from the off. We did okay at times, but struggled to match Donny overall.

Our equaliser was looking unlikely, but our substitutes combined nicely (Richards -> Chapman -> Smith).

Doncaster will probably be disappointed to walk away with only a point, but it wasn't a robbery. Doncaster were wasteful in front of goal, and were thus punished.

4 points and a cup win over Donny isn't a bad haul, it's just we really needed the 3 points for reasons other than tonight's game.

 

Worst player on the field, though, was probably Tyreik.

 

Well Wakefield, it won't affect me of adventuring into Bradford, I live in the Bd8 area but I can understand the worries because my area of living use to be lovely now it's drug ridden shit hole.

 

Kavanagh surely?

 

Perhaps we're splitting hairs lol I can't really remember either doing anything worthwhile.

I generally think Kavanagh suits us more than Wright, who just doesn't seem to fit in at all.

 

Agreed.
Shocking application and no desire

 

Suprised nobody’s mentioned the pitch (or lack of it). I thought it really made passing the ball quite tricky, which led to the frantic nature of the game. Reminded me of “kick and rush” school football. A few times the ball got held up in the mud, especially down that left hand side in front of the Dallas.

 

We were shite.

It’s always 2 points dropped if you draw at home.

 

i think city were lucky to get a point , poor all round ,big improvement needed for saturday .

 

I agree, and I thought the rest would do them good but I was wrong. The rest actually worked against them, no sharpness and failed to get after the second balls as @Bronco stated. I also think we are really short in midfield which initially gives us no choice of players and no one to replace suspension and injuries.

 

Terrible ref but we were also terrible ( and may I add boring ). For me odour based on last few games should have been in the front 3 instead of Wright, who clearly has a real lack of form and match fitness at the moment.

A lack of quality and ideas going forward let us down , 3 centre backs and 2 wing backs doesn’t call then for 2 sitting in CM.

Oduor for Wright and then find a way to get pointon in the midfield 2 with licence to get forward and create.
With the amount of defenders we have on the park you only need 1 holding.

Inconsistency has been a real factor this season and massively highlighted in the performance last night and verses Wycombe it was like watching two different teams.

We won’t go don’t down so just have a go be brave and bloody go for it , defeat on Saturday and season is truly done .

 

Not a single player deserves credit until halfway through the second half (perhaps with th exception of Halliday) and you choose to single out Cook?? Pathetic

RUPP OUT SPARKS OUT GENT OUT. We will do NOTHING until the people running the club leave, simple as that. Play off hopes were well & truly extinguished last night, condemning us to yet another season in this godforsaken league. It pisses me off more than you can imagine!

 

Wright really needs to wake up a bit and show some of the enthusiasm he displayed when he returned to the club as been a big disappointment so far.
As for Kav, on last nights display you can see why GA previously said he needs to keep pushing him!
Add Cooks general lethargy and lack of any impact and you can see why we were so toothless upfront before the subs had some impact.

Ps this is not to say we were much better in other parts of the pitch!