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

Even on the broadcast it was at least a metre short.

 

Chapmans decision to run down a rabbit hole on the left as opposed to a simple pass to Nevers who had the freedom of Midland Rd, Queens Rd and Canal Rd on his right was absolutely criminal.

 

2 wins in the last 10. This team just isn't good enough to win promotion. The same deficiencies remain on display every week and Hughes has so far looked unable to resolve them, either through coaching and tactics or through recruitment. The question come the summer will be whether we stick with a manager that's underachieving with the backing he's been given and hope that some stability pays off, or whether yet another change is needed.

 

Yeah, a great performance on his 106th league appearance for us.

Let's hope going forward that's his level because the previous 105 he's been completely anonymous.

 

I actually think that squad is good enough but he simply ain’t using them in the right way ............. you put that prick Evans at the helm and we would be a lot better off ............ but what do we do ???? Go with someone else ???? I mean if this is a long term project where we go after promotion next season then ok I get it ..........,, but there are simply no signs that he will get it right n the long term and with the teams above us with far smaller budgets then he is failing very badly ............ it could all change again next week at Stevenage a win there and it looks a bit brighter but all we seem to be doing is following one good win with another bad defeat ............ to me a club this size cannot be waiting around while a manager pisses around with a system that doesn’t work ............ I will be decked if the club agreed that it would be a 2 year project to get us out of this league .........,,frankly I can see thousands going missing next season unless we either pick up the pace or we actually look like something going forward and at the moment we look like neither and tbh honest it bleeding frustrating as hell ...............I know crowds and budgets don’t always guarantee success but it should help big time but what are us poor sods putting up with ???? A man who thinks we are all daft and are blinkered by what’s going on .............blaming officials for injury time when they scored one minute into it sorry but that’s a man trying to get away with his own shortcomings .............. he sat there last week and watched Wrexham and frankly the so called hoof ball merchant put him to shame ............. sod the messing about and just bombarded the area it’s so simple yet so effective

 

How do you get ifollow on a Saturday

 

He lives in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy and sometimes the US. Allegedly.

 

Our inability to hold a lead or even add to it has killed us this season. We played really well in the first half despite not increasing our lead. Second half we started to sit back presumably fatigue of key players.

I actually thought we would bring Derbyshire on at half time so we could give them something else to think about and I would have taken Eisa off. As they started to load up our box i had forgotten we had sold Songo, but in any event we were not strong enough to get a second the next option is to protect our lead, and brought on Stubbs for his first outing and sacrificed Cook.

I enjoyed the match with a certain amount of frustration. For once I thought the ref was fair and consistent no complaints from me.

Can we keep the replacement Gilliead please, he is much better player than his namesake. Bola what a great game he had, never write a player off after one game. Clayton was outstanding and calm, loved watching him pull the strings in midfield. East was good as well running around picking up loose balls. Who put the cross in for Cook?

The players did their part to the best of their abilities, but MH needs to be more proactive to the game he is watching, not the one he planned in his head.

 

We are in to February now and I still dont see what Chapmans gives us or what his strengths are.
He’s clearly not a goal scoring no.10 (1 goal in 23 starts)
Depending which figures you use he has either 2 or 3 assists (same as Foulds and less than Halliday) That’s really poor for a forward -thinking player.
He can’t tackle to save his life and he clearly isn’t speedy or agile enough to be an out and out winger.

He had 2 things to do in his 15 minutes on the pitch yesterday.
Put Nevers in with a relatively simple pass and not put his free kick straight in to the arms of the keeper.
He failed on both.

He’s one of the biggest disappointments in this season for me.

 

They hit the bar, had one cleared from the line and Lewis made at least one excellent save. Not sure what’s to disagree with there.

 

Benefits of not living in the UK. IFollow offer a season ticket for all home, away and selected cup games. I’ve watched more City games in the past 3 years than the days of having a season ticket many years ago.

Sadly means very few opportunities to go to an actual game in person.

 

He’s not a very good one if he is.

 

This comment sums up our season so far, if we improved in this part of our game we would be sat in a better position in the table.

 

It doesn't hinder us at all. The facilities are as good as any league two team. Who owns them are irrelevant. What difference would it make if Rupp or BDMC owned them and we rented from them ? What difference would it make if we bought them from Woodhouse Grove.

Answer in both cases is absolutely none.

 

That's not what he said at all. He was referring to their centre half who stayed up and scored the goal.

 

I'm paraphrasing but he definitely said 'he didn't bother to run back' which 'created an overload'. Either way he painted a picture of the second half and the goal which just wasn't the reality.

 

I started off thinking there’s a player in there, that has wained. He offered nothing of any value whatsoever yesterday.

 

Poolside on the ski slopes of Mexico.