The Voice - Match preview Carlisle United vs Bradford City Saturday 20th May 2023 @ 3:00pm

That’s better! My quote is on that reply!

 

Hope MH moves on in the summer. To be outplayed and outfought by a mediocre team. We showed no desire, intensity, creativity and had no leaders on the pitch. To watch that passive, insipid performance was shocking. Our supporters deserve far better for their fantastic support and allegiance.

 

Hindsight is great but let's be right we've come up short more than once this season.
We have never really been good enough over 90 minutes.
Today's game was no different to every game I've been to this season.
Today was the icing on the cake.
Hughes interview was absolutely predictable he never ever takes the blame, stubborn is his middle name.

 

Sparks and Rupp have given Hughes every thing he needed to suceed this season.

Negative tactics, poor home form and inability to hold on to the points in injury time.

WTF was he thinking bring Platt on for Banks.

 

Is he willing to learn Park He threw 2 points away home to Gillingham by subbing an attacker with a CB. How many times in the short time since has he repeated that?

 

I think its only you that keeps mentioning the Bradford economy in your posts. Your car wash suffering from low sales or what?

 

Platt for Banks is blowing my mind.

Even if we got to pens who would you want stepping up? Platt or Banks?

Madness decision.

 

An extra defender but no one marks up……. Not sure what that is about.

 

You could try ask him but I feel he would blank you and walk away treating your inept question with contempt it deserves in the Wonderful World of Hughes.

 

Come on Kevin, I'm on the same page as you on almost everything but you know the answer to that question.

 

Possibly the worst substitution this season

 

Bournemouth certainly and you’re right there’s a lot more. Disagree with Sheffield United though, like us under Lawn and Rhodes they got lucky with Wilder and have pretty much lived off parachute payments since relegation. I can remember when Parkinson was supposed to take their job, they hated their owner back then although I think he only owns a share. But to me Wilder saved that club.

 

Possibly the worst substitution this season

 

Well I got back home about an hour ago and still struggling to come to terms with that!
1st half we got bullied and it almost felt that the mindset after that was to hang on and take it to pens. Our back 4 had collectively their worst game of the season and midfield was pretty much what we've seen from Day 1. All that said, as bad as we were, there was still the opportunity to go on and come away with a smash and grab win after the Derbyshire goal......and then that substitution for which I have no words!!!!!
Over 2 legs we didnt deserve it. Over the whole season, this squad has been short. We have been unlucky with injuries but the back ups have been woefully inadequate. So we start next season where we deserve to be. I am not in the Hughes Out camp. We cant keep changing managers. I just hope he sees what we all do and prioritises sorting out that midfield in the summer and bringing in players with pace. If he gets that wrong I dont see him lasting beyond Christmas.
Fans were 1st class today

 

Well that's it for another season. A brief period of hope when Derbyshire scored but perplexed when Banks who had just created that goal was taken off.
We paid the price for not scoring again on Sunday.
Having said that I think the biggest negative this season was Tyreik Wright being recalled and sold to Plymouth who then didn't play him. We lost pace, goals and assists. His replacement Costelloe never fitted the bill. When Chapman could finally move into his rightful position once Walker was mostly fit, he too picked up a serious injury. I call all of that a bit of bad luck.
Central midfield needs improvement and pace to replace Wright needs adding.

 

I agree , as a player MH was a physical hard , no nonsense player that as a manager has to field delicate little lambs with no fight

 

The point is one cannot with justification prove your comment is factually correct when I have just given you a comparable likeness which is the ultimate opposite of what you are claiming. One doesn’t need to know anything about football to own a football club or sports team . What about Wrexhams owners, another case in point?. You cant have it both ways

 

Couldn’t agree more with all of this!

 

We were getting outplayed by every mediocre club in the division last season.

I can't believe how quickly last season has been forgotten.

The progress we've made is undeniable.

But, City fans are like a dog with a bone when they turn on a manager.

Hughes might be better leaving.

Good luck getting Sparks to pick a better manager, or even one suitable stylistically to carry on the good work.

I honestly despair with our impatient fans.