Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away v Salford City Sat Sept 11 @3.00pm

You are right Fordy they are, the lad that they brought on for McAleny early on looked far better than anything on our bench today. Adams seemed very frustrated towards the end of the window, it went from bringing two in to one and then when Robinson came in he said he’s no Lee Angol even though he wanted someone similar as we suspected he’d be out a while. Then followed it up with you rarely get your first choice targets, code for we probably got our 5th choice. It’s all well and good CEO’s and owners talking about promotion, but if we don’t back it up with investment then who’s to blame?

I’ll give you a clue he’s been here since 2016 and all but the first season has seen year on year regression. Let’s hope Adams can do it on a tight budget again. I don’t like hearing stories like on DMACs podcast that he recommended a player to Ryan at the end of the window who’d cost around £150k and felt would get 20+ goals but yet again we’re unwilling to invest that but extra on that missing quality. Considering we had around 6,000 tickets sold after the first two home games on top of surpassing our season ticket sale budget it’s disappointing we haven’t looked to invest that but extra. As if we’re top 3 all season the match day tickets sold would more than pay for any further out lay. The saying speculate to accumulate comes to mind. If any business doesn’t take risks now and again it’ll stagnate then go backwards.

Rupp out.

 

Adams out of his depth?. What an absolutely bonkers statement

 

Some absolute dinosaurs on this board

442 is long gone, we’ve created more than enough chances to win the last 2 games playing the dreaded 4231. It’s football, it happens. Cook probably feeling more pressure now with angol injured. Cook scores next game and we go on another roll.

it’s league 2 football, we have no divine right to just win every game, strikers will miss chances at this level.

Plenty of options to mix things up. Would like crankshaw to get more game time he’s looked lively when he’s played.

I’m pretty confident we’ll be in and around the play offs in jan, hopefully angol and eisa back fit and we can push on. Can’t just expect to walk the league

 

Traveled down to Salford with the Corn Dolly crew hoping Darb's might make another appearance at the Ring of Bells Middleton, unfortunately he didn't make it.
Steve a guy on the coach brought a bucket to collect for the Darby Rimmer Foundation, he raised £358.77 from patrons on the coach including the three scratch card winners, Steve's employers are Morrison's I believe matched the total collected on the coach generating £717.54 for a great cause.

What a great generous bunch of guys/gals great effort thanks Andy for your text letting me know, any time you fancy a great away day to let the coach take the strain I'd highly recommend these guys.

 

Directors’ box, telling Neville, Scholes and Butt where they went wrong with their careers.

 

I've seen the highlights, its a decent save but i'd expect most league 2 keepers to save that. For me its yet another chance gone begging where a striker had the whole goal to aim for yet allowed the keeper a fair chance. To be fair and as you allude to, he is a run of the mill league 2 striker and as such won't be finishing the chances a higher level striker would. But the way we are set up dictates that our success or failure rides on the shoulders of the proliferacy of Andy Cook. Adams is a big admirer of Angol, he alludes to it in interviews, and i think the determination of how successful we are this season will depend on how long we can keep him on the field for the remains of the season. The more games he plays the more chance we have.

 

Sick of seeing this crap. Club size means absolutely nothing!! Season ticket sales mean absolutely nothing! We are a league 2 club. Our squad is very much a league 2 squad. It’s not a stand out squad by any stretch. We didn’t deserve to lose today but that’s football! We will be around the top 7.
We also have a number of injuries. The overreaction and over analysis of our formation is getting very boring.

 

Wasting wages on Lavery and Robinson instead of going out for a proper striker is going to cost us, all good and well creating chances but if we don't put them away were fecked.

 

But it’s not our job to identify and sign players. That’s Lee Turnbull’s and Derek Adams’ jobs.

Recruitment has been poor though. It’s undeniable. Of the starting XI today, seven were here last season and one of the four who wasn’t, Kelleher, is a back up option. That’s two thirds of the team from last year’s worst league position in years. Only Robinson, Songo’o and Lavery on the bench weren’t here. We had a team who couldn’t score goals last season and that hasn’t been addressed, Robinson and Lavery only get a few minutes.

The club was talking up the season as one for promotion and yet the majority of the team is last years underperforming one.

Plenty of time to turn it around this season but the league table has clubs above us who have been promoted from the Conference in the last few years. Bradford City are standing still whilst ambitious former non league clubs outperform us. That’s not right.

 

Effin hell Adams, make changes at half time not with 2 minutes to go....

 

Adams to blame for that fiasco.

Crap tactics and what was the point of subs coming on so late?

 

I'll post here because the Facebook group seems to be filled with the absolute dregs of society with no football knowledge whatsoever.

I'm fed up with the kinda scripted games we play. It's always the same, with Vernam trying his best to cut inside, Cooke and Watt slowing play down looking for a pass past their ability, the LB crossing as soon as the ball is near him despite nobody being in the box and Gillied offering nothing whatsoever apart from one or two decent runs with no end product every game. Evans is a turd and should have been let go in the summer.

Our key midfielder is sat on the bench for some reason, we lost our only attacking threat through injury and we are still holding on to rubbish that has seen many failures during their Bradford City careers which should have seen us move them on regardless of ability.

 

Reading some of the OTT guff on here you would have thought we actually played shit today. Stats tells me that we created 17 chances to score AWAY from home and 4 on target. Their GK is MOTM.

On another day we walk away 2-0 winners.

Not concerned at all.

Right manager in Adams and anyone who says otherwise is a bit deluded.

 

Lavery and Robinson aren't good options for a promotion chasing side. And for all the good work Gilliead does in the game, he couldn't score or assist if his life depended on it. Fact is we're relying on one player to score. None of the wingers have any sort of form for scoring, maybe Eisa aside and we've only got one striker who's good enough.

 

You can blame this and blame that but the fact is we lost to a 90th minute goal,it happens.
Perhaps MOM King just might have been the main reason we lost, he was outstanding between the sticks yesterday.
One of our attempts on goal beats him and it's a different ball game.
My only beef like many have commented on would be to see City play with two upfront but at this moment in time I can't see that happening in which case I expect Cook to burn himself out and become sluggish and frustrated.
He needs support and he's not getting it.

 

Should we really be arguing amongst ourselves as to who was to blame for Salford's goal?

If we've got aspirations of promotion, we should be burying the likes of such poor opposition, with little concern for conceding a late goal. We should have been out of sight by that stage.

 

Funny old game we knew at Morecombe Adams preferred the lone striker role, yet we started the season with Angol partnering Cook up top, we created chances and did well until Angol got injured against Stevenage, then for some reason he goes back to the lone striker formation, having said that for me Lavery is not that man to support Cook.
We are making more chances but unfortunately were not sticking them away, Cook may be the biggest culprit but he's certainly not alone in missing chances, I hope against Barrow he changes the formation and goes with Cook and Robinson up top, I believe even with one less in midfield we can create chances certainly at Valley Parade.

 

Don't think Adam's has anything to fear from JR if this form of questioning continues.
JR "What could you have done different this afternoon Derek to win the game?"
DA "Put the ball in the net"
Love it.

 

It was pretty brainless to just keep pumping in crosses from wide which their three tall CBs dealt with easily. I'm not advocating diving, but we have a number of good dribblers in our attack. It would have been worth trying some direct runs with the ball in and around the box to try to win free kicks or penalties. I know it was crowded, because they withdrew behind the ball, but it only takes one misplaced tackle to get a potentially game-winning penalty.
And a few shots from outside the box were worth a go too.

 

Absolutely. The only thing that didn't sit right with me regarding the takeover was the change of colours from tangerine and black to red and white. Other than that what's not to like! As much as I enjoy EFL Football the days of no segregation and midweek trips to the likes of Ossett (Town & Albion), Bradford Park Avenue, Wakefield, Farsley Celtic and Garforth Town are very much missed!