Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Cambridge United - Sat 15 Feb 2020

Not sure how this is one of the reasons it is harder for a club like ours to get promoted when we have one of the best home records in the league?

Edited to add - 69% of our points total has come from our home games. I think it's pretty clear where the problem lies.

 

Maybe pal just think he would of at least made the bench by now.

 

I agree that Stuart made a mistake and I have actually said so. However, I will not be climbing in big style like some fans who didn’t support his appointment in the first place. He doesn’t get a free pass and we are all still hoping he can find a team that have got some fight in them that can take us up. If not he had my support for next season.

 

Maybe it is the fact he is a bit of a hot head? We can barely play with 11 on the field never mind 10. However, I think Stuart will use him, and has mentioned him. I think he is struggling with such a big squad and wanting to be fair to all the players, and trying to get a result from every game, no mean feat.

 

For some reason our defence seems to weaken when Paudie comes in and we go to a back 3/5.For both their goals they were in clear space to be allowed to shoot or turn the ball in.

Clearly we are not zonal marking so that leaves man to man. And that wasn't happening either.
34 games in to the season you would think they could have resolved that but no.

AOC seems to have gone to shit as well over the last 2 months.

BRE seems to be punching above his weight.

Henley-jury is still out though both winning goals in last 2 games have come down the right side.

I can only think the players are so low in confidence that they are not performing like they are capable of.

 

I agree about the game management. We should by the same token have suffered more injuries. We might not like it but that’s how the game now is having learned from Mourinho and Drogba.

 

I take your argument regarding points we've
attained at home this season but my point
is still valid regarding teams "wanting to beat
us more" because just looking at the performances
we've been lucky to scrape the points most games.

Our points tally at home doesn't reflect how we've
Played.

 

It would be a valid point if those teams that really want to beat us, had done so more often. As it stands, regardless of whether we have played well or not to accumulate those points, the fact is that we have the fourth best home record in the league with 35 points gained, only 1 point off Crewe who are 1st with 36. The reason we are where we are is due to our poor form away from home, not because we are a big fish in a small pond that every other team wants to beat when they come to Valley Parade.

 

Presumably it's because he is not doing enough in training.

 

Is he fit enough? Missed a big chunk to injury. Doesn’t sound like we’ve been able to train properly this last week. And then he was suspended?

 

...and a bang average manager.

 

Norman certainly doesn’t like Stuart but I think you have missed the point.

So the point from Norman, reading the whole thread, seems to be that we have an average team and an average manager.

But maybe I am misreading.

in my view he is grading him up. I rate him lower than average

 

I support Bradford City not the Stuart McCrap Benevolent Society'.

I go to watch Bradford City not Stuart McCrap.

 

Not if the other team is full of taller players - it makes it more difficult to defend crosses and get headers from crosses, corners and free kicks Fordy.

 

It's just one dimensional rubbish posted by a guy with no actual ideas or solutions.

When fans focus on just one thing, you end up with bizarre statements like:

"Anyone but McCall"

which can lead to even more ludicrous statements like

"Sattelmaier can't be worse than Colin Doyle"

Redundant sub-logic employed by the chronically unimaginative.

 

I believe "those teams" do want to beat us more,the fact
is,this is a poor league and our points total at home reflects
that rather than we are good at home.Our away form is
diabolical for any team with promotion aspirations.

 

They got a lot of applications, they said so, but the initial idea was Stuart and obviously nobody was interesting enough to change their minds.

 

Doesn't look like conditions for training are going to be much better this coming week with lots of heavy rain and strong winds forecast, but like you say, it's not unusual this time of year and cannot be used as an excuse.

 

Would it have counted? He was about 2 yards offside and he probably knew it. You can see MH try adjust his run to stay onside but it deflects to Novak who is in front of him.