Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Forest Green Sept 19th

Trials to potential loanee, whatever next, trials to fans who have played Sunday league football

 

Whose bright idea was having white numbers on the kit....

Couldnt make it up

 

Far too many players playing out of position. We’re meant to be a professional club not a Sunday league team whose had a few drop outs an hour before kick off.

 

At last some positivity. You'd think we'd lost 5-0 and THEY'D had 9 men

 

Thugs? Nah. As bad as you think they are, we're worse.

That was a car crash. Yes, we showed some spirit after going down to 9 men - I say 9, with Guthrie on the left wing, we played with 10 men from the start.

There's so much to worry about after that, but none of it is really new. The selection and shape were a mystery. And it showed. Guthrie on the left wing, Wood in midfield, Clarke in a holding role. Who'd have thought that wouldnt work? The O'Connor twins are absolutely shite. The pair of them. Their first goal happens because Clarke gives a stupid free kick away in an area he shouldn't be in, and then we form a wall that may as well have been built by a group of pissed Spanish cowboys. We do the defensive basics so badly its laughable. We scored 2 goals but we created nothing - 1 because of a goalkeeper error , 1 because of a freak free kick. This is the worst Bradford City team I can ever remember seeing. Unless we strengthen, we're in very real danger of going down.

 

No because he made no attempt to play the ball. Double jeopardy doesnt cover deliberate fouls

 

Thankfully they had no idea what to do with 2 extra men rather than us defending well. That's one of the worst teams I've seen us play in our time in league 2, the shithouse number was like a piss poor version of Akpan. Honestly, a decent side takes both of these today to the cleaners. We lack strength in depth and have a manager who seems nowhere near working out a continual strategy, that line up today created pretty much zilch because the players were unsure of their roles. A win would have papered over some very big cracks that could widen quickly if we stubbornly refuse to up our game in the transfer market.

 

You can react without giving the ref a chance to send you off. He was stupid.

 

Would you grant our team the same concession if O'Donnell had conceded two soft goals? "Well on a different day O'Donnell would have saved those shots, therefore conceding two soft goals isn't too much to worry about, since 99 times out of 100 he would have saved them." We know that wouldn't happen, if we had conceded those goals then people would be saying O'Donnell should be sacked and we should have bought a new keeper in the summer.

 

Exactly, falling into the trap of Gary Bowyer who was far more concerned about the opposition than trying to pick a team that should win. The day you are worried about teams like Forest Green is the day you may as well give up.

Forest Green were shite. Perhaps if they ate some meat they’d play a bit better and wouldn’t fall over advertising hoardings so easily soft twats

 

Yes. AOC can have no complaints, it was sloppy defending.

POC can’t complain either. Yes, their guys reaction was pathetic. For a big lad to fall over the hoardings naturally like he did you’d have to be hit very hard by Mike Tyson and be off balance as he did so. However....POC shouldn’t have been anywhere near him. Yes the guy flung his arms unnecessarily in Frenchs face which the ref completely ignored, but even still you can’t react.

 

Because we are not cheats like every Mark Cooper team are

 

I suppose one positive is that this league looks even worse than last year. We've played Bolton, Colchester and FGR, who would expect to be up there, and remained unbeaten and probably deservedly so. Thats with a squad lacking in quality throughout the pitch and not creating very much either.

3 or 4 signings of real quality will transform this side into one that could challenge.

 

Perhaps our offers of how much we offered to pay him off weren't enough for the other club, that's how we do business now isn't it...?

 

It took approx 2 minutes for me to regret parting with my tenner on Tuesday night

 

Even after tuesdays debacle i thought it would still be too early for mccall to be picking players and formations from a hat.

Whats this set up? novak is just being bombarded by hoofs from the centre halves and base of diamond.

Its utter shite again, defensively the midfield is too open

 

I can only think McCall has selected this team to show the board he needs players. If that's not the case he needs sectioning.