The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City vs Crewe Alexandra Saturday 26th August 2023 3:00pm

Speaking purely as a fan, I agree on the fitness points. How many times last season did we surrender points late on because we had nothing left to get up the pitch. It hasn’t changed. Today why do 2 young backs come off due to apparently cramping up? Why can’t Walker never do more than 70 minutes when we then loose his influence? Why was Smith looking spent for such a young guy? Why was Pattison flat out with cramp at the end and most surprisingly given all that I’m told ( so could be speculation) the players had an extra day off following the Morecambe shambles, why. A Manager called Parkinson would have had them in on Sunday.

 

@Fordy117 fair play to you for sponsoring and cleaning that car that contained some of your staff prior to kick off.

 

You see, you're doing it again. It's tedious for the rest of us.

 

That was pretty shit today and a step back on where we finished last season.

Noticeably the Mark Hughes Bradford army chant materialised only in extra time in the second half today.

Slowly but surely appears to be hanging himself. Won't make Xmas IMHO. If I am wrong we are top three and all guns blazing. But on today's fare we are so far off its quite concerning.

 

What's up with you, Kevin. I used to enjoy your posts but now you seem to be picking a fight with all and sundry. Stick to the football mate.

 

To be fair to Walker, he was injured. I could give McDonald a similar pass today.

Aside from those, I mentioned the same earlier.

Can't play high pressing when the team is tired and we seem to be picking up niggly injuries.

Hypothetically, if we could make one signing this week - Nick Allamby. We've not been fit since he left.

 

Good teams make the referee irrelevant. We know what Drysdale is like, so manage it. Get on the front foot and control the game.

 

It's a damning indictment of Hughes. Bring in a young forward with potential, which he showed early last season, give him a long term contract, then bomb him out after a couple of months. It's made worse by having to endure the awful football Hughes serves up here.

 

And yet there is a decent team within this squad if played correctly. I still believe we need a couple more players and need to get rid of a few but yet again we see yet another limited side pass the ball about better and quicker than we do. Hughes wants us to play this slow tempo, piss about at the back style and he's rightly been criticised for it.

 

Despite all the negativity on here I'll be at Valley Parade for the first time this season. Just like the past 65 years of following City I live in hope that we can celebrate after the final match in May.

 

Absolutely delighted that Jake Young is smashing it. It shows how a decent manager can unlock the undoubted potential in a player, particularly when they play to a players strengths.

Hughes should be embarrassed. I hope Radio Leeds ask him some awkward questions post match.

 

What was noticeably concerning was half the team collapsing on the pitch as soon as the final whistle went. Their fitness levels seem far from what it needs to be.

A few of them out there could barely move going into injury time. Why is it that we're never on the front foot in injury time and we're always seemingly inviting the pressure and defending a one goal lead at home?

 

Oh FFS. When it rains it really pours .

 

Looks like the kid was right your clueless Taff.

 

3 days worrying about the ref.
Only 2 yellows and not a single mention on here for the whole match.

 

Far from convincing at any point in that game. A win is a win but papers over the many cracks that a better team would've taken advantage of.

 

His first free kick went saling over the touchline, big improvement.

 

Crewes problem was no focal point upfront. Nevitt didn't look like a striker and they badly lacked someone to be the outlet for the final ball after what at times was a team able to pass at will upto the final third. Make no mistake we are way off being a side capable of challenging the top three. We've no real way of getting Cook into the game at the moment and that back three set up kill us at the back, theres just no movement in them. It wasn't so bad last year passing between two but the three leaves us one less option upfront to pass to as the wing backs aren't really working.

 

Completely agree. We created little in open play last season for Cook either. His goals mainly came from set pieces or individual brilliance. The system itself is dull, defensive and creates little. I'd love us to actually go an get manager that's committed to attacking football for once.

 

It is. It's unimaginative and dull resulting in the divisions leading scorer last season goalless after 6 games. I can't stress how much I hated the first half yesterday, it was gutless management just watching a game drift on by. And as with the Colchester game the goal came at just the right time to take what would have been warranted flack off Hughes.