The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City vs Stockport County Saturday 8th October @ 3:00pm

I don’t know what the new directive is about letting more go, but the grappling between centre half and attacker is ridiculous. Anything seems to go and I’ve seen less shirt grabbing in a rugby match. The FA need to stamp this out because it’s spoiling the game as a spectacle.

 

You can’t be offside in your own half! One meter in your own half is sufficient!

 

We’ll I’m doing my bit, bought two for me and my little bruv just now, think we’ll top 19000 tomorrow, would be fantastic if we could reach 20,000, if not tomorrow it won’t be too long if we can keep climbing the table
Should certainly hit that target at Xmas against Harrogate???

 

Yeah, they'll probably bring 50/60 to add to our 20,000

 

Garbage half. Second best all over the pitch. Credit Stockport who’ve played well and pressed us well, but this is awful from City. Poor on the ball, crap out of possession. Its been coming has this. There’s not a single player out there who could complain if they’re subbed at HT.

We’d be a better side if we went a little bit more direct.

 

Terrible game from everyone, no need to pick out individuals as everyone probably gave their worst performance.

 

Platt had his worst game since Barrow. I like him, but he was truly awful today.

 

Valley Parade should be the springboard with regards our promotion push but not on what we've seen so far this season at home, we've looked better away when teams have to come out, not that that's a refection on Stockport today I thought they worked us out from the first minute not allowing us to play out from the back, you have to ask why weren't we capable to change it, that's the disappointing thing to me.

 

People blaming the fans at Valley parde, there was nothing to cheer about today.

 

To think we have Odusina on a 3 year deal is worrying. His timing to head the ball is terrible, I don’t think he won a header in the first half. His first misplaced pass seem to affect the rest of team and it was downhill from there. There’s certainly something not right with Pereira because he’s not even getting involved. I’m beginning to see why he hasn’t made Luton’s 25 man squad. Maybe we should look at putting a 3 in midfield with Smallwood, Songo’O and Gilliead, with Chapman, Oliver and Wright up top. Either way this slow laborious style of play is working against us.

 

It was without doubt the worst first half performance at home this season but to boo the team off.

 

Not only challinor or Stockport who have realised that we took a fortunate point of Wimbledon and three of Wallsall.
Starting from the keeper it’s been drilled into them to play it short even when under extreme pressure platt got caught in possession a few times not knowing what to do with the ball. With the squad we have the performances should be a lot better. We need to find away of feeding our decent forward line and also creating more movement upfront to facilitate it

 

The advantage of leaving a player near the halfway line is that 2 players have to be left to mark him, So if you bring everyone back they will put 10 players in your area for the corner where if you leave a player up by the halfway they can only put 8 players in your area for the corner,
Trevor Cherry used to leave a winger (John Hendrie) wide left by the halfway line as he said the players knew he would always be there and knew where to clear the ball so it would not come straight back. With Hendrie been the player he was it did in fact lead to goals

 

I also don't understand why a player like Wright is not left on the half way line for the out ball, he's got pace that the opposition would need 2 players to mark him, but more to the point what does the lad offered being in the box, so many teams do it their managers must think its the correct way to use a little guy like Wright.

 

You lost me at our midfielder plays a ball through to our centre forward lol ...

 

He said that any player who goes down with an alleged head injury should be taken off the field of play for 5 - 10 minutes to be assessed.
He said the if this was to happen we'd see a decrease in these 'injuries'.

 

Early goal followed by sitting back. That's guaranteed imo. It will then pan out in one of 3 ways...

They get no joy, become dispirited and we kill the game off.

They get back into with an equaliser, waste time and frustrate and go home with a point.

We concede, lose the plot and they score a late winner.

In summary I'm going for either a city win, a score draw or a County win.

Hope that clears it up

 

For all the stick Julian Rhodes has had to take over his time at the club he was the man who instigate the cheap season tickets (when his co owner was against it I believe), I know its been discussed many times but even a blind man could see a stadium with an average 15,16,17,000 fans attending each home because of the cheap tickets is far better than 10,000 paying £250+.

 

Right, first game of the season for me. I think I bought a ticket online last night but no confirmation email! Either way, I’ll get to the window and either pick it up or buy one. Cracking day for it too.

* webpage on phone now says “an error occurred during checkout” oh well.

 

This playing out from the back just does not work for us. We waste so much energy just to get the ball back where it started. Add to that the sometimes suicidal tippy tappy sh1te and you can understand why the fans are agitated.

Get the feckin ball in the feckin area ffs!!!