The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City vs Swindon Town Tuesday 25 October @ 7:45pm

Hugely frustrating given the circumstances but probably a fair result. Not much in it.

Didn't think it was a pen. His arm is hy his side.

 

Fair result.

Funny how we didn’t Pratt about playing it out from the back when we went behind ain’t it?

Moral of the story? Get the feckin ball in the area and we stand a chance of scoring

 

Never a penalty. Poor game management and Angol is one frustrating player.
Hope Banks is in the starting line-up on Saturday.

 

When exactly did we go behind?

 

It's not a 'fair result' when a ref gives the opposition a penalty that he couldn't possibly have seen clearly and actually wasn't handball.

 

Didn't deserve win they dominated the 2nd half. The equaliser had been coming all 2nd half

 

Yet another poor home performance where we don’t do enough in the the game to justify winning it.
We simply have to take more chances and be quicker to get forward into attacking areas.
It was an extension of the Grimsby game.
Not good enough and if it carries on we’ll fall out of the play off places sooner rather than later.

 

My issue was he couldn't see it from where he was.

This doesn't mean it wasn't one.

Rather than blame ref I would look closely about performances of our subs when they came on. Didnt hold ball up and constantly gave it back cheaply

 

I’m sorry to say I don’t rate Pereira. He’s a luxury we don’t need. Send him back to Luton to sit in his new 3 year contract for doing naff all.

 

First 10 minutes of second half we were asleep.
Over confident maybe. Lacksidasical.
Twice they went straight through the middle as platt got turned. They had more shots particularly in the second half and were probably worth the point as we didn’t kill them off. Why angol did stopovers when through instead of laying it off for a shot from around the pen spot I’ve no idea. Need to be more clinical.
The ref was poor. No idea if it was a pen as too far away from me. But Oliver got thrown to the floor in their box a blatant foul just as it was hooded up the pitch and they got the pen. Ultimately if we don’t kill teams off we allow for this type of issue to re occur. All in all a decent game between two teams trying to play football. Shot ourselves in the foot.

 

You only have to see how they celebrated at the full time whistle to understand how they robbed us of all 3 points.

Would like to hear how the ref can see through a whole host of players to be 100% certain that it was a deliberate handball.

Periera had his best game so far, as did all the team to be fair.

First half we played some really exciting football.

Just a few incorrect decisions meant Swindon took an underserved point: Angol should have squared the ball when he burst into the box later on and in the first half we got behind them and a number of occasions but again the pull back was just off.

On another day we win that game 4-0

Not concerned at all as we are creating the chances, just need a bit more composure.

My POTM was Wright -would love to keep him at the end of the season.

 

I thought platt had a decent game

 

I had a pop at Crichlow on Saturday for a couple of mistakes he made,thought he was back to his best again tonight and deserved man of the match.

 

Looking at the highlights Halliday is side on to the ref so the ref is looking at his left hand side but determines that the ball made sufficient contact with his right arm to be a penalty (could not possibly or physically actually see from where he is positioned). I do hope the ref assessor mentions this in his report. It is clear the ref guessed that an offence occurred.

 

For me, as a fan, nail on head Tony. Your stat says it all and if I heard right on the radio going home, two gaols in open play in the last five games and ten points behind the leaders (and second getting away too). The second half was a pale imitation of the first when we played some really good stuff but it all changed and that is becoming a regular occurance. Ten minutes into the second half all round me were saying we would be looking at a defeat and it was close, having said that, never a pen in this world, the Swindon fans influenced the ref and as MH said if that had been at the Kop end with us defending, he wouldn't have given it.
All that said we cannot rely on one goal every game.

 

Crichlow & Wright outstanding last night

Pereira well below par, by the 50th minute he looked to be struggling for energy. Drop him for the Crawley game

Cook too isolated, I detest the solitary striker setup especially when we're home

Chapman good on the whole but continues to frustrate with the lack of end product/decision making. Reminds me of Dylan Connolly with his inability to pick out a pass when bearing down on goal

WTF was Angol doing with the stepovers! Pulls it back for an unmarked Smallwood (I think it was him) and it's a goal

Ref abysmal but the equaliser was coming, we all knew it and cannot blame the officials for not killing the game. We have seen time & again over the seasons in this khazi league how bad the officiating is so the penalty award was no surprise whatsoever

Bring on Crawley, hopefully put this game to bed and hammer a poor team

 

I can understand the contention. Not nailed on by any means but I can see why it was given. I also generally don't look to blame the ref when you have 90 mins to beat an opponent. Unless they make horrendous calls, and for me that wasn't a horrendous call. It was a marginal one that went against us. We need to be more ruthless ourselves and more players need to chip in with goals. Do that, and the refs role will soon be forgotten.

 

If that is PL and goes to VAR there's no way that's a penalty.

 

Never looked like a penalty at all. Terrible decision that could be the difference between finishing autos/playoffs/outside the top seven.

 

Refereeing will not improve untill we bring in top European refferees and the FA takes the referee organisation to task over standards of training and the bar is raised over qualifying to take charge of games. The standard at the moment is to low and let's some poor refs at games making mistakes that cost clubs precious points