The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Carlisle United vs Bradford City Saturday 20th May 2023 @ 3:00pm

Bringing a defender on after equalising in playoff 2nd leg extra time must be one of the most stupid managerial decisions I’ve ever seen.

 

I'm still shaking my head in disbelief at that decision to take off Banks after he'd just torn their defence a new one and set up a goal.
Mind blowing.

 

Sorry Steve completely disagree. The players didn't bottle it the manager did. A full on defensive attitude over 120 minutes. Never went for it in the first leg second half and carried on that plan up at Carlisle. To not set up to create a chance for the divisions leading scorer over 2 playoff games is really hard to take.

 

Strangely I'm more nervous for this game than I was for our game Thursday night.
Good Luck, you long suffering lot deserve better.
FWIW Cook winner in added time

 

This season has been an absolute failure. To have a 30 goal striker and fail to go up is nothing short of a disgrace and every one of them should hang their heads in shame.

There's not really any point in dissecting today's game in particular because it was a carbon copy of dozens of inept, negative and ponderous performances across the season.

Our midfield has been our downfall all season and needs serious attention in the summer. There's no legs in there, they don't anticipate any second balls and none of them are good passers of the football who are capable of dictating a game. It's just an utterly pointless area of the pitch for us that serves no real purpose.

Attacking wise...well. Hughes has been hampered by losing Wright and then Chapman to the extent that our entire left side is redundant from an attacking perspective but he can't have many complaints when two players he signed to play there (Costelloe and Nevers) are utterly woeful. I dread to think where we'd be without Cook.

I expect the league to be much harder next year for obvious reasons and I'd expect both Cook and Lewis to leave. That coupled with my rapidly dwindling confidence in Hughes and its hard to muster up any interest in next season.

 

Well I got back home about an hour ago and still struggling to come to terms with that!
1st half we got bullied and it almost felt that the mindset after that was to hang on and take it to pens. Our back 4 had collectively their worst game of the season and midfield was pretty much what we've seen from Day 1. All that said, as bad as we were, there was still the opportunity to go on and come away with a smash and grab win after the Derbyshire goal......and then that substitution for which I have no words!!!!!
Over 2 legs we didnt deserve it. Over the whole season, this squad has been short. We have been unlucky with injuries but the back ups have been woefully inadequate. So we start next season where we deserve to be. I am not in the Hughes Out camp. We cant keep changing managers. I just hope he sees what we all do and prioritises sorting out that midfield in the summer and bringing in players with pace. If he gets that wrong I dont see him lasting beyond Christmas.
Fans were 1st class today

 

I think the direct opposite should happen I think we should surprise them by coming out and throwing everything at them to try and get an early goal which would make it very difficult for them. In the end though if we leave everything on the field and give everything then we can’t ask anymore whatever the result

 

Safe journey to those who are making the trip, hope you have a great day!

 

I have to say it was one of the strangest decisions I have witnessed at Brunton Park. A guy behind me said 'We can all sigh a breath of relief now he's gone off, he must be injured, no daft bugger would take him off after creating havoc for our defence"

 

For me, this match is more about mentality than tactics.

What we don't want is the central midfielders dropping deep all the time and giving us no way to get up the field otherwise they'll just be attack after attack and we'll eventually concede.

We need to forget that this is a two legged match and just think it's a regular one off match where we set out to win but a draw away from home is also a decent result. If we think too much about this one goal lead then we'll drop off too early and be behind before we know it.

 

But he won't learn. Every club he's managed has been glad to see the back of him because of his dreadful football, and we'll be no different. I didn't want to post tonight as I'm so disgusted by what I saw today and didn't want to be seen as reacting in a kneejerk way to the result, but I'm afraid to say all those of us who have been critical of our recruitment and playing style over the season have been vindicated. He's a very poor manager and if he's still with us next year we can only expect to see more of the same, which is all the more surprising because he's obviously a likeable and intelligent bloke. Until it comes to football management.

 

You can't leave Walker out that's mad.
It is a big problem the left side but trying to fit someone on the left at the expense of Walker or Banks would leave us with nobody able to carry the ball forward and the whole team would get deeper and deeper.
During the season its shown that when we play with a quick tempo, press high and quick, we can be dangerous. When we are sitting deep and not pressing from the top we can look very nervous.

 

My psychology on this is that we are trying to get to Wembley. One of our players produces a bit of great skill, absolutely skins their defence and creates a goal because of a terrific run from Derbyshire.

Suddenly I'm thinking yes, go for it City, we can do this.

Immediately we take Banks off, remove any possibility of recreating that, which was probably our best/only attacking outlet. I was dejected/frustrated at the time and I can't believe some of the team didn't feel the same.

 

I personally think league 2 will be more difficult to get out of next season. I’m royally pissed off tonight.

 

Hope MH moves on in the summer. To be outplayed and outfought by a mediocre team. We showed no desire, intensity, creativity and had no leaders on the pitch. To watch that passive, insipid performance was shocking. Our supporters deserve far better for their fantastic support and allegiance.

 

The defenders were probably as baffled as us seeing Platt on the pitch
Too many cooks spoil the broth etc
The substitution not only robbed us of our only outlet it confused the defenders who needed time to adjust
Double shot in the foot !!!!!

 

That comment is worse than the actual substitution, the change was made in the 108th minute of a 120 minute game are we to take it Hughes actually thought Banks was flagging 4 minutes after setting up the equalizer, the lad must have been on cloud 9 knowing he was a big part of getting us back into the game, I'm sure if we had got through Banks would have been one of the first names on the team sheet a week later at Wembley, give over Mark you took the risk of playing an extra defender hoping to get to a penalty shoot out nothing to do with Banks tiredness.

 

Agree. The most obvious player to me to leave upfield would be Banks. Probably our fastest player and they wouldn't dare risk leaving him one on one so would have to leave at least 2 players back with him