Most liked posts in thread: City vs Carlisle 21st Sept

O'Donnell - Probably could have covered his angles better for the goal.
Mellor 4 - Abysmal first half. Lost count of his mistakes.
BRE 6 - Fantastic before a ridiculous red card.
POC 7 - Good pressure when we got on top.
Wood 7 - Few top crosses again.
Connolly 9 - Been a long time since i've seen a City winger destroy a full back so often.
Cooke 8 - By far our best midfielder. But needs to do it in a regular 11v11 game.
Palmer 7 - Improved second half. Still very average but looks better when we are on the front foot.
Pritchard 7 - Wins corners, takes corners. Good goal. Still looks to play within himself. Needs to roam more.
Vaughan 6 - Not much to say
Donaldson 6 - Willing runner. Touch let him down. Missed another big big chance.

Ismael 7 - Looked quality and delivered the goods from the bench twice.

I'd certainly be considering dropping Donaldson. Put Pritchard central and get Ismael into the team. 3 on form wingers.




Theres no possible way the referee can know it was a handball. He only went to his headset AFTER the carlisle players surrounded him. Definitely swayed.

We had a red card. How was McCartan going to get on?

 

Average in his previous 2 games too.

I hope it's just a blip and he's not another McGowan.

 

Well very controversial the disallowed goal https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/league-two/11816228/bradford-3-1-carlisle.
Remember guys Donaldson was moving for me it was a good goal, see what you think.

Love this bit from Pritchard when he'd scored from a great bit of hold up play from Donaldson,

Just loved this bit

 

Just posted the video and screen shots two stills of the goal, I can't agree on that picture or video, I'll have to wait for Dmitry to post the full video of the game I can slow that down in VLC player and get a better picture.
I agree who made the call it could have only been the ref bottling it when surrounded by Carlisle players.

 

instead of Oteh.

 

Hopefully, don't see how he has a future here.

 

It looks to me like Pritchard is taking over the McMahon roll as the villain,
First he takes the mick out of the Carlisle fans after he'd scored then ran across the pitch to remind the ref Bridge
was on a yellow.

 

Good win today. Played well in patches. 17 points and we are still not at 100%.

BRE told GB he didn't touch their player-from where I was sat he lunged in and gave the ref very little to think about whether it was a red card or not. Thats 2 mares he has had this week.

 

I sit in upper kop to the right of the goal and I thought CD left arm/shoulder sort of nudged the ball over the line as he was falling. It didnt appear to have enough pace on its own to go in. Just how the ref or lino saw it though is a mystery to me as neither could have had a clear view.

 

Thought we were poor when the numbers were even, but credit towards the number of chances we created over the course of the game. Connoly a stand out, expecting Ismael to replace Pritchard going forward even though it’s on his wrong side.
Donaldson again showed his great football intelligence, for me Vaughan has to up his game outside the box, too often he ends up on the floor arms held out whilst the other team clear the ball.

 

They closed that part of the steps for the rest of the day, everyone was forced round it, so not sure if there was an issue with the steps.

But as you say hope they were ok.

 

BRE has been one of our best players thus far. But that really was a 4th division tackle. So the two O'Connors in centre defence for next shout out. Not unhappy with that. And very happy with Pritchard and Dylan. At last! Two pacey, tricky wingers at VP. Carlisle's full back will be having nightmares about Connolly tonight.

 

How long is it since we were promised those two young prem wingers on loan?

Finally those spots have been filled!!

 

I thought Connolly did well, although I thought defensively he was a bit lacking and maybe he failed to keep track of Ireland who assisted Olomola to score their goal

 

Highlights shows Palmer s deliveries were spot on. With quick tricky wingers we will win a lot of free kicks so this is crucial. Full backs will think twice if the delivery is this good

 

It was a silly thing to do absolutely, but I'm not so sure it was a red. The referee was clearly influenced by their players just as he was for the disallowed goal.

 

It doesn’t matter does it? They will argue he controlled it with his arm? It was definitely before the line he touched it - clear as day on the print.

 

You can see here ball isn’t over the line when Donaldson handles ut

 

I agree my thoughts are the lad has come from Accrington to a much bigger club and has started well and wants to impress but as some have pointed out two rash tackles cost us a point at Cheltenham and got Carlisle s tails up when we went down to 10 men.
By all means be aggresive but don't try and win every ball the tackle today was uncalled for as we were in the final 3rd and in no danger.

 

He wasn't clearly hurt at all. BRE got the ball not the man looking at the replay.