Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: EFL Cup 2nd Round - Bradford City vs Blackburn Rovers Tuesday 23 August @ 7:45pm

Rovers fan here with some thoughts and to address a few points.

1) Lovely night out against a proper club in a proper ground. Personally, sick of going to soulless clubs in soulless bowls like Hull or Wigan. Get back up soon so we can have another proper derby. With the best will in the world, we don't always have the room to move the ball like that in the Championship and recent games haven't seen us play so brilliantly.

2) While our midfield and attack was the 'fringes' plus some young lads we have very high hopes for, we were all absolutely terrified about the defenders. We thought you'd put far more balls up into the box to bully them with. RB was Joe Rankin Costello who is an ex-youngster who never quite broke through and he'll be off to pastures new soon. LB was Tayo Edun who is a Jack-of-all-trades type. Came from L1 but hasn't quite shone yet. Looked good last night mind. To address the poster in awe of whoever's above him, Harry Pickering is slow, ponderous and by far our weakest link. He is at least a LB by trade. He might have played at CB but got the night off. Shame for you. Louis Annesley is an international CB (Gibraltar) on debut and will be out on loan this week I assume. Have him by all means. Tyler Morton is a midfield kid from Liverpool who we put in CB because there was literally nobody else left at the club. The 17 year-old came on to add experience late on! You can have Jack Vale the target man if you like. He'll be loaned out too.

3) We weren't saying Cook was a sex offender. That was Ashley Barnes the Dingle. It's a pathetic chant TBH and only the chavs sing it. We have quite a few of them.

4) Tickets were a mess around our side too. One turnstile was accepting card payments and it caused havoc. In the end, they allowed cash but lots missed the first quarter.

5) Finally, it was our Ewood Express' first away trip last night. Led by the outstanding Yasir Sufi, various charities and youth groups buy up tickets to distribute to youngsters (predominantly South Asian heritage) who wouldn't go otherwise. We need more fans and a quarter of the town are traditionally Utd or Liverpool (or not football at all). A great initiative that others would do well to copy.

See you soon...

 

Anyone picking faults out of that need to give their head a shake. A very enjoyable game of footballl against a team with some very talented ball players on a surface that suited them down to the ground. Sometimes you simply ain't good enough.

 

I enjoyed watching Blackburn. A level of performance we don't get to see in League 2.

 

An honest performance where we were simply beaten by a much better team. You could see the 2 league difference for a good 75 mins of that game. Not digging anyone out though, they need to be judged on what they do in the league.

 

Rest Angol for the foreseeable future perhaps?

 

Enjoyable game, in reality could have been 5 or 6 without Lewis I really like him think we’ve got a good one there.

No shame in that, as others have said Blackburn were actually a very good watch, I’d love to be watching that standard every week.

Onto more important things in the league.

 

There were arguments behind me last night about seats and people sitting in others seats. A bloke was having a go at a woman who was only doing what she was told and that was being able to sit anywhere. Where as the bloke rocked up and said he had bought these seats.

I really think BCAFC make a rod for their own back when they sell tickets in the manor they do. There is no reason to sell individual seats, I bought seats for Exeter last season and the Sunderland friendly this season using the same website which didn't have a seat or row number. If BCAFC just do this off the bat there would be no issue, but because they do it becomes problematic as people believe they are allocated a seat. It's so avoidable and pointless.

 

If we were to draw a small team, then I suppose Leeds would do.

Otherwise Villa, Newcastle or Everton at Valley Parade.

 

Just over 4,200 City fans have purchased their tickets for tomorrows game. Blackburn have sold 800.

Possibly 6,000+ in attendance tomorrow.

It was a great atmosphere against Hull - especially in that second half. Here’s hoping for an even better atmosphere tomorrow night and a result to match.

Be loud and proud!

 

No disgrace three points needed Saturday

 

Blackburn had too much for us. Morton was outstanding at the back for them. They have some quality players. We couldn’t handle their skill and pace.

 

Beaten by a better team . No harm in that . Good performance if not a little tired towards the end . Only small negative I have is don’t piss about with it at the back

 

Great game of football and its refreshing to see the away team basically going for it-no time wasting antics.

Not upset we lost as to be fair they deserved it.

They were just a class above us and the gulf in class between championship and even league 1 seems to be widening.

They were fast on the ball, quick feet and always had a pass on and that was usually forward and dangerous.

If I were a Blackburn fan I would be quite excited about this coming season.

Finally Bradley Dack-just class.

Onto Saturday now.

 

Blackburn were clearly the better quality team and deserved the win, but there were periods of the game when we matched them. If Harratt's shot that hit the post had gone in, who knows?
I was pleased to see Angol play in the centre when he came on. Lewis pulled off some very good saves.
It was an enjoyable match to watch.
I didn't think the evening was enhanced by the referee's performance though. He missed quite a bit. There was a 5 minute period when things got a bit heated and he almost lost control of the game. He missed at least 2 shirt pulls on Oliver, and a handball in the build up to their second goal. The free kick he gave Blackburn on the edge of the area should have been a penalty. Smallwood was well inside the area when he made the challenge. Worst of all was when he blew up for a foul then changed his mind after our players had stopped and waved advantage to Blackburn who were now clear with the ball. That was inept.
So a good watch overall. City competed well and their confidence should not be dented going into the Crewe match.

 

Yes, I read that too. Very strange that they think we're an overly physical team. They obviously know about Richie Smallwood from his time with them. But, from what I've seen of him, Smallwood doesn't seem especially physical for a defensive midfielder. Neither is Gilliead, nor any of our defenders. Jesus wept, they should have seen Mickey Kennedy!

 

Technically, talented young Blackburn team (&Dack) here. Getting overrun in the middle and down both sides. Second Blackburn game undoubtedly hand ball

Irrespective of the scoreline, entertaining game.

 

Won't come up against teams of that quality in League 2.
I liked the way that they played the ball on the floor, fast movement, with pace.
Something that we should work on.

On to Crewe, Sat. Let's keep this momentum going, play like that and we'll be fine!

 

How many people do you think actually bought tickets from the ticket office for yesterdays game? I'm guessing a good 80% of people went online and were presented with a ticket map of the stand where they had to select seats. So why would people not be under the impression that they were buying the seat allocated? There will have been zero contact with the ticket office for the vast majority of the people in the ground last night.

 

Just sit anywhere, what does it matter, you can still see the game from all the seats. The club are not making you sit in the car park

 

Yes no disgrace as you say. The league far more important and 3 points needed Saturday