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

Tough game to judge him really when we had so little possession.

He ran around a lot, so very mobile, but didn't see much of the ball

Shame his shot hit the post at 1-0.

 

A fair point, but with evening kick offs people often have little time to spare after travelling home from work, eating their evening meal and travelling to the game. For a fair few getting to the ground 30 minutes before kick off would be a tall order.

 

Thats all well and good when work commitments etc allow. If people finish at 5pm, live in Bradford and have access to a car it would be far easier to get to the game with plenty of time.

If you finish closer to 6, live outside the City and rely on public transport then you may have problems.

I was there for 7pm because my working arrangements allow for that. Some retired people may have no issues either. However on evening kick offs time is a factor to attending games which it may not be for a 3pm Saturday kick off. Don't just presume everyone is able to rock up to games as easily as you do. Those who have been sat in the pub since 5pm and rock up at 7.40pm are a different case, they only have themselves to blame.

 

Absolutely. We have to acknowledge they were a better team with more skills and resources available. Fast accurate passing from back to front. I thought we did well, but in the end the best team won. Ref was abysmal.

 

If someone had come up to me and asked me to move I'd have laughed in their face. People were clearly told at the ticket office it was unreserved seating, not the ticket office staffs fault that folk are thick as mince. I got caught up in the queue at the hull game, got there last night a bit earlier, about ten past seven and there were no problems at all, dealt with straight away. The club could have more windows open but then the amount of folk turning up 5 minutes before kick off it wouldn't have mattered how many windows were open. Here's a tip to most people, get there a bit earlier. Not easy for some but the vast majority are capable of doing so, instead choose to moan when they leave it 5 mins before kick off to get in.

 

Hey, I sit in the Kop, season ticket holder, don't knock the 'mutants'!! It's our 15 fingers that make that huge wall of clapping noise when the players enter onto the pitch and our missing teeth that help our fantastic singing....

 

Fleetwood v Everton stands out

 

Quite a few ex Blackburn players in our squad too, chapman, Platt, Smallwood and Hughes being an ex manager. They'll bring a few too, so should be a good crowd.

 

Not really underwhelming.
There were far worse ties.
A relatively local tie at home against a Championship side who will bring a fair few is far better than going away to Tranmere, Barrow or Shrewsbury which we could easily have drawn.

 

Talking to a bloke who was at the match Hartlepool rested several players and never made an attempt to win the match. Fans pretty pissed off with the manager

 

I hope Blackburn rest Bradley Dack, he always seems to perform well against City.

 

don’t say that when we are about to play them

 

Nope. Not on ifollow. Audio only. Overseas broadcasters will be able to show the game chosen for live coverage on Sky but that's it as far as I'm aware. I got to watch the Hull game on a Polish subscription channel. However, if you have other info/sources, I'd love to know about them.

 

Can't help but think the October energy price cap announcement this week may be having some bearing on ticket sales. The forecast is that there is going to be a disproportionate increase in poverty in Bradford. We will see.

Hope football does not become a luxury that less and less can afford, but some also saying the price cap is going up to £6k next April, right in the middle of ST sales for a lot of clubs!

Let's get a win tonight eh!

 

Well that's going to be fun. I'll put money on someone else being in our seats when we arrive at 7.30

 

Good point. Eon doubled mine in February when we cam off the fix. We've used so little since April that we are now £500 in credit and I've taken the maximum 10% off the DD. There's a lot of scaremongering going on, use it wisely and you wont be as badly affected as the BBC like to tell us.

That said, there is a lot to be said for what France have done, buying up the 15% of EDF they didnt own and having the Govt control the price that they set (I think their max rise was set at 4%).

I blame Maggie for selling it off in the first place, but then I blame Maggie for most things.

Depends if its a minimum price cap or a maximum price cap ? Who knows.

 

442 leaves us swamped in the middle….who knew?

 

Would you like Halliday to stay in a 20m square piece of the pitch and never leave it?

I know its odd that we've actually got a proper right back for the first time in several seasons but 'appn just let him do his job.