Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Home v Barrow (Sat 30th Jan @ 3pm)

Crying out for pace, said it the other day and got shot down but I’ll say it again. Clarke offers zero out there.

 

Yer, 3 games in 7 days is tough.

Some will say "they've had a long rest" but that in itself isn't great - they almost had too much or too long of a break!

Still, a free week now to prepare for Saturday.

Well done lads!!

 

Great team spirit to dig in when not playing well. No one gave up trying even when we were backs to the wall at times.

Barrow can feel unlucky about the result but who gives a feck. How many times in years gone by have we been the better team and lost?

8 games unbeaten when we were 2nd bottom of the FL shows a team with great spirit and determination and who are clearly playing for each other and the manager(s).

9 points off the play offs

And you can shove Paul Hurst up your arse. Dodged a bullet there.

 

Port Vale win 5 - 1 and Guthrie still cant get on the score sheet .

 

I said this would be a tough game and I was right.
Rather than us look average I think we played a very strong physical team who really made us work hard for the win.
I thought we went toe-to-toe with their front two who tried to bully us. Sometimes we need to do the ugly things and come down to the same level as the opposition. We did that in the main today.

 

Cheers Botswana Bantam.....a lot of us aren't really sure what we're doing up there at the moment (we thought we were nailed on for a mid-table place) so it's all a bit unreal. But today's performance was the best in months. Anyway we'll keep the discussion to Bradford! Based on form of last 6 games I have you 3rd in the table and we're second so not a bad way to end dreary January.

 

Barrow have been in better form in recent weeks (three wins in their last six and 8th in the League 2 form table) so it should be a tough game, but aren't they all in a league in which most teams are much of a muchness.

I fancy us to nick it. We still haven't see how a City side under Trueman and Sellars react to going a goal behind....and I hope we are still none the wiser after Saturday.

 

Man of the match?

Finn Cousin-Dawson?

 

Can I just say after the pandemonium of the first half, that the 4th division defender in AOC had a very solid second half.

You know, he is a rather good defender for our level.

Best win under T&S.... Rolled up sleeves, defended in the main as a unit, took our limited chances against a good strong, direct Barrow team. We wasn't at our best but we ground out the result.
Good squad performance.

 

Imagine Mark Marshall or Kyle Reid out wide, they'd have a field day. Got away with it today, we weren't at the races as a team but we've had a couple of draws that should have been wins so I'll take that.

 

Closer to the play offs on points than we are to the relegation places. Would never have thought that was possible a couple of months ago.

 

Two of those games were long away journeys 3 days apart as well. I'm not surprised we were a little under par today, against a Barrow side that hadn't played since the 16th January.

 

Never wanted him in the first place mate

 

You're right, a long way to go which I hope will turn out to be a good thing. What I liked about today, whereas we didn't look pretty, we battled and battled as a team. Moment of the game for me, an 18 year old punching the ground after he had done an outstanding piece of defending.

 

What utter, utter nonsense!!

 

That yelp he did just as Rowe was about to score, was next level. If that would have been a Barrow commentator doing that, and I was listening as an away fan, I'd have reached for the mute button straightaway. It was interesting last week during Cambridge's audio commentary, how many City fans tweeted they were enjoying listening. Surely our commentary team, even some top bods at Radio Leeds must have picked up on it. I was really hoping they did and would have adapted for yesterdays game. Sadly, three minutes in they were talking about how many layers they had on, and then on five minutes, FCW Andy Kiwomya literally climaxed on live radio. Perhaps the amount of layers he does have on, stops the flow of blood to his brain. Some of the words and sentences he came out with, made me wonder if its possible to have verbal dyslexia.

 

It really doesn't. On this one, Fordy is 100% correct

 

I don't understand this obsession that broadcasters have with finding an ex-player or manager connected to a club as the pundit.
Here's an idea: Why not get a pundit who is just knowledgable about the game and can add value to my experience of listening/watching the game by stringing a coherent sentence together?
Is that too much to ask?

 

This will sound harsh because its based on a few very brief sub appearances, but I'm not sure what Stevens will bring.