Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Home v Cambridge Sat Dec 19th

Well done City. Hats off to Trueman and Sellars for this mini turnaround. If this is their last game in charge, I truly hope they get a nice Christmas bonus from the club

 

For goodness sake, Fordy!! Instead of saying Cambridge were poor why not say they were only as good as they were allowed to be? Give it a try, it won't hurt.
There was an instant change, in attitude if nothing else at Crawley, mirrored today by the fact that 3 players given small chance of being fit for today actually were. That says a lot to me.
As for Cambridge it's a long time, actually never, that City have reduced opposition to making 4 subs because they couldn't get through us and more, the second game that a club's leading scorer hasn't had a kick.
Yes, a lot to do with others winning now but to me the Pritchard interview says a lot.
Today must be worth a glimmer of a smile even for you.

 

Today has been a really nice day.

I got to see my beautiful daughter, for the second time this year. It was super!

I got to sit with my son to watch Bradford City later. We haven't done that since September, if I recall correctly. I put my phone down during the game and enjoyed watching, with my son.

I enjoyed the performance, committed, can do approach utilising our strengths. We restricted Cambridge to little and thoroughly deserved to win.

Lastly, I made reference to POC a few weeks ago doubting his ability. Well on the basis of the last 180 minutes, I am being proven Wrong. Keep it up young man, that was a real outstanding performance today.

Yep, I'm happy.

 

Man of the match without a doubt is PAUDIE O CONNOR

 

I'm sure Stuart McCall will be as happy as the next Bradford City fan with today's result.

 

Struggling with this post!

What is your point? I couldn't care less if he grew up supporting Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford PA, or Manchester Utd. The man is a legend for this club as a player.

Sure he always gave 100% on the field and wants the club to do well. It just didn't work out as a manager but who knows with better owners it might have.

 

Watched an interview with him last year. He was talking about his earlier days at city and said with what happened at odsal with those leeds fans, he could never see himself playing for that club. Sounds more like a city fan to me

 

Serves you right...

 

Noticed that Trueman has also dropped BRE and DMH entirely from the match day squad. Didn’t take him long to figure out that they simply aren’t good enough whereas McCall continued to persist with the pair despite churning out performances a National League team would feel embarrassed about.

 

A week ago I felt that probably two thirds of our squad are simply not good enough for L2. Whilst it's clear that some aren't, the last few days demonstrate that several players who'd been written off by many of us are actually capable of doing a decent job for us. Both O'Connors, Pritchard, Sutton, Cooke and Watt have all performed significantly better than they did under Stuart. Much as I love the man, I have to conclude that his tinkering and overcomplicated tactics were unsuited to L2 players. Given a simple game plan and solid shape we have looked an entirely different team, with very little change in the starting personnel.

I wouldn't get carried away in thinking we could be playoff contenders, but if we bring in a couple of half decent strikers, a decent winger and solid cover at CB we ought to be comfortably in middle table by the season's end.

 

The one and a half games we've seen this week, show the failings of McCall at this level. We've seen aggressive, combative, organised football, everyone knows their job, and its working. Its not brilliant but it doesn't need to be. Its solid, league 2 football.

 

This team is playing like a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders. Several players absolutely transformed. Great to see.

 

I dont agree Fordy. French has something. He has just come in to the proffesional game and is finding his way.
Why does a section of our fans , write off every young player, within a couple of months , as not good enough.
He won't be on much salary wise and is worth sticking with as a squad player, to see how he develops.
Two young lads, who were written off as rubbish, had good games against us the other week and the team they play in , are far higher up the league than we are.
He is 21 and played 15 league games since signing from non league. Rome was not built in a day.

 

I've got my ticket. But as a 25 yearer and the lifeblood of the club I probably am more important than most.

Let me know if you want me to throw in an extra boo for you all

 

Brilliant effort from the team there, thoroughly deserved. Great performance throughout but Paudie was flipping immense.

Ahh doesn't that feel nice i might have another beer

 

Loved watching that, everything that a Bradford City team should be all about, committed and organised with a few bits of quality.
Can't fault any of the players. POC and Sutton again our best 2 players and set the tone for the rest of the team. ROD nothing to do all game, but came up with a big save last minute. Wood back to his best. Novak was great and could easily have had a few goals. What a goal from Pritchard, best I've seen in a long long time. I'd written off Evans and Guthrie but they both came on and did well.
Won all the 50-50s in there, and that gave us a base to play some really good football at times. Mixed it up well which created the space in the final third for us to create chances.
Such a shame there wasn't any fans there to see that.

Whoever is the new manager I hope they took notice of how great the last 2 games have been. Football doesn't have to be complicated and this squad doesn't need a complete overhaul. 2/3 good signings in Jan and we could be looking very strong.

 

That's the best thing you've ever posted.
I almost got emotional reading it.
You're my hero!

 

So how the hell has that shower of shite turned into a half decent team?

Today they looked like they all knew what they were doing and we had a nasty side to us as well.

Defended as a team and like their lives depended on it.

Passing and moving.

Organised and we had players TALKING to each other on the pitch.

Whatever Trueman and Sellars have said to the players it has worked a minor miracle. I was dreading the xmas period but now? Bring it on.

I read earlier that someone said Cambridge were poor. We made them look poor, harrying and harassing them all over the pitch. Not allowing them to really settle and nullified their top scorer to not so much as a sniff really.

 

Get in. Great TEAM performance

 

Just listened to Truman on radio,he sounded like he knew what he was doing more than I can say more than stuart did on occasions.