Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Home vs Colchester United, Wed 8/12/2021 @19:45

Watching City is like watching a Boris Johnson press conference.

You know whats coming, you know you're going to be tearing your hair out at the futility of whats in front of you, and even with promises of it all being 'for your own good' there's an undercurrent of incompetence that undermines everything. And more and more people are starting to see through it all.

 

When Adams was at Ross County he once got rid of nine players in the January window and then signed six. We need the same. There's an air of going through the motions mediocrity from far too many of our players.

 

Raynor was just going through the motions as well, it was so bloody dull just like the game.
Feels like the club is just slowly drawing to a halt, there is nothing at all to get enthused about. Shame on the lot of you ,you are all failing us massively

 

I'm no fan of Gilliead, but he probably had his best game for us last night.

 

I'm torn Fordy. In the emotional moment of having watched that once again utterly mediocre fayre so much of me wants to agree with you. But I guess looking short term forward, let's wait to see what Adams manages to do in January in terns of bringing in new players. And what difference that makes. Am I optimistic? Usually in life, yes. But for this, it's a shrug and a don't know.

 

Its almost as if building a squad with shite attacking players will result in you not scoring many goals or winning many games....


Still at least its sustainable.

 

Also just mentioned on the radio that Colchester played 3 days ago while we’ve had a good break.
It’s not good enough.

 

Past caring

 

I can't believe any German company wouldn't be falling over themselves to sponsor a fourth tier provincial English club.

 

But I guess what else is he going to say? 'What I'm doing isn't working. I made a lot of errors in the summer recruitment and now I'm suffering big time for that. We don't have enough quality. And I'm to blame for that. Jeez, I hope to God I can strike it lucky with some new signings in January.'

 

Can only echo the levels of apathy towards the team at the moment. But while Adams takes his fair share of responsibility for that, last night was yet another example of how timid this set of players are by the fact they nearly lost a game to a team that was blatantly happy for a draw. Even our attempts at cynical fouls look pathetic. So you can understand why Adams has been setting us up in a cautious way.

There's some good in this team but they really need a few b*stards to keep them in line during a match. Tranmere was another example of it, a fantastically well worked goal but the game management and intelligence on the pitch after that was non-existent. For many years Bradford City was all about being able to give anyone a game through pure mettle, we have been the complete antithesis of that for far too long now. No wonder the turnout and atmosphere was poor last night, I don't think the players believe in themselves so it's no surprise that the fans don't either.

 

RoD dropped, Hornby in Goal

 

Looked handball but there players didn't appeal. Hornby only positive tonight got to keep his place

 

Personally, I just think too many of them aren't good enough. 'Wanting it more' is banded around too easily. Its a cop out.

 

It was poor. Again. Can’t beat a poor Colchester side that anyone worth their salt will beat. It’s so depressing. Despite all this continually changing our manager over the past few season has made us a basket case club with no long term strategy. This has to stop and we need to give a manager, Adams in this case some time to implement his strategy assuming he has one. Frankly it’s painfully slow plodding football in the main but we have to stick with someone and give them some time to build. The last half a dozen managers have all failed and been fired. That hasn’t worked. Many on here want the same again assuming this will magically make these players improve markedly. I can’t see how. However I’m sick of the lack of entertainment as I assume are half of the Season Ticket holders who didn’t bother to attend tonight and that is dangerous.

 

The City marketing team is doing its best to drum up support for the xmas period offer whereas the footballing team is doing the quite opposite. What a bizarre combination.

Didn't go to this game as couldnt be arsed and now feels like a great decision reading the comments on here.

In fact I don't feel I am missing out at all not wanting to go to any more games this season. Lets face facts the January window is not going to produce these players we can all see we need. Hope I am proved wrong, I really do.

 

I wish someone would tell the players that we've had no success with long throws and maybe, once in a while try a short one. Can't these players think for themselves?