A very solid point from City today. We're the first team to take anything away from Mansfield AND stop them from scoring - they had bagged 8 in 3 competitive games at home and won all 3 prior to today.
Still plenty for us to work on, but we were missing a number of key players in Pattison, Cook and McDonald and still have the likes of Chapman and Oliver out. Many attacking options which are currently not at our disposal.
However, we've gone to yet another tough place and taken something home with us. A mediocre start perhaps, but gradually improving, not to mention we've played 6 out of 8 competitive matches away from home so far. Definitely not a disaster as some make out. Yes, performances need to improve and people are rightly challenging formations, style of play and general tempo. But as I've said before, we need a degree of patience and allow the team to bed in, whilst also acknowledging we have been missing key attacking players - particularly today - which has certainly hindered us.
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The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Mansfield Town vs Bradford City Saturday 2nd September 2023 3:00pm
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- 6 matches played. Just 2 at home
- Gone to Stockport and Mansfield in the league plus Wrexham in the cup and unbeaten. Let's be honest all three will be in the Top 8.
- We've now played 12 matches this year, against our 'key' rivals (to me that's the Top 8 clubs who didn't go up last year, plus Wrexham, Gillingham, MK Dons and perhaps Accrington) and only lost one (of course that was the vital one at Carlisle )
Promotions are never won or lost in September. The team is solid enough. Now Hughes needs to spend the week and restructure us, as we simply will need to play differently whilst Cooky is out (which in fairness we did against Wrexham)
Good point today. But yes, 4 goals in 6 is not going to get us promotion. Only conceding a goal a game after the games we have - is promotion form however. We need to get the other side of the pitch correct.
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These comments on here are why this club won’t drive forward
When did city fans become content with this zero entertainment football.
We turn up in great numbers at home and away and happy clap the dire performances
Make no wonder the club, manager etc think they’re doing ok
Hughes incoming transfers for the last 2 seasons have been awful and yes any manager coming in would struggle to pick a winning team
No player at Mansfield was above a 5 ( yes I was there ). If this is the settlement of our fans then it’s a sad state of affairs when we are supposed to have leading budget to challenge top 3.
if the likes of Osedabe having his best game for us is the opinions flying around then we have no hope.
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I don't have a problem with fans having a different opinion but some comments are OTT in my opinion this for one "Totally concur some peoples perspective on here I finding worrying. Any old shit they lap up, blind support in my opinion is dangerous" don't you just love it when its the fans fault maybe the likes of me, @Park bantam , @Kevin1954, @wetherbywhaler, @The Original EB and many more to blame for putting up with it for so long hence my reply.
We are Bradford City a club who's history has seen the majority of our time in the bottom two divisions, you alway hope this season is Bradford City's season, and when we do get a bit of success its so much more enjoyable.
I took my grandson the first season Stuart came back he was seven years old at the time, I didn't know what sort of reaction I'd get but he stuck with it and is now Bradford City mad, he has his moments as we all do having a go, he actually said I'm finished with away days after the Morecambe debacle, my phone goes yesterday and up pops a picture from the terracing at Mansfield yes he went without asking me, once you have Claret & Amber in your blood it's not like Covid there are no injections for getting immunity against getting the Bradford City bug .Citymatt, Allotment Bantam, Kevin1954 and 7 others like this. -
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Sorry to upset those who think a point at Mansfield isn't a goode result but Mansfield isn't an easy place to win.vladimir, Morley Bantam, Inspector and 5 others like this. -
Good point today - Mansfield had won their previous three at home. I'm clapping happily. Thank You.
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Not sure where I fit really. These threads descend into 'were doing great' vs 'were shit'. I'm bang in the middle.
We look like an upper mid table side, we're starting to look solid, we don't look great going forward. We're not going to have a crisis season but I've no confidence we are going up. Our performances so far are indicative of a 10th place finish. I've seen absolutely nothing to suggest that we will finish any higher or lower than that. We're just alright.Angryangryian, bantamlad92, vladimir and 5 others like this. -
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Everyone saying it's the best we've played yet we carried no goal threat and got a point.
Last season we dominated that Mansfield team home and away, even winning with ten men.
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Of course everybody would like to win every game but, in the real world, that just doesn't happen. So getting in a hissy fit because we haven't beaten one of the promotion favourites at their place, with our biggest goal threats missing, is just silly. Losing at Crawley was definitely one to be mad about. Getting a battling draw at Mansfield, who've won their last three home games and will likely win most of their others, not so much.borderlescott, Inspector, Keefly Bantam and 5 others like this. -
I'd say we've been reasonably poor in every game bar Stockport so far and in those 4 games we've yeilded 6 points which imo is about right so anyone believing we can nick another 25ish wins with these performances is more than likely going to be disappointed.
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Good away point. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded IMHO.
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