Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Salford City vs Bradford City Tuesday 22nd November 2022 @ 7.30pm

We'd have been better off not playing this game. The tournament is irrelevant, and the opposition aren't easy pickings regardless of their league form.

I was disappointed when I found out we were still in it, to be perfectly honest, what bad timing.

Losing last night in this nonsense cup means absolutely nothing, but people have allowed it to add to the sense of us sinking.

I didn't watch it, listen to it, and I've no idea who played or who didn't, but I can tell you one thing - this result simply doesn't matter.

At all.

Hughes has a week and a half now, all eyes on the next league game.

Promotion is all.

We'll get there.

Let's flog the Orient away, but then no mistake: it's time to start winning at VP.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if a few players aren't really pi55ed off with the situation and alerted their agents ....we are worse than useless just now with this negative system of playing ....

 

Gilliad just wouldn't get in my team, he adds nothing!

 

Our problem is we are currently fielding a team that has six players who don't tackle, which puts added pressure on the back four who do.

We desperately need two ball winning midfield players, like Doyle & Jones were back in the day, who can win the ball and give it to the creatives.

Wright & Banks are very good wingers, stick with them (not convinced at all that Chapman adds anything these two can't), and get two upfront. A "Hanson & Wells" type combination where one does the donkey work and the other feeds off the space it creates.

To get out of this league we need to find a team that can play much more like the the History Makers did. They weren't the best, but they never lacked effort and never gave up on a game.

I'm not demanding promotion, but want I want is to see us really chasing a game down when we are losing and really going for a second when we are winning.

At this rate, Northampton & Orient are going to smash this league and we are going to be struggling to make the playoffs, fifth placed or not at present.

 

It starts to get slightly more interesting now we're into the knockouts.

4 wins away from a televised Wembley cup final must be enough to whet the appetite of even the most pessimistic of people regarding this competition!

Besides, now that this is the only competition left for us outside the League, why not go for it.

 

For me I don't see a reason why not to play a strong side tonight. It's a winnable match, we don't have a game this weekend and a good chance to get back to winning ways. We should be able to make a few changes without weakening the side if we bring in Odusina, East, Wright and Oliver.

 

Keeper should NOT be getting beat from there

 

You’re the silly one if you think a pro keeper couldn’t do better with that shot. He didn’t exactly rifle it

Poor keeping, and once again dire central midfield display

 

Lucky you.

 

And how about our seasons saviour Dom "Perignon" Pereira? He's useless. Much like the rest of our midfield, has no end product and seemingly no idea. Send him back in January if possible, and give Banks a proper run, or bring in someone who actually puts a shift in.

 

I am more worried about Tyriek and Banks going ....then we lose quality

 

I think it 's close to judgement day in terms of MH's tactics. We are so off the pace that if's there is any quality on the pitch we can't show it. He has to rethink surely after this performance, there is no value in hoping his players can grow into this setup.League wise we have to show more desire and confidence and adopt a system that suits us, because we don't want to slip down the division through the wrong kind of consistency. Above all the quality has to come from the Manager himself.

 

I’m fuming.

Never seen such negative crap in all my life

Adams style of football was exciting compared to this drivel

Sort it or feck off Hughes

 

Oliver and Cook cannot play together.

 

It's amazing that a lower league former player, Gary Jones, can see what's needed to change at times during a match but Mark Hughes can't.
I wish Jamie Raynor would ask Hughes if he ever played as a lone striker and what did he expect from his former midfield team mates?

 

I agree with others who say we lack pace and quicker passing forward. Who are the main culprits? Smallwood and Gilleard. It is such a crucial position it is stifling our ability to attack. I can sort of understand MH not wanting to tell us how bad it is, but as long as he recognises it and addresses the problems

 

I believe Jude Bellingham plays for Borussia Dortmund.

 

He wouldn’t win a header if he was playing against Nick Kitchen…Our problem is, he would be targeted by opposition managers as our weak link in the air just as his old manager at Stockport did.

 

Genuinely thought East might get a start.

 

I thought the same but Salford have Matt Smith up front tonight so may actually suit Songo'o.