Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Stockport County vs Bradford City Tues 24 January @ 7.45pm

Thought the referee put in the best performance tonight

Difficult game for us, zero time on the ball, but at least we didn't balls it up and gift them a winner.

Not bad.

NEXT!

 

Don't know about the lads on the bench wanting shipping out what did Oliver, Bola or Costelloe offer tonight, on that showing Bola offers no more than Foulds did.

 

Costelloe was crap in all honesty. No threat at all.

 

Only the likes of you could diss a team that's won 13 out of the last 18 matches.

They were pre-season favourites for a reason - they have some very good players.

This was a magnificent point. Too many are obsessed (including Radio Leeds) with quality of performance, when this is the kind of showing Stevenage have showed all season.

I'm now very optimistic. This mean spirited attritional pragmatic play is what is needed and we have creative players to come back.

 

Far too many whiners on here, demanding we beat a strong Stockport side away from home! Ridiculous..

I know I’ll get pelters for it but its a good result. Yes we played poor but that was the point, to get the point.

They will end up in the play off spots. Northampton who beat us at VP, lost 2-0 at Edgely park. Its a good team.

 

This morning people were talking about the three Stockport strikers they had one more chance than us over the match.plus we had a good shout for a penalty. We took a very good point tonight and yes we have to follow that up now with some wins especially at home.

 

What's annoying to me is we sign these players and so far they have shown nothing better than the players they were brought in to replace, not a great game you look at the corners Stockport took and the vast majority were hit into the danger zone I didn't see one that didn't beat the first defender, we get one and it finishes up at the half way line, just what is Hughes teaching them.
I thought Clayton had a decent game to say it was his first proper run out with his colleagues, I haven't seen anything to suggest Costelloe offers anything going forward, sorry I'm bias but Oliver looks lost, I get that it was Bola's first game but most were expecting him to be bombing down the line as a wing back.
Not sure if Banks is fit enough to return next game but if he is both he and walker have to start along with our 16 goal striker.

 

How ironic is that the lad gives his all for 10 minutes or so coming off at the end of the game with a broken nose, what are you failing to grasp Hughes, he's very much the type of player you were always up the battle he's wasted on the bench.

 

Can't disagree with any of that and in fairness it's also good to see proper football clubs like yourselves back in the league rather than the Forest Greens and Salford's of this world.

As a side note, the fan park behind the main stand was excellent and I wish we'd put something like this in place. It reminded me a little of Tranmere's set up but done better.

 

Much to early to judge Costello yet

 

I think he played both Clayton and Smallwood in midfield to make us defensively stronger in what was always going to be a tough away game against the division's most in-form team. Not to mention that Walker, Chapman and Banks were all unavailable.

I'll be very surprised indeed if he starts the pair of them together in our home games. I certainly hope he doesn't because, if Clayton is now going to be the holding CM, then Smallwood is certainly not the answer to our creativity problem.

 

No your not, you're a Bradford City fan .

 

Could be off this lads, too much noise from planes overhead.

 

We could call on the county of Derbyshire and still lose.

 

So would I they played us off the park at VP. A point there would be a good one

 

It'll never catch on .....

 

1400 -1 travelling fans begging for a 0-0 draw!
Christ on a bike no wonder we are where we are with the negative bollox coming from our fanbase

 

We haven't fallen, they've risen.

 

I’m not bothering to check but I’d say it’s more like 35-40% of time spent in the 4th division.

 

Stockport half time/City full time is a massive 41/1 on Bet365. I’ve stuck a whole fiver on it.