The Voice - Match preview Swindon Town vs Bradford City Saturday 27th January 2024 3:00pm

Can't imagine there'll be many there tomorrow.

Haven't shifted the initial 600 and offered POTD which means there's plenty left.

Usually they update on X with a "Over 500 of you have already snapped up tickets" yadda yadda.

 

Have a look at the stats again. You've either not bothered looking or completely misunderstood them.

For clarity, green is good, amber not great and red is poor.

 

I've said it a few times on here but I think the thing we are missing is the couple of high grade game changers successful sides need, them players that turn a game and put away a couple of half chances or produce a bit magic from nothing, alongside these couple game changers you just need steady grafter type players, our team only consists of these steady grafter types. If we had a couple of game changers in there then our current lot wouldn't look half as bad and possibly would look decent. We've had many teams in recent history with all sorts of useless players of which many I've hated they've been that bad players, but tbh despite our atrocious lowly standing we don't have any players I particularly hate, they all have there flaws obviously but I feel our current bunch could be so much better with the right personnel around them, where as in the past we've had many players I've felt had no hope of being good enough.

 

I think a fit Walker is one of them

 

Is he being dropped off at the Darby and Joan club on the way down?

 

Hmmm...I'm not too sure he's definitely good and in my team every day of the week but I may possibly have him as a high end grafter type, although that's a position I've literally just invented but you get my drift, having said that you could be right, but types I'm thinking are Wells, Jones, Blake, Hendrie, Kyel Reid (Not the greatest but always had a soft spot for him and got you off seat), Beagrie

 

Walker
Halliday - Stubbs - Tomkinson - Ridehalgh
Gilliead - Smallwood
Pointon - Chapman - Wright
Cook

If that team loses then fair play at least GA could argue he went for it rather than lots of defenders and Rides as an ineffective wing back n sh1t

 

that would be my choice. wont happen though

No coincidence that we havent won a game since GA put Ridehalgh in at LWB. Its the equivalent of playing Andy Cook at CB

 

There no way he gets another contract. He's forever injured, hasn't scored half as many as we were expecting and isn't the influence of the first 5 games he played for the club. Its ok signing higher grade players if they're going to be fit enough to complete 80%+ games. There's no way we've had value for money (as with Smallwood), from a player who'll be getting a massive chunk of the budget.

 

In his initial loan spell Jack Payne was one of those players then when his spell was extended he went to pot

 

I firmly believe that Walker is the most technically gifted footballer at the club. By far. One of the few players that would actually be capable of moving up a division. But I have to agree with you unfortunately. He’s always getting injured an as a team, we turn to shit when hes not playing

 

Yes agreed he possibly was, there is no doubt many others that I missed out as the ones I mentioned are who stood out for me, I'd also add to my list Lewis O'Brien, despite him playing amongst our awful side he always shone through as a class above.

 

It’s because he carries the team so often. He’s the only one putting a shift in. No wonder he’s injured all the time. He needs someone alongside him to share his energy. Tbh, Cook is the same, and testament to him that he’s hardly out of the team injured, although I do think he plays when not fully fit which obviously affects his game. He’s looked shattered the last few games. The lack of rotation options in this squad is terrible, and that’s down to poor recruitment.

 

No.

 

This season Steve? It’s starting to look ominous.

 

One reason he’s getting injured is he’s targeted by the oppo. Some of the tackles he receives are pretty poor , and designed to do one thing, take him out of the game.

 

I’d say chapman was the most technically gifted. Just a pity he doesn’t know what to do with it, and he’s a very lazy trainer from what I’ve heard

 

Yep. And ditto for Pattison. 2 good players on their day but always bloody injured

 

When you look at some of the quality players in that side that got relegated like O'Brien, Payne, Ball, Caddis, it really does highlight how awful the rest of them were.