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  1. Onside

    Onside Squad Player
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    I just feel totally deflated, I cannot believe we literally through this game away. 0-1 all we had to do was pass the ball and run them around, and take our chances when they came. We didn’t do that, and we just allowed them back in. No leadership something we have been missing all season. No game management. I know it is still possible but after that, I honestly don’t think we can now.

    We now face league 2 indebted and players who we can’t get rid of.
     
    #4 Onside, Feb 23, 2019
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  2. Old city man

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    After 12 minutes I thought we have all the aces and I started to relax but it's not the thing to do as we flatter to deceive.Their top scorer gets sent off and with the shocking run they are (were) on,I thought this vital game is ours for the taking....but no, they raise you up as high as they can then destroy you with absolute capitulation. Dreadful, awful, what a way to deter season ticket sales!
     
    #7 Old city man, Feb 23, 2019
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  3. Mike Hunt

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    Half our fans would clap the players off if they had lost 6-0 to a nine man Solihull Moors. They’re grateful they have a club to support. It’s this acceptance of mediocrity that gives the players the free ride.
     
    #19 Mike Hunt, Feb 24, 2019
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  4. How

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    Same. Positive and thought we would slowly climb the table. Without going on a storming run I thought we had enough about us to slowly climb

    However today has set us back weeks I feel. Not just the defeat but the manner of it and the fact it’s meant we will spend yet more weeks in the bottom four

    We are down. Tough 3 games to come and can’t see us getting more than a point from any of them
     
    #3 How, Feb 23, 2019
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  5. trevor

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    And a manager we should get rid of, Pointless expecting leadership on the pitch when there is none off it,
     
    #5 trevor, Feb 23, 2019
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  6. Bruce Bannister

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    It's true though @Onside@Onside, there is nobody in that squad that you can call a true City player who really 100% cares about our club.
     
    #27 Bruce Bannister, Feb 24, 2019
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  7. Headlesschickens

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    Can’t really argue with any of that
     
    #2 Headlesschickens, Feb 23, 2019
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  8. Fordy117

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    I've said for most of the season O'Connor is no captain.

    I knew that one of Hopkin's worst mistakes was to make or keep O'Connor as captain.

    He is one of the worst captains I have seen at Bradford City Football Club!!!

    Awful!
     
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    #10 Fordy117, Feb 23, 2019
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  9. Mike Hunt

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    December apart he’s not shown any improvement really. Recruitment was dreadful, Paudie and Woods were absolutely pointless, motivation and tactics poor, substitutions poor. If we get relegated, when we get relegated, we’re another bad season from non league and the end of the club as we know it. We can not afford to start next season badly and have yet another poor transfer window and pre season. For that reason Hopkin needs to go, he’s shown nothing to give me faith in him.

    As for making changes next week? Bollocks, there is nobody to bring in and Gok Wan will still be failing to stop crosses at left back.
     
    #18 Mike Hunt, Feb 24, 2019
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  10. Bigrod

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    A few small points to consider:
    • Which quality player wants to come to a side which is in a relegation battle. Not many players will want to have a relegation on their playing history.
    • Money. We are reportedly £2 million in debt, so the amount available to attract players will not be great.
    • Blackpool and Coventry both clubs ‘in trouble’ quickly gained promotion from League 2. Add Doncaster to that and decline is not inevitable. Even Portsmouth spent a fair chunk down there and where were Luton Town two seasons ago.
    Not saying we are not in a bad place, but things need to have balance and perspective.
     
    #21 Bigrod, Feb 24, 2019
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  11. Ollylondonbantam

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    I just saw it so differently. This City teams best form of defence is attack, in that our defence is so frail there’s always a chance we will concede. On Saturday we desperately needed another goal.

    At 1-0 against 10 men of a team with the worst current form in the league that game there was there for the taking in the first half. Go 2-0 in at half time it’s a whole different game and second half. There confidence will have been super low and there for the taking. Instead our intensity at 1-0 was low. The amount of time the ball rolled from Chicksen along the back four to the other wing was too much. Butterfield regularly has the ball and the four ‘front men’ ahead of him offered little movement. That equaliser was coming before it actually came. IMO we did nothing to manage that game at 1-0 and I don’t care how many people want to blame Hopkin, if those 11 players on the pitch can’t take responsibility to see a game out when it’s there for the taking in that scenario, then how do they justify their shirt?
     
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    #39 Ollylondonbantam, Feb 25, 2019
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  12. Ollylondonbantam

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    I agree he’s no captain. For me it would be Caddis or O’Donnell.
     
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    #13 Ollylondonbantam, Feb 23, 2019
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  13. Bigrod

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    You often see Gold where others see Iron Pyrites!

    Not knocking your commitment ‘one iota’.

    I felt you were overly optimistic for weeks.

    However to now see what you now say, makes for a very pessimistic outcome to the season seem likely.

    I still think there is a chance, as a lot of clubs are in the ‘lower table’ mess, however a defeat like today is potentially of a seismic level!
     
    #14 Bigrod, Feb 23, 2019
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  14. Idlebantam

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    Even a win yesterday would not have lifted us out of the bottom 4.

    1 point from the last 3 games, when some overly optimistic fans were expecting 7 points, has sealed our fate now sadly in my opinion
     
    #16 Idlebantam, Feb 24, 2019
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  15. Onside

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    The fighting in the dressing room needs to take place on the pitch!! There will be no hiding place at VP, they will be faced with angry fans who are looking for some guts and a willingness to lay it online and fight for our league 1 status. No free ride, no just giving our support, earn it!!
     
    #17 Onside, Feb 24, 2019
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  16. Onside

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    I understand, but the players need to understand that goodwill is in short supply, it is down to them to demonstrate some professional pride and play for this club with guts and determination to not be beat, they cannot expect the fans to support them until they demonstrate their willingness to not only rise to their own professional standards and skills but also to work as a team and cover for their teams mates, work till they drop, no heads dropping, if it goes against us just a redoubling their efforts. I would play the Wallsall game to them, and get them to watch the away side if they don’t know what it means!
     
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  17. Onside

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    Thanks, my depression has just deepened.
     
    #23 Onside, Feb 24, 2019
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  18. Idlebantam

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    Sorry my mistake. I was just looking at Oxford in 20th, forgetting the 3 points Walsall gained on us would have been reversed if we had have beaten them
     
    #25 Idlebantam, Feb 24, 2019
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  19. How

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    I liked what mk dons did. Went out and got a very experienced league two manager and although they haven’t ripped up any trees they are at least well up there and look to be building something. They will be in a similar position to us with players who they don’t necessarily want on decent money for league two but they appear to be getting on with it
     
    #28 How, Feb 24, 2019
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  20. JonButterfield

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    Billy Clarke?
     
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