Most liked posts in thread: What a difference a week makes.

Absolute nonsense.

"I think we should be congratulating them for such a seismic turnaround in performance and result. The way the team performed in both games was astonishing."

Seriously are you taking the piss?

1 week of OK performances against sub standard opposition compared to months, no years of regression. Playing to high standards (or is it astonishing?) ... Flipping eck how bloody short sighted? Have you forgotten about Newport, Barrow, Walsall, Harrogate, Colchester etc. Would you like to thank the management and players for their dispirited, disjointed performances in these games?

We are 15th in the league with a disjointed squad, IMO incapable of a sustained promotion push. McCall has won 5 in 16 league games (or whatever), we have a CEO who wants out, an owner in name but what else and you come out with, what a difference a week makes.

No 2016...rupp came along with Rahic and TOGETHER, they took this football club backwards over the years. Yet one bloody week of results against Southend and Tonbridge, and we get nonsense posts like this.

I hope this is a renaissance but I don't identify what has changed significantly to arrest our decline. One swallow doesn't make a summer....

Short sighted and fickle post that dose not represent the reality that is Bradford City. Give me a dozen or so games of continuity, progression, positive performance, endeavour and application and I may see the seedlings of growth and change and buy into some of your massively over exuberant post.

Nonsense.

 

Might as well send the season ticket back and call it day.

I thought this was a fans forum of supporters of the club!!!

All I ever read on here is crap about poor management, lack of ambition. We are a basement club with has been and never will be players, you get what you pay for. You need to build a team, remember Parky taking a couple of seasons.

I remember in my youth when I had the choice of watching Man U, Leeds or City. I wanted to support a local club, all my mates were Leeds fans, but all they ever did was moan about the team, even when they won.

Having played football for a City supporters club and watching games home and away, playing games against away supporters, we used to have a laugh win or lose. A much more enjoyable atmosphere than the constant moaning.

if your not enjoying what’s dished up call it a draw and watch a more sexy team with loads of money and ambition.

We had a couple of glory years in a league we couldn’t afford. Then an almighty fall down the league.

Me personally, missing the away games, a good weekend away spoilt by football.

That’s something to moan about no live football and a few beers with nights out in different towns.

 

I really don't understand the negativity on this forum. The guy is happy we've played well for the past two games leave him alone.

 

The two recent wins have been a confidence booster to a team where the form has been so poor that some fans actually thought Tonbridge and Southend could end up in defeat. The real test comes in the next 4 games as our wins so far have come against teams not currently above 21st in the table. One thing the two wins has shown its imperative to actually send out your best eleven each week rather than chop and change every week. Some games this season we've been beat before we've kicked off due to bizarre squad selection and team formation.
Living the league 2 dream.

 

Wasn't exactly a high bar now was it? Southend were dreadful and Tonbridge amateur. We've a lot more to prove.

 

Just take a look at our next 5 league games and you can see it’s not all rosy yet.
Double figures points from our next 5 would be a real sign and statement McCall has sorted it out. I can’t see it however and I think come the end of November we will be back to how we felt a week ago

 

Two decent results agasint one team in complete and utter meltdown and the other against a team of part timers. We have been woeful this season.
We saw the exact same thing against Mansfield. Everyone got ahead of themselves and we went on to not win any of the next 5. I didnt see anything from the Southend or Tonbridge performances to make me think we will go on any kind of unbeaten run or that we have turned some kind of corner. We will win a few and we will lose a few. Thats where this squad is at. Inconsistent and lacking quality in certain key areas.
I dont think we will beat Exeter wat the weekend but ill gladly let the players prove me wrong.

 

who? brackenrigg? people are getting baited because someone said nice things about bradford city?? what a time to be alive.

 

Hi Stuart

 

I guess it could have come across as a personal attack for which was not my intention.

It simply is another illustration of the low base of expectations amongst some of our support base. Really puzzles me.

Nonsense nonetheless.

 

Let's just try to be positive. Yes Southend are bottom of the league and Tonbridge are semi pro but as the saying goes "you can only beat what's put in front of you".
Yes in a few weeks time we could all be moaning about our form/weaknesses. On the the other hand these two games could have been the right opposition at the right time giving us a bit of a boost when we needed it. Confidence breeds confidence.
As for Billy Clarke yes he is looking fit (physically! I was never confused).
There is a lot of rubbish peddled around about Billy Clarke. He hasn't got loads of pace, he never has. Having said that he is a very good footballer who finds pockets of space and makes things happen, we just need to keep him fit. If he had pace to go with his footballing ability he would be playing League One of even Championship level.

 

Think he's more likely trying to get a reaction out of people to be honest.

 

The past week has shown if our midfield is allowed time and space, they're good enough to beat the opposition.

We had no issues with either Southend or Tonbridge.

The problem is, we're not often afforded that kind of time and space, and aside from FGR, haven't deserved to beat anyone outside the bottom three/four. Everybody points to needing a midfield hardman - someone who could win battles and give our creative midfielders more of the ball in more space. We haven't got that, and when we've been pressed by the opposition, we've been giving the ball away at an alarming rate in some games.

That hasn't been addressed; nor has the obvious, glaring issue up front. The striker situation isn't good enough, and never was. I'm not anticipating that we've turned the corner, but I'm very confident that we beat inferior sides. This doesn't feel like a side that's going to be slipping on banana skins any time soon.

 

Wise words mate, football's mirrors life, ups and downs, having a beer or two to celebrate or drown your sorrows, talking it over (sometimes with fans of the opposition) and moving on to the next game. Or call it a day and start following Beeston United or the dog botherers.

 

We all feel the pain of recent performances, so when unexpectedly we witness a glimmer of hope, we deserve to indulge.

 

Why is the default response to not accepting everything as rosy to 'go support another team?' No thanks, City are my team. But the wins v Southend and Tonbridge were only our sixth and seventh respectively of 2020 - and against a club in freefall and a poor NLS side. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

@Bigrod is right. I want my team to win. I want my team to win consistently. I want my team in the Championship. There's nothing wrong with that and constructive criticism of the club is appropriate and warranted after the last few years.

 

We just need a goalie, several defenders, tougher midfielders and a couple of forrads and we're sorted......

 

Or man.