Wycombe Wanderers - Saturday August 25th

Thanks Brisbane Bantam, as you may know the abbreviated accounts published do not detail directors payments (unfortunately) so are of necessity anecdotal. Please feel free (whilst our club falls to bits) to ask them how accurate these figures are. If you manage to get to a match love to discuss further as the current situation is nothing to do with the fans but please appreciate how toxic the atmosphere was today.

 

Like I said, you are just scapegoating him. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not a good enough player but we have nobody else in the squad any better. If you say Riley, I’d have to argue that he too has been woeful, so how would he be any better.

In that 1st half, I saw Riley, Chicksen, Akpan and Wright constantly give the ball away with poor passes. Yet you felt the need to only attack one of them....?!!

 

Chicksen is all right going forward, but not very good defensively.

He's like a poor man's Meredith.

Under Collins, Chicksen is literally anchored to the back four, and his scope to roam forward completely gone.

Chicksen didn't make a single forward run today with or without the ball.

That's not actually Chicksen's fault, and he's yet another example of a player being poorly utilised by a manager who is trying to be clever but actually looks pretty stupid.

Playing Seedorf instead of Miller was a ridiculous blunder, fielding Riley again just because Abbott chased him for 12-18 months didn't work either, and in hindsight Colville should have started - but that actually is hindsight, so we'll see if he gets a shot in the first XI next time around.

What I will say is, Miller has started twice, and we've won both games.

He's been benched three times, and we've lost every single game, without scoring while he's been off the pitch.

Attack is the first form of defence, a concept Collins clearly doesn't grasp, because he's pretty insistent on making our front line the most ineffective in the league by fielding a non-physical forward on his own.

 

Fair comments. But I would argue that whilst Rupp has the money to fund a squad without our money, he won’t and hasn’t. The squads thus far have been funded from ST monies and funds raised through player sale add-ons etc.

If we don’t renew, Rahic will just have less money to spend and we’ll end up with more Kai Brünkers and/or Omari Patrick’s.

Surely the best thing to do is to buy our STs but demonstrate outside the club before and after the game to let the owners know we want them out. But whilst in the stadium support the team and coaching staff as much as possible.

 

Nail on the head. This is the biggest concern I have. The team ain’t good enough and have shown nothing so far to warrant any praise from fans.

But the fact that Mr (un)Motivator just stands there saying and doing nothing is very poor. And his ‘leader’ on the field is just as unanimated. Both keep telling reporters that they have let fans down, yet neither do or say anything whilst the game is in progress.

Show some fight FFS. Why would the players react if the coaching staff and captain don’t show any animation

 

WINNER

 

Seedorf looked like he didn't have a clue where he was or what he was supposed to be doing on the pitch. Tbh l've not been impressed with him at all so far.

 

That sequence was very noticeable and highlighted the disjointed mess we're in!

 

In all the years (and it is an awful lot) I have watched City, I have never been so dissolutioned about the football I have seen over the present three weeks. I am not one of those people that expect to have a God given right to win every match, but what I do expect is a manager that has some semblance of team formation of how he will set up his players. Besides that, I want to see players that have fight, that want to be on the ball, that really want to play for our Bradford City, not frightened to death every time they get the ball. Burton wasn't brilliant but we won, why change a winning team? Its the first rule of football. The management need to do something, and do it quickly, or BCFC will drift into oblivion.

 

This feels like the start of the season where Jacko resigned. He put the club first when it was obvious we had a major issue.
I can’t see that happening now. Rahic will move Collins back to Under 18s rather than sack him.
However depending on how pig headed he is will depend on whether it’s too late to keep us up. Rahic has systematically taken us backwards year on year. Bantam regressivism is alive and well. Rupp needs to intervene before it’s too late. His investment is going backwards like the club.
If it continues unchecked it will start to become ugly.

 

Yes I get that mate and totally a reasonable standpoint. I don't actually think that scenario would play out though.

They bought the club for its fan base to a great degree and the potential for growth thereof. Building a team as you describe would go against maintaining and growing the fan base. Money would either have to be provided or they would need to find other owners. Presiding over a poor team (maybe we have that now) will not deliver their goals. The fact that they would have to dig deeper themselves will irritate and hurt.

It will be interesting to see if a physical protest does ever happen, to a relatively small extent, the season ticket protest may have begun.

 

I attacked the whole squad in an earlier comment, like I said - I pointed out Chicksen because at the time he managed to do it on consecutive occasions before the end of the half. Believe it or not, you can criticise and individual player without exonerating all the others. I didn't say he was doing the worst. The whole squad were terrible, unorganised, and look like they cba.

 

Say that quietly but according to one poster on here we changed our system to accommodate Mr Grease Lightening yesterday, the idea being Doyle played deep pulling there CD out to give us more room to drop the ball in for Seedorf to use his phenomenal pace.
I would prefer to get someone in on loan to play along side Doyle rather than Doyle being the foil for Seedorf.

 

Good assessment from Parker

 

Best and most honest assessment by Parker yet

 

Just as Newark is an anagram, Hope Akpan is an anagram of i can’t be arsed. Allegedly.