Rotherham Saturday

[Bantam Kitchen Gunner]

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As Saturday beckons and the visit to the Don Valley Stadium. Bradford will want to get back to winning ways, City all in all area good team and we will be in the play- offs in may or further up the table. We just need to learn to have more consistency and close teams down. We have shown we can defend and we are emence-attacking wise. We just need to do it more often.

This will come, as we have not yet hit top form despite some brilliant performances, We have not had a bad bad performance this season and have just had a bit of bad luck. All in all things are on an upward motion on and off the pitch.

A draw will be a good result on Saturday although we should win this one. So lets go with our heads up and encourage the players to victory

AMENDED AS ON 2 TIMES

[sweetcakes]

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As Saturday beckons and the visit to the Don Valley Stadium. Bradford will want to get back to winning ways, City all in all area good team and we will be in the play- offs in may or further up the table. We just need to learn to have more consistency and close teams down. We have shown we can defend and we are emence-attacking wise. We just need to do it more often.

This will come, as we have not yet hit top form despite some brilliant performances, We have not had a bad bad performance this season and have just had a bit of bad luck. All in all things are on an upward motion on and off the pitch.

A draw will be a good result on Saturday although we should win this one. So lets go with our heads up and encourage the players to victoryAs Saturday beckons and the visit to the Don Valley Stadium. Bradford will want to get back to winning ways, City all in all area good team and we will be in the play- offs in may or further up the table. We just need to learn to have more consistency and close teams down. We have shown we can defend and we are emence-attacking wise. We just need to do it more often.
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Not had a bad bad perrformance :eek::eek:what about Darlington for a start :rolleyes:

[billybantam]

If we should beat them, how is a draw a good result?:confused:

[Parrot]

Is it just me...

Or Is Nicks post...

Getting smaller...

The further down...

The page it goes...????




It's like It's been at the opticians ffs!!! :D

[Tarty]

If we should beat them, how is a draw a good result?:confused:

Looks like someone could challenge Simon Parker for his job at the T&A :D

[panther]

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As Saturday beckons and the visit to the Don Valley Stadium. Bradford will want to get back to winning ways, City all in all area good team and we will be in the play- offs in may or further up the table. We just need to learn to have more consistency and close teams down. We have shown we can defend and we are emence-attacking wise. We just need to do it more often.

This will come, as we have not yet hit top form despite some brilliant performances, We have not had a bad bad performance this season and have just had a bit of bad luck. All in all things are on an upward motion on and off the pitch.

A draw will be a good result on Saturday although we should win this one. So lets go with our heads up and encourage the players to victoryAs Saturday beckons and the visit to the Don Valley Stadium. Bradford will want to get back to winning ways, City all in all area good team and we will be in the play- offs in may or further up the table. We just need to learn to have more consistency and close teams down. We have shown we can defend and we are emence-attacking wise. We just need to do it more often.
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Is it just me...

Or Is Nicks post...

Getting smaller...

The further down...

The page it goes...????




It's like It's been at the opticians ffs!!! :D



It's only small to take your eyes away from the fact that the paragraph is duplicated... tup:

Nick, you really should check your post before posting it... ;)

[Bantam Kitchen Gunner]

Any pointisa bonous away from home. I will settle 4 that

[Bantam Kitchen Gunner]

Yes sorry about it been on twice Apart from that it is cool. I am not Simon Parker. lol:)

[billybantam]

Any pointisa bonous away from home. I will settle 4 that


Not if we should beat them which according to you is the case

I think as they are good at home, play in such an awkward stadium for football and have acquired 26 points they are no push over. I agree a draw is good result...

But you've said we should beat them and now your saying a point would be a bonus

[Sedg]

Any pointisa bonous away from home. I will settle 4 that

I think I drunk one of those on holiday in Spain :rolleyes:

[Devil's Advocate]

Pure comedy genius!

Bournemouth was a poor performance as well, Exeter wasn't great!

Nick, keep up the doubtful optimism it suits you!

[bantam87]

I cant actually think of a good 90mins performance tbh!!!
We have been crap since August so saying no bad performances is a bit wide of the mark.

[Parrot]

I cant actually think of a good 90mins performance tbh!!!
We have been crap since August so saying no bad performances is a bit wide of the mark.

What you have got to remember though Brad Is that were a 4th division team with inconsistent 4th division footballers who find it hard to play at the same level for 90 mins, let alone over a few games!

Im sure other fans of teams in this division will say exactly the same about their team, were not Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea who knock the ball about the pitch for 90 mins, every game!

Thats the level were at, its good enough for us to do well in this division and were as equipped as most at getting promotion this season!

[beerbantam]

What you have got to remember though Brad Is that were a 4th division team with inconsistent 4th division footballers who find it hard to play at the same level for 90 mins, let alone over a few games!

Im sure other fans of teams in this division will say exactly the same about their team, were not Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea who knock the ball about the pitch for 90 mins, every game!

Thats the level were at, its good enough for us to do well in this division and were as equipped as most at getting promotion this season!

I see both your arguments here, but tbh i agree with Bantam87. We dont want total football ala Liverpool;), 90 minutes of a decent level of effort from the whole team would be nice. Too often we see 4 or 5 players turn up and the rest canter about.
Take Omar out of our side and we are devoid of idea's - it shouldnt be like that, we have enough quality to be dominating more games!!

[peter beagrie is mint]

Just wait untill Brandon and Colbeck are back fit. We will be a hard to team to stop.

[Parrot]

I see both your arguments here, but tbh i agree with Bantam87. We dont want total football ala Liverpool;), 90 minutes of a decent level of effort from the whole team would be nice. Too often we see 4 or 5 players turn up and the rest canter about.
Take Omar out of our side and we are devoid of idea's - it shouldnt be like that, we have enough quality to be dominating more games!!

I doubt they aren't any teams in this division who will dominate most their games for most the match.

All thats needed to get out of this league is a organised defence and a few strikers who can score goals....look at Hereford last season.

Were 6th in the table and a few points from the top despite most our fans saying we've been **** this season....if we'd had played as well as they expect we'd probably be 20 points clear by now and up with the fairy lights...:rolleyes:

[bantam87]

it would be nice though to have a comfortable win, we just arent capable of doing that, most of the teams at the top of the league will win 3-0, 4-0 some weeks, cant remember the last time we have a really good win where you felt we dominated the game. If we take the lead against poor sides (Barnet being a great example) who cant defend we sit back and let them come at us, we would have easily beaten Barnet if we had attacked them as other sides have shown who have put 3 or 4 past them without reply.
I know we arent going to play like Chelsea every week, but we have been told that these players are good enough to play in the league above and Im not seeing any consistancy at all, even really poor sides can have a good 90 mins!!!

[Parrot]

it would be nice though to have a comfortable win, we just arent capable of doing that, most of the teams at the top of the league will win 3-0, 4-0 some weeks, cant remember the last time we have a really good win where you felt we dominated the game. If we take the lead against poor sides (Barnet being a great example) who cant defend we sit back and let them come at us, we would have easily beaten Barnet if we had attacked them as other sides have shown who have put 3 or 4 past them without reply.
I know we arent going to play like Chelsea every week, but we have been told that these players are good enough to play in the league above and Im not seeing any consistancy at all, even really poor sides can have a good 90 mins!!!

Wycombe win 1-0 everyweek....Shrewsbury have had a couple big scores but struggle away from home, Darlington usually win by the odd goal.....I dont see any team flattening teams every other week.:confused:

Were as good and as bad as most teams in this division.

[bantam87]

Wycombe base their results on a good defence tho, can u really see clarke and lee conceeding 6 goals in 15 games ?? swap the figures round and u might be closer to it!!
We need to attack teams and start winning comfortably if we are to get up this year and most importantly do well next year in L1, if you havent noticed teams that go up without scoring goals tend not to do well the year after, and then teams that do (MK Dons, Peterborugh) will more than likely do ok. If we are to go up this year we need to prepare for next year aswell as Mr Lawn has already stated there wont be any money readily available for the playing staff.
It doesnt help that the manager for me isnt up to it but we should with the players we ave got be doing much better than we are.

Plus if you look at most leagues then the teams at the top will more often than not win comfortably and like I said b4 its something we are incabable of doing

[Parrot]

Wycombe base their results on a good defence tho, can u really see clarke and lee conceeding 6 goals in 15 games ?? swap the figures round and u might be closer to it!!
We need to attack teams and start winning comfortably if we are to get up this year and most importantly do well next year in L1, if you havent noticed teams that go up without scoring goals tend not to do well the year after, and then teams that do (MK Dons, Peterborugh) will more than likely do ok. If we are to go up this year we need to prepare for next year aswell as Mr Lawn has already stated there wont be any money readily available for the playing staff.
It doesnt help that the manager for me isnt up to it but we should with the players we ave got be doing much better than we are.

Plus if you look at most leagues then the teams at the top will more often than not win comfortably and like I said b4 its something we are incabable of doing

I bet if you asked Peterborough fans same time last year what they thought they'd be saying similar to what are fans are saying now...they went on an extraordinary run from Christmas time onwards that clinched them automatic promotion and they looked very ordinary when we beat them at VP.

Why do you think any other manager would get better out of our players or better results than McCall?

You only have to look on here to see the different teams people would play every week, doesn't mean they would do any better than what McCall picks.

We've already shown we can win 3 games on the trot this season and a similar run now would see us maybe top, i wonder how many would be moaning about our season or Maccas tactics then?:rolleyes:

Probably the same amount who were moaning when we were top no doubt!

[red book]

I bet if you asked Peterborough fans same time last year what they thought they'd be saying similar to what are fans are saying now...they went on an extraordinary run from Christmas time onwards that clinched them automatic promotion and they looked very ordinary when we beat them at VP.

Why do you think any other manager would get better out of our players or better results than McCall?

You only have to look on here to see the different teams people would play every week, doesn't mean they would do any better than what McCall picks.

We've already shown we can win 3 games on the trot this season and a similar run now would see us maybe top, i wonder how many would be moaning about our season or Maccas tactics then?:rolleyes:

Probably the same amount who were moaning when we were top no doubt! pazza hun i moaned when macca took the job so hope im exhonourated from this post.x

[Parrot]

pazza hun i moaned when macca took the job so hope im exhonourated from this post.x

Of course you are sweety.....;)

We all know you wanted Chris "Capelo" Casper....:)

[Tills]

Just more examples of people's frustration in that because we have signed a couple of players from L1, we should now be winning games by 4 or 5 to nil and it's all Macca's fault for not getting these results. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[bantam87]

I bet if you asked Peterborough fans same time last year what they thought they'd be saying similar to what are fans are saying now...they went on an extraordinary run from Christmas time onwards that clinched them automatic promotion and they looked very ordinary when we beat them at VP.

Why do you think any other manager would get better out of our players or better results than McCall?

You only have to look on here to see the different teams people would play every week, doesn't mean they would do any better than what McCall picks.

We've already shown we can win 3 games on the trot this season and a similar run now would see us maybe top, i wonder how many would be moaning about our season or Maccas tactics then?:rolleyes:

Probably the same amount who were moaning when we were top no doubt!

Yes I do think a different manager would get more out of them, a semi decent experience manager would get better results with this squad.
These three games on the spin?? Remind when they were as from my memory they were always spilt with a dismal cup showings. :confused:

[Northern]

Just more examples of people's frustration in that because we have signed a couple of players from L1, we should now be winning games by 4 or 5 to nil and it's all Macca's fault for not getting these results. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

You don't half talk some bollocks sometimes Tills! :rolleyes:

I can't see people expecting to thrash every team and blaming Macca (apart from bantam87!) All people are saying is that the team hasn't played well for a full 90 minutes! Teams may be inconsistant from game to game in this league, but we're inconsistant from half to half! tdwn:

[Tills]

Yes I do think a different manager would get more out of them, a semi decent experience manager would get better results with this squad.
These three games on the spin?? Remind when they were as from my memory they were always spilt with a dismal cup showings. :confused:



MK Dons (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/milton_keynes_dons/default.stm)1-2
(HT 1-1) Bradford (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/default.stm)Johnson 43
Daley 2
Lee 82

Bookings:
Llera 80
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Saturday, 01 November 2008
Coca-Cola Football League Two
Bradford (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/default.stm)3-3
(HT 3-2) Barnet (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/barnet/default.stm)Conlon 10
Thorne 29
Conlon 35
O'Flynn 20
Nicolau 32
Adomah 76

Bookings:
Moncur 79

Bookings:
Yakubu 84
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Coca-Cola Football League Two
Bradford (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/default.stm)1-0
(HT 0-0) Bury (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bury/default.stm)Conlon 86

Bookings:
Bishop 62
Dawson 82
Sodje 87
Cresswell 87
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Friday, 24 October 2008
Coca-Cola Football League Two
Grimsby (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/grimsby_town/default.stm)1-3
(HT 0-2) Bradford (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/default.stm)Trotter 65
Daley 7
Boulding 32
Lee 58

Sent off:
Clarke 12

Next question :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Parrot]

Yes I do think a different manager would get more out of them, a semi decent experience manager would get better results with this squad.
These three games on the spin?? Remind when they were as from my memory they were always spilt with a dismal cup showings. :confused:

You mean a "Semi decent experience manager" like Turd, Jefferies, Robson or Law maybe?:rolleyes:

I was referring to us winning 3 league games BTW....you know like we did at the start of the season when we were top and the babies hadn't thrown their dummy out of the pram?:)

All Im saying is we could easily win our next 3 games and everyone will stop moaning again.....well at least until we lose!:rolleyes:

[Bantam Kitchen Gunner]

Yes I agree we have not played well for a full 90 mins. But we will get there. We have played some excellent stuff. We have tightend up at the back over weeks.

COME ON CITY

[bantam87]

Parrot you have just listed managers who either didnt have much experience of winnings nor at the level we were at or had the ability to keep the players they wanted.
I said McCall was no good last September so this dummiy of the pram is wrong as I have said he wont make a good manager then and I feel more and more people swinging my way. Even when we won 5 out of 6 at the beginning none of them were convincing and we didnt half ride out luck a lot
Time will tell after all and hopefully it will all work out - just cant see it happening tho.

[Parrot]

Parrot you have just listed managers who either didnt have much experience of winnings nor at the level we were at or had the ability to keep the players they wanted.
I said McCall was no good last September so this dummiy of the pram is wrong as I have said he wont make a good manager then and I feel more and more people swinging my way. Even when we won 5 out of 6 at the beginning none of them were convincing and we didnt half ride out luck a lot
Time will tell after all and hopefully it will all work out - just cant see it happening tho.

I listed the last "Experienced" managers we've had with varying degrees of success before they came here and they all failed.

Im not aware what you said last September or whatever and my post wasn't personally aimed at you mate.

As for Macca then he will be judged at the end of the season and rightly so IMO.

If we gain promotion either by automatic place or sneak through the play-offs then he will have succeeded....whether thats by playing great, flowing, attacking football or by nicking games by the odd goal doesn't really matter, does it?

If we don't win promotion then the likes of yoursen and REdBoOk can come on here and tell us how fcuking right you were etc....

Im sure 99.9% of City fans wanted McCall to come home and manage us, nothing was guaranteed that he would be a success, he was a gamble like all other rookie managers are a gamble.

Lets hope the gamble pays off eh?

[red book]

I listed the last "Experienced" managers we've had with varying degrees of success before they came here and they all failed.

Im not aware what you said last September or whatever and my post wasn't personally aimed at you mate.

As for Macca then he will be judged at the end of the season and rightly so IMO.

If we gain promotion either by automatic place or sneak through the play-offs then he will have succeeded....whether thats by playing great, flowing, attacking football or by nicking games by the odd goal doesn't really matter, does it?

If we don't win promotion then the likes of yoursen and REdBoOk can come on here and tell us how fcuking right you were etc....

Im sure 99.9% of City fans wanted McCall to come home and manage us, nothing was guaranteed that he would be a success, he was a gamble like all other rookie managers are a gamble.

Lets hope the gamble pays off eh?99.9% is way of the mark pazza mate ,i knew a load who dident want him to come back and tarnish his reputation,im going with 8 people tomos not one wanted him back and if you think im against him you should hear there views and a couple are mates of lawn ,yes all managers are gambles but you have to place your bets accordingly and what ive seen since he came and what im seeing now promotion can not ne achieved.

[Parrot]

99.9% is way of the mark pazza mate ,i knew a load who dident want him to come back and tarnish his reputation,im going with 8 people tomos not one wanted him back and if you think im against him you should hear there views and a couple are mates of lawn ,yes all managers are gambles but you have to place your bets accordingly and what ive seen since he came and what im seeing now promotion can not ne achieved.

Well that figure was off the top of my head i admit, but i personally didn't know one City fan who was against his appointment.

Like I said though, unlike you and your "mates" i'm willing to give him the WHOLE of this season to get us up and im pretty confident he will achieve promotion, it may not be pretty but i believe we will do it.

If he does im right and your wrong...;)

[red book]

Well that figure was off the top of my head i admit, but i personally didn't know one City fan who was against his appointment.

Like I said though, unlike you and your "mates" i'm willing to give him the WHOLE of this season to get us up and im pretty confident he will achieve promotion, it may not be pretty but i believe we will do it.

If he does im right and your wrong...;)im usaualy wrong lol but realy hope so ,were all giving him a chance hence why were traveling up and down country to watch them but its the tactics,team selection and performances which are alarming,i cant see us winning tomos and its a place you have to go to get 3 points if your serious bout getting promoted.

[Parrot]

im usaualy wrong lol but realy hope so ,were all giving him a chance hence why were traveling up and down country to watch them but its the tactics,team selection and performances which are alarming,i cant see us winning tomos and its a place you have to go to get 3 points if your serious bout getting promoted.

Win, lose or draw tomorrow, means fcuk all to me, what matters is where we are next may! ;)

I will back McCall this season until its mathematically impossible for us to go up.

See you tomorrow babes XX

[sargi_bantam]

you lot mite see the chuckle brothers tomoz lol

[Parrot]

you lot mite see the chuckle brothers tomoz lol

Yeah, they are called Matt Clarke and Barry Conlon:D