Bradford (Home) Offishall Match Thread

I bet Del's wishing he had paid Bradley the extra £800 or whatever it was. He's not going to be able to find a whole new defence that are out of contract in January.
He may well have blown it this time. Looks like loans from the championship or premier rack and stack kids. That'll take some time sorting a working defence, and he'll need to push his present bunch out on loan too to fund it.  Bad directing of football in general. I guess if cornered, he'll be blaming the ex-chief scout.

Graiser wrote:

We’re not going down

with that defence its hard to argue your case here
Graiser.

No matter what we do going forward which isnt really a problem as we saw today that defence is going to be our downfall unless big investments are made in that area.

Graiser wrote:

We’re not going down

Of course we're going down and rightly so. The 'team' is garbage and nowhere near L1 standard. We've been bottom 4 ALL season FFS.

Sounds like we should have tried to get Sol Campbell

Not as manager, but to play CB

Ever seen a crap 3-3? This was it,

Haven't even looked at the other posts on this.

What a complete shambles of a game that was! Two frankly useless sides. The score could have been anything. Anything at all.

God knows where our problems started. Songo'o up into midfield. I guess. A move which weakened both defence and midfield.

We still don't have a first choice CB combo.

Ness was left out/did not make the bench and, apparently, we have no replacement for him.

3-3?

Could have been any score at all.

It was either a good or bad point.

A truly ridiculous game of football the likes of which you will rarely see.

We had over twenty shots today and sixty odd percent possession. Tells a story.

I myself am something of a stats junkie.

I don't query those stats at all.

It was like the Keystone Cops v Blind Institute.

The goals were just independent random outcomes.

Angry wrote:

Graiser wrote:

We’re not going down

with that defence its hard to argue your case here
Graiser.

No matter what we do going forward which isnt really a problem as we saw today that defence is going to be our downfall unless big investments are made in that area.

Your right about our defence, it’s crap, just don’t think we’re going down

It’s quite simple really. With this defence we are nailed on relegated. However, if by some miracle we can totally overhaul the back four, we could easily finish mid table. There’s enough quality in the forward two thirds of this squad to survive. But I don’t think we have one defensive player in this squad genuinely worthy of a place in our first 11. Sawyer, maybe? But that in itself is a scary thought.

If you could buy wins, Brent would pay for draws...

Czarcasm wrote:

It’s quite simple really. With this defence we are nailed on relegated. However, if by some miracle we can totally overhaul the back four, we could easily finish mid table. There’s enough quality in the forward two thirds of this squad to survive. But I don’t think we have one defensive player in this squad genuinely worthy of a place in our first 11. Sawyer, maybe? But that in itself is a scary thought.

Sawyer ? the tide moves faster then him.....

PatDunne wrote:

If you could buy wins, Brent would pay for draws...

Behave Pat!!!!

Brent pay for something honestly

a loan then? (with interest)

We have a huge goalkeeper who is a great shop stopper but a very poor all round keeper and a defence that shows as much backbone as the French during the war. Its obvious why Ryan Edwards is struggling and unfortunately his illness battle has taken its toll on his body but the rest of the defence has no excuse and is nowhere near good enough for this league.

Big Robby wrote:

We have a huge goalkeeper who is a great shop stopper but a very poor all round keeper and a defence that shows as much backbone as the French during the war. Its obvious why Ryan Edwards is struggling and unfortunately his illness battle has taken its toll on his body but the rest of the defence has no excuse and is nowhere near good enough for this league.

its unfair to use his cancer diagnosis last seasn as a reason for his poor form his season. He wasnt that good before hand he had Bradley carrying him most of the time along with his spells out of the team with red card(s).

He has all the movement of a statue.

so with feck all money we need four defenders at least. won't happen we are fecked

Argo are going down without a doubt, relegation does not bother the Community Boyz one little bit, its a nice little earner with ten thousand mugs turning up to watch fourth division football.

A complete defensive horror show from two relegation quality teams what more is there to say?

Ok I’ll propose a £50 bet that Argyle are not relegated, loser donates to a nominated charity

I don't think we will go down.

If 50 points =safety, we still need 33

9 wins 6 draws
8 wins 11 draws

Anyone really think there's 8 or 9 teams in this division that we could beat? When we can't win at home against the worst team?

Adams needs to accept that we haven't got players that are good enough to play 4-3-3. Hoping for a good "window" is a waste of time given Adams signings record (ie he signed all the current squad) and even if Hallett loosens the purse strings, what half decent player would want to join a side that looks odds on for relegation?

A couple of players loaned out and a couple of sticking plaster one or two month loans in is all we usually get.

A couple of untried youngsters from a championship club and a Jock jobseeker from East or West fife, and thats Relegation sealed!

Graiser wrote:

Ok I’ll propose a £50 bet that Argyle are not relegated, loser donates to a nominated charity

Looks like nobody’s prepared to back up their rhetoric.