Like a lot of us, I'm gagging to see this new team play.

 

does anyone know how the cuff you go about spending your tenner and getting access to the live stream?

17 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I don’t think Bradford have much more to give so that gives me massive confidence as we’ve a stack of improvements in us as time goes on. 
 

if that’s a yardstick for the top end of the opposition we face in the league this year then I’m more than happy with that

The trouble is, if they'd have taken their chances in the first half it could easily have ended up three or four.

Delfounso and White were excellent. Disappointed with Doyle and the three at the back second half were terrible.

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

If i disregard the fact its a brand new team....

It was shit

However, it was a brand new team..

 

Lots of room for improvement and a few promising signs. First job of a centre back is to defend. Im worried thats been overlooked

And i don't think crellin looked better than Alexander and Alexander looks very green

Crellin looked pretty solid to me.

2 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Crellin looked pretty solid to me.

Me 2

Baptiste had a decent first half but was useless secong

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by RUREADY2ROLL

1 minute ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Crellin looked pretty solid to me.

His punching, im being generous, was awful

I'd been told he was poor in the air and I think thats what we saw

Once again, let's hope we have him as a keeper, not a centre back

Just now, RUREADY2ROLL said:

Me 2

Me 3 casino is chatting 

 

We look really shaky at the back which  surprises me being that IE was centre half agree about White and Delfonso and the wing backs need to improve.

Positives were White, Crellin and Jones. Lost our shape after Comley went off and fizzled out a bit. I’m sure we will improve as the season progresses.  

6 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Me 3 casino is chatting 

Wait til he flaps in a game that matters

Anyway, its a cup we weren't winning

1 hour ago, Rizlar said:

 

We look really shaky at the back which  surprises me being that IE was centre half agree about White and Delfonso and the wing backs need to improve.

Have to agree on the wingbacks, if you’re  playing 3 centre half’s the wingbacks have to be attacking threat, they don’t look that to me, back 4 the answer in the short term, Sav, Fonz, Santos, White (very impressive) all did well, Baptiste was ok, and  once Crawford back up to speed he will be big asset, they’ll be core of the team, is the rest of the squad up to it? I’m not sure, top half at best, methinks. 

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by Mounts Kipper

2 minutes ago, Casino said:

Wait til he flaps in a game that matters

Anyway, its a cup we weren't winning

Yep not really arsed if I’m honest

I’m sure evatt will be all over the defensive errors and will want a big improvement tuesday

In L2 you have to be able to defend crosses and we need a lot of improvement to be anywhere near atm.

What was the atmosphere like?

Well, didnt think we were great, not sure about Crellin - that punch was a bit limp and we got let off a couple of chances. Wasn't helped by the fact that I fell asleep for our goal.

That said its a bit difficult to judge with ifollow as the camera angle is a bit shit.

51 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

Did you have a word with cameraman for some extra advertising in first half? Took a long lingering zoom in on the ad boards at one point! 😀

😃 we noticed that! 

I thought we looked best for about 15 mins start of 2nd half. We seemed to move it about quicker and with more purpose

Evatt conceded this week that we are a work in process and we will get better as the season goes on. I’d think Bradford will be one of the better teams so although we were disappointing I’d not be too stressed just yet 

 

They did some fantastic running off the pitch though at half time - so hats off for that! 

I’d sack off this 3 at the back until we get a solid foundation 

18 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Have to agree on the wingbacks, if your playing 3 centre half’s the wingbacks have to be attacking threat, they don’t look that to me, back 4 the answer in the short term, Sav, Fonz, Santos, White (very impressive) all did well, Baptiste was ok, and  once Crawford back up to speed he will be big asset, they’ll be core of the team, is the rest of the squad up to it? I’m not sure, top half at best, methinks. 

Slightly concerning thing for me was, in the first game, opponents sussed our system out and largely nullified it. Once that happened we were too easily played through. Wing backs rarely got into advanced enough positions so we ended up doing loads of playing around and across the middle in front of them. Delfouneso did well coming a bit deeper and linking things up but otherwise we didn't often look threatening.

Holes behind the wing backs (mostly Gordon's side to be fair to Jones) were alarming and none of the back three had the pace to quickly get across and cover them. All three were also too easily put under stress by balls down the sides that had them turning. 

White worked hard and tried to make things happen. 

Doyle obviously scores goals with service but, on today's evidence, doesn't make the ball stick so well

3 minutes ago, ianofcleveleys said:

Slightly concerning thing for me was, in the first game, opponents sussed our system out and largely nullified it. Once that happened we were too easily played through. Wing backs rarely got into advanced enough positions so we ended up doing loads of playing around and across the middle in front of them. Delfouneso did well coming a bit deeper and linking things up but otherwise we didn't often look threatening.

Holes behind the wing backs (mostly Gordon's side to be fair to Jones) were alarming and none of the back three had the pace to quickly get across and cover them. All three were also too easily put under stress by balls down the sides that had them turning. 

White worked hard and tried to make things happen. 

Doyle obviously scores goals with service but, on today's evidence, doesn't make the ball stick so well

Agree with these points.

To concentrate on a positive, Marple’s lad was watching with us and he mentioned that Delfouneso set up a lot of goals last season and I think that showed. 
 

 

23 minutes ago, ianofcleveleys said:

Slightly concerning thing for me was, in the first game, opponents sussed our system out and largely nullified it. Once that happened we were too easily played through. Wing backs rarely got into advanced enough positions so we ended up doing loads of playing around and across the middle in front of them. Delfouneso did well coming a bit deeper and linking things up but otherwise we didn't often look threatening.

Holes behind the wing backs (mostly Gordon's side to be fair to Jones) were alarming and none of the back three had the pace to quickly get across and cover them. All three were also too easily put under stress by balls down the sides that had them turning. 

White worked hard and tried to make things happen. 

Doyle obviously scores goals with service but, on today's evidence, doesn't make the ball stick so well

Very hard to argue with any of that.

The iFollow cameraman seemed to be doing their best to make it hard to watch although you sort of got used to it after a while.

Regardless of results, if we dont get back into the ground then watching it on tv for a season will be very very shit.

46 minutes ago, deane koontz said:

What was the atmosphere like?

Booted off (briefly) at Horwich Parkway afterwards. 

37 minutes ago, anewman said:

I’d sack off this 3 at the back until we get a solid foundation 

My two pet hates in team selection are playing players out of position - so far so good on that front - and 3 at the back.  Drives me mad.  Invites pressure and basically you're saying "we're better than you, we only need 3 defenders" so yes you need to be the better team.  Nobody played 3 with wing backs when playing Liverpool or City away, they might do it against Macclesfield at home, expecting to have a lot of the ball and even then only if your centre backs are quick and better than average.  We aren't at that stage yet.  

The was no service at all for Doyle and he kept dropping deeper out of frustration I presume. The marking for the second goal was non existent and the first was easy for them. A lot to work on for Evatt for sure.

We'll get there soon enough.