League 2 Saturday 4th February

[GTFCfish]

Christ some shocking goals conceded today, Harrogate’s winner at Carlisle and Stockport’s 2nd and 3rd goals.

 

[RLC]

I thought we deserved a point over the ninety minutes today, but shot ourselves in the foot with two of the three goals we conceded absolute gifts. Strange, because we have been so good defensively this season.

Stockport were the better side in the first half, but our substitutes made an impact and we had the better opportunities after the break. A brilliant save from a Jake Burton header denied us in the closing minutes.

The biggest positive for us was the performance of Regan Hendry in midfield, who was excellent. I think we will be OK once the new signings are fully settled.

 

[Stagat]

I can see nothing but a Harrogate win.

Andy Cook 100% scores this weekend

Fair play lads, couple of correct predictions there

 

[Chief Rocka]

Wow Killip dropped and guess what… Hartlepool keep a clean sheet! Who’d have thought it?

Fucking everyone! Mad he’s played so many times already this season, Polish lad is some unit in goal and made a few decent stops, mind Donny did have Lavery upfront, about as dangerous as wet loo roll.

 

[ForzaCounty]

and Stockport’s 2nd and 3rd goals.

2nd is a stupid backpass I'll give you, what they'd call an 'unforced error' in tennis; but the 3rd is directly down to the smart pressure from Tanto

https://twitter.com/x/status/1621950233767821313

 

[Soup Ladle]

Looks like Killip turned out for Tranmere yesterday

 

[AdamStag]

Shocking first half great second, very much worthy of a point that’s for sure. Considering we lost three players in the first half, including Oates who was jeered and booed while clearly in loads of pain!

Never got that at all.

As frustrating as the result is I’m glad we can’t blame it on the ref, as it gets tiresome and I’m sick of saying it myself. Mansfield played well second half and I expect them to be top 7, but we should have been out of sight. Sadly we aren’t good enough to do that. Our fitness levels are appalling. We have the best first half record in the league by far and one of the worst second half’s, says it all.

We were a bit on the physical side but literally every 50/50 went your way, i was half expecting him to find a reason to disallow the goal, still managed to give 2 shocking decisions for free kicks after it as well!

I guess it’s annoying when you concede in injury time but anyone there watching the game would know mansfield were full value for the point, certainly a game of 2 halves.

 

[Son of Cod]

McAtee plays in his natural position for the first time this season and grabs a goal, assist and MotM (on Fotmob). Hopefully there's much more of that to come. Sounds like Emmanuel is an obscene signing for this level too.

Just wondering how all the Town fans are going to afford Wembley twice in the FA Cup and then again in the playoffs.

 

[Agombar stool]

This isn't a slight on Newport or their players, we lost yesterday fair and square and players from every team up and down the country have done this in the past, ourselves included.

Yesterday Rushian Hepburn-Murphy was involved in an incident with a Newport player, they tangled, words were probably exchanged and RHM then physically pushed the Newport player away with extended arms high up the player's chest, possibly his neck area. By the letter of the law he raised his hands and it was a red card, 100%. My qualm is the pathetic reaction of the player that was 'attacked' who went down holding his head/face. I suppose given how bad referees are, players feel the need to grotesquely exaggerate how hard they have been 'attacked' and many will say this is gamesmanship but its part of the game that I can't abide. Jonny Williams has a habit of going to ground easy and waving his arms about when I wish he would just get up and get on with it. Even Nathan Blake on the Newport comms agreed the player was over egging the pudding.

Personally I think there are enough videos in the ground whereby if a player goes to ground feigning a head/facial injury and the 'attack' is nowhere near the area the player has claimed, he should be given a 1 game ban. It won't happen as its far too ambiguous to police but I would like to see a bit more 'honesty' between players of the beautiful game. Referees certainly don't help, that's for sure.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Never got that at all.



We were a bit on the physical side but literally every 50/50 went your way, i was half expecting him to find a reason to disallow the goal, still managed to give 2 shocking decisions for free kicks after it as well!

I guess it’s annoying when you concede in injury time but anyone there watching the game would know mansfield were full value for the point, certainly a game of 2 halves.

A bit is an understatement tbh, but we all have a bias to our teams so I can understand that but there were some very cynical fouls and shirt pulling, plus all the complaining to the ref he was probably sick of it by the second half. That number 10 was a rat with the ref constantly in his face.

I don’t disagree that a point was a fair result, but if we’d have taken early chances it wouldn’t have got to that stage, but that’s on us.

I still think Nigel Clough is a miserable c***, so it’s always disappointing to have him get one over on us. Bit embarrassing from him to run on the pitch over a point. Especially as we have a crap home record, believe me what happened is nothing out of the ordinary with us, hence the frustration.

 

[AdamStag]

A bit is an understatement tbh, but we all have a bias to our teams so I can understand that but there were some very cynical fouls and shirt pulling, plus all the complaining to the ref he was probably sick of it by the second half. That number 10 was a rat with the ref constantly in his face.

I don’t disagree that a point was a fair result, but if we’d have taken early chances it wouldn’t have got to that stage, but that’s on us.

I still think Nigel Clough is a miserable c***, so it’s always disappointing to have him get one over on us. Bit embarrassing from him to run on the pitch over a point. Especially as we have a crap home record, believe me what happened is nothing out of the ordinary with us, hence the frustration.

Yeah, you could have put it to bed before we got back into the game, been there done that enough times. being 2 up at home to barrow and losing being one of them!

Clough let himself down a bit at the end and with the ball boy too, least he’s got passion i suppose but you’re right.

Mind, hughes comes across as equally miserable, stating we celebrated like it was our cup final is a statement of a bellend.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Yeah, you could have put it to bed before we got back into the game, been there done that enough times. being 2 up at home to barrow and losing being one of them!

Clough let himself down a bit at the end and with the ball boy too, least he’s got passion i suppose but you’re right.

Mind, hughes comes across as equally miserable, stating we celebrated like it was our cup final is a statement of a bellend.

Hughes can be a sore loser, that’s obviously in his nature probably from spending so much time with Fergie. I think the comments were aimed at the Mansfield bench rather than fans though which is about right, when we beat Villa in the league cup semi final our bench didn’t run on the pitch like that. I think if the players had got the ball out of the net and pushed for a winner instead of over celebrating there was a winner in it, the celebrations killed Mansfield’s momentum. I played football at youth level and have watched it for 30 years, I’ll never get the obsession with celebrating an equaliser so much, it happens a lot in football. Play to win.

 

[RiftHouseLad]

Think weve won goal of the month already.

 

[hellogregory]

Yes because we have the best manager in the league, a Championship defender and we have the league's top goal scorer too, yes one Kristian Dennis!

Your championship defender is going to find himself dropped from the team next weekend.

 

[Boz]

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Looks like Killip turned out for Tranmere yesterday

Along with your pre-window defence? Don’t think I’d pin all the blame for those goals on Hewelt.

 

[AdamStag]

Fair play lads, couple of correct predictions there

Nothing like having everyone back for corners and conceding from one yet again

 

[Chief Rocka]

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Along with your pre-window defence? Don’t think I’d pin all the blame for those goals on Hewelt.

Defence put him in two really shite situations, suppose it's what can happen when you get L2 footballers trying to play like continentals.

 

[GTFCfish]

McAtee plays in his natural position for the first time this season and grabs a goal, assist and MotM (on Fotmob). Hopefully there's much more of that to come. Sounds like Emmanuel is an obscene signing for this level too.

Just wondering how all the Town fans are going to afford Wembley twice in the FA Cup and then again in the playoffs.

I’m just gonna prioritise going to the play off final, the FA Cup final we’ll probably lose narrowly anyway if it’s against City.

 

[Stocky]

Defence put him in two really shite situations, suppose it's what can happen when you get L2 footballers trying to play like continentals.

Defence did put in a spot but he was a bit soft the keeper. We all know goalkeepers are protected if he comes steaming out and Wootton so much as breaths on him, the ref would blow. Same for our third really. Didn't impose himself enough and didn't give the referee a decision to make. On Wootton goal he realises this far too late, starts holding himself when the balls long gone and no contact has been made which made him look a bit of a tit really.

 

[Kauto Star]

Hughes can be a sore loser, that’s obviously in his nature probably from spending so much time with Fergie. I think the comments were aimed at the Mansfield bench rather than fans though which is about right, when we beat Villa in the league cup semi final our bench didn’t run on the pitch like that. I think if the players had got the ball out of the net and pushed for a winner instead of over celebrating there was a winner in it, the celebrations killed Mansfield’s momentum. I played football at youth level and have watched it for 30 years, I’ll never get the obsession with celebrating an equaliser so much, it happens a lot in football. Play to win.

In all the years of watching football, I don't think I've seen the entire coaching staff of a team run on the pitch like that before like they did when they equalised. It was very strange. Just goes to show they thought we were a big scalp with their over the top celebrations of an equaliser like that.

As for the match, classic tale of two halves. The pattern of us dominating first halves and going into our shells for the second half is alarming and Hughes doesn't seem to be able to come up with answers to overcome this

Entertaining match though, and on that showing from both sides, It wouldn't surprise me to see us meeting again at Wembley in the play off final.

 

[Boz]

Defence did put in a spot but he was a bit soft the keeper. We all know goalkeepers are protected if he comes steaming out and Wootton so much as breaths on him, the ref would blow. Same for our third really. Didn't impose himself enough and didn't give the referee a decision to make. On Wootton goal he realises this far too late, starts holding himself when the balls long gone and no contact has been made which made him look a bit of a tit really.

I wasn’t at the game, but the BBC match updates only show 1 foul on Hewelt awarded against Stockport. If he’d come steaming out to head the ball clear for the second goal and taken out Wootton in the process a real risk of getting sent off. Wouldn’t have fancied our prospects playing 45+ minutes with ten men and a midweek game to come.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

In all the years of watching football, I don't think I've seen the entire coaching staff of a team run on the pitch like that before like they did when they equalised. It was very strange. Just goes to show they thought we were a big scalp with their over the top celebrations of an equaliser like that.

As for the match, classic tale of two halves. The pattern of us dominating first halves and going into our shells for the second half is alarming and Hughes doesn't seem to be able to come up with answers to overcome this

Entertaining match though, and on that showing from both sides, It wouldn't surprise me to see us meeting again at Wembley in the play off final.

The only time I remember it was in League 1 when Phil Brown did it when Southend equalised, not a great character reference getting compared to that muppet.

Personally I don’t think either will go up and it could be two different managers in the dugout next season, but we’ll see.

 

[RLC]

I wasn’t at the game, but the BBC match updates only show 1 foul on Hewelt awarded against Stockport. If he’d come steaming out to head the ball clear for the second goal and taken out Wootton in the process a real risk of getting sent off. Wouldn’t have fancied our prospects playing 45+ minutes with ten men and a midweek game to come.

He would not have been sent off. He needed to be more proactive and invite a challenge and probable foul from Wootton.

He was too timid and reactive for both goals.

 

[Spanishstag]

In all the years of watching football, I don't think I've seen the entire coaching staff of a team run on the pitch like that before like they did when they equalised. It was very strange. Just goes to show they thought we were a big scalp with their over the top celebrations of an equaliser like that.

As for the match, classic tale of two halves. The pattern of us dominating first halves and going into our shells for the second half is alarming and Hughes doesn't seem to be able to come up with answers to overcome this

Entertaining match though, and on that showing from both sides, It wouldn't surprise me to see us meeting again at Wembley in the play off final.

Surely every team celebrates a 90th minute equalizer like that ,its the last minute fgs and no bradfut are not a big scalp

 

[Conker]

Hughes can be a sore loser, that’s obviously in his nature probably from spending so much time with Fergie. I think the comments were aimed at the Mansfield bench rather than fans though which is about right, when we beat Villa in the league cup semi final our bench didn’t run on the pitch like that. I think if the players had got the ball out of the net and pushed for a winner instead of over celebrating there was a winner in it, the celebrations killed Mansfield’s momentum. I played football at youth level and have watched it for 30 years, I’ll never get the obsession with celebrating an equaliser so much, it happens a lot in football. Play to win.

That reaction would have happened at any of our promotional rivals, it was a very important goal.

Hughes turned around to celebrate and have a go at the Ian Greaves stand in the reserve fixture, which I have no problem with - but if Clough did that yesterday he be moaning like a little bitch. He’s just a miserable bloke under pressure at a club the size of Bradford will always have at this level.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

That reaction would have happened at any of our promotional rivals, it was a very important goal.

Hughes turned around to celebrate and have a go at the Ian Greaves stand in the reserve fixture, which I have no problem with - but if Clough did that yesterday he be moaning like a little bitch. He’s just a miserable bloke under pressure at a club the size of Bradford will always have at this level.

Can’t say I’ve ever seen Hughes celebrate one of our goals he’s usually sat on his backside, I’ll have to take your word for it.

 

[Conker]

Can’t say I’ve ever seen Hughes celebrate one of our goals he’s usually sat on his backside, I’ll have to take your word for it.

It may have been at the end of the game to celebrate the win, quite a few stags fans got mardy about him doing it, I haven’t got a problem with it but I know he’s full of double standards.

 

[WilsdenBantam]

It may have been at the end of the game to celebrate the win, quite a few stags fans got mardy about him doing it, I haven’t got a problem with it but I know he’s full of double standards.

For a win at least

But no I don’t agree whoever it is with middle aged men jumping around like children in front of family stands.

 

[chipmunx]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622266530401599490

just an every day dive from Akinde....

 

[Conker]

For a win at least

But no I don’t agree whoever it is with middle aged men jumping around like children in front of family stands.

Why? It’s football, not exactly aggressive is it? What’s families got to do with it?

I see absolutely no problem with players managers or fans celebrating, opposition or my own. Hughes was just in a mardy because he dunno how to get his team to hold on to the lead, that’s his issue.