: Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:51 pm  

Yet again, City manage to concede in the last 5 minutes, equalise, and still lose

: Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:30 am  

Rotherham game called off

: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:54 am  

GCM1980 wrote:

Yet again, City manage to concede in the last 5 minutes, equalise, and still lose

Given the amount of late goals we have conceded this season, you have to ask questions about the concentration levels of our defenders. We have also still haven't drawn an away game yet this season.

: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:55 pm  

As soon as that free-kick was given I said to my mate that Brentford would score from it, and so it proved, it was depressingly predictable - but I was so cold I just wanted the game to end anyway so I couldn't get too upset about it at the time!!

We actually played fairly well for most of the game, and absolutely tore Brentford to shreds on the counter - the problems were Daley and Jones being too quick for our strikers to keep up, which allowed Brentford to close us down, poor options with the final ball, and some poor finishing.

At 0-0 Daley (I think) teed up Thorne for what looked like a tap in, only for the ball not to bounce properly after hitting the mud and subsequently hitting Thorne's ankle rather than rolling right in front of him, at that point I knew it would be one of those days.

: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:01 pm  

Well the Shrews have been shocking lately, got the win today but still not playing well. Bradford away next too, think we could be in for a beating.

: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:42 pm  

You'll probably dominate for 85 minutes, have the lions share of possession, yet somehow we'll come away with a 1-0 win or cling on for a draw. That's how games at VP usually go these days.

How we won 4-0 today I have absolutely no idea, but it was refreshing to see a bit of confident attacking play at 2-0 up.

: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:47 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Well the Shrews have been shocking lately, got the win today but still not playing well. Bradford away next too, think we could be in for a beating.

Even though we won four nil against Morecambe today we still look unconvincing at times, and still need to improve if we want to go up. It's a big game for us so hopefully we will win with us being at home and given you're poor away record. However as a Bradford City fan I've got used to the fact that home games are never straight forward affairs and I think it will probably end up being a draw.

: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:36 am  

I didn't realise that unconvincing 4-0 wins existed before yesterday.

We certainly can't afford to play like that against Shrewsbury, we gave Morecambe at least three free headers in the box and they'll punish defending like that, how we have kept 3 clean sheets in a row is beyond me.

I'll be interested to see which system we use, to say 4-3-3 didn't work after we won 4-0 seems odd, but I'm not that sure the players were comfortable in it, on a more positive note Paul McLaren seems to be coming into his own a bit more and having more of a positive impact on the game, and Luke O'Brien continues to impress - well deserving of his nomination for L2 player of the month for December - however MOTM yesterday for me had to be Nicky Law who was superb, hopefully we can keep him until at least the end of the season.

: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:43 am  

Well chuffed to finally break my Brentford jinx and see us win a game, 2-0 victory over poor old Bournemouth on Boxing Day. Our second position is incredibly flattering given some of our displays this season - its founded on being steady and unspectacular at the back, but we still lack a real creative spark in midfield. Marcus Bean works his socks off but there's still a reliance on ugly long ball football when we always look far more dangerous keeping it on the floor and getting it out to Sam Wood and Marvin Williams on the flanks, who are very skilfull. Wood is keeping Glenn Poole out of the team at the moment, and Charlie McDonald is proving a top acquisition. Chesterfield next for us.

: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:21 am  

The Penguin wrote:

Our second position is incredibly flattering given some of our displays this season - its founded on being steady and unspectacular at the back, but we still lack a real creative spark in midfield.

Even though you did mug us on the day Brentford are actually one of the better sides I've seen us play this season, it's not saying much as this division is very average this year IMO but if they play like that for the majority of the season then I think you'll definitely be in with a shout of a top 3 finish.