Bradford City v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Id definitely consider bringing Stevens on for Bennett, who is being tortured by a league 2 winger.

Someone on for Bannan also, who has been his usual all fart and no poo self

You would like him to ........ 'poo'?

Well him farting is getting us nowhere.

Sir, I am in your debt.

[mattjpa]

I'd say Bannan off, but who would come on to replace him?

Guzan would do better

To be perfectly frank, we are a quarter of the way through the transfer window, this could have quite easily been dealt with by now

[Matt Collins]

We're being so exposed down the left I think it might be worth switching to 442 with someone to offer Bennett more protection. Bannan could play there with Ireland in the middle. Bennett must have at least two new arseholes

[Jon Crofts]

Christ there are some drama queens on here.  Yes it hasn't gone our way in all honesty did you really expect anything less than a fired up lower league team.
Keep it tight in the first 15 now and we'll be fine. 

[ozzjim]

The spine is so fragile though, if you stick 2 quality players, 1 centre half and 1 defensive mid into that team and they would be way calmer than they are. No leader without Vlaar. Need 2-3 signings quickly.

[Boz]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

That's the problem, we create chances and don't take them. Bring Bent on, can't be worse than we have been so far.

[pauliewalnuts]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

We have not exactly shown the difference in class tell have we?

No we havent, but it frequently goes like that, doesn't it. Ask Arsenal. This is cup football.

We keep the ball, pass it around, and chances come. If we keep doing that, we'll get more chances, and we'll take at least one of them. As soon as that happens, Bradford's heads will drop.

[johncvilla88]

Do a Joe Lewis bring Guzan on for Bannan he'll do a better job! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8090460.stm

[PGW]

Clark being beaten in the air from crosses from right as Baker not there as he is being dragged out from centre to bale Bennett out!!!!

When the goal went in i thought no worries but within 5 minutes the performance had deteriated so much. Delph knocking everything backwards/ sideways, in general passes going astray.......Had my moan we'll probably go out and get 4, but somehow i doubt it!!! .

[hilts_coolerking]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

I agree with most of what you say there but the bit in bold is overstating it.  They've been very creative and caused a great deal of panic for us at the back.  Some of their balls into the box have been excellent.

[Toronto Villa]

Christ there are some drama queens on here.  Yes it hasn't gone our way in all honesty did you really expect anything less than a fired up lower league team.
Keep it tight in the first 15 now and we'll be fine. 

you're right Jon, and if we play anything like we did at the start of the first half we'll bag a couple. We need Lambert to calm everyone down and focus again.

[Risso]

It's the central midfield that is the cause of all our problems this season.  No quality, no goal threat and no defence in front of the central defenders.

[NeilH]

Christ there are some drama queens on here.  Yes it hasn't gone our way in all honesty did you really expect anything less than a fired up lower league team.
Keep it tight in the first 15 now and we'll be fine. 

Surely the match thread is designed for drama queenery. I'm not prone to drama queenery, but the match thread has a habit of turning me into Shirley Bassey.

[pauliewalnuts]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

I agree with most of what you say there but the bit in bold is overstating it.  They've been very creative and caused a great deal of panic for us at the back.  Some of their balls into the box have been excellent.

And none of them have even looked like resulting in a goal.

We just need to keep calm (the players), and keep doing what we do, and it'll come.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Agree that everyone is overreacting like a pissy little girl.

When we score I want an apology from everybody.