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Post by rememberhalifax on Apr 13, 2019 18:40:20 GMT
For most of this game i had made up my mind not to visit this forum post game ,due to size mic melt down following awful performance and another home defeat! well the first description is still true but some how we bagged an undeserved 3 points!In my opinion James Clarke's unintentional header caused him problems for a considerable time afterwards which contributed to there first goal and he should have come off,the players were nervy and guilty of under hitting pass after pass,once again the midfield 4 were disappointing( a problem all season)they are all capable of good games but never do it collectively or consistently, any one of them could have been replaced before half time, the strange thing is that after half time, Ollie was beginning to fire and influence the game big time,one shot being turned round the post before curling one into far corner,but he was then taken off! strange one that!JCH was battling hard but not having his best game but came up with the goods again to save the day! Tom was doing ok i thought but got took off!
All in all Bradford can consider themselves unlucky and deserved at least a point , thought they played better than us and it just goes to show you dont always get what you deserve in this game
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Post by justin blue on Apr 13, 2019 18:40:50 GMT
So you’d rather we went down ? I’m pretty sure if we hadn’t signed Harris we’d already be down. Of course not, but saying us filling a huge hole in a sinking ship with paper towels EG: in JCH - only to then remove them before you reach shore will still mean you will sink as a club. That rather depends on where you think the shore is. This season the shore is league one survival. |
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Post by turdburger on Apr 13, 2019 18:41:36 GMT
terrible substitutions today. tom nicholls was by far our best player today in my opinion and yet he takes him off. baffling But he doesn't f'in score goals and we scored within minutes of him being replaced go figure.
anything good that happened in the first 60 happened because of nicholls. we were terrible once he went off. sat far too deep and invited their goal. we got lucky today. another day could have been a different story. sercombe and ogogo should have been taken off way before nicholls ever did |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 13, 2019 18:49:17 GMT
Just got back. Haven’t read the thread so don’t know others’ take on the match.Great result and we showed good character but in terms of quality their No 10 was the best player on the pitch. They missed a couple of chances in the second half he set up and he can feel a bit aggrieved at his teammates. Bradford started better than us but started to run out of steam after half an hour. By that time they should have been two up. Two corners by LS really changed the mood and after JCHs thumping header we always looked better. I can’t criticise the character and resilience of our team but apart from THD setting up JCH for the winner any chances we had JCH really had to get it deep and make a run.
I think we’ll be ok now but we do need to put some creativity into the team. Glad that Rodman was back he will give us more balance. I thought Ed Upson, TC and TL were excellent and defended so well before they got that late equaliser. Our FBs just let cross after cross into our box and our CHs and Bonham defended really well. For someone who came to us for his last couple of years I think TC gives his all and for our two later goals he was trying to get the rest of them to focus and not get carried away. Great example. And Upson was the best of midfield, occasionally got caught but he often had no options and he passed very well and kept us going when we under the cosh at times.
UTG!
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Post by turdburger on Apr 13, 2019 18:49:31 GMT
terrible substitutions today. tom nicholls was by far our best player today in my opinion and yet he takes him off. baffling Playing with one up front was the reason we conceded the second goal. All the hoof ball that actually went no where near JCH (he tried his best to chase) came straight back at us again for the 5/10 minutes before they scored. completely agree. 1st 60 mins JCH knocked it down, Nicholls held it up and the rest (sometimes) caught up with play. take Nicholls out of it and it was route 1 to JCH who had no support at all. he was knackered towards the end. |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 13, 2019 19:00:08 GMT
I’ll be amazed if he’s still with us next season. I just hope we finally get the 2+ million quid this time and there aren’t any dreadful clauses in his contract and it’s a long contract. Forgetting about the money and clauses If before we had him someone said you can have a player who will score the goals to save you from relegation, but you will lose him after. Would you have taken that?
Yes of course we would, just as in 2014 we’d all have been happy if someone had said MT is a player who will help get you two promotions but will then join the s***. Will you accept that? Yes of course we would. Well most people anyway! 😉 UTG! |
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Post by pucklegas on Apr 13, 2019 19:06:22 GMT
Defended too deep and invited them on should have stretched them and got a third on the break before they equalised. Their left back was quality I thought, not the worst team to visit the mem.
If JCH had not rocked up we would be down, so plaudits for everyone who brought the big man in.
He commented on his goal at the Gills on the awards night very funny and humble.
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Post by justin blue on Apr 13, 2019 19:06:38 GMT
But he doesn't f'in score goals and we scored within minutes of him being replaced go figure.
anything good that happened in the first 60 happened because of nicholls. we were terrible once he went off. sat far too deep and invited their goal. we got lucky today. another day could have been a different story. sercombe and ogogo should have been taken off way before nicholls ever did There you have it taken off bbc site you have to read it backwards, but it shows Tom Nichols taken off 71minutes score 1-1 within 1 minute we were 2-1 up. You may be right saying he was the best player on the pitch and I can't fault anything about him other than he does not score goals and we don't score significantly more when he is on the pitch. We may in the future be able to carry players of his undoubted ability and marvel at his skill and industry, but this season we needed him to score goals and he hasn't.
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Goal! Bristol Rovers 2, Bradford City 1. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
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Attempt blocked. Liam Sercombe (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
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Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell. Posted at
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Attempt saved. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
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Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Alex Rodman replaces Tom Nichols.
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Post by turdburger on Apr 13, 2019 19:16:56 GMT
anything good that happened in the first 60 happened because of nicholls. we were terrible once he went off. sat far too deep and invited their goal. we got lucky today. another day could have been a different story. sercombe and ogogo should have been taken off way before nicholls ever did There you have it taken off bbc site you have to read it backwards, but it shows Tom Nichols taken off 71minutes score 1-1 within 1 minute we were 2-1 up. You may be right saying he was the best player on the pitch and I can't fault anything about him other than he does not score goals and we don't score significantly more when he is on the pitch. We may in the future be able to carry players of his undoubted ability and marvel at his skill and industry, but this season we needed him to score goals and he hasn't.
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Goal! Bristol Rovers 2, Bradford City 1. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
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Attempt blocked. Liam Sercombe (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
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Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell. Posted at
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Attempt saved. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
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Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Alex Rodman replaces Tom Nichols.
If it was rodman who scored or in any way contributed to these goals then your argument would have signifigance, but he didnt. |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 13, 2019 19:17:10 GMT
Interesting comment GC made about their No 10 Jack Payne, best Bradford player on the Pitch and GC "Knows" him very well... Possible signing next season if the go down ? Didn’t know that. But he was the best player on the pitch today. UTG! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 19:17:53 GMT
I thought clarke-harris had a good game.
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Post by noblegas on Apr 13, 2019 19:20:55 GMT
Some people on here saying that JCH is single handedly keeping us up. This overlooks the contribution of our fantastic central defenders. They work as a real unit and, along with Bonham earlier on in the season, have earned us many vital points. Standing in the Thatchers end I always enjoy it when we're shooting up the other end because you can see Craig and Lockyer at work.
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Post by stuartcampbell on Apr 13, 2019 19:23:11 GMT
We are a selling club. If anyone comes in with the right money he'll be gone. Same for 99% of clubs. Whilst I agree, it will be another bitter pill to swallow if we sell him for peanuts. We should have got a million plus for both Taylor and Bodin. Bodin probably would've been 800k ish imo but Taylor should've been more than a million, was top goalscorer at the time. |
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Post by Russgas on Apr 13, 2019 19:23:30 GMT
Interesting comment GC made about their No 10 Jack Payne, best Bradford player on the Pitch and GC "Knows" him very well... Possible signing next season if the go down ? Didn’t know that. But he was the best player on the pitch today. UTG! He reminded me a bit of the former Walsall player oztumer. We are crying out for a player like this next season. |
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Post by Wimborne Gas on Apr 13, 2019 19:23:55 GMT
Problem is every player as a value, the fact we sell a player doesn't mean the board are money grabbers, if we let him go for next to nothing then they are, as things stand getting £750 for Harrison and replacing him with JCH looks good business, not money grabbing. I would rather lose JCH for 500k/£1million next summer and us make the L1 playoffs with a chance of going up then lose him this summer or in January 2020 for £2 million plus. But if he wanted to go, there is not much we could do. Players and agents have the power these days. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Apr 13, 2019 19:26:21 GMT
Didn’t know that. But he was the best player on the pitch today. UTG! He reminded me a bit of the former Walsall player oztumer. We are crying out for a player like this next season. afaict Payne is Huddersfield's player until June. |
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Post by francegas on Apr 13, 2019 19:28:09 GMT
JCH’s winner, sorry if it’s already been posted. Do not apologise for that. Awesome listen from France. Thanks for posting Where in France are you?? |
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Post by Russgas on Apr 13, 2019 19:30:24 GMT
He reminded me a bit of the former Walsall player oztumer. We are crying out for a player like this next season. afaict Payne is Huddersfield's player until June. We need a few quality signings like him,simple as that. Our midfield does not ball carry. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 19:30:45 GMT
Taylor's true value six months before we sold him was £0 after he chose to run down his contract. He signed a new contract though didn't he and snubbed Oxford. Him, his agent and us agreed on a £300,000 release clause. That was my point. Taylor was worth at least £2M in today's climate after scoring pretty much 60 goals in 2 and half seasons. I agree he would have had a potential value of £1m+ if he had a contract with no such clauses, however, as a free agent he held all the aces and would probably have never signed our deal without it being included. All if, buts and maybes and done to death in previous threads. Let's just hope JCH has no such clause in his contract although it wouldn't be a surprise me if there was either a release clause or large sell on fee - if we were keen to get him and those were non negotiable terms set by either him or Coventry then the alternative would have been to walk away and probably be sat alongside Bradford at the bottom of the table! |
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Post by justin blue on Apr 13, 2019 19:31:04 GMT
There you have it taken off bbc site you have to read it backwards, but it shows Tom Nichols taken off 71minutes score 1-1 within 1 minute we were 2-1 up. You may be right saying he was the best player on the pitch and I can't fault anything about him other than he does not score goals and we don't score significantly more when he is on the pitch. We may in the future be able to carry players of his undoubted ability and marvel at his skill and industry, but this season we needed him to score goals and he hasn't.
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Goal! Bristol Rovers 2, Bradford City 1. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
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Attempt blocked. Liam Sercombe (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
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Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell. Posted at
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Attempt saved. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
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Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Alex Rodman replaces Tom Nichols.
If it was rodman who scored or in any way contributed to these goals then your argument would have signifigance, but he didnt. He did he replaced Nichols  |
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