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Surely apathy has not reached the hallowed matchday thread? Where are you all? Let's get ready to rumble!

 COYR

No idea what to expect this season.

Today I'll guess at a 1-1:draw which leaves us none the wiser.

Woo.

Bradford's twin towns include Munchengladbach and Galway.

2-2 draw. 8,013 (872 from oop north).

Swindon Pride before and after the game! http://www.swindonwiltshirepride.co.uk

Not sure what to think, bar it's a tricky one first up.  As i'm going though we're sure to get beat. 1-2

Here here!

One of the few games I'll be able to make, due to playing Saturday's myself, so really can't wait for this!

Come on town! You can do it.

Fixed it for you. You'll go blind, by the way ...

Have to start the season on an optimistic note otherwise there`s no point in it all - 2-0 - this forum has had a lot of whingers on it recently is that the reason it`s all gone so quiet....?

COYR

Draw. 1-1

I feel totally underwhelmed about it and only just realised I'll have to subscribe to the horror that is STFC Player again.

win 4-0. A new rock solidity to our defence. Obika 3, Byrne.Yes.

2-2 today, looking forward to the first game of the season, haven't attended any friendlies so my first time to see the new players.

...anyone like to hazard a guess at our starting line up?

Vigouroux,Thompson,Williams,Turnbull,O-O:Robert,Kasim,Stewart,Smith,Obika,Byrne?

Playing cricket today but will follow along with the Town game. Looking forward to seeing how a very new team gels, but reckon we'll get off to a good start and take a 2-0 win.

Trarore for Smith, rest right I reckon

We are on our way!!  COYR! Please...a win! I saw too many of the awful defeats last season.

Must win game this!

A resounding 3-0 win to silence all the doubters.

If anyone like me is about to leave from the south east. M25 is screwed, and the M4 has been closed either side of the M25, aint looking good.

2 - 1 town. Defensively terrible at set pieces but great going forward. Done

Don't like the way we play. We were caught out by Christmas Las year and feel its going to be a struggle this season.
Strangely I find myself with another season ticket and can only hope beyond hope that we survive and compete.
Best result today a 0 0 draw as goals may be hard to come by.
I hope I'm wrong and all the positive heads up in the cloud's/arse types have got it right.

Do you not go Bracknell way? I never go m25/m4 to the south east. Way too busy.

All ways blocked, even my get out route down the A3 is screwed, they've closed the m4 westbound from 15 due to a fire now as well. I've never seen the M25 as red as on the live traffic sites. Oh well beer and tef it is

That too. It's a given.

Fucking hell, you're a barrel of laughs. I bet I'm sat next to you as well....URGH.

Let's not forget you can tune in to live coverage on STFC playhahahahahahaha

Sorry, couldn't finish that sentence without bursting out into fits of uncontrollable laughter.

Looking forward to walking down to CG, it will be a great start like last season

August 9th 2014:  my diary notes said 'excellent passing football, brilliant midfield, won 3-1 well deserved versus Scunthorpe, but defence was very suspect. '

At work gutted I can't be there, think it will be a 1-1 draw

No idea what to expect for today or the rest of the season.
Hope to be pleasantly surprised again

Not only is STFC player cutting out, as per, but I now no longer have the option to listen to the opposition commentary.

Cheers then!

but it's HD!

Uh oh.

Bottom of the league!!!

I presume Bradford scored, STFC Player has died less than 7 minutes into the season

Fucks sake were doomed  :suicide:

Yes. 'Typical Bradford goal' according to the radio. Crap defending from the sounds of it.

I feel like shit today anyway thanks town. Don't need this

Sounds like it's very open, could need to score 3 today.

Hylton injured. Holding his ribs. Replaced by Fabien Robert.

yep just payed 37.99 and player fails at the first time of asking

oh, well saved

were they ?

What was?

the Bradford penalty. it was a shit effort, but the keeper did what he had to

Thompson repeating last season's liability

Byrne showing why he's not been picked up by a bigger club . lots of hard work, no end product today.

Bradford look to have more quality. that they have been creating the chances . we have done OK. no end product general though

Nice football, no end product, not really worked their keeper, look like conceding every time they attack. Although most of their chances do come from us giving the ball away cheaply.

wahey

BYRRRRRRRRNE 1-1

:D

BOOM!

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Get the fuck in  :D

STFC player is fucking useless, bunch of cunts.

Get in !!!!

Come on you Reds!!!

I'm most annoyed they've taken away the option of listening to the "old style" which actually was pretty much in real time. this new HD shite is almost a minute behind, which isn't ideal when you're following on twitter at the same time.

Come on town.  Make me glad I didn't go.

What aren't the lottery results tonight :)

soapy tit wank

Creepiest go one up set the scum  :clap:

Shitty one down at Wendies  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

2-1 BYRNE again!!

BYRNIE THE BOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get the fuck in.

Byrne you beauty

:D  :D

Get in Town!

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That's more like it.

Second bottom to second top in a few minutes, luv it!

And STFC player has now died completely.

2 17 23 27 31 33 will not win the lottery, they're shit with no end product

BYRNE HAT TRICK!!!!!!!

no end product that boy!

Get the fuck in, well done byrne!

:D

 :D :D

 :D Please can you post this every halftime?

never in doubt  :)

 :beers: :pint:

Every week please Batch, every week :)

And Bournemouth go 1 down

4-1 BEEKS

Obika showing why he's not been picked up by a bigger club . lots of hard work, no end product today.

Kasim showing why he's not been picked up by a bigger club . lots of hard work, no end product today.

We are top of the league!

Great turnaround, good use of plan B if twitter is correct!

Bloody hell Town.

Not a bad effort

Batch = Well done mate ha ha

And Shitty go 2 down...

Rubbish, we should stick to 4 at the back

Sam Parkin went on a date with Obika yesterday

Not bad but you're no Batch though..

understood!

I now have Watford commentary

I now have watford commentary

Ha.

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Is Batch Plan B?  :D

Has Byrne done much ?

Pikey Gillingscum top of the league.Always a fucking downside!

Delighted, yet pissed off.

Delighted because we won, scoring 4 in the process. Pissed off because because thanks to STFC player I missed all 4 of our goals.

It was bad for me but I caught most of the goals. I'd forgotten just how irritating the choppy sound is

didnt work hard,but plenty of end product

I have a cunning plan for the next game though.

Great result - particularly after first half an hour.

STFC player crap as ever and like someone said earlier, no option of old style player so I was getting phone alerts before hearing the stuff on the commentary (or not hearing in some cases as it cut out at vital moments).

Suspected fractured collar bone for Hylton

Fucksticks

Shit we have one forward then by the looks of it!

Well, fuck me.

That 30 minutes in the 2nd half was better than  anything we played last season. It was sensational, scintillating and had me shaking my head in disbelief - and so unexpected after a particularly meh 1st half.

Yeah, the usual pissing about should have seen us 3 down by half time but it's a small price to pay to watch stuff like that.

There was a good punch-up with 15 minutes to go down by the CGH, too. Great view from my seat in the Arkells!

I stand by my half time assessment of Byrne. BOO was dodgy too as was NT.

after half time it was a different team, those three impressed massively :)

Fantastic.

Should have been 3-0 down at half time. Second half was class. Byrne deserves all the plaudits, but obika was outstanding too. Stewart was much improved second half, Williams looked every inch a centre back playing centre mid.

Last two times I've been to a wedding when we've played at home and we've won 5-2 and 4-1!

Well I'd suggest you'd better go to one every week then. With that and Batch's half time gee up, we'll have 100 points by March. If we havent we know who to blame...

Thought Branco had a good, steady game today.  Just as well really because the rest of the defence were pretty meh.  

Key thing was saving the peno at 1-0. Had that gone in we MAY have struggled. Cracking result and being able to turn it around  eeks of a top club.

I wonder if anyone who has a theory on MC not being good at tactics has anything relevant to add....


Nice one Town. Now to lock Byrne in a cupboard on every day he's given off until September 1st  :D

 Time for  :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:

Well, everybody moaning around me at half time and probably rightly so!!  Plenty fo skill but no penetration at all, change the system at the start of the second half and we look like fucking Brazil - no I do not know anybody called Brazil!!  When Byrne got his first I would have settled for a point but for 20 minutes we were on fire!  Bit of a delay around the 70th minute and the sting had gone from the game and both sides settled for a 4-1!  We've taken 40 goals out of the team and still scored four!!

I don't think a lot teams will enjoy playing against us due to our sheer energy. If nothing else we look even more mobile this season and seem to have a little more pace in the team.

Without being harsh, as he was great for us at Town but without having Mass in our team we instantly have more pace. Adding Ottewill, Randall, Byrne (in new RF pos.) and Hylton (Baastard getting injured he actually started well). I remember Mass, whilst being technically great, he did lack pace hich often translated as "not interested".

I was moaning and swearing at Byrne first half, as he was shooting weakly from long range and crossing weakly when there were better options. What a change by him second half, never saw that coming, and the sheer energy of the whole team wore Bradford down. !  

see, see, it wasn't just me :)

Referee was a cock, the "penalty" was for a foul committed outside the area and they were cheating at corners by not having the ball touching the quadrant, the referee was relying on the linesman stationed on the half way line to check it!!  He didn't really want to know when the game got a bit physical!!

To the tune of (for those who can remember) 'Rupert The Bear'.


"Lauren, Lauren Robert, that's not his brother's name."
"Lauren, Lauren Robert, that's not his brother's name."
"And neither is Bert." (Ad infinitum).

(Bertram Robert IS Lauren Robert's brother, for reference).

Looked inside ..just on the highlights

Thought it was a pen from my vantage point in the TE and as for corners, the rule is now that the ball only has to have at least part of it hovering over the line.

I was thinking of something to do with Laurent not being his brother but in French given that frère (brother) rhymes with Robert

Inside...

Jittery start, dodgy at the back and giving the ball away in midfield.

No fucking change there then....

1 zip down at HT and feeling lucky that it wasn't 3:0 or 3:1.

Second half was sublime....Bantams went to rat shit...we grew some balls and ripped them a new one.

Great start to the season... Quite pleased with that...Byrnes goals were superb and I will enjoy the highlights.

So it was a pen, apologies for all the abuse thrown at the ref from the DRS!

Funny on the Bradford forum, strangely one guy thinks Byrne is on loan from Spurs, thats a fucking long loan 2.5 years... We've also got no money, rush signings etc etc. How do people become that uninformed?

We haven't got any money. That's true.

They looked at otib for inspiration?

Not to spunk away on journeymen, but we have for the right players.

Correct  :nod:

Reading the match day thread, just got to this post. Sure I actually saw you crack a smile yesterday, Batch :)

My, I enjoyed that day out....At half time, I said to the wife 'even if we lose this, they have shown there is some great footballing skill out there'.....little did I expect what happened in the second half.  Yes, first half, there was weak finishing - maybe shooting too quickly, but then last season we complained because no-one would go for goal!  Second half was awesome!  Congratulations to them all.  Yes a few mistakes at the back kept us on the edge of our seats, Obika got a bit mauled (with no recompense from the ref) by their centre back in the 1st half, and Byrne's delivery (again in the 1st half) was less than good.  But overall, I would be happy to watch that kind of football week in, week out.  I guess the test again will be against the poorer sides who pack their own half and leave no space for the kind of attacking verve we saw yesterday....

Great way to start the season. Couldn't make it yesterday - how did the new boys compare in a proper game to what they're replacing? I was surprised to see Branco start - based on reports of pre season form I'd expected Robert in the middle and Williams at the back. Maybe the theory was Branco knows Turnbull that much better, who knows.

I'd love to keep hold of Byrne - but at the very least he's jacked his price up.

Any reports on Robert? Seem to have a bit of hype from pre season, did he deliver yesterday?

I know Byrne and the new keeper got alot of plaudits yesterday but Obika's performance was superb. His aerial work and hold-up play was immense. We should have no worries about losing Smith as a central striker after that performance, frankly.

The new lad from Arsenal had tremendous energy down the left flank. Even towards the end of the game with the temperature at 25 degrees, he was still closing down at full pelt.

Branco was good yesterday. Just the player when the opposition have a lump up front - although I can't understand why Hanson was out wide right for much of the game.

Not so effective on the wing, much better in the second half playing in the centre. Held the ball well, carried it forward and one exceptional through ball to create a chance for Byrne to cross just in front of Obika.

Oooh, I found the goals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bl3mnQepMI

Was it Hanson or Davies that chopped down Thompson as I thought he should have gone for it as there was a suspicion of stamping as well.

Although Byrne obviously deserved MOTM a special mention for Kevin Stewart who I thought was terrific yesterday, especially in the 2nd half.

Cheers Flashheart. Having not seen the program yet all I can say is that all the people loitering around the studio seem incredibly awkward...

Louis Thompson type energy. Gave us the thrust we lacked in midfield when Louis got injured last season. Stewart played a massive part in tiring them out with his driving runs right up until full time.

We seem to have a bit of a hoodoo over Parkinson sides...long may that continue.

Well, there will be 2 more fans on Tuesday after that game.

No doubt much changed side but that performance deserves more bums on seats

had you been drinking?

I hope not, chopping and changing (not always by choice injuries/suspensions/asia cup) was a major downfall to last season. promoted sides are usually very settle. we need to keep the back 5 playing as much as possible. upfront is unchangeable as it is as well!

looking for to tuesday and the start of a good cup run

3 guesses

Yes, no and maybe?

  Player us total crap now ,as said above you cannot get the opposition stream without logging out and the logging to the opposition site. To date no highlights of the game ,logged into Bradford city they Have all the First half (not surprising) not the second ,checked two other clubs sites Gillingham and Chesterfield both had highlights up since 1230 yesterday .Wish I did not have to rely on it .

I wonder if the media ban has stretched to player as well then?  Surely there must be some kind of contractual requirement, although this doesn't seem to apply to listening quality of live matches so who knows..

10 mins of highlights on player.

Well it states on the Player Official site ,works on Mobile, Tablet and Desktop , Extended highlights and exclusive  videos in HD, listen to all matches live. so you should get what you pay for. latest item on the site at the moment is Coopers preview of the Liverpool game !!!. Ps just checked Highlights are up

How much responsibility/involvement do the club actually have in Player, I had always assumed that as every club has it it is something that the FL have signed up to that is managed outside the club?

The club decide what content goes on there.

Some clubs do full match coverage don't they?

I believe the club gets a percentage of the yearly fee . Good 10 minutes of Highlights up now

Well, I was quite encouraged by what I saw against Liverpool. This feeling was scuppered at times during the first half against Bradford. There were moments during the first half where I could see glimmers of hope but the tippy tappy twixt defence and Vigouroux looked too familiar, as did Byrnes taking on one opposition player too many.

I thought the goal we conceded was well worked. The pen that Thompson conceded looked like a dive to me and was as much a penalty as the one that Robert didn't get in the second half. The take was a bit weak but well saved by Vigouroux Magnifico.

The second half was 'kin awesome. Whatever was said to Byrne really did the trick. Kasim seems to be back to the Yasir we know and love. Branco had a really steady game, getting his head or boot in where needed. Stewart looks to be a real dynamo. Ran his socks off. BOO had a meh first half but picked it up for the second.

The ref was a bit of a cunt. Booking Byrne for a middle of the park challenge which was no different to the edge of the area challenge by McArdle that eventually saw Hylton going off with a probable broken collar bone? WTF?

First hat trick for the new Football league Show :toocool:

Overall? The Red Army is back on the war path :pint:

Showing myself up, doubtless, but was that the first opening day hat trick since Super. Sammy. Parkin  ?

For, but not against...that dishonour belongs to Simeon Jackson.

Was that the 5 zip I witnessed?

Last day we lost to Millwall and The Pikeys went down at Wycombe!

Great result, shame about Byrne having no end product.

Should have gone to the game and watched the first half ;)

No way, then I can't sit at home and be judgemental about a game I'm not at!

:)