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That was pleasant, wasn't it?

7, maybe 8 candidates. What a time to be alive.

Glatzel for me but could have been one of many with FBT and Khan doing well as did Austin and RHM.

Not really any bad performers today.

Glatzel.
Industrious, a constant threat and two assists.
Only thing he didn’t do was get a goal.

McCarthy, clean sheet and Cook subbed at H.T.  Also, allowed Chas to play exclusively as a striker for a change.

German Scouser for me too

Very good performance from Glatzel.
The new defenders did well too - They seem to defend and head the ball!
Devoy had a good first half
Gunning made good substitutions!

Shade did very well to come on as a sub twice.

I'll go for Glatzel but he still has along way to go. He nearly cocked up for releasing the ball to Decoy for the goal. Austin made all that possibly with a delicious ''double triangle'' or ''double Y'', lofted through ball to Glatzel  :D

Jack Bycroft also made a great save from Young, which was probably at a very key moment. A moment when Town would usually concede and crumble. We can't be sure, but to me that felt like a game saving moment from Bycroft - I think we all know that Town don't do well once conceding a goal and I wouldn't have wished to watch Town hold onto a one goal lead with say fifteen mins left to play.

Other notes are McCarthy did ok. The only thing will be if both he and Glatzel can remain fit. In a larger squad, I might say yes they will but something nags at me that either one or both of them won't see out the season.

Also lets face it, and yep Town can only play who is in front of them but how wank were Bradford? Got to be one of the most imobile sides in the division - even Gladwin would have looked handy against them.

But a win is a win is a win. I'll give it to Glatzel based purely on the prospect of developing better from that benchmark?

NB: I wonder what Young will think, now that Bradford have played their hand? He's been in a side that has lost to the one he was on loan to {potentially would have signed for} AND was probably the only one who seemed like scoring, along with a couple of nice touches and hold up. Wondering if he'll now force a move {if only Town had some pennies}. What would be some turnaround is if on deadline day Town sign both Kemp and Young on perms. That would make some sense then to the recent fire sale of assets. I fear though I am living in an alternate universe and this most definitely will not happpen.

Robbed of one really by a blatant foul n all

Many options today.

Picking out FBT.  He looked very assured.  And I was as re-assured about our defence as I have been all season.  Credit to Gunning for sending out defenders who looked like they knew what was required of them.

RHM ran their centre backs ragged in the first half

What happened in the second half?

Twas his first start for months - he was subbed on 60 mins

Glatzel for me, very hard worker. Devoy was very tidy as well.

I second this

It shows how stats can be misleading, Bradford had more possession, more shots, more shots in target yet (aside from our natural fears based on games this season) we didn’t really ever feel they were that threatening.

As for MOM, there were a number of good candidates but agree with most that Glatzel probably just about shaded it.

But special mention to the defence, who looked like they could defend, just goes to show what a bit of organisation can do. Was noticeable that FBT & Dokes didn’t make anywhere near as many runs into midfield.

They also completed more passes & their goal keeper didn’t make a single save compared with the 3 Bycroft has been credited with.

Bradford also won more aerial duals (43 to our 35)

…..honestly - if you asked people who watched the game who had more possession, shots, passes, who won more aerial duals and which keeper didn’t have to make a save - no one would have said Bradford were on top in all categories

A poor finishing display by us, only two shots or headers, despite the amount of pressing we did up to the penalty area.  Lucky to get the win, really, as their finishing was just as bad.

Lucky me hairy arse.

Lucky that they weren’t very good perhaps 😂

But....."they were shit and the worst team in the league"

They weren’t great - definitely one of the worst we’ve seen this season.

Just shows the over statification of football. So many of them are meaningless

It wasn't so much that they were bad but that they were perfect opposition for how we wanted to play - a slow defence Vs Glatzel and RHM and a get the ball forward and chase it strategy. It's rock paper scissors and they picked wrong.

Now the question is did Gunning play like that to counter them or were we always going to play like that and just got lucky with the opposition? I guess we'll see when we play a different style of side.

I think they were both terrible and perfect opposition for us. That number 4 was the most unfit & immobile centre back I’ve seen since Dryden or Ruddock. Ash Thomas I think his name is, he’s a laughing stock amongst their fans.

Ash Taylor

That’s the one. He could barely move. I actually felt a bit embarrassed for him.

Yeah but it's not so long ago many were banging on about how we should be more like Bradford in terms of "experience"

But that’s where balance comes in. Playing a back 4 that looks like it lives off a stereotypical northern diet is only going to end one way. We saw something similar when we tried to play Reeves and Viveash in the same team.   We are at one end of the scale, Sutton and Bradford are at the other and the successful teams sit firmly in the middle.

Always much more pleasing logging in here on a Monday morning after a win and a decent performance. For me, one of those games where nobody was fantastic, but nobody was terrible either. (Tyrese/Ricky Shade/Shakes aside, although choosing to wear ice skates was an interesting decision) I thought McCarthy had a very solid debut, the defence looked much better overall but i'm not sure how much of that was down to just how poor Bradford was. We did give Cook a free header first half but luckily straight down the throat of Byfield.

I'm going to vote for Glatzel. With a seemingly rejuvinated RMH and a player full of energy in Glatzel, it took the weight off of Charlie up front and I was really impressed with Glatzel's movement and work rate. Won the penalty and got the assist for Devoy and generally caused Bradford's slow as anything defence problems. Green shoots for the new signings.  

Paul Glatzel has, in two games, tied Charlie Austin's votes for the season. Poor Charlie, not had more than four votes for a game this season. He's also gone past L Ward, Genesini, Uwakwe, Cain (who at this point I may rename Jake Cain 0), Dworzak, RHM and Kokolo and is one short of Hutton (abandon democracy immediately) and a few more from Minturn.

The great Tom Brewitt chase down starts here.

I assume a lot of that will be down to the amount of votes Kemp & Young got the first part of the season. Glatzel (minus an absolute fucking miracle) won’t have to compete with those two.

Please sit down before reading this, but Tom Brewitt has almost twice as many votes as Jake Young.

Young only has three more than Udoka Godwin-Malife.

(Kemp is miles clear though, correctly)