Bradford v Swindon Town pre match drivel and matchday thread

[WEBBERhyde]

A frustrating watch.

As bad as Austin’s misses have been, he’s contributed plenty all over the pitch to help make the difference up until this week.
Reality is I can’t imagine anyone at the club was banking on Austin having to start every match for us so far and you wonder how much fatigue is interfering with his proven instinct in front of goal. It makes thinking about the sale of Wakeling incredibly frustrating in this moment in time. Obviously, keeping 4 fully fit and available strikers happy is the flip side of that.

The whole team looked knackered today though, just at a time when we’re facing a Bradford side hungry to impress. Squad depth is a real worry.

Two things I’ve not seen mentioned: Why bother bringing on genesini with 90 seconds to play? It really pisses me off when managers do this in losing positions. What the fuck are they expecting to achieve?!

Secondly, was it just me or were we slipping about far more than Bradford/usual? Noticed a number of our players losing the ball to slips. And it looked to me like Mahoney slipped trying to get back up after shipping the ball for the goal. May not have made the difference ultimately but just another thing that added to our slack output.

Postives, we still made chances that would often have seen us score. Still well within the right end of the table. Just frustrating that the last couple of performances aren’t much of a surprise given circumstances and it might continue for a while longer.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Footballs a fickle old game Gillingham are back up to third and looking for a new manager😁

[Batch]

Not replacing Wakeling on deadline day was criminal.
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literally just looked before coming back and seeing this. He was an unused sub today

Back in January?!

[Jimmy HaveHave]

literally just looked before coming back and seeing this. He was an unused sub today

Back in January?!

He would have been better off staying in league 2 for another season

[Leggett]

... where he was a mostly unused sub.


Something is very, very off with this club, what's being fed to us via the media is clearly not what's actually happening. This is not a competitive budget, or we're paying the starting 11 way, way too much to not be able to afford a decent bench. Screams of penny pinching, same as all of the backroom/office shenanigans. This could go tits up very, very quickly.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

100% this. There’s no way on earth our budget is anywhere near ‘competitive’. A disappointing end of window, followed by seemingly free agent trialists that never emerge. Squad is threadbare AF.

You can see another comical, legs cut from under you January window coming as well.

For fuck sake.

[Cowley38]

... where he was a mostly unused sub.


Something is very, very off with this club, what's being fed to us via the media is clearly not what's actually happening. This is not a competitive budget, or we're paying the starting 11 way, way too much to not be able to afford a decent bench. Screams of penny pinching, same as all of the backroom/office shenanigans. This could go tits up very, very quickly.

Mirfuni does not want promotion he cannot afford it...

He can barely afford keeping a L2 club going...

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

I’d suggest that the 3 or 4 players, plus himself, who have reportedly been under the weather these past couple of weeks (our friend Covid?) could well be a/the reason for the last 2 or 3 flat performances.

[DiV]

literally just looked before coming back and seeing this. He was an unused sub today

Back in January?!

Yes. He’ll be Youngs replacement

[Crozzer]

I’d suggest that the 3 or 4 players, plus himself, who have reportedly been under the weather these past couple of weeks (our friend Covid?) could well be a/the reason for the last 2 or 3 flat performances.

Explains today's second half performance including choice of subs.

[Trashbat?]

I’d suggest that the 3 or 4 players, plus himself, who have reportedly been under the weather these past couple of weeks (our friend Covid?) could well be a/the reason for the last 2 or 3 flat performances.

Which just goes back to the fact we have no strength in depth

[Jimmy HaveHave]

... where he was a mostly unused sub.


Something is very, very off with this club, what's being fed to us via the media is clearly not what's actually happening. This is not a competitive budget, or we're paying the starting 11 way, way too much to not be able to afford a decent bench. Screams of penny pinching, same as all of the backroom/office shenanigans. This could go tits up very, very quickly.

He was but eventually hold have had his opportunity in league 2

[Kaufman]

Did Flynn give Andrew an interview after the game ?

[Boeta]

Would've liked to see Kinsella ahead of RHM and then Kemp play off Austin as second striker.

RHM lacks the footballing and emotional intelligence to shape games. He might be ok if he gets on a streak, like McKirdy perhaps.

We are always at risk of midfield being overrun so with it being the third game of a week , I'd like to have seen us control it a bit more with an extra player in the middle of the park.

Bradford the better side on the day but still fine margins. Some fantastic crosses from Hutton even though we struggled to get him the ball. Neither Charlie nor Kemp had their touch at all today. And a rare shot stopping error from Mahoney.

Don't agree with anyone writing off Austin. He's been excellent so far this season. The Wayne Allison to Jake Young's Chris Hay from 98/99. Not sure how he was better option than Kinsella or Uwakwe to play the last 15 in centre mid though.

[Outletred]

We are being fed complete bullshit- a competitive budget does not equal not being able to name 7 subs 2 games running and little in the way of bench options to come in when needed. No wonder the starting 11 look jaded.

Morfuni should put us up for sale/ look for investors as what he is prepared to put in money wise isn’t gonna get us out of this division. Fans aren’t going to be “conned” into renewing ST next year to watch another season in this god damn awful league