[Wooden Spoon]

That game sums up our season really, lethargic slow mistake ridden first half

Second half after the subs was the opposite

[hilly81]

Tha Knows..., on 21 April 2025 - 08:01 PM, said:

Just seen goal highlights
In the final phase PAlmer found lacking for first and third goals. Second goal very soft penalty to award.

It is soft but we would be screaming for it if it was at the other end.

[azul]

hilly81, on 21 April 2025 - 08:04 PM, said:

It is soft but we would be screaming for it if it was at the other end.

and we would not get it in a million years

This post has been edited by azul: 21 April 2025 - 08:09 PM

[Blue roan lily]

Westbars Spireite, on 21 April 2025 - 07:40 PM, said:

McFadzean looked his age today but in fairness he's said himself he's nowhere near fully fit.

You can’t be 25 forever

[Tha Knows...]

hilly81, on 21 April 2025 - 08:04 PM, said:

It is soft but we would be screaming for it if it was at the other end.

Not given 90% of challenges

[Tha Knows...]

Superb by Grigg to show for the ball, hold off a challenge and score from a fairly tight angle. Nobody else in our team could have finished it. Almost a goal out of nothing by him.

[Fit as a Nelson]

Mandeville and Metcalfe absolutely outstanding today, Grigg wasn’t too far behind them either. No excuse whatsoever to not go for it from the off on Saturday. We’ve got a chance here.

[Blue5]

Tha Knows..., on 21 April 2025 - 08:12 PM, said:

Superb by Grigg to show for the ball, hold off a challenge and score from a fairly tight angle. Nobody else in our team could have finished it. Almost a goal out of nothing by him.

Grigg worked his wotsits off this afternoon and took some right hammer in the process.

He deserved his goal.

[hilly81]

Blue5, on 21 April 2025 - 08:18 PM, said:

Grigg worked his wotsits off this afternoon and took some right hammer in the process.

He deserved his goal.

He’s a class player. There’s no doubt we need to sign someone in the summer to share the workload up front but to think he will more than contribute again next season.

[Osborne again]

Regards their penalty, if that had been in their box, there's no way that we would have been awarded a penalty, not just today, any game this season, it was that lame a shout.
As for Kyle Macfadzean and John Fleck, I think this was probably a game too far for the former after his injury, but Fleck had a reasonable game, to my mind.

[Mr_Pleasant]

Blue5, on 21 April 2025 - 08:18 PM, said:

Grigg worked his wotsits off this afternoon and took some right hammer in the process.

He deserved his goal.

He had a good afternoon. You could tell he was taking hammer when he lost his rag first half.

[OneDecentLester]

One poor game for McFadzean that’s come off the back of only 2 days rest when he’s only 60% fit as he said himself, and some people are now writing him off?

Unreal honestly, the blokes been an absolute rolls Royce in pretty much every game since he signed. He found it difficult today because he was clearly fatigued from the Friday game (which he was excellent in btw). That’s more on Cook for selecting him than it is McFadzean.

A proper pre season for him and he’ll be an absolute asset for us next season no doubt about it

[60s 70s Spireite]

OneDecentLester, on 21 April 2025 - 08:33 PM, said:

One poor game for McFadzean that’s come off the back of only 2 days rest when he’s only 60% fit as he said himself, and some people are now writing him off?

Unreal honestly, the blokes been an absolute rolls Royce in pretty much every game since he signed. He found it difficult today because he was clearly fatigued from the Friday game (which he was excellent in btw). That’s more on Cook for selecting him than it is McFadzean.

A proper pre season for him and he’ll be an absolute asset for us next season no doubt about it

A good pre season, and he will be only 29 in August.

[Osborne again]

Mr_Pleasant, on 21 April 2025 - 08:27 PM, said:

He had a good afternoon. You could tell he was taking hammer when he lost his rag first half.

His marker was wrapped around Grigg so tight, he could have been a second skin but got hardly anything from the referee.

[Tha Knows...]

Ref was kinder to them than us imo

[dtp]

Good result in the circumstances.

Must admit, I could not work out why we were set up like we were from the start. Naylor too far out on the left was never close enough to central midfield to provide any help in that area. Some have suggested he was playing as a No10 but if so I was sat in the East Stand and was closer to giving Will Grigg some support than our Tom. Talking of Will Grigg, of course, brings me to the officials if only to ask that if the one incident when their CB molested him from behind was judged to be a foul how come the many many other times when the CB brutally assaulted from behind was judged to be fair play?

Coming back to the starting set up, Mandeville seemed all at sea as he was tucked in a little inside giving their winger too much space. Tactically, they were all over us but we were 2 down before we started to slightly adjust things. Physically we were losing the battle all over the pitch. I do not know if this was due to do with our opening tactics or a game too far for the likes of Fleck, MacFadzean and Araujo who has just come back from a bad injury incurred before Christmas and only come into the side because Gordon has been ill.

Moving on, though, credit to the lads for keep going and not giving up easily like some supporters seem so willing to do. Cook made what seemed strange substitutions but they worked and we won ourselves a point which keeps us in the shake up. Hopefully, we can win another 3 points on Saturday which should make the day of the Accrington game very interesting.

[Westbars Spireite]

Ideally you don't want to be making 2 defensive changes when chasing the game and want to utilise attacking options but having 2 rusty players starting meant it had to be done.

[JonB]

Osborne again, on 21 April 2025 - 08:25 PM, said:

Regards their penalty, if that had been in their box, there's no way that we would have been awarded a penalty, not just today, any game this season, it was that lame a shout.
As for Kyle Macfadzean and John Fleck, I think this was probably a game too far for the former after his injury, but Fleck had a reasonable game, to my mind.

Just seen it on TV and it looks very soft and more so when you consider the shirt pulling that was let go by the ref when they were defending corners as the second half went on. One corner madden was having his shirt pulled from before it was taken and then still as the ball travelled in. This was the same for numerous of our players. All the assistant in front of the west stand cared about was the being in the right place!

[ash_cfc]

Of all the bizarre decisions the ref made today I personally thought the penalty was one of the few he got right. Bradford player is going away from goal so why Naylor has to have 2 hands around his waist I’ll never know. He’s been absolutely miles off it this season. Bullied at CB and the legs look half a yard slower than last season in the variety of awkward midfield positions he’s played this season.

[azul]

ash_cfc, on 21 April 2025 - 09:45 PM, said:

Of all the bizarre decisions the ref made today I personally thought the penalty was one of the few he got right. Bradford player is going away from goal so why Naylor has to have 2 hands around his waist I’ll never know. He’s been absolutely miles off it this season. Bullied at CB and the legs look half a yard slower than last season in the variety of awkward midfield positions he’s played this season.

Its not the decision that is incorrect but singling that one incident out while ignoring all the other stuff; that's the issue